Haze: Illustrated with Bonus Short Story, Katharine Kerr

Description

Once, Dan soared among the stars as a decorated Fleet officer.
Now he sleeps in the alleys of Gleam—addicted, haunted, and forgotten. Trading his body for doses of Haze, a narcotic that blurs both pain and memory, he’s lost everything except a battered knife, a fractured mind, and a past that refuses to die.

When old comrades track him down with an impossible offer, Dan is forced to confront what remains of the man he once was. Across the galaxy, the invisible highways of faster-than-light travel—called shunts—are collapsing one by one. If they fail completely, entire worlds will be cut off and left to die. The Fleet needs the only pilot who can read hyperspace currents by instinct alone. They need Dan.

Teaming up with a ragtag crew of outcasts and scarred veterans, Dan embarks on a mission wrapped in secrecy and danger. But as they uncover the true reason behind the shunt failures, loyalties will be tested and the line between hero and casualty will blur.

Haze is a gripping, character-driven space opera that fuses high-stakes science-fiction adventure with psychological intensity. Both harrowing and hopeful, it’s a story of addiction, redemption, and the fragile connections that bind us—across galaxies, and across our own broken hearts.

This illustrated edition includes an exclusive, never-before-published short story expanding the world of Haze.