The Concordia Deception
I’m posting a little early this week because I’m going to really double down on finishing the final polish on my space colonisation novel The Concordia Deception before it goes off to M.D. Cooper. Michael is organising the box set of new first in series where my book will first appear. It’s all very exciting. Kevin McLaughlin and Amy Duboff are also contributing and we’re hoping that Chris Fox will have his latest new release ready in time too. You can read a snippet from The Concordia Deception here.
I realised this week that I made a big boo boo. For a long time I’ve wanted to create a place where all the shipmates can meet each other and tell your sailors’ (or Marines’?) yarns. I thought I’d done that with my Starship JJ Green Facebook page. As it turns out, I made a page where everyone else’s posts appear in the visitor section on the side, where no one can see them. I’m going to fix that in the next few days, but meanwhile I wanted to show you one of the things I love about Taipei. I posted the picture here.
A better piece of news was the notice I received from the Chinese translation company Fiberead that my space opera Generation is finally on sale. The translation back into English according to Google is hilarious. For example: A crisis of hidden deep-space travel; a half-man machine robot guardian; a captain of the spacecraft; an exquisite egoist; a lonesome woman with a soft face; a pair of weak and good , but the tough firework men and women; a strange elf extraterrestrial Peter Pan. My Chinese isn’t good enough to check the quality of the translation, but perhaps the translators have captured the spirit of the book.
I have just one 99-cent book recommendation for you in this bulletin, a great space opera/military sci-fi mashup called Tyche’s Demons.
Tyche’s Demons
The leader of the fallen Republic returns. Destruction sweeps across Earth.
Grace Gushiken and Nathan Chevell rule the Empire. While they petition seditionist worlds for aid in a war humanity struggles to win, Grace’s father arrives. Kazuo Gushiken brings the might of the insect-like Ezeroc to crush humanity’s home.
Kazuo travels with a fallen civilization. AI machines fight at his side. They are allied with the Ezeroc in a common purpose: destroy humans, once and for all. If they kill the heads of the Empire, all planets will fall.
The AI destroy humanity’s Navy, leaving Grace and Nate to escape on an old ex-war heavy lifter. Pressed into service one more time, the crew of the Tyche must survive against the combined might of the Ezeroc and AI. If they can’t, they will die, and humanity’s hopes with them.
Tyche’s Demons is the first book in Richard Parry’s gripping Tyche’s Progeny trilogy. If you like page-turning space opera with great dialogue and heart-pumping action, get your copy here today!
Happy reading!