Steele High: Generation Ship Destiny, Book One

by Phil Huddleston

His family dead, his life devastated, former Homicide Detective Oscar Steele thinks of himself as "The Hollow Man", with nothing left to live for. But Deborah Geller, in charge of the impending launch of Generation Ship Destiny, has other plans for him. There is a saboteur aboard - and she wants Steele to find him.

Paired with unlikely ally Summer Winn, Steele runs into trouble quickly. Events on both Destiny and Earth spiral out of control. Suddenly, the residents of Destiny watch the Earth below them erupt in a holocaust for the second time in thirty years.

As desperate invaders approach to kill all aboard Destiny and take it for themselves, Deborah orders a last-ditch, premature launch to try and escape the Solar System before they arrive. And Oscar Steele has a decision to make. Take the last outbound shuttle to a devastated Earth--or stay behind and die with the rest.

312 pages, Kindle Edition

Published March 15, 2024

Reviews

[Travis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Steele High is the first book in this series, and while it's not a bad story, it doesn't do much to encourage my faith in humanity, but I guess that's the point. It's a decent enough story, and in fact, I do intend to read the next book in the series, but I certainly hope there's a bit more unity in the next piece of the story. Yeah, it's a end of the world (kind of, mostly, and I realize people are going to be unreasonable in those circumstances, but most of the time, in these kinds of books, there's at least a core of humanity trying to do the right thing. Here's just a group trying to hang onto what it's already got, and another group trying to take it away. Nothing of that spirit of cooperation we have with most books of this kind. I realize, this is probably as realistic as it gets, but I kind of like books that offer alternate solutions and working together, rather than assured mutual distruction. Of course, that doesn't happen, but it was a near thing. In any case, I'll read the next one, and see where it leads before making a snap judgement on the series as a whole.
Not a bad story, just not exactly the kind of scifi story I like to read.

[Alan · Rating 5 out of 5]

A great read

A really good well written story.
Full of action from start to finish.
I look forward to reading the next book in the series.