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Lokians #3.5
Apollo
John Lay is recruiting a new member for Phoenix crew. In order to educate her, he recounts the story regarding his first mission with the Bureau. It was then that he met with an exceptional group of people, and it was then that he first learned of aliens, and closed door political ties to piracy.
In joining The Bureau, Lay and crew infiltrate the Illuminati's base of operations, witness the destructive properties of alien tech, and uncover the truth about Montrose's involvement in alien pacts.
The mission takes a turn for the worse when the undercover crew is discovered, and worse, pirates start overtaking Apollo.
In joining The Bureau, Lay and crew infiltrate the Illuminati's base of operations, witness the destructive properties of alien tech, and uncover the truth about Montrose's involvement in alien pacts.
The mission takes a turn for the worse when the undercover crew is discovered, and worse, pirates start overtaking Apollo.
41 pages, Kindle Edition
First published May 9, 2013
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About the author
Aaron Dennis
45 books144 followersDennis has been writing for 8 years and has accomplished a great deal in a short amount of time. Apart from writing and creating some wonderful stories, he learned editing from working with Chuck Sambuchino. His creative skills are easily recognized in books like War and Glory where scifi and horror are mixed, or books like Cayneian, where fantasy and horror are mixed, but he also portrays a great many psychological and philosophical issues throughout his writing.
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March 24, 2017
I liked this little scifi short story. Well, not exactly a short story. It's long for a short story. This appears to be in line with the Lokians scifi novels, but I can't really tell where it fits in, and I think it may be after the 3rd novel, which is still in "re-release prep mode" I guess.
Any-meow, Ambassador Lay, who used to be Admiral Lay, is speaking to a new recruit for Phoenix Crew, which was led by Captain O'Hara in the novels, and he relates to this new gal, Chang, the story of his Bureau dealings back when he was a Lieutenant.
It was really a blast. I got to learn a little more about a super mysterious figure, John Lay, and why he is the man he is, and even a little bit about how The Bureau operates. They're the secret organization who deal with extraterrestrials in case you haven't read any of the books.
Unfortunately, there was something missing in this story. I think maybe it should have been worked out more thoroughly. It just felt a little blah, a little blank, in some areas, and I wasn't quite as sucked in as I had hoped. To date, the first novel, Beyond the End of the World, is still my favorite in the series, but Apollo was really neat.
There were no aliens though. I mean they were mentioned, but no one interacted with them. I did like seeing some of the characters as their younger selves, and I loved how the colony was portrayed, but all-in-all, the whole story just needed more, of, well, itself. It needed to be longer and have more descriptions and interactions.
The action was sweet. The dialogue was cool. The characters were amazing, and maybe that's why I wanted more.... I'm also used to all the planet-hopping from the other two novels. You know, as I write this review, I start to feel like Apollo was DLC for the Lokians series. That's really what it boils down to for me, and it was great DLC, but I'm pumped about the next "game" in the series, which will hopefully be released soon.
No doubt, this is a great addition the Lokians scifi series, and I'm still trembling, waiting, to see what happens in the 3rd novel.
Meow, meow, meow
Any-meow, Ambassador Lay, who used to be Admiral Lay, is speaking to a new recruit for Phoenix Crew, which was led by Captain O'Hara in the novels, and he relates to this new gal, Chang, the story of his Bureau dealings back when he was a Lieutenant.
It was really a blast. I got to learn a little more about a super mysterious figure, John Lay, and why he is the man he is, and even a little bit about how The Bureau operates. They're the secret organization who deal with extraterrestrials in case you haven't read any of the books.
Unfortunately, there was something missing in this story. I think maybe it should have been worked out more thoroughly. It just felt a little blah, a little blank, in some areas, and I wasn't quite as sucked in as I had hoped. To date, the first novel, Beyond the End of the World, is still my favorite in the series, but Apollo was really neat.
There were no aliens though. I mean they were mentioned, but no one interacted with them. I did like seeing some of the characters as their younger selves, and I loved how the colony was portrayed, but all-in-all, the whole story just needed more, of, well, itself. It needed to be longer and have more descriptions and interactions.
The action was sweet. The dialogue was cool. The characters were amazing, and maybe that's why I wanted more.... I'm also used to all the planet-hopping from the other two novels. You know, as I write this review, I start to feel like Apollo was DLC for the Lokians series. That's really what it boils down to for me, and it was great DLC, but I'm pumped about the next "game" in the series, which will hopefully be released soon.
No doubt, this is a great addition the Lokians scifi series, and I'm still trembling, waiting, to see what happens in the 3rd novel.
Meow, meow, meow
February 2, 2017
Another Lokians short story, but completely different from any of the others. In this one, the admiral, John Lay is the main character and he's telling a new recruit the story of what happened when he first met the Bureau.
The admiral, who's a leutenant at the time, gets hired on by The Bureau to figure out where a weapons shipment is coming from because the weapons appear to be alien, and right now, no one knows about aliens, except The Bureau, I guess
Anyway, Lay teams up with other agents and some other military people, they try to stop the gun runners, who oddly enough call themselves the illuminati, so there's a ton of consipiracies in Lokians, and then it turns out there are ties to the goverments of earth, who are somehow in league with space pirates.
It's a crazy ride, but the admiral was so cool in the first Lokians novel that I really enjoyed reading about him fighting when he was young. Another great read by Dennis, who may be quickly becoming my favorite indie author.
The admiral, who's a leutenant at the time, gets hired on by The Bureau to figure out where a weapons shipment is coming from because the weapons appear to be alien, and right now, no one knows about aliens, except The Bureau, I guess
Anyway, Lay teams up with other agents and some other military people, they try to stop the gun runners, who oddly enough call themselves the illuminati, so there's a ton of consipiracies in Lokians, and then it turns out there are ties to the goverments of earth, who are somehow in league with space pirates.
It's a crazy ride, but the admiral was so cool in the first Lokians novel that I really enjoyed reading about him fighting when he was young. Another great read by Dennis, who may be quickly becoming my favorite indie author.
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