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Stellar Heritage #1
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Witness the rise of man’s first galactic The Terran Alliance. When Simon and Katherine Hawke stumble upon an alien shuttle that has landed on earth, it’ll not only change the course of their lives, but of the entire world. Taking the shuttle into orbit, they discover a much larger ship left adrift with no one on board. Commandeering it, they confirm that we’re not alone in the universe and must prepare the human race for what is about to come. Recruiting from all over the world, they begin to expand their fleet and build a federation to give humans a foothold in the galaxy. Thus the Terran Alliance is formed, led by Simon, Kitty, Gayle, and their new comrades. Everything is going according to planned as they construct more ships, but the governments of the world are vying for control of these technologies. To make matters worse, their second encounter with an alien species is not one of peace. After the attack, they are left with more questions than answers as they face resistance from, not only outer space, but their home planet as well.
708 pages, Paperback
Published February 15, 2019
About the author
Bob Mauldin
6 books32 followersBob lived in Montana for over thirty years, since late '85. He fell in love with the state almost instantly (who wouldn't after spending the previous twenty or more years trapped in Houston, Texas). Out in the Big Sky Country, he found the “elbow room” he didn't even know he was looking for. He lived quietly with his two cats and library of nearly two thousand books--about ninety-five percent sci/fi. He discovered that he liked to write as well and could often be found doing just that. Bob passed away in November of 2019 and is survived by his younger brother. Before he passed, he finished his writing project of more than a decade, The Stellar Heritage series, and he will live on in the hearts and minds of his readers.
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August 1, 2019Rubbish. Rating: minus 15 on a scale of minus 15 to plus 5.
This review made possible by YouTube's Candlelit Tales, Abby Cox, Ritual Kitchen with Laura, JammiDodger, May's Narrowboat Life, Confused Adipose, Welcome to Ukraine, Russian Media Monitor, National Centre for Military Intelligence, Naughty Nana DUZ, David Hookstead, Tanya Fiona, Sarah Paine, Happy Pancake, Reads with Rachel, Biz,
Brigitte Empire, aidan knight, Autistic Jenny, IamBlakely, Reese Waters, Veritas et Caritas, Dark Seas,, Dark Skies, Ms Modeller, Rogue Hobbies, Queen City Minis, Grace McGuire, Vintage Space, Real Vintage Dolls House, AllShortsPolitics, ScaredKetchup, Ukraine Calling, Amie's Literary Empire, Fabienne, What Vivi did next, Michael Dubois,
Lady Izdihar, White Stork, Global Update with Sosan, Some More News, Battlefield Ambience, RevolutionarythOt, Viva La Dirt League, Honest2Betsy, Shannon Makes, Engineering Knits, British Warships, Warship Designs, Central Crossing, HBomberGuy, Whitenoiz, Karolina Zebrowska, Parkrose Resistance, Kathy's Flog from France,
Tabithaspeakspolitics, Mrs Betty Bowers, Wives vs World, Biracial Voices, Anna Cramling, Nasimi Shabnam, No Justice MTG, Prime of Midlife, Widebeam and Wellingtons, Bouncy Clown, Munecat, Retrofutura, Isaac Arthur, Jamie Raines, Josh Everton, Lore Reloaded, A Brush with Bekah, Bryony Claire, Miranda Mills.
A member of the venerable Village Idiots whilst insulting an essayist whom I mention, complained to her that I list other trans creators. The Snowflake (cowardly, whinging, insecure, womanphobic, man-child) is a wonder to behold. A trigger warning then.
The channels I reference include the water colourist, bisexual, botanist, miniatures painter, sewist, Irish, military boardgamer, parent, cultural historian, redhaired, aviation modeller, asexual, comedienne, cosplayer, linguistic archaeologist, anarchist, architect, welder, military historian, trans, Indian, sociologist, philosopher, chess master, farmer, lumber yard worker, marine biologist, lesbian, political commentator, married, autistic, Iranian, pensioner, van life, writer, WOC, narrowboater, queer, communist, mechanic, language historian, English-language instructor, classics instructor, agricultural scientist, paleontologist, tall, psychologist, oils painter and other creators known as Women.
Almost as threatening are the marine archaeologist, other LGBTQIA, geologist, fashion historian, Boardgame historian, reenactor, marine archaeologist, other BIPOC, writer, book reviewer, socialist, wood worker, engineer, biologist, wooden boat restorer, anthropologist, chemist, other military boardgamer, museum curator, tailor, photographer, filmmaker, RPG player, chess instructor, zoologist, book reviewer, diorama builder, military miniatures wargamer, singer, mathematician and other creators known (outside the US) as Human Beings.
