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Perseus Gate #2
The World at the Edge of Space
Book 1 of the Perseus Gate series, The Gate at the Grey Wolf Star, will be out on June 22, 2017
Spoilers below if you haven't read book 1, or Orion Rising yet
Meanwhile, in the Perseus Arm of the galaxy...
After near disaster trying to escape the Transcend at the Grey Wolf Star, Jessica and the crew of the Sabrina find themselves thousands of light years from their intended destination, deep in the Perseus Arm, at one of the furthest colonized worlds in the galaxy.
Sabrina has taken heavy damage, Cheeky is in critical condition, and their supplies of antimatter and fusables are critically low.
The only system in sight? Controlled by the Orion Guard—their enemy.
It’s going to take some quick thinking and smooth talking to get the ship repaired and figure out how they’re going to travel clear across human space without being caught and destroyed by their now myriad enemies.
Spoilers below if you haven't read book 1, or Orion Rising yet
Meanwhile, in the Perseus Arm of the galaxy...
After near disaster trying to escape the Transcend at the Grey Wolf Star, Jessica and the crew of the Sabrina find themselves thousands of light years from their intended destination, deep in the Perseus Arm, at one of the furthest colonized worlds in the galaxy.
Sabrina has taken heavy damage, Cheeky is in critical condition, and their supplies of antimatter and fusables are critically low.
The only system in sight? Controlled by the Orion Guard—their enemy.
It’s going to take some quick thinking and smooth talking to get the ship repaired and figure out how they’re going to travel clear across human space without being caught and destroyed by their now myriad enemies.
- GenresScience Fiction
131 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 25, 2017
213 people are currently reading
73 people want to read
About the author
M.D. Cooper
186 books522 followersMalorie Cooper likes to think of herself as a dreamer and a wanderer, yet her feet are firmly grounded in reality.
A ‘maker’ from an early age, Malorie loves to craft things, from furniture, to cosplay costumes, to a well-spun tale, she can’t help but to create new things every day.
A rare extrovert writer, she loves to hang out with readers and people in general. If you meet her at a convention, she just might be rocking a catsuit, cosplaying one of her own characters, or maybe her latest favorite from Overwatch!
She shares her home with a brilliant young girl, her wonderful wife (who also writes), a cat that chirps at birds, a never-ending list of things she would like to build, and ideas…
A ‘maker’ from an early age, Malorie loves to craft things, from furniture, to cosplay costumes, to a well-spun tale, she can’t help but to create new things every day.
A rare extrovert writer, she loves to hang out with readers and people in general. If you meet her at a convention, she just might be rocking a catsuit, cosplaying one of her own characters, or maybe her latest favorite from Overwatch!
She shares her home with a brilliant young girl, her wonderful wife (who also writes), a cat that chirps at birds, a never-ending list of things she would like to build, and ideas…
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February 12, 2018
“The World at the Edge of Space (Perseus Gate Book 2)” continues the adventures of Jessica, Cheeky, Nance, Cargo and Finnaeus as they struggle to get to New Canaan, now thousands of light years away.
Most of my comments for Perseus Gate Book 1 apply here:
- Youngish sounding narrator, narrating a youngish sounding story
- sections of the audio are crap. No QA efforts were expended on this novella
- a full credit for 3hrs 16min is a ripoff; Books 1 and 2 should have been a single book
- Artwork is a pinup girl
Specifics with this book include shopping for a leather jacket that needs to be custom tailored for sex doll Jessica, sex doll Jessica being roped into becoming “Retina Girl”, after a year, Cargo finally (almost) gets his chance to get laid and we learn he wears dinosaur underwear (I couldn’t make this up!), two butches hit on Cheeky (now that could have been a fun diversion but the butches were thrown out of the bar).
A new character joins the ship; he’s pretty boring so far…I forget his name.
Well, like Book 1, this book is also probably a 2.5*, having been marked down for audio quality and being inappropriately silly. If you are enjoying the main series, as I am, you need to read the “Perseus Gate” series to keep up.
3* for “The World at the Edge of Space”, not because it was any better than Book 1, but because a 2* and a 3* even out to 2.5* for each of them.
Most of my comments for Perseus Gate Book 1 apply here:
- Youngish sounding narrator, narrating a youngish sounding story
- sections of the audio are crap. No QA efforts were expended on this novella
- a full credit for 3hrs 16min is a ripoff; Books 1 and 2 should have been a single book
- Artwork is a pinup girl
Specifics with this book include shopping for a leather jacket that needs to be custom tailored for sex doll Jessica, sex doll Jessica being roped into becoming “Retina Girl”, after a year, Cargo finally (almost) gets his chance to get laid and we learn he wears dinosaur underwear (I couldn’t make this up!), two butches hit on Cheeky (now that could have been a fun diversion but the butches were thrown out of the bar).
