GAIA: Rogue State

by P.T. Dilloway

From the pages of the Girl Power superhero series! After a devastating alien attack has left the world in shambles, what's needed more than ever is a global intelligence agency. Enter the Global Autonomous Intelligence Agency, run by Melanie Amis, once the superhero sidekick the Outcast. When one of Melanie's agents goes missing in Africa, it begins to unravel a conspiracy that could throw the world right back into chaos.

152 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 31, 2016

About the author

P.T. Dilloway has been a writer for most of his life. He completed his first story in third grade and received an ‘A’ for the assignment. Around that time he also placed in a local writing contest for a television station, receiving an action figure in lieu of a trophy, thus securing his love with the written word.
Two of P.T.'s novels are already indie published. "Where You Belong" is the heartwarming story of a man in search of himself and his place in the world. "Virgin Territory" is a suspenseful tale of a man who finds love from beyond the grave. He’s also indie published a volume of short stories collectively titled "The Carnival Papers". His superhero novel "A Hero's Journey" was published October 2012. He also contributed to the flash fiction anthology "We Are Now" with Neil Vogler and Sean Craven in December 2012.

When not writing, P.T. enjoys reading and photographing Michigan’s many lighthouses. In order to pay the bills, he earned an accounting degree from Saginaw Valley State University in 2000 and for the past ten years has worked as a payroll accountant in Detroit. He lives in suburban Detroit, where he continues to work on new writing projects.

Reviews

[Ruby Ridge · Rating 5 out of 5]

After reading the original 3 novels and short stories I left what in hindsight was an unfairly harsh review and the author was good enough to take the time for a few back and forth comments in which he mentioned "Besides the 3 novels and short stories there's also the novella GAIA Rogue State that mostly involves Melanie and Hitter and someone who would have become like the Green Lantern of Earth" and I am really glad he did. This novella is a coming of age of the series so to speak in which the girls are at peace with their new identities and moving onwards.
If no more are to be written this is a fitting conclusion to the series containing my favorite heroes from the series. I can also understand why the author is going to leave the series here.
Recommended to "girl power" fans and those on the fence about it.

[Patrick · Rating 5 out of 5]

I mentioned this book to someone who had read the Girl Power omnibus the other day and then realized I never made a paperback of this.

Anyway, I liked the story though I always think I could have made it longer. I'm not sure what my plans for the next phase of this universe would have been, though I'm sure the Galactic Peacekeepers (my version of Green Lanterns) would have been a big part of it.

For reasons I can't really explain, my favorite characters in this series are the non-powered heroes like Melanie, Diane, Tonya, and Robin. Melanie especially is a favorite as she goes from a geeky fanboy in the first book to a female sidekick to de facto leader of Earth in the third book to Nick Fury on a shoestring budget in this book. If I hadn't found a lot more profit in writing gender swap fiction under another name after writing this, I probably would have written more adventures for Melanie and her discount spy agency.

So it goes.

[Patrick · Rating 5 out of 5]

Better than Agents of SHIELD.