ISBN 0-812-51024-0 (US pbk)

"Streetfighter, fugitive, hero... Aubry Knight is now a powerful man with powerful friends. And someone wants to kill him.

"Their opening shot is the death of one of Aubry's dearest friends. Their next attack is on Aubry's child. Knight is drawn inexorably toward New Africa, toward the mysteries of his own past, and toward a future that may take him far from Los Angeles and the only life he's ever known.

"To win this battle, and save his family, Aubry Knight must defeat himself". [jacket blurb, US pbk, 1995]

"The science fiction field is blessed with an immense range of human, inhuman, and transhuman cultures. The enclaves of civilization and savagery in Barnes's trilogy are a match for any of these. His characters Aubry Knight and Promise Cotounou have no match short of Bester's Gully Foyle". --Larry Niven.

"With Firedance Steven Barnes has given science fiction a novel that combines fine writing, wide expertise, and tremendous powers of invention with characters so intensely alive that you begin to feel they may have created the author". --Peter O'Donnell (author of the Modesty Blaise series).

"Barnes delivers superior adventure fiction, with the best fight scenes being written. Aubry remains physically invincible, emotionally brittle and intellectually aware, and his 21st-century world is believably wondrous and terrible". (in Starlog ).

"In some ways I preferred the previous two novels. Nonetheless, this third installment in the saga of Aubry Knight is everything one would expect from Steven Barnes. Lots of action (shifting from Los Angeles to Africa) balanced by the inner development of its protagonists. I give it my wholehearted endorsement". --Henry W.Targowski (in Mark/Space , 31 December 1995).