The Smartest Man on the Moon

Alpha/Omega

by Van Allen Plexico

A peaceful, international scientific research base orbiting Alpha Centauri-A. A military coup aboard a starship headed to resupply that base.

A terrible, dark secret concealed on the moon of Amphion.

General Thomas Jefferson Davis and his UN commando squad have just jumped head-first into a hornets’ nest of cosmic proportions. But—are they the good guys in this story… or the bad?

ALPHA/ A new serialized near-future space opera adventure from Van Allen Plexico, author of the Shattering and the Sentinels series.

EPISODE The Smartest Man on the Moon

ALPHA/OMEGA is a Pro Se Single Shot Signature Series, a serial novel being released as individual digital episodes.

“Plexico is the master of Space Opera.” –Pulp Fiction Reviews

25 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 23, 2015

About the author

Van Allen Plexico has written a dozen novels and contributed to at least that many anthologies, but is best known for his popular and critically-acclaimed SENTINELS superhero novels, as well as the two-time Novel of the Year Finalist LORDS OF FIRE and its sequels in the "Shattering" space opera series. In the realm of nonfiction, he co-wrote the best-selling DECADES OF DOMINANCE and SEASON OF OUR DREAMS books about Auburn football and created the ASSEMBLED! books, exploring the history of Marvel’s AVENGERS comics. He writes and edits for numerous publishers including Airship 27, Pro Se Press, Permuted/Swarm Press, Maple Street Press, New Babel Books, Adamant, and White Rocket, along with occasional columns for RevolutionSF.com and the War Eagle Reader. He serves as an Associate Professor at Southwestern Illinois College.