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BRIDGE
BRIDGE includes two novels, Avarice and Retribution, in one value package.
It is more than six years since Reganism became the leading religion of the Gliese star system. That region of the galaxy is now buzzing with new business opportunities and the great Minds are enjoying their part in the game. Meanwhile, Regan Stein's reach has extended all the way to the Orion Nebula and her first colonists will be departing soon to repopulate the planet Rexis, a high tech society orbiting the star Regil on Orion's Belt. Trade possibilities between the three star systems seem endless and it has all been made possible by the work of Aaron Stiles, the brilliant young scientist who cracked the secrets of wormholes and shortened travel time throughout the galaxy.
But great opportunity leads to great temptation for some. How much is enough? The question challenges both humanoid and AI Mind alike, as powerful forces move to ensure they don't miss out on the spoils.
Regan Stein is back in the saddle. Well - back in an android anyway and she's looking to exact retribution. She's played the negotiator, the politician and the mediator but being killed in Gliese has given her a new view on life. She's had enough of being reasonable with the Great Mind Reubus and has decided to take justice into her own hands, even without hard evidence to back her actions. As far as she's concerned Reubus's days are numbered and she'll do it without her team's support if she has to.
But how do you take out a Great Mind, an artificial intelligence with the ability to back up anywhere? And even if she can win the team's support for a vigilante mission, how will she protect them from Reubus, a paranoid psychopath who will do anything in the pursuit of power?
Of one thing Regan is certain, by hook or by Ham, this time Reubus is going down. But after the battle will there still be a place for her in the Gliese star system?
Soon, as a consequence of her decision each of the team will face Reubus to look evil in the eye; and this time they will have to do it without the beautiful man.
The question is . . . will they all survive?
These books are classic science fiction continuing a series that includes technology, androids, artificial intelligence, interstellar travel, action, politics and mystery. The series tracks sixteen years in the life of the remarkable Regan Stein and her friends. It will entertain you, challenge you and provoke your thinking on everything from the nature of the human heart to the nature of evil.
Reviews of Regan's
By Heinz Zwack on June 10, 2014
Kindle Edition Verified Purchase
With the Renaissance of space opera that indie publishing and e-books brought about this is refreshingly different. It is space fiction with lots of action and lots of exotic technology - but not the usual rehash of space battles and Galactic empires.
In almost 60 years of reading science fiction - probably 2000 or 3000 books and at least as many stories in the Golden age of SF magazines - I haven't found a character like Ham very often. He certainly beats "Hal" of 2001 hands-down.
By M Travison August 19, 2014.
Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase
5.0 out of 5 A sorely needed new heroine.
I think this was a terrific beginning to a new series but more importantly a new heroine for the scifi genre. It's also refreshing to read an intelligent scifi novel without galactic space battles or alien earth invasions. Regan is by no means a genius but she's ambitious, focused, assertive and especially knows how to assemble a good team to make her dreams reality.
It is more than six years since Reganism became the leading religion of the Gliese star system. That region of the galaxy is now buzzing with new business opportunities and the great Minds are enjoying their part in the game. Meanwhile, Regan Stein's reach has extended all the way to the Orion Nebula and her first colonists will be departing soon to repopulate the planet Rexis, a high tech society orbiting the star Regil on Orion's Belt. Trade possibilities between the three star systems seem endless and it has all been made possible by the work of Aaron Stiles, the brilliant young scientist who cracked the secrets of wormholes and shortened travel time throughout the galaxy.
But great opportunity leads to great temptation for some. How much is enough? The question challenges both humanoid and AI Mind alike, as powerful forces move to ensure they don't miss out on the spoils.
Regan Stein is back in the saddle. Well - back in an android anyway and she's looking to exact retribution. She's played the negotiator, the politician and the mediator but being killed in Gliese has given her a new view on life. She's had enough of being reasonable with the Great Mind Reubus and has decided to take justice into her own hands, even without hard evidence to back her actions. As far as she's concerned Reubus's days are numbered and she'll do it without her team's support if she has to.
But how do you take out a Great Mind, an artificial intelligence with the ability to back up anywhere? And even if she can win the team's support for a vigilante mission, how will she protect them from Reubus, a paranoid psychopath who will do anything in the pursuit of power?
Of one thing Regan is certain, by hook or by Ham, this time Reubus is going down. But after the battle will there still be a place for her in the Gliese star system?
Soon, as a consequence of her decision each of the team will face Reubus to look evil in the eye; and this time they will have to do it without the beautiful man.
The question is . . . will they all survive?
These books are classic science fiction continuing a series that includes technology, androids, artificial intelligence, interstellar travel, action, politics and mystery. The series tracks sixteen years in the life of the remarkable Regan Stein and her friends. It will entertain you, challenge you and provoke your thinking on everything from the nature of the human heart to the nature of evil.
Reviews of Regan's
By Heinz Zwack on June 10, 2014
Kindle Edition Verified Purchase
With the Renaissance of space opera that indie publishing and e-books brought about this is refreshingly different. It is space fiction with lots of action and lots of exotic technology - but not the usual rehash of space battles and Galactic empires.
In almost 60 years of reading science fiction - probably 2000 or 3000 books and at least as many stories in the Golden age of SF magazines - I haven't found a character like Ham very often. He certainly beats "Hal" of 2001 hands-down.
By M Travison August 19, 2014.
Kindle Edition|Verified Purchase
5.0 out of 5 A sorely needed new heroine.
I think this was a terrific beginning to a new series but more importantly a new heroine for the scifi genre. It's also refreshing to read an intelligent scifi novel without galactic space battles or alien earth invasions. Regan is by no means a genius but she's ambitious, focused, assertive and especially knows how to assemble a good team to make her dreams reality.
586 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 5, 2016
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