Ghost Station

Wandering Engineer #4

by Chris Hechtl

After everything that has happened to Fleet Admiral Irons since he'd woken up from stasis after nearly 700 years after the last shots in the brutal Xeno War left Earth and civilization a memory... you'd think he couldn't go any lower. Smarting from his 'exile' from Pyrax he'd saved the frieghter Destiny several times and dodged an assassin only to find and loose love to a near miss.
At the bottom of the well Irons knew he had only one place to go, up. Kiev 221 wasn't much to look at, but for now it was home. Getting the crew to realize he was there to help was his first problem. But when a navigational error pops them out in the outer edges of the Antigua System the real trouble begins.
Kiev 221 has stumbled into a fabled Ghost Station. One that was haunted by cyber apperitions and occupied by some who will do anything to protect their home. Even kill.
But Irons and his AI aren't going to be deterred easily. While the crew of the Kiev can only see short term profit, he sees much more than that. But if he can tame the station can he get others to see and work towards rebuilding the Federation? Or will he become once more a victim of his own success?

Genres: Science Fiction, Space, Space Opera, Military Fiction, Military Science Fiction

674 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 10, 2013

Reviews

[Nathanael Keeler · Rating 5 out of 5]

Somewhat frustrating to read

I like this series but there are some challenges in the story telling. The book starts in a 3rd person view of the Admiral then moves a narrative of the general environs in somewhat brief style before ending in 3rd person again. I am enjoying tgevaeries but the writing does leave me somewhat disconnected. Mind you I am immediately off to read the next book.

[Todd · Rating 1 out of 5]

This seemed to be an unfinished draft rather than a finished novel. Changes from story to seemingly authors notes for story at random times, even within the same sentence.
Needs a professional editor - to clean up the story, rip out the excess cruft, provide direction...
Won't bother with any more from this author...

[Jefferson Selvy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Laying off modern politics and more attention to homophones and Malaysians would make this a more enjoyable read.

[Troy · Rating 3 out of 5]

An ok read. Would have rated it better but, you know how at the end of the movie they will sometimes do a short paragraph explaining what the character did later, after the movie ended? Where they talk about the character in the 3rd person and they just summarize what happens? Well, the author did quite a bit of this, throughout the book, to explain what was going on. Did he just leave his notes in the book and forget to expand that section? That was what I was thinking to start with, but there are paragraphs in many different sections of the book doing just that!