Crystal Soldier and Crystal Dragon make up the Great Migration dualogy, a pair of books unique in the Liaden canon by Sharon Lee and Steve Miller in that they take place entirely before all of the other books – in fact, before Liad existed. Because the "Great Migration" was a far greater, and stranger, migration than has ever been seen before. Cantra yos'Phelium is a trader – a hard-bitten independent trader who plays in the gray-to-even-black market, because she has a number of secrets in her past that she really doesn't want looked into. [ Continue reading... ]