Homesmind is an intelligent force that guides the fates of the inhabitants of the extraordinary world created by Pamela Sargent in her Watchstar trilogy, brought to you for the first time in e-book by E-Reads. Each novel focuses on another female, and in the climactic novel the stories come together in a comet-like blaze. Though it’s categorized as young adult it crosses over into a thrilling read for mature audiences too.

In the first novel, Watchstar , Daiya is faced with a dilemma that will determine her fate. If she fails, her life will be spent with the feared Merged Ones. Confused and torn between worlds near and far, she harbors a secret and must find a way to move to a safe place where she can survive.

In the second Eye of the Comet, young Lydee had always known this strange comet-world to be Home. She had always felt the presence and control of the omnipresent Homesmind. Struggling with her future, she discovers the destiny she is meant for–the fate she will fulfill within her community. And it frightens her…. She will act as a bridge between her comet Home and her species’ native Earth.

In  Homesmind, the capstone of the trilogy, Anra is a solitary, born without the power to mindspeak – communicate in unspoken thoughts. In the past, she would have been killed at birth but the arrival of the Wanderer, the comet controlled by the cybernetic intelligence known as the Homesmind has changed everything. The people of the comet, the skydwellers, now supply solitaries with implants that allow artificial mindspeaking. The solitaries are sequestered in a single village willing to care for such children.

Anra and her new brethren are thought to be the possible bridge between the people of Earth and the skydwellers but the gap may be too great: the people of Earth consider solitaries an abomination – and the skydwellers as soulless.

Click here to see other Pamela Sargent titles offered by E-Reads including her famous Venus trilogy.

Child of Venus completes Pamela Sargent’s Venus trilogy and delivers a powerful ending to this epic tale of the terraforming of Venus by human colonists.

E-Reads publishes all three titles in The Venus Project, and for those who have never picked it up here’s a synopsis:

Venus of Dreams introduces Iris Angharads, a determined, independent woman who has set herself one seemingly unattainable goal: to make the poison-filled atmosphere of Venus hospitable to humans. She has worked day and night to realize her dream with only one person sharing her passion, Liang Chen. It seemed impossible to make Venus, with its intolerable air and waterless environment, into a paradise, but Iris succeeds. And in doing so, she creats a powerful dynasty beginning with her first born Benzi.

In Venus of Shadows, the Venus Project calls upon the strongest and most courageous to create a prosperous world in the dismal wilderness of Venus. Those who demonstrate the skill and the passion to embark on this adventure must transform the barren planet in the midst of political and cultural unrest. When Benzi and his sister Risa find themselves in opposing forces on the battlefield, their love and perseverance will determine the destiny of the new land.

In Child of Venus the terraforming has been going on for centuries. It will be many more years before the planet’s surface has been rendered fully habitable and its human settlers can leave their protective domes. But there are those who are foolishly unwilling to wait. In a colony still ravaged by the after-effects of a battle between two religious cults that divided families and created civil war, Mahala Liangharad, a true child of Venus, conceived from the genetic material of the rebels and brought to birth only after their deaths, is a beacon of hope.

Sargent builds imaginatively-detailed new worlds of breathtaking wonder and shows that however far humanity may travel it will overcome any challenge.

Pamela Sargent is the author of several highly praised and prize-winning novels, among them The Shore of Women, Cloned Lives, The Sudden Star, The Golden Space, Watchstar, The Alien Upstairs, and Alien Child. Venus of Dreams, which we are proud to offer to you today, was selected by The Easton Press for its “Masterpieces of Science Fiction” series. And of course you’ll want to read Venus of Shadows, the sequel. Gregory Benford described the former as “One of the peaks of recent science fiction.” And James Morrow characterized the sequel as “a masterly piece of world-building.” The third novel in the Venus trilogy, Child of Venus, is making its way to publication on this site.

In Venus of Dreams, a determined and independent woman is determined to make the poison-filled atmosphere of Venus hospitable to humans. As impossible as it may seem she succeeds, supported by only one other soul, and founds a might dynasty.

Read Venus of Dreams and its sequel, and several other compelling and powerful Sargent E-Reads titles as well. Another related pair of her books, Watchstar and its sequel Eye of the Comet, will be completed by Homesmind. Watch this space for news that the trilogy is united once again.

RC