She attempts honorable suicide by poison for her failure, but Caldwell thwarts her medically. Leading her tagwing fighter group of wastlings on a suicide mission as part of a venture to capture a Federate world outpost, she is captured by Federate colonel Brennen Caldwell, a telepathic intelligence officer seeking to capture an enemy fighter for interrogation. Because she is a wastling, an unwanted heir to the throne, she is considered expendable. Plot summary First edition įirebird is the third daughter of the Queen of Naetai and a military pilot. Firebird disagrees with the actions of her government, but is compelled by honor to support it. Wastlings are younger offspring of noble houses who are doomed to geis, or honorable suicide, so as not to upset the succession of their older siblings (and their children) to political power. The protagonist is Lady Firebird Angelo, a wastling of the Naetai royal family. The second edition is part one of a three-part series, entitled Firebird: A Trilogy. Firebird is a science fiction romance by American writer Kathy Tyers originally published in 1986, it was rewritten as Christian science fiction and republished in 1999.
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