Prophecy

by Justin Wilkerson

Cuzak Rudir is the newly crowned King of the Specter Alliance. His coronation has left the position as head of the military empty. When he decides to promote his longtime friend, Gregor, over his own brother, Destor, the King's brother takes matters into his own hands. Destor travels to the Alliance's adversary, Mars, and returns with an enemy fleet and a mind for revenge. Amidst the fighting a discovery is made. A book written generations ago, foretelling the war and depicting Cuzak as a hero with supernatural abilities. Now, Cuzak must come to grips with his role in the prophecy as he tries to protect his people from his traitorous brother. But what is driving his brother's actions? Is it simply anger, or an even more mysterious force, long forgotten by the people of Specter?

Prophesy is the first book in The Ghost Wars Saga, a series that blends the science fiction and fantasy genres into an action packed adventure of space ships and dragons, lasers and magic.

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First published July 31, 2012

About the author

Justin Wilkerson was born in Nevada in 1988. He was raised in the Pacific Northwest by a family of science fiction lovers. Developing his fascination with science early in life, Justin made the decision to be a Meteorologist in Middle School. He took up writing as a hobby while attending the University of Hawaii. After obtaining his B.S. in Meteorology, Justin set forth writing his first novel. He obtained his Masters in Meteorology from Florida State University in 2015. In his time at FSU, he also published two e-books and began a series of short stories. He currently lives in Maryland, working as a scientific programmer, and continues to work on his novels in his spare time.

As of 2018, he has published 2 novels, and 8 short stories, which have been compiled together in an anthology, all as ebooks.

His other hobbies include reading, nerding out over the weather, creating the occasional video, and learning new software.

Reviews

[Richard · Rating 1 out of 5]

This story was either written by an author with no grasp of English grammar and punctuation, or it was not edited at all. Perhaps both. The military ranks of army and navy are intermixed and synthesized in a way that indicates that the author did not do much research when undertaking this writing project. The author seems fixated on the matter of height, telling us the height in feet and inches of each new character as he or she is introduced in the first half of the book.

For whatever reason, this story appears to be a mashup of Science Fiction, Ghost Stories and Fantasy. The mixture of genres does not work.

Clearly, Science Fiction should be based on Science, but the excruciating minutiae with which space battles are described in this book is truly mind boggling. The overwhelming barrage of military nomenclature for missiles, torpedoes and lasers, when combined with detailed acceleration rates in both kilometers per-second squared, and in "gees" (gravities) becomes nothing less than mind-numbing.

Chapter Twenty Three begins with the "purple prose" sentence: "It was a dark and stormy summer day ..." To me, those words conjure images of Snoopy of the "Peanuts" comic strip typing away on his typewriter while sitting on his doghouse. Oh my! Either this is the worst book ever written, or the whole thing is a giant joke perpetrated by the author on his readers.

[Michael Alexander · Rating 3 out of 5]

Prophecy is the first in Justin Wilkerson’s Ghost Wars Saga. This series attempts to blend science fiction with fantasy. The novel follows Cuzak Rudir, the reigning King of the Specter Alliance and the war that begins when his brother Destor joins forces with the Martians to try and overthrow him. Prophecy is a good story that has some pacing problems, but is an enjoyable read nonetheless. If you like full blown space battles, this novel would be a good pick.

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[Milhouse Van Houten]

Good One!