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Sol System Renegades #7
The Callisto Gambit
Amid Earth's war against Mars, one man desperately searches for a safe home for his people.
Kiyoshi Yonezawa—smuggler and occasional pirate—can look after himself. Looking after 500 homeless friends and relations is a much bigger challenge. As the war between Earth and Mars heats up, chaos strikes the asteroid belt, and Kiyoshi's people seek refuge aboard an arkship that would leave the solar system far behind.
Convinced it's a deathtrap, Kiyoshi tries to extricate them. But in the process, his brother is wrongfully arrested by Earth's dreaded secret police. Determined to rescue his brother and free his people, Kiyoshi’s chances of prevailing against the overwhelming might of the UN look bleak.
With the rule of law in the Belt crumbling, a deal with the biggest crook on Ceres looks like his only hope...
The Callisto Gambit is the seventh and last novel in the Sol System Renegades series, a science fiction epic that reviewers are calling "a new classic in the space opera genre." If you like complex characters, explosive military sci-fi, and exhilarating suspense, then you'll love this action-packed space thriller.
Pick up The Callisto Gambit today and immerse yourself in a breathtaking new adventure.
The Sol System Renegades series in chronological order:
Keep Off The Grass (short origin story)
Crapkiller (prequel novella)
The Elfrida Goto Trilogy
1. The Galapagos Incident
2. The Vesta Conspiracy
3. The Mercury Rebellion
A Very Merry Zero-Gravity Christmas (short story)
The Solarian War Trilogy
1. The Luna Deception
2. The Phobos Maneuver
3. The Mars Shock
The Callisto Gambit (the final novel in the series)
Kiyoshi Yonezawa—smuggler and occasional pirate—can look after himself. Looking after 500 homeless friends and relations is a much bigger challenge. As the war between Earth and Mars heats up, chaos strikes the asteroid belt, and Kiyoshi's people seek refuge aboard an arkship that would leave the solar system far behind.
Convinced it's a deathtrap, Kiyoshi tries to extricate them. But in the process, his brother is wrongfully arrested by Earth's dreaded secret police. Determined to rescue his brother and free his people, Kiyoshi’s chances of prevailing against the overwhelming might of the UN look bleak.
With the rule of law in the Belt crumbling, a deal with the biggest crook on Ceres looks like his only hope...
The Callisto Gambit is the seventh and last novel in the Sol System Renegades series, a science fiction epic that reviewers are calling "a new classic in the space opera genre." If you like complex characters, explosive military sci-fi, and exhilarating suspense, then you'll love this action-packed space thriller.
Pick up The Callisto Gambit today and immerse yourself in a breathtaking new adventure.
The Sol System Renegades series in chronological order:
Keep Off The Grass (short origin story)
Crapkiller (prequel novella)
The Elfrida Goto Trilogy
1. The Galapagos Incident
2. The Vesta Conspiracy
3. The Mercury Rebellion
A Very Merry Zero-Gravity Christmas (short story)
The Solarian War Trilogy
1. The Luna Deception
2. The Phobos Maneuver
3. The Mars Shock
The Callisto Gambit (the final novel in the series)
445 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 6, 2016
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About the author
Felix R. Savage
90 books120 followersFelix R. Savage writes hard science fiction, space opera, and comedic science fiction. He has also occasionally been known to commit fantasy.
Felix has a long history associated with rebellion. He was born in the 1970s, a decade of American youth rebelling against the safe culture of their parents. He is married to a wonderful woman and they have two beautiful daughters. Together the four of them live in Tokyo serving their cat overlord and benevolent protector. Felix pounds the keyboard while not translating, delighting in his family, or catering to the whims of the family’s cat. He woke up one day to learn that he was a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, but he continues to keep a low profile, and never stops watching out for any sign the lizard people have found him.
Felix has a long history associated with rebellion. He was born in the 1970s, a decade of American youth rebelling against the safe culture of their parents. He is married to a wonderful woman and they have two beautiful daughters. Together the four of them live in Tokyo serving their cat overlord and benevolent protector. Felix pounds the keyboard while not translating, delighting in his family, or catering to the whims of the family’s cat. He woke up one day to learn that he was a New York Times and USA Today bestselling author, but he continues to keep a low profile, and never stops watching out for any sign the lizard people have found him.
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November 12, 2017
This entire series is brilliant.
Read them all.
Read them all.
October 10, 2024
Just finished the Sol System Renegades series. I enjoyed all seven books. The ideas about how technology evolves and what impact it has on our society, always seemed to make sense to my mind. The characters mostly acted as I expected, and I never felt things were taken too far. Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed the series, and will read more by this author.
February 24, 2020
Wonderful series!
I really enjoyed this entire series. Great characters, lots of action, very imaginative settings, and a terrific premise. Highly recommended.
