Battlefront

Frozen Sky #4

by Jeff Carlson

THE FINAL FROZEN SKY NOVEL
Reeling from their battles against the People's Supreme Society of China, the allied forces detect a radio signal from inside Europa's vast, black depths. Rallying the survivors, Vonnie assembles an interspecies team with NASA and the sunfish for a do-or-die mission into the Great Ocean. What they find will turn their worlds upside down......

Genres: Science Fiction, Fiction

Kindle Edition

Published February 26, 2019

About the author

Jeff Carlson is the international bestselling author of "Plague Year," "Long Eyes," "Interrupt" and "The Frozen Sky." To date, his work has been translated into sixteen languages worldwide.

His new novel is "Frozen Sky 3: Blindsided."

Readers can find free fiction, contests, videos and more on his web site at http://www.jverse.com

Reviews

[Papaphilly · Rating 3 out of 5]

Frozen Sky 4: Battlefront is a great read and a heartbreaking one at the same time. It is a wonderful ending to the Frozen Sky Series by Jeff Carlson. The only problem is that he died before completing the story. The editor decided to publish and note that he included the final four chapters in paragraph form to give the reader the insight to how Jeff Carlson would have ended the novel. Up to the end, it is a great read. Unfortunately, it is incomplete and feels as such. It is a true shame because the entire series was intensely fun. It was a work of passion for the editor; it is obvious and commendable he did not try and finish the writing himself and honored the author is this way. This entire series is well worth reading if you are a fan of hard Science Fiction. Lots of intrigue, politics and science in the fiction.

[Gary Bunker · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really wish that Carlson had been able to finish fleshing out those final chapters, because I enjoyed his prose so much. But, the ideas he left behind made for a satisfying conclusion to the Europan stories. Pretty much anything I write will be a spoiler, but the concepts are heady, and the interpersonal relationships feel realistic. Von seems to take rather longer than I'd like to realize that not everyone is actually stupid or antagonistic, but her reactions are otherwise great to read.

Ghost Clan Thirty!

[sathish sathyamurthy · Rating 5 out of 5]

A good ending

A far more believable Sci fi story that most out there. Thank you for the series and the sunfish

RIP Jeff

[Dave · Rating 5 out of 5]

Biased cos I'm in it! Amazing writer sadly lost to this world now.

[Richard T. Kotomori · Rating 5 out of 5]

Good l

Read book 3 and 4 after a 2-3 year gap. The story has a unique setting in Europa, one of Jupiter’s moon. The author creates a frozen water world with sentient beings. Geopolitical groups not dissimilar from today’s world who are mining deuterium and have scientists investigating life forms discovered on the planet moon. There is good character development, consistency in the story line, good action scenes and good commentary on human behavior. The ending is interesting and could lead to a series.

[Mark · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very enjoyable. The real story is in the relationships between a cast of characters that includes technology as a player rather than a prop or back drop - this is the compelling component that the author presented very well and it makes for great science fiction

[Arthur Weissmann · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book finally wraps up the novel with their adventure into the ocean. While the series was good I feel like the author really dragged the story as a whole to write 4 books and could’ve been told in just one or two books.

[Alan Lewis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Understanding that this is an unfinished work, I just didn't enjoy this conclusion as much as the first 3. Didn't dislike it, Just didn't work. My reaction might be different had it been completed.

[frank webster jr. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great SifFi read

Awesome to read through,keep you on your toes. Would love to see a sequel and more. Thanks for the read

[Penny · Rating 4 out of 5]

I'm very pleased we got to read the final chapter of Jeff's Frozen Sky series. The outcome was very different from what Vonnie (and the readers) anticipated, yet it was in so many ways probably more realistic. During the book, Vonnie is physically constrained almost the entire time - either because she's recovering from grievous injuries suffered in Book 3, or locked in a module aboard a submarine with four sunfish. Interestingly, this gives Vonnie plenty of time to think. She reflects on her own behavior, her relationships with others, and others' relationships. Through it, she manages to change some of her behaviors and a lot of her thinking about other people. The more's constrained, the greater her perspective and understanding. I know the book is all hard science, but I found this aspect the most interesting.