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Starship Lost #5
Fallacy
The preliminaries are out of the way. The real fight begins.
The Malibor are putting up staunch resistance, fighting as if their lives depend on it.
Which they do and they don’t. The Borwyn aren’t using a scorched earth approach. They’re not destroying everything in their path. They’re willing to live in peace with the Malibor.
Which is something the Malibor have no interest in. Victory or death! They will defeat the Borwyn, or they will die trying.
There is no glory for anything other than the one who is still standing after the battle is over.
Read the latest installment of this military space adventure.
The battle is joined.
No part of this book was written by AI – a human author continues to fight the good fight.
This is the fifth book in the Starship Lost Military Sci-Fi Series from Military Sci-Fi Dragon Award Finalist and Amazon International Bestselling author Craig Martelle. It's perfect for fans of Rick Partlow, JN Chaney, and Joshua Dalzelle. Read it today!
The Malibor are putting up staunch resistance, fighting as if their lives depend on it.
Which they do and they don’t. The Borwyn aren’t using a scorched earth approach. They’re not destroying everything in their path. They’re willing to live in peace with the Malibor.
Which is something the Malibor have no interest in. Victory or death! They will defeat the Borwyn, or they will die trying.
There is no glory for anything other than the one who is still standing after the battle is over.
Read the latest installment of this military space adventure.
The battle is joined.
No part of this book was written by AI – a human author continues to fight the good fight.
This is the fifth book in the Starship Lost Military Sci-Fi Series from Military Sci-Fi Dragon Award Finalist and Amazon International Bestselling author Craig Martelle. It's perfect for fans of Rick Partlow, JN Chaney, and Joshua Dalzelle. Read it today!
386 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 20, 2024
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I see my other lives, a career in the Marines, those damn hand-written tests in law school, a business consultant, as if they're stories from a book. I see my books as if I lived there, as if I were friends with the characters. All things we remember are behind us, only those we imagine lie before.
I'm not sure which place I prefer, but I don't have to choose. They live together in my mind. My books have some award nominations, they have bestseller tags across multiple countries. I write about justice, honor, and loyalty because that's what I care about. My stories are mostly set within worlds that haven't been, but could be. We have to be ready for when those times come.
No matter where I went, I always had a book with me. Thanks to 21st Century technology, I now have hundreds of books loaded on my phone and always with me. This breakthrough allows me to binge read my favorites. How many books would I have read on deployments had I not had to have a physical book with me? I paced myself so I wouldn't finish too quickly.
We aren't encumbered like that now. I love the works of Robert Heinlein, Anne McCaffrey, JRR Tolkien, Robert E. Howard, and so many more. I have been compared to Andre Norton and that is humbling - she was an incredible author with a huge list of novels to her credit. With every new book, I aspire to live up to those that you, the readers, have compared me to.
Through a bizarre series of events, I ended up in Fairbanks, Alaska. I never expected to retire to a place where golf courses are only open for four months out of the year. But that's the way it is. It is off the beaten path. My wife and I get to watch the northern lights from our driveway. Our dog has lots of room to run. And temperatures reach fifty below zero. We have from three and a half hours of daylight in the winter to twenty-four hours in the summer.
It's all part of the give and take of life. If we didn't have those extremes, then everyone would live in the sub-arctic.
I see my other lives, a career in the Marines, those damn hand-written tests in law school, a business consultant, as if they're stories from a book. I see my books as if I lived there, as if I were friends with the characters. All things we remember are behind us, only those we imagine lie before.
I'm not sure which place I prefer, but I don't have to choose. They live together in my mind. My books have some award nominations, they have bestseller tags across multiple countries. I write about justice, honor, and loyalty because that's what I care about. My stories are mostly set within worlds that haven't been, but could be. We have to be ready for when those times come.
No matter where I went, I always had a book with me. Thanks to 21st Century technology, I now have hundreds of books loaded on my phone and always with me. This breakthrough allows me to binge read my favorites. How many books would I have read on deployments had I not had to have a physical book with me? I paced myself so I wouldn't finish too quickly.
We aren't encumbered like that now. I love the works of Robert Heinlein, Anne McCaffrey, JRR Tolkien, Robert E. Howard, and so many more. I have been compared to Andre Norton and that is humbling - she was an incredible author with a huge list of novels to her credit. With every new book, I aspire to live up to those that you, the readers, have compared me to.
