Product Description
by Joel Shepherd (Author)
One thousand years after Earth was destroyed in an unprovoked attack, humanity has emerged victorious from a series of terrible wars to assure its place in the galaxy. But during celebrations on humanity's new homeworld, the legendary Captain Pantillo of the battle carrier Phoenix is court-martialed then killed, and his deputy, Lieutenant Commander Erik Debogande, the heir to humanity's most powerful industrial family, is framed for his murder. Assisted by Phoenix's marine commander Trace Thakur, Erik and Phoenix are forced to go on the run as they seek to unravel the conspiracy behind their captain's demise, pursued to the death by their own fleet. What they discover about the truth behind the wars and the nature of humanity's ancient alien allies will shake the sentient galaxy to its core.
ReviewsI thought this was going to be yet another cookie-cutter space opera, boy was I wrong! This was fantastic.
...it hits the sweet spot between hard-science and imaginary scifi science. The hard science is very hard, from the perils of centrifugal spin-gravity in combat spacecraft to the destructive potential of ultra-fast kinetic energy weapons. The scifi science is made-up, but it has the key properties which all-too-often are missing: Internal Self-Consistency and Attention To Unintended Consequences. This makes the scifi science semi-hard as well...
...The characters are memorable and engaging...
...I have read this series out to book #6. It just keeps getting better and better. Buy these books.
Winchell D Chung
Founder, Atomic Rockets Website
http: //projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/
Amazon Review, September 25, 2019
Author Biography
Joel Shepherd was born in Adelaide in 1974. He has studied film and television, international relations, has interned on Capitol Hill in Washington, is a keen cyclist and travelled widely in Asia. He is the author of 12 Science Fiction and Fantasy novels in three series, including 'A Trial of Blood and Steel', 'The Cassandra Kresnov Series', and 'The Spiral Wars'. Visit Joel at joelshepherd.com
