Ghost Bear's Lament: Part One

Battletech: BlitzKrieg #1

by Steven Mohan Jr.

Star Commander Richard Bekker of Clan Ghost Bear is smart, tough, and ruthless—the perfect Clan warrior. Victory is all he has ever known. That’s about to change.

Genres: Science Fiction

108 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 13, 2012

About the author

Steven Mohan, Jr. has professionally published more a half million words of military science fiction including the BattleTech novel A Bonfire of Worlds. He has sold original fiction to markets as diverse as INTERZONE, POLYPHONY, and PARADOX, as well as several DAW original anthologies. His short stories have won honorable mention in THE YEAR'S BEST SCIENCE FICTION and THE YEAR'S BEST FANTASY AND HORROR and he has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize.

Reviews

[Rocky Sunico · Rating 4 out of 5]

This was an interesting piece of shorter BattleTech fiction very much focused on the individual journey of the Ghost Bear MechWarrior Richard Bekker. But instead of a story full of glorious battle and adventure, we have this Ghost Bear trinary subject to something far more sinister.

Thus we learn a LOT about this one warrior and how he views the needs of this Clan above all else. But he may also fall prey to the weakness of relative sentiment when it comes to things like his sibkin Star Captain Corinne and her challenge to his authority.

This is really more of a survival tale more than anything else, but it's a very well-crafted one. I didn't expect to be so drawn into a story that takes place without BattleMech featuring prominently.

[Ben Shouse · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good read

Good read. Cannot wait to see what happens next. Nice to see more stories about the Ghost Bears. Cannot wait for more!