The novel “Queen of Candesce” by Karl Schroeder was published for the first time in 2007. It’s the second novel of Virga and and the sequel to “Sun of Suns”.

Lady Venera Fanning ended up in Spyre, an ancient cylindrical habitat that’s decaying, in all senses. Over the centuries the local society has fragmented into a myriad of micro- states with an unstable political and social balance. The habitat is slowly going to pieces too and now no one is able to repair it.