If despite the advisory, the voices insist that you visit, develop a new skill, reading perhaps and\or enrol in a remedial critical thinking course and\or seek emergency therapy.
Thinking on the existence of these failed human beings, can sometimes depress. In those moments, I often picture Spitfires in the skies during the Battle of Britain. Glory to Ukraine. Glory to the Heroes. Crimea is Ukraine.
Once more unto the book, dear friends. Once more. I forced myself to finish the book for the first hand experience of a White Nationalist space fantasy. The writing is bizarrely poor, the racial superiority theme is shouted at the reader on every page and the "natural" US hegemony is one of the cornerstones of the story.
There is no real world building as is usual for these low end works. Work is probably too generous a term for a book that illustrates how little thought or effort is required of sleazy, racist fantasies.
With no world building and being a fantasy for poor US white males, there is no need or room for character development. The dialogue is bad but revealing. The plot is ...., is ..., isn't. The writer inserts exposition directly because ...Reasons. Or lack of writing skill. Or that underpaid editor.
White US males control space because of some technology that only working class males of the right ethnicity can master. This is because .... Reasons. Or magic. Or .......?
Any white working class male from the american Midwest and West Coast who may or may not be literate are eligible for citizenship in space. It is a specific requirement, spelled out in exposition. I did warn you that this is a work of pure racism.
White american males do not need any skills because they have the "right values". Direct exposition again.
Non whites are allowed to work in space and do all the actual labour but are sent back to "mudball" Earth after each project. Non whites from ethnicities which are "natural!y inclined to suicide bombing" are excluded. Direct exposition again. "Mudball Earth" or the "mudball" is a term used by white nationalist writers to describe the brown person infested planet. Not a fit planet for an Aryan, don't you know?
We are reminded that these are very moral settlers, just before a discussion of whether they are strong enough to take some resource from the Martian colony. Trade is not in their vocabulary apparently.
The US government is evil because of its nature? Or history? Or they get in the way of libertarians? For whichever of those reasons, these settlers are preventing anyone of whom they do not approve into space. 😂
Corporations are evil? The main characters exhibit the same sociopathy but as I think on it, the characters are not fans of competition.
Non whites with the sale price of space condos are allowed into space, even Asians. I am certain that the writer would be more specific if he realized that South Asians are brown skinned.
I strongly suspect that the writer does not realize that Thais, Bengali, Cambodians, Malaysians, Filipinos and Indonesians are Asian. If he does, I do not think that he realizes that they have different features and above all skin colour to the Han. 😂
"Because they do not discriminate", the settlers will set up embassies in "Switzerland and probably somewhere in Asia"? Some English speaking Europeans and rich Asians will be allowed to emigrate. The above constitutes a novel. 😣
This was a difficult rewrite after watching a number of FAFO channels. The writer amused me when first I read that book. Now that I know that many US males would view the book as a plausible and desired future, recalling the book was disturbing.
The masked commenter below is Br1cht, whom I discovered in a comment on another book, loves to pretend to be a military tough guy and is drawn to the paedophilia of John Ringo's Zombie series. What a site is this. 🤗
With low end US science fiction being so dismal and marketed alongside more worthwhile titles, it is a chore finding Unlimited fiction fit for purpose. I watch rather then read my science fiction at the moment and have ended my Unlimited sub.
The streaming services provide better written and more entertaining science fiction than print, despite providing fantasy that is somewhat inferior to print.
I began searching YouTube a but more than four years ago for science fiction recommendations. I found them and all the myriad special interest channels. The educational channels introduced me to educational video sites. My first visit was to Nebula.
At last, I stumbled upon the book channels. It was love at first video. 😍 There are a variety of creators that between them are covered every aspect of the bibliophilic experience. The reader communities which they foster are thoughtful, curious and above all enamoured of all things bookish. It is obviously the direct opposite to the Goodreads/Amazon experience.
