The Empire has a plan to defeat the Machines, the murderous robots they had built centuries before, once and for all.But the Machines, having already recouped their losses from previous battles, are again on the move.Admiral Beata Bednarczyk finds herself and her fleet in the fight for their lives as the Machines erupt from their space in overwhelming numbers, heading into the final confrontation with the Gorgansha Consolidation. The AIs have some new tricks up their sleeves, but so does the Empire. An unproven plan to shut them down all across their space. But will it work? The Machines are deadlier than ever, and they strike at some unexpected targets, throwing the Imperial forces off balance. While waiting in the wings, the mad dictator of the Gorgansha prepares to stab his human allies in the back.
Massive fleets of living creatures and killer robots battle across hundreds of light years of space. The humans fighting to preserve life, the Machines to take it. This time there can only be one survivor.
Doug Dandridge was born in Venice Florida in 1957, the son of a Florida native and a Mother of French Canadian descent. An avid reader from an early age, Doug has read most of the classic novels and shorts of Science Fiction and Fantasy, as well as multiple hundreds of historical works. Doug has military experience including Marine Corps JROTC, Active Duty Army, and the Florida National Guard. He attended Florida State University, studying Biology, Geology, Physics, and Chemistry, and receiving a BS in Psychology. Doug then studied Clinical Psychology at the University of Alabama, with specific interests in Neuropsychology and Child Psychology, completing a Masters and all course work required for a PhD. He has worked in Psychiatric Hospitals, Mental Health Centers, a Prison, a Juvenile Residential Facility, and for the his last seven years in the work force for the Florida Department of Children and Families. Since March of 2013 he has worked as a full time writer. Doug has been writing on and off for fifteen years. He concentrates on intelligent science fiction and fantasy in which there is always hope, no matter how hard the situation. No area of the fantastic is outside his scope, as he has completed works in near and far future Science Fiction, Urban and High Fantasy, Horror, and Alternate History. Doug has published 34 books on Amazon, with over 230,000 sales with 5,000 reviews averaging 4.6 stars. He will be publishing his first traditionally published book in 2018, followed by the second book of the contracted series. Also in the planning stages are post apocalyptic and alternate history series.