I really enjoyed this entire series. Great characters, lots of action, very imaginative settings, and a terrific premise. Highly recommended.
June 8, 2016
I find myself very interested in what happens to Elfrida, Alicia, Jun, and Kyoshi. I am very much a fan of splart and the Way of the Galapagans. But when I got to the end of their journey, I wasn't happy.
The author gets to tell the story he or she wants, and I respect that. But ... and there's always a "but," right? ...
Here's Jun, so powerful that he can do things on Pallas and Ceres at the same time, controlling spacecraft and robots and medibots all at once while working the crossword blindfolded. How does Legend sneak up on a guy like that? And how does he make it stick?
So I had that shock and disappointment. I realize that they didn't want to make Jun the ruler of the universe. Or even Dahak. But putting him and his brother into bondage doesn't seem like doing a penance. It seems like snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. I'm going to pout about that for a while longer.
But that's not the worst part. In my personal opinion, the climax of the series was going to be some kind of confrontation between someone and the PLAN, or the Solarian God, or whatever you want to call the AI on Mars. We are told that the AI was destroyed, but the action was reported after the fact, without any of the players being named. The climax of the 7-book (or 9-book if you count some other parts) took place off stage! I wasn't just disappointed and ready to pout over that. I felt like it indicated that the series was not complete yet. Sure, the outcome is now known. But somehow, somewhere, there has to be a confrontation.
This psycopathic AI that breeds humans instead of making robots, and programs them to love him, what's up with that? And clearly there are nice AI's, like Jun. So ... aren't we going to have a conflict between AI's, or between men and AI's, that leads to the final resolution? No.
Mr Savage decides we don't need one, and I'm thinking, "Oh no! Neal Stephenson couldn't write and ending to a book for 15 years. Are we going to have another great writer who spins terrific stories and then just ends them without finishing them?"
So far, yes. But as we have seen with others, this is a condition that can be cured with time. I'll keep reading.
The author gets to tell the story he or she wants, and I respect that. But ... and there's always a "but," right? ...
Here's Jun, so powerful that he can do things on Pallas and Ceres at the same time, controlling spacecraft and robots and medibots all at once while working the crossword blindfolded. How does Legend sneak up on a guy like that? And how does he make it stick?
So I had that shock and disappointment. I realize that they didn't want to make Jun the ruler of the universe. Or even Dahak. But putting him and his brother into bondage doesn't seem like doing a penance. It seems like snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. I'm going to pout about that for a while longer.
But that's not the worst part. In my personal opinion, the climax of the series was going to be some kind of confrontation between someone and the PLAN, or the Solarian God, or whatever you want to call the AI on Mars. We are told that the AI was destroyed, but the action was reported after the fact, without any of the players being named. The climax of the 7-book (or 9-book if you count some other parts) took place off stage! I wasn't just disappointed and ready to pout over that. I felt like it indicated that the series was not complete yet. Sure, the outcome is now known. But somehow, somewhere, there has to be a confrontation.
This psycopathic AI that breeds humans instead of making robots, and programs them to love him, what's up with that? And clearly there are nice AI's, like Jun. So ... aren't we going to have a conflict between AI's, or between men and AI's, that leads to the final resolution? No.
Mr Savage decides we don't need one, and I'm thinking, "Oh no! Neal Stephenson couldn't write and ending to a book for 15 years. Are we going to have another great writer who spins terrific stories and then just ends them without finishing them?"
So far, yes. But as we have seen with others, this is a condition that can be cured with time. I'll keep reading.
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September 8, 2016
This was another fine book by Mr. Savage. In this book you learn a lot about the characters deep down and discover some other deep down things from past books in the series. There was a few characters that Felix brought back to help fight the plan and Jun is one of them. I try not to give out too much because it seems that when I do I tend to give out too much but I'm working on that but sometimes when you get on a roll I might as well have highlighted the whole book. So to make it short and to the point this book fits right in line with the rest of the series but I think it dug deeper into some of the characters than we ever knew about and believe me there are plenty of twists in this one. Loved it and great job Mr. Savage. I hope this series continues, well you know what I mean the characters are so well liked that this can definitely branch off on to something good.
February 12, 2017
A Great Series
I believe I've already reviewed earlier volumes in this series, so here I will just say that the good writing and excitement continue throughout. Felix Savage and James Corey (nom de plume) are now my favorite sci-fi writers, with Peter Hamilton also on the list. Sadly, we won't be hearing any more from that other master, Iain M. Banks. Requiem æternam dona ei Domine...
I believe I've already reviewed earlier volumes in this series, so here I will just say that the good writing and excitement continue throughout. Felix Savage and James Corey (nom de plume) are now my favorite sci-fi writers, with Peter Hamilton also on the list. Sadly, we won't be hearing any more from that other master, Iain M. Banks. Requiem æternam dona ei Domine...
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