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Freeman Universe #1-3
Quite Possibly Complete: Freeman Universe Books 1-3
Read the Quite Possibly saga the way it was meant to be read -- as one complete space opera adventure. Over 1300 pages of a future so expansive no single print book can hold it. Available exclusively as an eBook.
Quite Possibly Alien:
One human. Six legs. All hero.
Merchant Academy grad Ciarán mac Diarmuid wants to do well by doing good. But when he rescues a mysterious stranger from foreign assassins no respectable merchant captain will hire him.
On a superluminal mission of epic proportions.
Now Ciarán must apprentice himself to the black sheep of the powerful nic Cartaí clan, a young woman who is almost certainly a pirate, aboard a sentient starship that is almost certainly insane, on a mission that will almost certainly get both him and his cat killed.
Across a galaxy more dangerous than anyone imagines.
Ciarán has no idea he has been chosen. Any competent human may win a merchant’s license. And any interstellar vessel will do. But it will take more than two legs and a pair of opposable thumbs to liberate the galaxy and see justice done.
It will take the heart of a tiger. And of the champion who walks beside her.
They can only hang him once.
Associate Engineer Macer Gant doesn’t want much from life. A brew or two, pretty girls, three square meals and an honest job working the big iron, pushing a big load, in a big sky. There’s no in-system tug bigger than Truxton’s Tractor Four Squared, and no better gig than propulsion engineer. Life isn’t just good. It’s great.
Great, until a plague ship tears into Trinity space, a dead hull arrowing straight for the nic Cartaí shipyard and the thousands living and working there. Only Four Squared can stop it. But the captain won’t, not just because he hates nic Cartaí, but because doing so would reveal what Four Squared can really do.
Macer must choose between hanging for failing to render aid or hanging for mutiny. Which has to be the easiest choice in the world. No way is he dangling before lighting up Four Squared’s hidden monster, and without at least whispering the ageless war cry of his wrench-wielding tribe.
Hold my beer. I got this.
He was born bent. He refuses to die broken.
Raised a merchant prince and heir to the family business, Seamus mac Donnacha expects to follow in his crime lord father’s footsteps, profiting from the indiscretions of saints and sinners alike. But when Seamus returns from his apprentice cruise maimed, disgraced, and branded a slaver he discovers he’s no longer needed. Disowned and tossed down the Trinity system gravity well, Seamus wants to do as his father demands.
Crawl away and die.
Maybe he will, once he’s kept his word, and helped his friends defeat the evil spreading from star to star. He knows more about that evil than any man alive. It’s been inside him.
Seamus doesn’t want to defy his father. And he doesn’t want to war with his family. Only a dead man would dare to cross them. Only a man who deserved to pay for his sins. Crawl away and die. Seamus doesn’t know what to think about that. But he knows exactly what to say.
“Make me.”
Quite Possibly Complete.
Space Opera Adventure for a New Golden Age.
Experience tomorrow today. Start reading now.
Quite Possibly Alien:
One human. Six legs. All hero.
Merchant Academy grad Ciarán mac Diarmuid wants to do well by doing good. But when he rescues a mysterious stranger from foreign assassins no respectable merchant captain will hire him.
On a superluminal mission of epic proportions.
Now Ciarán must apprentice himself to the black sheep of the powerful nic Cartaí clan, a young woman who is almost certainly a pirate, aboard a sentient starship that is almost certainly insane, on a mission that will almost certainly get both him and his cat killed.
Across a galaxy more dangerous than anyone imagines.
Ciarán has no idea he has been chosen. Any competent human may win a merchant’s license. And any interstellar vessel will do. But it will take more than two legs and a pair of opposable thumbs to liberate the galaxy and see justice done.
It will take the heart of a tiger. And of the champion who walks beside her.
They can only hang him once.
Associate Engineer Macer Gant doesn’t want much from life. A brew or two, pretty girls, three square meals and an honest job working the big iron, pushing a big load, in a big sky. There’s no in-system tug bigger than Truxton’s Tractor Four Squared, and no better gig than propulsion engineer. Life isn’t just good. It’s great.
Great, until a plague ship tears into Trinity space, a dead hull arrowing straight for the nic Cartaí shipyard and the thousands living and working there. Only Four Squared can stop it. But the captain won’t, not just because he hates nic Cartaí, but because doing so would reveal what Four Squared can really do.
Macer must choose between hanging for failing to render aid or hanging for mutiny. Which has to be the easiest choice in the world. No way is he dangling before lighting up Four Squared’s hidden monster, and without at least whispering the ageless war cry of his wrench-wielding tribe.
Hold my beer. I got this.
He was born bent. He refuses to die broken.
Raised a merchant prince and heir to the family business, Seamus mac Donnacha expects to follow in his crime lord father’s footsteps, profiting from the indiscretions of saints and sinners alike. But when Seamus returns from his apprentice cruise maimed, disgraced, and branded a slaver he discovers he’s no longer needed. Disowned and tossed down the Trinity system gravity well, Seamus wants to do as his father demands.
Crawl away and die.
Maybe he will, once he’s kept his word, and helped his friends defeat the evil spreading from star to star. He knows more about that evil than any man alive. It’s been inside him.
Seamus doesn’t want to defy his father. And he doesn’t want to war with his family. Only a dead man would dare to cross them. Only a man who deserved to pay for his sins. Crawl away and die. Seamus doesn’t know what to think about that. But he knows exactly what to say.
“Make me.”
Quite Possibly Complete.
Space Opera Adventure for a New Golden Age.
Experience tomorrow today. Start reading now.
1351 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 15, 2023
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Patrick O'Sullivan
26 books3 followersPatrick O’Sullivan is a writer living and working in the United States and Ireland. Patrick’s fantasy and science fiction works have won awards in the Writers of the Future Contest as well as the James Patrick Baen Memorial Writing Contest sponsored by Baen Books and the National Space Society.
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March 25, 2023
Brilliant sci fi adventure
I already own this series as separate books, but I decided the release of the box set was the perfect opportunity for a reread and a review.
The worlduilding, this universe, is fantastic and horrifying and amazing and dark and full of hope. I thought I loved Ciaran best, but I love Macer and Seamus, too. Wisp, the synthetic intelligences, and Sxipesto are awesome. The Legion of Heroes is hilarious, scary, and a little gruesome. There is a high body count and graphic violence. There is bravery and love and sacrifice. The story is well-written and full of twists and surprises. I highly recommend the books of the Freeman Universe.
I already own this series as separate books, but I decided the release of the box set was the perfect opportunity for a reread and a review.
The worlduilding, this universe, is fantastic and horrifying and amazing and dark and full of hope. I thought I loved Ciaran best, but I love Macer and Seamus, too. Wisp, the synthetic intelligences, and Sxipesto are awesome. The Legion of Heroes is hilarious, scary, and a little gruesome. There is a high body count and graphic violence. There is bravery and love and sacrifice. The story is well-written and full of twists and surprises. I highly recommend the books of the Freeman Universe.
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