A new character joins the ship; he’s pretty boring so far…I forget his name.
Well, like Book 1, this book is also probably a 2.5*, having been marked down for audio quality and being inappropriately silly. If you are enjoying the main series, as I am, you need to read the “Perseus Gate” series to keep up.
3* for “The World at the Edge of Space”, not because it was any better than Book 1, but because a 2* and a 3* even out to 2.5* for each of them.
January 22, 2018
Author M. D. Cooper takes us on the next voyage of the crew of Sabrina. The ship droops out of the jump gate at a location on the edge of the Orion Freedom Alliance in the Perseus arm of the galaxy. As as Sabrina's crew is orientated to their new environment they find a space station orbiting a half Terraformed planet but the ships first officer Jessica is approached by a company that controls the station to be their spokes person but they pull a fast one on her forcing her to ask her crew to get her out and they do so but before they leave the system Sabrina plows bow first into the planet turning it into an uninhabited planet. I highly recommend this book and I am looking forward to the next episode of this season.
January 21, 2018
You know, I'd rather an author write an excellent short story than extend the story and it lose something in the process. This was a fun little story set in Cooper's Aeon 14 universe. It's the second in a little side series that accompanies the main story line, but it's just plain fun. The brevity of the story almost makes it that much more enjoyable, quick and sweet.
Note, if you haven't read any of the other books in the series or Cooper's Aeon 14 universe, you might feel lost in this story...but if you have, it's a bit of fun. Note that it's definitely intended for an adult audience with the language and subject matter (as well as sexual situations/innuendo).
Note, if you haven't read any of the other books in the series or Cooper's Aeon 14 universe, you might feel lost in this story...but if you have, it's a bit of fun. Note that it's definitely intended for an adult audience with the language and subject matter (as well as sexual situations/innuendo).
August 9, 2017
Always look on the bright side of life.
Jessica gets even more time to shine. Can't wait to see how all these misadventures will end.
This whole series has the character development of a space opera with the mix of hard science one can always enjoy.
If you want to get a good idea how meticulous this whole setup is, just take a look at the road-map listed over here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073MY9Z87/...
Plus go to youtube and look up Isaac Arthur and you'll see just how deep the real world science influences this series.
I love it.
Jessica gets even more time to shine. Can't wait to see how all these misadventures will end.
This whole series has the character development of a space opera with the mix of hard science one can always enjoy.
If you want to get a good idea how meticulous this whole setup is, just take a look at the road-map listed over here:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B073MY9Z87/...
Plus go to youtube and look up Isaac Arthur and you'll see just how deep the real world science influences this series.
I love it.
April 7, 2018
Next story in the season, and a fun one :) Get to see Jess getting herself into trouble just being herself, and the team being their usual effective selves in getting out of trouble. Also get to see a bit of what life is like on the frontier of space, compared to the crowded systems or brand new systems we have generally seen to date. Lots of fun.
August 2, 2017
Love it!
These books are a fun read and a great addition to the Intrepid saga. Start with the Intrepid and work your way to this book. You won't regret it.
These books are a fun read and a great addition to the Intrepid saga. Start with the Intrepid and work your way to this book. You won't regret it.
August 13, 2017
Love these guys
You never know where they will pop up or what trouble they will get into. Can't wait for the next one!!!
You never know where they will pop up or what trouble they will get into. Can't wait for the next one!!!
September 7, 2017
Great story
I love how Jessica keeps getting in crazy situations and having to fight her way out. I love this series.
I love how Jessica keeps getting in crazy situations and having to fight her way out. I love this series.
October 2, 2017
AKA How Jessica Got Glowing Skin. Fast, exciting, fun read. Great series!
May 24, 2018
Well thought out book with intriguing, developed characters. M.D. Cooper is a great story teller and he has me hooked. I keep coming back for more of his stories.
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April 23, 2020A bit on the shorter side but I really enjoy the characters
August 13, 2020
I'm a few months behind on posting my books
great read
great read
November 10, 2020
Awesome
This is a fantastic story. It has lots of action that seams to never stop. This is a story you will not be able to put down.
This is a fantastic story. It has lots of action that seams to never stop. This is a story you will not be able to put down.
January 9, 2018
Disappointment - The World at the Edge of Space
If I don't want to feel disappointment, then I should start learning better. Really, I should have stopped at the first book but I held up against hope that the second one would be more entertaining. It wasn't.
