Penny Ponders On The World Of Shadeward
Living under a sun that never sets
If you love Anne McCaffrey’s books and you’ve not yet found Drew Wagar’s Shadeward series, you’re in for a treat.
Drew Wagar has said in interviews that he is a McCaffrey fan himself. His books, though they have that McCaffrey vibe, are by no means clones. In fact, I would say that it’s only his Shadeward series (so far) that falls within the McCaffrey envelope.
The Shadeward world is real
Ok, so the Shadeward world is made up, but it could be real — it could exist somewhere out there without breaking any of the laws of physics. Wagar does his homework. The star systems he writes about exist or could exist — the locked orbits that give us a planet on which the sun never sets are a real thing. And everything that happens as the story unfolds has a solid explanation behind it — bear that in mind as you read. Wagar can write fantasy too, and he writes it well — check out his Lords of Midnight series — but Shadeward is solid science fiction.
If the series grips you, you’ll have more to explore in his pieces about the science and astronomy…
