Entropy's End

Sethran Kada #3

by Chris Reher

Ships are disappearing in subspace. Traders, rebels, pirates, and even military vessels are losing their way in the Big Nothing that makes space travel possible. Deep-cover agent Sethran Kada joins the investigation after his own navigator, Ciela, barely escapes the void with her mind intact. It soon becomes clear that this subspace trap is more than some natural phenomenon. Seth’s search for answers leads him to a brutal penal colony on the brink of revolt, and uncovers a plot to destroy an entire planet. When evidence points to the return of the dangerous subspace entities known as Dyads, Air Command mobilizes to annihilate the threat at any cost. Seth and Ciela pursue a Dyad who has infiltrated a key research complex where they discover that the inexorable subspace peril will not just threaten a single planet. It will mean the end of interstellar travel and destroy their Commonwealth civilization.

Genres: Science Fiction

242 pages, Paperback

First published January 27, 2015

About the author

I am a first generation Canadian currently and out of necessity residing on planet Earth (which, in the general and interplanetary scheme of things could REALLY use a catchier name, if you ask me. I mean, imagine heading past Proxima Centauri and someone asks you whence you came and you tell them "dirt". All theological implications aside, that just won't do.)

My first full-length work of fiction, Flight To Exile, is a fantasy which, I just realized, takes place on a planet that doesn't have a name at all and blurs the line between sci-fi and fantasy in ways that are probably illegal.

I then headed out far beyond Proxima Centauri and found a nifty story that soon turned into a Space Opera complete with wormholes and improbable laser guns. What fun. Laws of physics need not apply if you find a way to explain them away.
The series stars Nova Whiteside as a space marine whose pesky humanity keeps getting in the way of her doing her job according to protocol.
Currently, there are five books in the series, with three more planned.

When not finding ways to torture my subjects or entice them with inter-species hanky-panky, I design web sites or write about designing web sites. I enjoy long walks on the beach or, given the local beach shortage, write about beaches far beyond Proxima Centauri.

Reviews

[✘✘ Sarah ✘✘ (former Nefarious Breeder of Murderous Crustaceans) · Rating 4 out of 5]

Actual rating: 3.798995957 stars.

✔ Fact #1: Graphic Design Hell (GDH™) some book covers should go straight to.

✔ Fact #2: By its cover a book thou shalt not judge unless it’s this type of cover, in which case you are most welcome to trust absolutely fishing not.

✔ Fact #3: Ha.

✔ Fact #4: No, this is not the mostest profoundest story I have ever read. But bloody shrimping entertaining indeed it is. Also, Super Extra Fast Paced (SEFP™) the plot is. Also also, much delightfully stimulating action to be had there is. Also also also, quite rich and intriguing and original the world building is. Ergo, lusciously pleased by all this I am a little. Maybe.

✔ Fact #5: When I first started reading this trilogy, I badly wanted to kidnap adopt roguish-as-fish Sethran Kada. Then I set my nefarious sights on his scrumptious, non-organic parasite symbiote, Khoe. (The fact that I might have maybe wanted to perhaps be Kada’s very organic symbiote at some point had obviously nothing to do with this.) “What about now,” you kindly ask? Why now I’m Machiavellianly zooming in on Kada’s edible-as-shrimp Delphian navigator, Ciela of the supercalifragilisticexpialidocious mental abilities and (most importantly) Super Extra Cool Natural Deep Blue Hair (SECNDBH™). So Poof Gone Harem and stuff.

✔ Fact #6: I feel like dancing all of a sudden. Please bare bear shrimp with me and stuff.



Yes, my moves are super smooth and sexey despite my old age. Can’t help it, I was born that way.

➽ Nefarious Last Words (NLW™): Come to an end most unfortunately this Light Yet Refreshingly Titillating Trilogy (LYRTT™) has. But more books set in this world Chris Reher has most fortunately written, so a slight chance that utter doom and despair await me not there might be. Perhaps.

• Book 1: Quantum Tangle ★★★★
• Book 2: Terminus Shift ★★★



[Pre-review nonsense]

Super Extra Condensed Review (SECR™) to come and stuff. Why don't you people have a little party while you anxiously wait for me to write it and stuff?



Oooh, you Little Barnacles sure know how to have a good time, don't you?

[john · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good story. Good characters. Could've been a 4 for me if it didn't have so much violence. The story is about violence and poor treatment not about space and aliens. A story shouldn't have to rely on death for entertainment. I skip read a lot of pages. Not a page turner. No escape literature for me in this one. Too bad because Reher is a good writer. Wish he could've developed the aliens talents and planets/new worlds further.

[Mark P. Downey · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good third book in series

This was an entertaining book, though a little slower in spots. I enjoyed the repartee between the protagonists. I would read this only after reading the first two or it won’t make as much sense.

[Bob]

A final resolution to an unique alien invasion. The other aliens were less significant, but the invading aliens were the quite interesting, although purely speculative. The overall trilogy was entertaining.

[C.A. Knutsen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow!

An outstanding conclusion to the Sethran series. I like how the author more fully developed the Celia character, and continued to show us the resourcefulness of Sethran. Get ready for an excellent ending.

[lora horak · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great Read

Just as fun a read as the previous books about Kada. Well developed characters and plot lines. Hope there are more adventures for Kada.

[David Wooddell · Rating 5 out of 5]

Chris Reher, Entropy’s End: Targon Tales – Sethran Book 3
David W. Wooddell, February 9, 2015

The fictional world of Chris Reher gets richer with every new novel it seems. Her latest Targon Tales novel, featuring Sethran Kada, is a delightfully complete story, filled with wonders that just slide right into the reader’s imagination. Psychic abilities, linked in mystic-reality, provide a narrative flow that works, despite the potential pitfalls of “he thought-she thought.” The action is well-written, but the motives and psychology of her characters dominate throughout. They are not simple, one dimensional beings, but come to the story with subtle motives that surprise with their own agendas.
The overarching plotline involves Dyads, the symbiotic formations of energy that are a form of humanized background radiation. It is a brilliant stroke. That such Dyads can form emotions and anthropomorphic attachments to their human partners , becoming something more than an assemblage of quantum energy particles, creates a new form of hybrid character, drawn from the larger-than-life of the universe.
Sethran, and his other-species navigator Ceila, with her one-of-a-kind abilities to communicate near and far, as well as to steer them through the quantum eye of the needle, so to speak, are thrust in an otherworld love triangle. The resolution of that problem is gentle, and humorous, and sensitively presented.
The weave of different species, noticed before in previous works by this author, gives a solid feeling of life in the universe. Not just human life, but multi-species sentient life that is well formed from the author’s knowledge of science, evolution, and psychology.

[Kathy KS · Rating 3 out of 5]

This short space opera is a quick read. Although I read this tale of Sethran Kada and Ciela's adventures first, I like it well enough to try the other Targon Tales and Sethran Kada series. Reminded me of some of the past Star Trek situations. The author that I was reminded of would be Sharon Lee.

Downloaded from Enki.

[Judy Adams · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love SyFy

Another great story. Well written and great characters. Heroes and heroines galore. I am a bit sad this is the last available.