Sun of Suns

Sun of Suns by Schroeder, Karl. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780765315434.

It is the distant future. The world known as Virga is a fullerene balloon three thousand kilometers in diameter, filled with air, water, and aimlessly floating chunks of rock. The humans who live in this vast environment must build their own fusion suns and "towns" that are in the shape of enormous wood and rope wheels that are spun for gravity. Young, fit, bitter, and friendless, Hayden Griffin is a very dangerous man. Hes come to the city of Rush in the nation of Slipstream with one thing in mind: to take murderous revenge for the deaths of his parents six years ago. His target is Admiral Chaison Fanning, head of the fleet of Slipstream, which conquered Haydens nation of Aerie years ago. And the fact that Haydens spent his adolescence living with pirates doesnt bode well for Fannings chances . . .