This next made possible by YouTube's Doctor Who\Without Reward, Munecat, SciFi Scavenger, Boat Time, Biz, Liam, AllShortsPolitics, Parkrose Resistance, Confident Autistic, Nikki Osbourne, Sailing Melody, Catherine Warr, Clouds and Sky, Dr Void, ScaredKetchup, Motakuki, The Resistance, White Stork, Dr Fatima, Dr Becky, Biz,
Astrid Lundberg, Corkboards and Curiosities, Cruising Crafts, Kyiv Independent, Liam, IMY2, Megalithhunter, Geo Girl, Gutsick Gibbon, Dr Ben Miles, Professor Tim Wilson, Bladeworn, Karloff AI, Autistic Jenny, Aims Books, Just in Time Worldbuilding, The Dream Metropolis, Captured in Words, Science Insanity, Seizure Girl,Todd Maffin,
Jessie Paege, Dr Dr Octopus Lady, Mr Newberger's AI Funnies, Whitenoiz, Riverboat Jack, Chem Thug, Ada Palmer, Algal the Bard, Jill Bearup, Silver Fox, Faun, Grumpy Old Crone, Ember Green, Haropones, Nordic Perspective, Brittany Page, Samantha Lux, Saga Lore AI, Ally the Piper, Harp Twins, Twinshangout, Daily Hayley, Shaun,
Lena Down Under, Astrid Lundberg, JammiDodger, Barry's Economics, Unlearning Economics, IamBlakely, Heather Cox Richardson, Fran Blanche, Nylah Reacts, Parkrose Resistance, Reads with Rachel, No Justice MTG, Turn Left, Heather Delaney Reese, Luna Oi, KellieSnider, Sierra Hull, Blackboot Official, TheBrothersGwynne.
Consider treating this as a hostile site. 🤔
Goodreads do not do discourse. As example, I wrote a short negative review of Powers of the Earth by Travis Corcoran. Originally blurbed by Amazon as akin to a Heinlein classic, it was instead a poorly written rehash of "Atlas Shrugged" set on the Moon.
The story details the heroic efforts of a rich twat to enlist the military in overthrow of a US government in order that he not pay taxes. My opinion was that it and the many similar in Unlimited are dangerous and now prophetic.
Travis self-described as libertarian (now anarcho capitalist without millions, as if it were a creed), US veteran, employee of an unnamed US agency, admirer of Putin's Russia.
He also advocates for return of chattel slavery. The new forced labour prisons are labelled by US YouTubers Concentration Camps. Head of the Heath Agency has stated that working the fields is good for health. Travis no doubt is well pleased.
With prisoners now denied rights, generational enslavement is on the cards. Black Americans are being hung from trees and the murders are ruled suicides. It seems that 1930's Germany and 1840 USA are both being recreated which would describe Project 2025 objectives.
He and six fellow patriots were incensed by my communist judgement, in seeming defence of their democracy. 🤔 There followed a year-long comment stream.
I had previously been generously criticised regarding my intelligence, punctuation, class background, the role of women readers both generally and in science fiction spaces, my inability to process that all HIstory was created by European men, interesting interpretations of Nietzsche and existentialism, the minimalist standards for science fiction and more.
Only in this one stream did I receive such a broad and inclusive set of guides to self-improvement. I was disappointed that no judgement was made of Timothy Snyder's work but irony is comforting I suppose.
The last comment was delivered by Claes Rees Jr aka cgr710 now ka Jesse R Clayton Jr. He declared that They had Won, after referencing the contents of my last message exchange with a Goodreads friend.
I discovered that these thugs and others had launched a year-long wave of threatening, insulting and other comments against apparently all female creators of channels I mentioned. It continues still.
They failed to establish romantic relations with the thirteen years old boater or her mother, paleontologist, linguistics historian, pensioner and other creators.
Despite that failure They certainly increased the global supply of ugliness and delivered the most accurate self-portrait of the Snowflake (poorly educated, cowardly, badly socialised, emotionally stunted US male) to a multinational audience.
By all metrics, a Victory indeed. That stream was normal to my experience on this site, except for duration and the Australian Intervention.
Ominous music begins,🙂 The comment gangs are prevalent in both the SciFi and Romantasy spaces. Their activities include the threat, hacking, doxxing and more similar. Amazon have not acknowledged of incident nor discipline the mental member, punish writers who encourage Them nor dismiss the criminal employees who enable both. I have experienced several hacking attempts as well as the rest.
My limited message history was given over to these bellends, after my Powers review.
A Pine Centre request was mysteriously routed to Australian Intelligence that They interrogate the one friend whom I occasionally messaged. The attempt at my personal history failed.
Amazon was unconcerned until we broadcast our experience widely. Suddenly all comments to my reviews were removed from others' view, all Lurkers I'd not been Permitted to remove for years were disappeared, Kindle bricking seem to have ended and all the rest.
I attempted to replace old my phone service and phone with MintMobile. They were overpriced but who does not like Ryan Reynolds. I mistakenly paid for phone and a year's service in advance. A fanboy processed order, accepted the payment and held up delivery of either for a mysterious review. I have not received a written response nor refund.
I can no longer stomach even a commercial featuring Ryan, who had been a favourite. My bank was Capital One and were happily complicit for reasons, I later unearthed.
More on Capital One another time but I suggest, avoiding that Indian-Chinese bank. They are like MintMobile, somewhat like bottom feeders and more importantly, are signs of things to come. US firms are being removed from both the EuroZone and BRICS as being dangerously uncontrolled.
