When your droid goes crazy…. send in one that’s even crazier.Accidents happen in every workplace. But when an experimental battle droid escapes from a Federation Robotics laboratory, it’s a very bad day at the office.
The Agency sends our intrepid squad to a faraway jungle planetoid to capture it before anyone else does. Along for the ride is another experimental droid, who specialises in sarcasm and hunting his own kind.
Can the squad keep the enemy off his back? Can the infiltrator really be trusted? Find out in the nailbiting, talon-chewing sixth instalment of the Dropzone series, part of Esa Ortega’s Kassini universe.
Esa Ortega is a UK-based writer of science fiction. He was brought up in the 80s surrounded by dog-eared paperbacks, games that may or may not load and pirated Betamax copies of sci-fi classics. During this time, his mind was exposed to such powerful phenomena as Elite, Blade Runner, Alien, Hitch-Hiker's Guide... and Battlestar Galactica. He has stayed immersed in the sci-fi realm ever since, only reluctantly re-materialising in this dimension to walk among you and undertake a variety of menial tasks.
The Kassini Division is his debut novel. It offers military sci-fi with character, space opera with a dose of realism and futuristic espionage with a heart, and is a non-stop thrill ride that lovingly references the best retro science fiction.
Its sequel, Rise Of The Exiles, was released in January 2023.
Conversations With Droids is a collection of 12 short stories set in the same universe: sign up to the mailing list at www.esaortega.com for a free eBook copy.
My Time As A Shadow is a post-apocalyptic zombie survival thriller set in the UK.
Dead Formats is a near-future tech-noir sci-fi detective mystery.
Fleet Rats is the first in the Dropzone mil-SF series, also set in the same universe as the Kassini books.