A press release from Ian Randal Strock’s Fantastic Books:
Booklist called The Dark Wing “an impressive debut,” while Library Journal said it dealt “with the problematic issues of xenophobia and genocide while presenting a fast-paced story that should appeal to fans of space opera and military SF,” and that it “belongs in most sf collections.” Publishers Weekly said “Hunt delivers a bravura performance,” and SF Revu called it a “brilliant first novel.”
Kirkus Reviews said The Dark Wing was “a thoughtful debut.… Satisfyingly complete in itself, though expertly set up for sequels.” Hunt took that call to heart, and provided the sequels, eventually turning it into a four-volume series.
Fantastic Books brought The Dark Wing back into print last September, and now continues the series for a new generation of readers with The Dark Path. In this second book in the cycle, a veteran commander is placed in the path of an invasion by an unknown enemy, but she is soon placed in an even more difficult position: assuming the role of an alien legendary hero, whose fate is predestined. How far will she go before she steps off the path that has been created for her to follow?
Publishers Weekly called The Dark Path a “gripping sequel,” while Booklist echoed them, calling it “gripping stuff.” Library Journal said the book “combines military sf and space opera to produce a large-scale sf adventure that takes place in the depths of outer space, as well as within the minds of the combatants. A good choice for sf collections.” And Analog opined that it might be the second volume “in a quest that may well prove science fiction’s version of The Lord of the Rings… If you enjoyed Wing, you’ll love Path.”
Both books are now available through all on-line retailers, or by order from any book store. They are distributed (as are all Fantastic Books titles) via Ingram.
The Dark Wing The Dark Path
by Walter H. Hunt by Walter H. Hunt
$15.99, 356 pages $15.99, 284 pages
ISBN: 978-1-61720-734-1 ISBN: 978-1-61720-940-6