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Contact #3
Final Contact
What began with an alien probe that orbited the moon and soon escalated to a struggle for all organic life continues. Jason and the humans aboard the Defiant find themselves the underdogs in a battle for survival against an alien intelligence that seeks to replace all biological life with a simulation. Only creativity and determination can keep the crew of the Defiant alive, but will it be enough against an immortal enemy that has all of time on its side?
Final Contact is the third book in the Contact Series of science fiction novels. The first two books were listed on Amazon's Best Selling Science Fiction in the summer of 2012 and then the following winter. Now for 2013 the book that fans have been demanding is available. Will the human crew be able to defeat the alien intelligence and return home?
Final Contact is the third book in the Contact Series of science fiction novels. The first two books were listed on Amazon's Best Selling Science Fiction in the summer of 2012 and then the following winter. Now for 2013 the book that fans have been demanding is available. Will the human crew be able to defeat the alien intelligence and return home?
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248 pages, Kindle Edition
First published April 1, 2013
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May 20, 2016
Lovely variety of concepts found in Star Gate .. and when you have finished the book you just want more!
April 21, 2015
Great Series and a Great Finish!
Well, it's finally finished. Initially I thought this series was going to be pretty silly. Some people on the Moon getting involved in a alien mining operation, falling into one of their ships and then finding a whole galaxy and more, slowly being taken over by, uh, computers! I mean, who in their right mind could actually say we're going to just take over this enormous ship, build our own android army, build a fleet, conquer a couple of planets and then head back to Earth? I guess you can do anything in a science fiction story.
And a very good story it was. Space is vast and to be flying around in a warp-like ship could be a lot of fun if you knew what you were doing. It's a good thing that at least one of the civilians turned out to be a decent leader. I wonder if he would have lasted with out the neural net that let him communicate so quickly with others. And that was probably the secret to his and the Defiant's success. Knowing what's going on before the other guy is a really helpful thing but it does you no good if that knowledge doesn't get to the right person at the right time. I'm glad the author built this in since I don't know how this story could have worked, otherwise. I mean, the Defiant was over a hundred miles long, right?
Oh yeah, the ending of the series in this book was perfect. After some 160 years, Jason returns to the same old politically ran, greedy Earth. If you got something neat, then somebody always wants to take it away from you. And the guys making the decisions to fight you for what you got, send some other poor smuck to get killed. Typical politicians. I'm glad Jason stood his ground although I might have told the Unity where to find Earth after the way they treated the Defiant. Wouldn't be much of a loss since there were only 500 million people on the planet! Sound like another story?
Read the series and read this book. A great way to past your time.
Well, it's finally finished. Initially I thought this series was going to be pretty silly. Some people on the Moon getting involved in a alien mining operation, falling into one of their ships and then finding a whole galaxy and more, slowly being taken over by, uh, computers! I mean, who in their right mind could actually say we're going to just take over this enormous ship, build our own android army, build a fleet, conquer a couple of planets and then head back to Earth? I guess you can do anything in a science fiction story.
And a very good story it was. Space is vast and to be flying around in a warp-like ship could be a lot of fun if you knew what you were doing. It's a good thing that at least one of the civilians turned out to be a decent leader. I wonder if he would have lasted with out the neural net that let him communicate so quickly with others. And that was probably the secret to his and the Defiant's success. Knowing what's going on before the other guy is a really helpful thing but it does you no good if that knowledge doesn't get to the right person at the right time. I'm glad the author built this in since I don't know how this story could have worked, otherwise. I mean, the Defiant was over a hundred miles long, right?
Oh yeah, the ending of the series in this book was perfect. After some 160 years, Jason returns to the same old politically ran, greedy Earth. If you got something neat, then somebody always wants to take it away from you. And the guys making the decisions to fight you for what you got, send some other poor smuck to get killed. Typical politicians. I'm glad Jason stood his ground although I might have told the Unity where to find Earth after the way they treated the Defiant. Wouldn't be much of a loss since there were only 500 million people on the planet! Sound like another story?
Read the series and read this book. A great way to past your time.
November 13, 2013
Finishing this third book in the series was more a relief than a pleasure. As I said in my review of book two, Enemy Contact, this series of books are more fantasy than science fiction. There are details left out or not addressed at all. Actions are taken that have no scientific basis, and things happen that are not followed to an end.
Throughout the books we read about the Ancient Ones and the Unity but we are never really given a description of the number one enemy, the Unity, other than they are a computer brain box. The action in book three goes from one battle after another against the Unity and then near the end of this book the fight just stops. The basis for this action is supposedly the infiltration of the Unity with androids that supposedly the Unity are now craving to have so they can have a body to go with their brain. But as smart as the Unity are in creating things they could certainly have created androids without the main characters, as they did in creating one to try an assassination.
Then the main character downloads the "essence" of himself into several androids, REALLY???. At the end of the book the Legion, leader of the warriors goes with the Defiant back to Earth. My question is why would someone who fought so hard to regain his home planet then abandon it and his people to go off on another adventure.
There is just too much in this book that do add up. Even the ending of the book after they get back to Earth and are confronted by forces 160 years after they left don't add up. People then living to be 160 or more years; all types of implants, Earth ships having better shields than the Defiant. Just glad I am finished reading this book.
Throughout the books we read about the Ancient Ones and the Unity but we are never really given a description of the number one enemy, the Unity, other than they are a computer brain box. The action in book three goes from one battle after another against the Unity and then near the end of this book the fight just stops. The basis for this action is supposedly the infiltration of the Unity with androids that supposedly the Unity are now craving to have so they can have a body to go with their brain. But as smart as the Unity are in creating things they could certainly have created androids without the main characters, as they did in creating one to try an assassination.
Then the main character downloads the "essence" of himself into several androids, REALLY???. At the end of the book the Legion, leader of the warriors goes with the Defiant back to Earth. My question is why would someone who fought so hard to regain his home planet then abandon it and his people to go off on another adventure.
There is just too much in this book that do add up. Even the ending of the book after they get back to Earth and are confronted by forces 160 years after they left don't add up. People then living to be 160 or more years; all types of implants, Earth ships having better shields than the Defiant. Just glad I am finished reading this book.
May 13, 2013
Gonna make this short..sorry J.D. I loved reading this book. It was a super easy read and flowed like the previous two in the series. I'm a little sad this series is at a close but all good things must end. My only complaint is the same complaint I had about the other two books. And that is that problems technical or otherwise always have convenient solutions so you never seem to worry how things will turn out. But that's ok. In fact in can be a strength as well. One thing I love about the style of story telling is that you never have to wait long for anything to happen once you find out out its going to happen. If they say they need to check someplace or something out..it immediately gets check out. If they need something done, it immediately gets done. You don't have to read through pages of set building, irrelevant blabbing or character stuff for this stuff to happen. The book is entertaining and just works. Plus it has very interesting technological ideas. Great job!
June 28, 2013
I bashed on the first two books of this series and didn't enjoy the read very much, but now I can appreciate them more as burning through a crap-load of events to lead up to this 3rd book.
This book was awesome. It carried out events with much more details and it was a pleasure to read. I had trouble putting it down and finished it in two nights.
This book was awesome. It carried out events with much more details and it was a pleasure to read. I had trouble putting it down and finished it in two nights.
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