The Lost Clone

Lost Starship #19

by Vaughn Heppner

Across the lonely depths of space from their spiral arm, Leviathan has begun infiltrating agents into Star Watch as a prelude to invasion.

One team has cloned a kidnapped Captain Maddox, intending for the clone to take his place on Victory .

The first Maddox learns of this is when his clone unfreezes him on a spaceliner. Maddox and his clone decide to team up. They’re 8000 light years from Earth, forced to play a desperate game of survival while hunted by the cybernetic Soldiers of Leviathan.

Maddox is determined to warn Star Watch about the coming invasion.

THE LOST CLONE is book 19 in the Lost Starship series, a star-spanning saga of deadly space war and planetary struggles as told by millions-bestselling author Vaughn Heppner.

Genres: Science Fiction, Audiobook

419 pages, Paperback

Published August 6, 2023

About the author

You can visit Vaughn at www.vaughnheppner.com

I was born in Canada and remember as a small boy crawling in my snow-fort. I closed my eyes, and when I tried to open them, they were frozen shut. I didn't panic, but wiped away the ice crystals, unglued my eyes and kept on building my tunnel. Those were great days! I moved to Central California before seventh grade and couldn't believe I lived in a land where oranges grew on trees and you could pick grapes from the vine.

I used to wonder what I wanted to do with my life, what kind of work specifically. I was miserable not knowing and bordering on desperate. Then one day a friend gave me his typewriter. I began working on a novel. A different person told me it was much easier on a computer, so I bought one and began getting up at 4:30 A.M. each morning before work, writing for three hours. My eyes were unglued once again as the pang of misery left my gut. I knew exactly what I wanted to do: write. So now that's what I do, I write, and write, and write, and I love it.

Reviews

[Mike Nemeth · Rating 4 out of 5]

In "The Lost Clone," author Vaughn Heppner places his hero Captain Maddox in possibly the worst possible place to start an adventure. Maddox awakes in an unfamiliar place, imprisoned and completely not himself. In addition, he's faced with his own clone, who only has some of his memories and acts without the captain's refined moral compass. Fortunately for Maddox, his clone frees him and seeks to help him escape his captors, apparently the cyborgs of Leviathan. Their flight requires seat-of-the-pants maneuvering, and even so they barely make it out alive. Then Heppner puts one hurdle after another in Maddox's way. Death is all but certain as the threats to his continued breathing are intense. And it does not stop. All I could think of was the Book of Job and his seven lessons. Maddox figured it out. Heppner wrote most of the novel, the 19th in the Lost Starship series, from Maddox's lone perspective. Almost painfully so. While this suffering proved a little hard to take, Maddox's clone and his character arc offered some relief. But the overwhelming concept that Maddox might never see his wife and child again made the stakes high. Maddox got beat down. Yet he still found strength to support those who helped him. And toward the end, he begins to make progress in the ass-kicking department.

[Garrett Olinde · Rating 4 out of 5]

My 19th and last 'LOST' book. Each one is a clone (haha) of the others. repetitive. Endless variations of the same thing. Very little sense of the passage of time, except the presence of a child. I have read a few of his other books, maybe i will find a few more, but i am finished with this series.


It would help if he arranged his books properly on Goodreads. I have trouble finding the newest ones.

[Dale Rosso · Rating 4 out of 5]

Decent entry in the Lost Starship series, had to stop and figure out what had been going on since I had read a lot of books between the previous novel and this one.