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Colonization
Originally released in installments like a traditional 1950's serial novel, this contains all the existing installments Kepler Moon Alpha, Black Hole, The Gateway, Valhalla, and Fossil.
Brought to you by the author of the international bestselling novel “The Mystic Saga”. Scott McElhaney has been bringing science fiction to Kindle-readers at reasonable prices for four years now, including the bestsellers Dominion, Ghosts of Ophidian, Beyond the Event Horizon, Alastair, Erinyes, and Vestige.
Over 250,000 copies have been downloaded worldwide.
Brought to you by the author of the international bestselling novel “The Mystic Saga”. Scott McElhaney has been bringing science fiction to Kindle-readers at reasonable prices for four years now, including the bestsellers Dominion, Ghosts of Ophidian, Beyond the Event Horizon, Alastair, Erinyes, and Vestige.
Over 250,000 copies have been downloaded worldwide.
- GenresScience Fiction
425 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 29, 2015
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About the author
Scott McElhaney
73 books63 followersScott's first novel, Mommy's Choice, was originally published in paperback under the pseudonym Scott Curtis. In under a year on the bookshelves, that novel won the National Christian Choice Book Award for romantic suspense. When Scott moved to a different publisher and started making his novels available to Kindle readers, he returned to his real name and reduced the prices to the absolute minimum allowed by Amazon.
Scott McElhaney currently resides in Ohio with his wife and two sons. He's a Desert Shield veteran of the US Navy, having served on the USS South Carolina CGN-37. Although his books didn't become available to Kindle readers until December 2011, over 250,000 digital copies have been purchased to date and he still maintains a position in the top 100 worldwide in the "Sci-fi Space Opera" category.
Scott McElhaney currently resides in Ohio with his wife and two sons. He's a Desert Shield veteran of the US Navy, having served on the USS South Carolina CGN-37. Although his books didn't become available to Kindle readers until December 2011, over 250,000 digital copies have been purchased to date and he still maintains a position in the top 100 worldwide in the "Sci-fi Space Opera" category.
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November 17, 2019
This collection has some stuff that works, but also a far bit that just didn’t work well for me at all. The first 2 books I found really good they came together in a really good story that kept me interested. The science was good enough that I didn’t question stuff and it stayed interesting. But I wish they were expanded and longer actually.
This is a problem that I had with all 5 novels, but it got worse the farther into the novels it got. Everything moved really, really fast with no breaks or delays or time to stop and collect yourself. Plot points seem to just pile on one after another and the pile of points gets higher and higher as more get introduced with each novel but never truly explored in a satisfying way. This started showing for me in the last book which seemed like it was doing a ton without much more exploration of the events.
The characters suffer in this method as well for me, with some lightning fast character development that seems random. In 10 pages they meet, fall in love, get married, and decided to start having kids. And you barely even have a chance to see any relationship between the two develop, sure an attempt to hide it happens but it doesn’t work all that well. This happens again to an extent with the new teen characters, but I think it works a bit better. Though the romance still feels awkward, though it kinda sorta works given these are teenagers who are pretty isolated to a small group.
The worst for me is the final grouping and romance, it really felt random and out of place. Suddenly introducing this brand-new group that would have massive importance to everything in the final novel felt out of place. And the relationship and history being told via flashback story isn’t the most graceful, I feel it could have been worked in better somehow.
Overall it was decent, but I think it needs more work. I understand the idea of having these short classic sci-fi style novels. Something you can easily sit down and read in an hour without trouble, but it just didn’t work for me perfectly.
This is a problem that I had with all 5 novels, but it got worse the farther into the novels it got. Everything moved really, really fast with no breaks or delays or time to stop and collect yourself. Plot points seem to just pile on one after another and the pile of points gets higher and higher as more get introduced with each novel but never truly explored in a satisfying way. This started showing for me in the last book which seemed like it was doing a ton without much more exploration of the events.
The characters suffer in this method as well for me, with some lightning fast character development that seems random. In 10 pages they meet, fall in love, get married, and decided to start having kids. And you barely even have a chance to see any relationship between the two develop, sure an attempt to hide it happens but it doesn’t work all that well. This happens again to an extent with the new teen characters, but I think it works a bit better. Though the romance still feels awkward, though it kinda sorta works given these are teenagers who are pretty isolated to a small group.
The worst for me is the final grouping and romance, it really felt random and out of place. Suddenly introducing this brand-new group that would have massive importance to everything in the final novel felt out of place. And the relationship and history being told via flashback story isn’t the most graceful, I feel it could have been worked in better somehow.
Overall it was decent, but I think it needs more work. I understand the idea of having these short classic sci-fi style novels. Something you can easily sit down and read in an hour without trouble, but it just didn’t work for me perfectly.
May 2, 2021
Well ... disappointed. A compendium of predictable sci-fi elements, from miniature black holes, to alien sex. The series does not converge, the characters are very thin and simplistic, the science is mostly not science at all.
The story does have some moments. The destruction of the moon by the black hole sent with the first spacecraft through the wormhole (how many memes can one sentence hold) sets up a good scenario for climate and technology commentary, which is then sadly skipped over. The discovery of ancient bones leads to finding the alien race (again, mostly predictable) does have some hair-raising moments.
But for such a popular and well-read author, this series was disappointing.
The story does have some moments. The destruction of the moon by the black hole sent with the first spacecraft through the wormhole (how many memes can one sentence hold) sets up a good scenario for climate and technology commentary, which is then sadly skipped over. The discovery of ancient bones leads to finding the alien race (again, mostly predictable) does have some hair-raising moments.
But for such a popular and well-read author, this series was disappointing.
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February 27, 2023
Good read!
It starts quite slow and a bit laborious to read because the story drags. I almost put it down. I'm glad I didn't and fought through those first few chapters. Once it takes off, it doesn't let up!
It starts quite slow and a bit laborious to read because the story drags. I almost put it down. I'm glad I didn't and fought through those first few chapters. Once it takes off, it doesn't let up!
May 31, 2019
It definitely felt like a feel-good story, but some aspects of the book I thought didn't seem feasible for a sci-fi novel.
March 26, 2024
There are better books than this. The last 2 do not make any sense and the first 3 can be chapters for other books, not a whole book.
October 5, 2015
This amazing novel of realistic interstellar colonization could be categorized "hard science fiction", "space opera", and "romance". While the book as a whole tells the story of the CP-4 colony, it tells their story in five parts that nicely tie together. The characters are well fleshed out and easy to relate to. You can't help but to be drawn in and wonder what comes next. The story, much like Star Trek, could continue onward forever if the author so chose. Hope to see more in the future
October 1, 2015
An amazing space opera along the lines of Haldeman, Steele, and McDevitt. Great storyline that draws you in to the newly colonized world of Kepler Moon Alpha and you can't help but to care about the characters and their lives, their adventures, and their survival. Would recommend this to fans of Coyote or even The Martian.
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