Saviour

Winchester #1a

by Damien L. Malcolm

The year is 2795. The Human race has evolved and expanded, colonising many new worlds and learning to share the galaxy with thousands more new lifeforms and civilisations. Many of these races have banded together to form The Galactic Confederacy of Planets, where the immense diversity of cultures and enlightenment has enabled our united species to reach levels of universal knowledge, exploration and understanding, only ever dreamed about by generations past. However, all of this has come at extraordinary costs. Our history has been marred by horror and oppression. Earth has had to rebuild almost the entire civilisation from scratch. Three hundred and fifty-two years ago, the galaxy's balance of peace had been overturned when a brutal, savage race of beings invaded our region of space. Calling themselves the Dimion Imperium, these merciless barbarians ruthlessly slaughtered any one who opposed them, including millions of humans. They destroyed entire worlds and conquered many races, our own being one. Over the twenty years of their oppressive domination over much of Galactic Confederate space, secret under-world rebellion groups slowly built up defences against the Dimion. Eventually, but not without severe Confederate losses, they were defeated and banished to the deep, uncharted frontiers of space and time, never to be heard of again. But something has gone wrong in this new age of peace. A Confederate ship has gone missing 14,000 Light years from home. The CGV Winchester, Admiral Franklin's personal project for the last five years, is commissioned early to investigate, however things are far worse than the crew could ever imagine.

204 pages, Paperback

First published November 28, 2012

About the author

Born in 1982, I was moved to New Zealand when I was 6 months old. Ten years later we ended up back in Australia. Soon I was old enough to come to the realisation that I really hated school! Mainly because I couldn't learn enough plodding along at the pace that they go. Plus I never could get along with fellow humans.

So imaginary worlds became my safe haven. At 15 I began the journey into what has now become the Winchester universe. Since then, I have amounted countless hours of creation and invention. I have designed spaceships, alien races and future historical time-lines and then sent the GCV Winchester in amongst it all to have various adventures.

Nowadays I run a handyman business in the real world, and live in a small rural town with my wife and 4 young children. And of course, I'm still writing whenever I get a chance. Eventually I came to think that perhaps I was being selfish in not letting others enjoy what I had created. So now I have found ways to get my vision out to you. I sincerely hope you enjoy the adventure.

Reviews

[Damien Malcolm]

Biased opinion from the author: Personally, I love this book. But that love is likely a result of having it in my life for so very long... seeing as I started writing it at 15 years old! However, while both action-packed and full of nerdy excitement, I will warn you that some have found it a little too detailed and technical for their liking. But if fun, exciting and highly space-shippy is what you're after in a book, then grab this!

Merged review:

Biased opinion from the author: Personally, I love this book. But that love is likely a result of having it in my life for so very long... seeing as I started writing it at 15 years old! However, while both action-packed and full of nerdy excitement, I will warn you that some have found it a little too detailed and technical for their liking. But if fun, exciting and highly space-shippy is what you're after in a book, then grab this!

[Damien Malcolm]

Biased opinion from the author: Personally, I love this book. But that love is likely a result of having it in my life for so very long... seeing as I started writing it at 15 years old! However, while both action-packed and full of nerdy excitement, I will warn you that some have found it a little too detailed and technical for their liking. But if fun, exciting and highly space-shippy is what you're after in a book, then grab this!