Savage Stars

Chaos Core #3

by Randolph Lalonde

Spin's death approaches, and she asks her crew to go after the cure that will remove her life cap and give her all the benefits of being human. That means going to the Geist System, which is about to become the most prized looting target in the galaxy. Governments, raiders and corporations alike are ready to go to war over the advanced technology there, and Spin has to lead her people straight into the middle where she's unsure of what other obstacles the mad artificial intelligences have left for them.

Genres: Science Fiction

417 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 13, 2018

About the author

Born in 1974, Randolph Lalonde has worked in customer service, sales, played drums for several heavy metal bands you've never heard of, dealt blackjack in a traveling casino, and serviced countless computers. He's also owned businesses in the design, printing, collectible and custom computer fields.

He completed writing his first novel in the fantasy adventure genre at the age of fifteen and has been writing ever since.

He self published his first novel;
Fate Cycle: Sins of the Past in 2004 and after taking a break has begun to release his work again starting with the First Light Chronicles series.

Randolph Lalonde has sold thousands of eBooks to date, enough to keep writing full-time for fifteen years so far. He is deeply grateful for his following of readers and strives to improve his skills to entertain them better. The Spinward Fringe Space Opera series has proven to be his most popular offering.

He currently resides in Sudbury Ontario and manages a chapter a day writing habit.

In his diminishing spare time he reads voraciously, tinkers with design, video editing and reviews the occasional film or television show. A science fiction and fantasy fan, he often comments on the state of the entertainment industry on his website, www.randolphlalonde.com.

Reviews

[James · Rating 5 out of 5]

Action and ramifications abound

Excellent conclusion to this trilogy. I suspect they will be more of the chose core team's story in the future. This leads right into broadcast 12 (which I read first by mistake) and provides so much extra detail for certain threads within that story.

I love how the author is using these spinoff stories to add background and depth to his universe which don't require being read, yet immensely enrich the main story of they are.

If you've read any of the series' of Spinward Fringe tales then definitely keep going and include this one. If you haven't started, treat yourself to the free copy of broadcast 0 Origins and see if you aren't hooked.

[Eddie · Rating 4 out of 5]

Hmmm. what to say. I didn't like this as much as I've liked some of the straight up Spinward Fringe books. It was worth reading, it is a bit more grizzly, probably by design, a bit darker in a lot of ways. I felt that there were a couple of weird loose ends (Skylar and Gavin) that seemed like they didn't add a lot to the story. And it feels like this side series will continue with Spin and her crew. I did find that the editing wasn't as good as previous books by the author, it seemed like I ran into several places where the wrong word was used.

All in all a decent read, but not, I think, on caliber with some of the other Spinward Fringe novels.

[Marc Therrien · Rating 5 out of 5]

I read Savage Stars and the two other books of this series because the author recommended it before reading Spinward Fringe 12: Invasion. New characters, a new ship, a new story, but in the same universe as Spinward Fringe, in the same style. Still action packed and full of science and technology we wouldn’t dream about, sci-fi that terrifies and makes us dream at the same time.

[David Handy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Chaos Core and Spinward Fringe.

Well both of these book series interlock brilliantly and I enjoyed reading both together. I just don't want them to end and hope that there are still many more books to come in the series. I'm just about to start reading book 13 of Spinward Fringe. Randolph Lalonde is such a good writer I hope that there are still many books to come.

[david wittich · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent series.

The Chaos Code series is great on its own, but to find that it's related to the Spinward Fringe series was a special surprise. I hope the two of them come together one day.

[Jason Roper · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good crossover prior to invasion.

This intertwines the Spin bases series with the Haven line well instead of a staight merging it adds new facets an information to both an creates a path for Spin to go on her own path. Solid storytelling for a space opera fan.

[Gail · Rating 4 out of 5]

OK, disregard my opinion on Chaos Core Book 2. I didn't realize there was a book 3. Now I totally get why I should read this before going on to Spinward Fringe #12.
I am looking forward to more adventures. And hoping that no more of the main characters die. :(

[John Dunlop · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great Space Opera!

Five stars for this series but could have deducted half a star for the many typos and lack of proof reading (that I, or someone else would have been happy to assist with.)
But it was a grand tale!

[Darryl Gillette · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another exciting adventure.

I have read the entire series which only leaves me with wanting more. Great series and Mr. Malone is brilliant in his writing. May there be many more adventures to come.

[Colin Sansam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Fantastic

Great read with great related characters. Now to find and read the spinward series it is intertwined with. Hopefully there will be more from Spin and her crew soon
Col

[Jeremy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good read

Very interesting twist on the main series, it was very enjoyable now to go read broadcast 12 to continue the series!

[Timothy L Roberts · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great conclusion to a great series. Send us more please Ralph.

[Alexander]

Took the serious back to a gritty, small crew adventure.