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The Long Haul #1
Ambition
During an age of dwindling energy resources and greedy corporate expansion, Earth receives a warning from a not too distant star We are aware of your existence. We will end you.
The colossal mining vessel Ambition undergoes a militarized refit and is sent to confront the alien threat of Pegasi 51. Catastrophic events along the way stretch a seventy year voyage into a seven century odyssey. All communication to and from home has been severed, and the civilization waiting ahead has remained ominously silent.
Captain Ly Sulafat, Ambition's 30th - and likely last - commander, leads this final generation of weary travelers into a hostile star system, ill-prepared, and far too inexperienced to confront what awaits them.
The seven hundred year journey has ended. Time for war.
The colossal mining vessel Ambition undergoes a militarized refit and is sent to confront the alien threat of Pegasi 51. Catastrophic events along the way stretch a seventy year voyage into a seven century odyssey. All communication to and from home has been severed, and the civilization waiting ahead has remained ominously silent.
Captain Ly Sulafat, Ambition's 30th - and likely last - commander, leads this final generation of weary travelers into a hostile star system, ill-prepared, and far too inexperienced to confront what awaits them.
The seven hundred year journey has ended. Time for war.
334 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 3, 2017
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About the author
Geoff North
81 books38 followersGeoff was born in beautiful British Columbia and moved with his parents, three sisters, and two brothers to rural Manitoba before his first birthday. Since then, he has endured the extreme seasons in a way that only centrally located Canadians can appreciate.
I grew up on comic books and bad television from the seventies. It helped to develop an already over-active imagination to the point where I created my own series of comics featuring dozens of wacky heroes and ridiculous villains. I've also dabbled in cartoon strips and have been a regular contributor of political cartoons to a number of local newspapers. Throughout the years I realized my passion lay more in writing than in illustrating, so the 21st century has seen me make the transition from drawing funny pictures to writing full-time.
I grew up on comic books and bad television from the seventies. It helped to develop an already over-active imagination to the point where I created my own series of comics featuring dozens of wacky heroes and ridiculous villains. I've also dabbled in cartoon strips and have been a regular contributor of political cartoons to a number of local newspapers. Throughout the years I realized my passion lay more in writing than in illustrating, so the 21st century has seen me make the transition from drawing funny pictures to writing full-time.
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December 9, 2020
Excellent
It took me a long time to finally follow all the jumping around from character to character and that is a little disconcerting when you can't just read it in one sitting....But it was still a fun read. I'll buy the next in the series.
It took me a long time to finally follow all the jumping around from character to character and that is a little disconcerting when you can't just read it in one sitting....But it was still a fun read. I'll buy the next in the series.
March 28, 2017
Silly, Dumb and Substandard Writing
"Ambition (The Long Haul Book 1)," is an amateurish hodgepodge of "borrowed" themes and plot lines, from various other creators ("Star Trek" the original television especially), crudely cudgeled together, into a mainly silly story.
Set around 3000 AD, the "Ambition" is a large, Earth mining ship, converted to a interstellar warship, dispatched in the middle of the 24th century, to destroy a far away alien race. A cryptic message had been received by humans from the aliens, threatening humanity's end. The original voyage time was anticipated to be around 75 years, but as a result of a failed mutiny a few decades in to the journey, the ship's propulsion was seriously degraded. Generations of crew have been born, lived, and died, during the centuries long voyage. Basic technical, military knowledge also seems to have died, or at least been seriously eroded away, as the thousands of crew are mainly high functioning wimps, drunks, and/or junkies, accepting of the original mission objective.
Mr. Geoff North, the author, has taken a pretty thin concept, leavened it with many others' works, and constructed a silly and dumb storyline. If you can buy into the premise that a converted mining ship is dispatched on a 75 year mission to attack an unknown alien race, following a cryptic message, and that when the mission goes to 700 years, the ancient crew's offspring continue the original mission, maybe you will like the book. Additionally, the author's basic writing skill set is lacking, as the narrative, cartoonish characters, plot devices, and lame metaphors, analogies abound throughout. If you can stomach the repeated use of "bulbous" to describe [SPOILER ALERT] the cliche Roswell UFO aliens the author uses as his alien race, again, maybe you will like the book.
The "Ambition" is not recommended and was fully read via Kindle Unlimited.
"Ambition (The Long Haul Book 1)," is an amateurish hodgepodge of "borrowed" themes and plot lines, from various other creators ("Star Trek" the original television especially), crudely cudgeled together, into a mainly silly story.
Set around 3000 AD, the "Ambition" is a large, Earth mining ship, converted to a interstellar warship, dispatched in the middle of the 24th century, to destroy a far away alien race. A cryptic message had been received by humans from the aliens, threatening humanity's end. The original voyage time was anticipated to be around 75 years, but as a result of a failed mutiny a few decades in to the journey, the ship's propulsion was seriously degraded. Generations of crew have been born, lived, and died, during the centuries long voyage. Basic technical, military knowledge also seems to have died, or at least been seriously eroded away, as the thousands of crew are mainly high functioning wimps, drunks, and/or junkies, accepting of the original mission objective.
Mr. Geoff North, the author, has taken a pretty thin concept, leavened it with many others' works, and constructed a silly and dumb storyline. If you can buy into the premise that a converted mining ship is dispatched on a 75 year mission to attack an unknown alien race, following a cryptic message, and that when the mission goes to 700 years, the ancient crew's offspring continue the original mission, maybe you will like the book. Additionally, the author's basic writing skill set is lacking, as the narrative, cartoonish characters, plot devices, and lame metaphors, analogies abound throughout. If you can stomach the repeated use of "bulbous" to describe [SPOILER ALERT] the cliche Roswell UFO aliens the author uses as his alien race, again, maybe you will like the book.
The "Ambition" is not recommended and was fully read via Kindle Unlimited.
April 16, 2017
Action Adventure
Lots of action. Author tried some tricks to develop the story, but failed. It's ok. Not that long so it didn't take that much time to read.
Lots of action. Author tried some tricks to develop the story, but failed. It's ok. Not that long so it didn't take that much time to read.
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