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Stellar Legacy: 10th Anniversary Edition
A wild jump into uncharted space saves the starship Satori and her crew from their near brush with death.
With a badly damaged ship and injured crew, the planet with breathable air they find on the far side of their jump seems like a stroke of luck. But they quickly learn that they’ve only gone from one danger into another far greater threat.
The planet they find is ruined, abandoned, and devastated by some long ago war. Was it once the home of the civilization that built the wormhole drive? What happened to them?
As the crew begin their search for clues, they stumble across the remnants of a war a thousand years old and an enemy more terrifying than anything mankind has ever faced.
“Oh,” Beth said in a distracted voice.
“Beth, what the heck is up with you?” Dan went beside her to see what she was looking at.
She was watching a radar screen, showing the airspace around them. It was pretty easy to read. The Satori was dead center on the screen, and everything in the air nearby showed up with a number next to it showing relative altitude. When he'd last looked at the screen, there was nothing except the occasional satellite passing overhead. That had changed. That had changed a lot.
Something very large was flying into radar range, about thirty miles above them and coming down fast. As he watched, the object broke apart, smaller bits flying off.
“Majel, what is it? Asteroid?” Dan asked.
The larger object was still showing as about five hundred meters long and nearly half as wide. If it was a rock, it was going to make one hell of a crater, and they'd need to be long gone before it came down.
“Negative,” came the computer's answer. “Object is decelerating.”
This tenth anniversary special edition includes a new forward from the author and a never before published Satoriverse short story!
With a badly damaged ship and injured crew, the planet with breathable air they find on the far side of their jump seems like a stroke of luck. But they quickly learn that they’ve only gone from one danger into another far greater threat.
The planet they find is ruined, abandoned, and devastated by some long ago war. Was it once the home of the civilization that built the wormhole drive? What happened to them?
As the crew begin their search for clues, they stumble across the remnants of a war a thousand years old and an enemy more terrifying than anything mankind has ever faced.
“Oh,” Beth said in a distracted voice.
“Beth, what the heck is up with you?” Dan went beside her to see what she was looking at.
She was watching a radar screen, showing the airspace around them. It was pretty easy to read. The Satori was dead center on the screen, and everything in the air nearby showed up with a number next to it showing relative altitude. When he'd last looked at the screen, there was nothing except the occasional satellite passing overhead. That had changed. That had changed a lot.
Something very large was flying into radar range, about thirty miles above them and coming down fast. As he watched, the object broke apart, smaller bits flying off.
“Majel, what is it? Asteroid?” Dan asked.
The larger object was still showing as about five hundred meters long and nearly half as wide. If it was a rock, it was going to make one hell of a crater, and they'd need to be long gone before it came down.
“Negative,” came the computer's answer. “Object is decelerating.”
This tenth anniversary special edition includes a new forward from the author and a never before published Satoriverse short story!
186 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 16, 2025
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About the author
Kevin O. McLaughlin
174 books139 followersWhen not practicing hobbies which include sailing, constructing medieval armor, and swinging swords at his friends, Kevin McLaughlin can usually be found in his Boston home. Kevin’s award-winning short fiction is now available in digital form at all major ebook retailers. He writes fantasy in settings both historical and contemporary, and science fiction in both the near and distant future.
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December 18, 2025
An ok 2nd book
TBH nothing really new with this book, so similar to other series out there
Someone finds an advanced alien spaceship, keeps it to themselves, does a shakedown cruise that goes wrong, ends up lightyears from earth, encounters a war like alien race, fights said alien race, escape back to earth
If you have not read something similar previously, I'm guessing your new to Sci-Fi
With all that being said, it's still entertaining, there are few glimpses of the storyline to come and I'm expecting something weird to happen with the computer
Will give book 3 a go, but the storyline really does need to inject something new into the adventure
TBH nothing really new with this book, so similar to other series out there
Someone finds an advanced alien spaceship, keeps it to themselves, does a shakedown cruise that goes wrong, ends up lightyears from earth, encounters a war like alien race, fights said alien race, escape back to earth
If you have not read something similar previously, I'm guessing your new to Sci-Fi
With all that being said, it's still entertaining, there are few glimpses of the storyline to come and I'm expecting something weird to happen with the computer
Will give book 3 a go, but the storyline really does need to inject something new into the adventure
May 11, 2025
Excellent
And of course I'll keep on reading. How many books are there in this series? Doesn't matter... I know I'll have to read all the way to the end. 🙂
And of course I'll keep on reading. How many books are there in this series? Doesn't matter... I know I'll have to read all the way to the end. 🙂
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