Carthage: Building New Canaan
I’ve been spending so much time writing lately that I sometimes worry a little about what I can tell you about in the ship’s bulletin. The truth is, your captain hasn’t done anything very exciting for several weeks, but that all changed on Sunday.
As you might remember, I’ve been collaborating with M.D. Cooper in his Aeon 14 universe. He’s started producing a podcast about the series and last Sunday I took part in it along with other writers and editors! That episode hasn’t been published yet, but you can see episode 1 here.
Watching it, I was very impressed with Michael’s vision for the series and his understanding of the science behind it. Definitely one for the hard sci-fi fans.
It’s school vacation here in Taiwan but I have had to pack my son off to karate classes while I try to meet my deadlines. Actually, I don’t feel too bad. I’m sure karate is much more interesting than staying home with mum. The Fila Epiphany (book 2 in Space Colony One) is currently being edited, and I’m finishing off Dark Mage Rises (book 2 in Star Mage Saga).
I’m really hoping I can offer you Dark Mage Rises direct with its bonus story this time next week. Please Cast Speed to my fingers!
Returning to Aeon 14, my 99-cent suggestions this week include Lyssa’s Dream, which is the first book in the Aeon 14 offshoot, Sentience Wars. Also check out R.D. Armstrong’s highly praised The Legion and the Lionness. Book 2 in this series came out recently.
Lyssa’s Dream
It has been one-hundred and seventy-five years since the birth of the first truly sentient AI. It has been just two short years since Lyssa’s birth…
Captain Andy Sykes just wants to keep his family in one piece.
Once a combat pilot for the TSF, he gave it all up for love and a family. But two years ago, his wife disappeared, leaving him with two mouths to feed: eight year-old Tim, ten year-old Cara.
Since then, he’s managed to scrape a living hauling cargo between the Jovian Combine and InnerSol. It’s not glamorous, his ship’s falling apart, and it’s boring as hell, but it keeps them in fuel and calories.
When a cargo run to Cruithne Station meets with more than one catastrophe, Andy finds himself accepting an offer a less desperate man would refuse: delivering an illegal AI named Lyssa.
The AI is the property of Heartbridge, a powerful, interplanetary corporation, and they want their latest weapon back. With a private army, gangs, and pirates all vying for the precious cargo Andy carries, it’s going to take everything Andy has to keep his ship flying, his kids safe, and get Lyssa to her destination.
Even if he succeeds, Lyssa’s very existence may spark a war like no other humanity has ever seen.
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The Legion and the Lionness
“Wonderful Military Sci-fi with lots of twists and turns. Mr. Armstrong has created a fantastic universe.” -Amazon Customer
They said I would never finish flight school. Never rank at the top of my class. Never fly with the top aces. Never return from combat against the Kelton androids. Never survive emergency surgery. Here I am.
The year is 2151, Earth is gone. A hellscape. I’ve been unfrozen after 72 years of cryosleep on a medical facility on Saturn’s moon, Titan. I have nothing, no home, no friends, no concept of this new world, these Titans.
All that remains is the old conflict that has blackened my veins and memories of the ones I loved still fresh in my heart. Forgotten for decades.
But it seems war hasn’t forgotten me, no, even in my slumber. My name is Captain Victoria Ann Belic, I was a wife and an ace fighter pilot, and have been revived for one reason–to die again.
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