New York: TOR / Tom Doherty Associates, (1993) dj. Hardcover first edition - A novel of the struggle between a North America gripped by a techno-religious dictatorship - the Avantists - and a maverick interplanetary corporation - known as Fireball - representing the last bastion of free enterprise by this Hugo and Nebula award winning author. 395 pp. Dust jacket art by Vincent di Fate.