Okay, for the price it's not a bad deal, that's why I looked at it. Heck, even with the poor cut and past cover design trying to bring sexy back to books told me to stay clear, but I don't always listen to my brain. There are a few things I would like to tell you:
I checked the New York Times Bestselling list and M D Cooper is NOT listed there
Total pages in the book are just over 100 (129 to be exact)
Most of the book is dialogue
Total word count is well under 40,000 from my estimates
Technology that makes sense
Okay, call me a prude, but I like stories that take you into the action, make the characters real, tell me about the world, and paint a picture of what they are doing. In this novel, as well as the prior one, there is none of that. In fact, there is very little narrative showing at all. Most of the book (I would say 90% or higher) is dialogue.
The overuse of dialogue wouldn't be that bad, but when you read it, all you can hear in your mind are teenagers. The dialogue is so poorly written I thought I was listening in on a group of grade school students talking. Really? Like, duh! And the use of profanity was a little too much, it didn't add anything to the story.
Let's jump to the technology used. Stasis shields. Really? Stasis! Do you actually know what that means? Well, it appears the author doesn't so here it is: the state of equilibrium or inactivity caused by opposing equal forces. 2. Pathology. stagnation in the flow of any of the fluids of the body, as of the blood in an inflamed area or the intestinal contents proximal to an obstruction. So when you think of stasis, it means no action.
Spoiler
In this concoction of drivel, M D makes the ship, which has an AI with an attitude and mannerisms of a thirteen-year-old girl, dive into a planet at the weakest point of the tectonic plates. Guess they had a really good geological scan of the thing from the whole ten seconds it took them to get there. When they went through the plate, the planet started to erupt. Not blow up, but reconfigure due to the release of the internal magma. They survived this because of the use of their stasis field.
Really? If the shields are so powerful, why do they need to run from just about everything they encounter?
And on top of that, there's a whole thing about a character becoming supercharged because she is mostly plastic?
The crew argues a lot about changing the ship name to SEXY, because it seems sex sells books, but not when done this way.
The crew appear to be hormone driven characters with women who just want to get laid and men who don't know what to do about it. Come one.
Plot? No plot.
Character driven story? Not really, I would say dialogue driven story.
I'm just going to shake my head and walk away.
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If I don't want to feel disappointment, then I should start learning better. Really, I should have stopped at the first book but I held up against hope that the second one would be more entertaining. It wasn't.Okay, for the price it's not a bad deal, that's why I looked at it. Heck, even with the poor cut and past cover design trying to bring sexy back to books told me to stay clear, but I don't always listen to my brain. There are a few things I would like to tell you:
I checked the New York Times Bestselling list and M D Cooper is NOT listed there
Total pages in the book are just over 100 (129 to be exact)
Most of the book is dialogue
Total word count is well under 40,000 from my estimates
Technology that makes sense
Okay, call me a prude, but I like stories that take you into the action, make the characters real, tell me about the world, and paint a picture of what they are doing. In this novel, as well as the prior one, there is none of that. In fact, there is very little narrative showing at all. Most of the book (I would say 90% or higher) is dialogue.
The overuse of dialogue wouldn't be that bad, but when you read it, all you can hear in your mind are teenagers. The dialogue is so poorly written I thought I was listening in on a group of grade school students talking. Really? Like, duh! And the use of profanity was a little too much, it didn't add anything to the story.
Let's jump to the technology used. Stasis shields. Really? Stasis! Do you actually know what that means? Well, it appears the author doesn't so here it is: the state of equilibrium or inactivity caused by opposing equal forces. 2. Pathology. stagnation in the flow of any of the fluids of the body, as of the blood in an inflamed area or the intestinal contents proximal to an obstruction. So when you think of stasis, it means no action.
Spoiler
In this concoction of drivel, M D makes the ship, which has an AI with an attitude and mannerisms of a thirteen-year-old girl, dive into a planet at the weakest point of the tectonic plates. Guess they had a really good geological scan of the thing from the whole ten seconds it took them to get there. When they went through the plate, the planet started to erupt. Not blow up, but reconfigure due to the release of the internal magma. They survived this because of the use of their stasis field.
Really? If the shields are so powerful, why do they need to run from just about everything they encounter?
And on top of that, there's a whole thing about a character becoming supercharged because she is mostly plastic?
The crew argues a lot about changing the ship name to SEXY, because it seems sex sells books, but not when done this way.
The crew appear to be hormone driven characters with women who just want to get laid and men who don't know what to do about it. Come one.
Plot? No plot.
Character driven story? Not really, I would say dialogue driven story.
I'm just going to shake my head and walk away.
Want more information on the reviewer? Visit his blog at Life is Just a Blog
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February 6, 2018I like Cooper's take on A.I. neither all good nor evil human hunting Skynet style monsters
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