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	Minus Epsilon (The Earth Saga #1) 4.20 avg rating — 216 ratings — published 2013 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Defiant Order (The Earth Saga #2) 4.46 avg rating — 123 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Standish (The Earth Saga) by Donald B. McFarlane (Goodreads Author), Ivan Batsalov (Illustrator) 4.38 avg rating — 110 ratings — published 2019	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Horizons (The Earth Saga #3) 4.43 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Remnants of Empire (The Earth Saga #4) 4.42 avg rating — 53 ratings — published 2016 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Edge of the Vortex (The Earth Saga #5) 4.50 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 2017 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Battle for Jupiter (The Earth Saga Universe #7) 4.53 avg rating — 43 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Condition Zero (The Earth Saga #6) by Donald B. McFarlane (Goodreads Author), Luke West (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator) 4.51 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Terminal Frontier: The Earth Saga VIII (The Earth Saga Universe Book 8) by Donald B. McFarlane (Goodreads Author), Thea Magerand (Illustrator), Scott Pearson (Goodreads Author) (Editor) 4.56 avg rating — 32 ratings — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Virus (Standish #2) 4.52 avg rating — 23 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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2025 is nearly a wrap, and this is blog entry number two. I’m not sure why I lost interest in writing these, apart from my own lack of enthusiasm…

This year has seen the release of two novels, both in the Rescue anthology series: Mandate Shattered and Express Hijacked. I really enjoy the idea behind this series and have a few more novels in that series on deck; in fact, the 4th book is already und Read more of this blog post »

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