Through a bizarre series of events, I ended up in Fairbanks, Alaska. I never expected to retire to a place where golf courses are only open for four months out of the year. But that's the way it is. It is off the beaten path. My wife and I get to watch the northern lights from our driveway. Our dog has lots of room to run. And temperatures reach fifty below zero. We have from three and a half hours of daylight in the winter to twenty-four hours in the summer.
It's all part of the give and take of life. If we didn't have those extremes, then everyone would live in the sub-arctic.
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February 25, 2024
THE CHRYSALIS CREW, WITH THE JOINED BORWYN, BATTLE THE MARLIBOR TO LIVE FREE FOR BOTH
Fallacy: A Military Space Adventure (Starship Lost Book 5) by Craig Martelle is a well written, action-packed, military science fiction tell of a 50 year old war to take back their home world all at the same time trying to bring peace to both those who had conquer them and forced them to try to survive and live in the forests and for themselves. Peace through force being the only thing that the Maribor will bend to. Where as, the Borwyn only fights to be free and live in peace. I really enjoyed this book and series and hope you will too.
Fallacy: A Military Space Adventure (Starship Lost Book 5) by Craig Martelle is a well written, action-packed, military science fiction tell of a 50 year old war to take back their home world all at the same time trying to bring peace to both those who had conquer them and forced them to try to survive and live in the forests and for themselves. Peace through force being the only thing that the Maribor will bend to. Where as, the Borwyn only fights to be free and live in peace. I really enjoyed this book and series and hope you will too.
March 21, 2024
The battle is joined! Victory is ours!
The crew of the Borwyn starship Chrysalis, the Borwyn of New Septimus and the Borwyn survivors in the woods west of the city Malipride once called Pridal before the Malibor had taken the planet Septimus from the Borwyn, are working together to defeat the Malibor in space and on the planet of their origin. Deena infiltrated Malipride and is passing information to the Borwyn in the woods and in New Pridal (the Borwyn city inside a mountain).
Chrysalis, although armored with patches on patches, is still faster and better armed than anything the Malibor have. And each engagement with the enemy has reduced their warships to ruins. Soon the Borwyn will be fighting on only one front - the planet most were born on, Septimus. The final battle approaches. The forces are arrayed, their weapons primed. The Borwyn survivors will retake their world, or die trying!
I love these characters! From Captain Jacqueline "Jaq" Hunter to her brother Bec, their resident engineering genius, they're all friends in my mind and their pain I feel deeply! And there must be a Cupid nearby because they're all falling in love and claiming their mates! If anything happens to them, I'll weep along with them! I feel their pain as well as their joy. That is the perfect description of a brilliant author. This is a great read!
The crew of the Borwyn starship Chrysalis, the Borwyn of New Septimus and the Borwyn survivors in the woods west of the city Malipride once called Pridal before the Malibor had taken the planet Septimus from the Borwyn, are working together to defeat the Malibor in space and on the planet of their origin. Deena infiltrated Malipride and is passing information to the Borwyn in the woods and in New Pridal (the Borwyn city inside a mountain).
Chrysalis, although armored with patches on patches, is still faster and better armed than anything the Malibor have. And each engagement with the enemy has reduced their warships to ruins. Soon the Borwyn will be fighting on only one front - the planet most were born on, Septimus. The final battle approaches. The forces are arrayed, their weapons primed. The Borwyn survivors will retake their world, or die trying!
I love these characters! From Captain Jacqueline "Jaq" Hunter to her brother Bec, their resident engineering genius, they're all friends in my mind and their pain I feel deeply! And there must be a Cupid nearby because they're all falling in love and claiming their mates! If anything happens to them, I'll weep along with them! I feel their pain as well as their joy. That is the perfect description of a brilliant author. This is a great read!
March 26, 2024
even better than the last
Loved how the story has slowly expanded to several teams across the solar system, each with different tasks and challenges. The characters and story keep growing on me. CANNOT WAIT for the final book. The suspense!
Loved how the story has slowly expanded to several teams across the solar system, each with different tasks and challenges. The characters and story keep growing on me. CANNOT WAIT for the final book. The suspense!
March 17, 2024
Wonderful
Capitan Jaq and crew are working feverishly to get the ship in shape to get back in the fight. While the combat team is getting the Western Borwyn on board to defeat army 100 times stronger than them. Exciting way better than sitting in front of who on tube! Oops I'm showing my age?
