Betty Cross: 3 books

This fantasy novel features psychic powers and steampunk in the otherwise pre-industrial world of Malga. Promono-Dei the World-Queen has a jewel called the Oracular Topaz which will answer any question, except about the future. Her great antagonist is Kordo-Strî, leader of the great naval dominion of...

The first two years of the War for Restoration of the Hegemony have been a brilliant success for Promono-Dei the World-Queen, helped by The Oracular Topaz hanging around her neck. It answers her every question about the present or past, but not the future. Her bitter foe is Kordo-Strî, an...

An endless war, a regime where gays and Lesbians are treated like Jews in the Third Reich, a land where people can't trust their neighbors, a "free election" fixed by computers, a rumor of underground resistance, a radical preacher, a simmering hope of liberation, a gang of disaffected teenagers, and...