Capitan Jaq and crew are working feverishly to get the ship in shape to get back in the fight. While the combat team is getting the Western Borwyn on board to defeat army 100 times stronger than them. Exciting way better than sitting in front of who on tube! Oops I'm showing my age?
February 25, 2024
Book six can come fast enough!
Well, the saga keeps building up steam. There are multiple arcs running through out, space guys on horses, married to people wearing deer hides! I see that pair of people named "Y..."!
Well, the saga keeps building up steam. There are multiple arcs running through out, space guys on horses, married to people wearing deer hides! I see that pair of people named "Y..."!
March 2, 2024
Practically Perfect in Every Possible Way
Yes, folks… I quoted Mary Frickin’ Poppins…but it’s a description that fits this book oh so perfectly (or is that oh so practically perfectly?).
In his author’s notes Craig apologizes for an ending that had not one, not two, but FOUR cliffhanger endings. But honestly, what kind of apology is really needed?
Now bear in mind that I’m the guy who is incessantly annoyed by cliffhangers and who makes no bones about it. However, that’s only when it’s warranted. The ones that annoy me are the ones who reach a critical moment in the storyline, proceed to take you 1/2 way through it, and then unceremoniously cone to a sudden and grinding halt as if someone simply stopped speaking, halfway through a sentence, which just so happens to be a technique that some authors have been known to employ. But none of that, is the case here, however. I mean come on, this is the penultimate book to an entire series, and if Craig had failed to provide, some sort of cliffhanger, quite honestly, he wouldn’t be an author worth reading.
As for forklift hangers, well, there were four major plot lines, and again, if he just dropped them in kind of forgot about them, he would not be an author worth reading.
As it stands, he wins! There’s not much I can say this is just a phenomenal chapter in what is an incredible series,and, quite honestly, what I believe to be Craig Martelle’s best writing to date, and that’s saying something.
Yes, folks… I quoted Mary Frickin’ Poppins…but it’s a description that fits this book oh so perfectly (or is that oh so practically perfectly?).
In his author’s notes Craig apologizes for an ending that had not one, not two, but FOUR cliffhanger endings. But honestly, what kind of apology is really needed?
Now bear in mind that I’m the guy who is incessantly annoyed by cliffhangers and who makes no bones about it. However, that’s only when it’s warranted. The ones that annoy me are the ones who reach a critical moment in the storyline, proceed to take you 1/2 way through it, and then unceremoniously cone to a sudden and grinding halt as if someone simply stopped speaking, halfway through a sentence, which just so happens to be a technique that some authors have been known to employ. But none of that, is the case here, however. I mean come on, this is the penultimate book to an entire series, and if Craig had failed to provide, some sort of cliffhanger, quite honestly, he wouldn’t be an author worth reading.
As for forklift hangers, well, there were four major plot lines, and again, if he just dropped them in kind of forgot about them, he would not be an author worth reading.
As it stands, he wins! There’s not much I can say this is just a phenomenal chapter in what is an incredible series,and, quite honestly, what I believe to be Craig Martelle’s best writing to date, and that’s saying something.
February 17, 2025
Dragged out the story
In my humble opinion this story was drawn and dragged past acceptable limits. Some of it was just too much details to the point of becoming silly. I been tempted to stop reading more than once because the characters and the things they did and said bordered on stupidity. This is really a shame for this could have easily been a blockbuster.
In my humble opinion this story was drawn and dragged past acceptable limits. Some of it was just too much details to the point of becoming silly. I been tempted to stop reading more than once because the characters and the things they did and said bordered on stupidity. This is really a shame for this could have easily been a blockbuster.
April 25, 2025
3.5 stars.
Things are really heating up both in space and on planet. But what is not very convincing for me is Deena's role in this book, without giving away any spoilers.
In any case, lots of action and suspenseful moments. I'm keen to find out what the final book will bring.
Things are really heating up both in space and on planet. But what is not very convincing for me is Deena's role in this book, without giving away any spoilers.
In any case, lots of action and suspenseful moments. I'm keen to find out what the final book will bring.
April 3, 2025
great plot
Winning characters that just get better. The good guys get the bad guys except some who aren’t as bad as they looked…
Winning characters that just get better. The good guys get the bad guys except some who aren’t as bad as they looked…
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