Amazon, Yahoo and the rest are best used cautiously or replaced.
I suggest precautions for this site. Remove personal information from profile. Use messaging only to connect to members of the same temperament.
Remove all Lurkers, those who never post. They are likely gang monitors or employee dummies.
Given the Kindle\Goodreads fascination with altering customer pages, the screenshot of the odd, ugly and threatening are mandatory. These should be sufficient.
Kindle are a more serious threat. Do Not Use Email, Contacts, Calendar or Files. Amazon Sign Into customer email with neither notice nor permission. Make of that what you will.
Do Not purchase Amazon ebooks. You own only your device and if Kindle that is conditional. If purchased, download immediately. There are BookTubers to suggest other vendors of ebooks and devices or alternatives to ebook altogether.
Silk searches should be innocuous and non-critical.
There are deranged members and employees alike, who seem to possess no morality or healthy socialisation. They are however US patriots with all that implies. Ominous music ends. 🙂
Protect yourself. May we all find Good Reading. 😊
Some of my favourite YouTube channels.
Lindsay Ellis, Zoe Baker, Second Thought, Lady of the Library, The Amber Ruffin Show, Tara Mooknee, Alayna Joy, Philosophy Tube, Alizee, Art by Annamarie, Lily Alexandre, Double Down News, Novara Media, The Juice Media, Some More News,
Mrs Betty Bowers, Janelle Kayla, We're in Hell, IzzzYzzz, Alice Cappelle,
Life of Lit, Alison Pregler, Merphy Napier, I'm Rosa, Renegade Cut, Noelle Gallagher, Hello Future Me, Maggie Mae Fish, Melodie Rose, Serena Skybourne, Books with Chloe, Atun Shei Films, Sabine Hossenfelder, Christy Anne Jones, Elena Taber, Storyworldling, Jessica Gagnon, Natasha's Adventures, GK Reads,
Bookslike Whoa, Lilly's life, Books with Brittany, Make Better Media, Psychology with Dr Ana, Task and Purpose, Skuld, Bettie Rage, Elle Cordova, Narrowboat Pirate,
Weir on the move, France 24, Answer in Progress, Peruse Project, Thirdworld Booknerd, Patrick is a Navajo, Brittany the Bibliophile, The North Doesn't Bow,
SandRhoman History, Austin McConnell, Joe Scott, Camper Vibe, Travelling K, Engineering with Rosie, Jabzy, A Clockwork Reader, A Cup of Nicole, Books and Lala, The Irish Reader, Spacedock, Quinn's Ideas, Between the Lines, Rick the Ukrainian, Northern Narrowboaters, Autistic Jenny, Jack Edwards, LoreGeist, Retrofutura,
Katie Colson, Tank Museum, Ship Happens, Indigo Gaming, With Olivia, Kitty G, Dead Good Books Acollierastro, Blackboot Official, Boat Time, The Shades of Orange, Jill Bearup, Swell Entertainment, Cold Fusion, Dr Becky, Three Arrows, Abbie Emmons, Kelly loves Physics and History, Sailing Melody, Goro AI, The Leftist Cooks.
I wish you the best morning, fun afternoon, relaxing evening, splendid night and may we all continue learning.
If challenge demands Agreement, no Conversation can be had.
Torquemada
This review made possible by YouTube's Candlelit Tales, Abby Cox, Ritual Kitchen with Laura, JammiDodger, May's Narrowboat Life, Confused Adipose, Welcome to Ukraine, Russian Media Monitor, National Centre for Military Intelligence, Naughty Nana DUZ, David Hookstead, Tanya Fiona, Sarah Paine, Happy Pancake, Reads with Rachel, Biz,
Brigitte Empire, aidan knight, Autistic Jenny, IamBlakely, Reese Waters, Veritas et Caritas, Dark Seas,, Dark Skies, Ms Modeller, Rogue Hobbies, Queen City Minis, Grace McGuire, Vintage Space, Real Vintage Dolls House, AllShortsPolitics, ScaredKetchup, Ukraine Calling, Amie's Literary Empire, Fabienne, What Vivi did next, Michael Dubois,
Lady Izdihar, White Stork, Global Update with Sosan, Some More News, Battlefield Ambience, RevolutionarythOt, Viva La Dirt League, Honest2Betsy, Shannon Makes, Engineering Knits, British Warships, Warship Designs, Central Crossing, HBomberGuy, Whitenoiz, Karolina Zebrowska, Parkrose Resistance, Kathy's Flog from France,
Tabithaspeakspolitics, Mrs Betty Bowers, Wives vs World, Biracial Voices, Anna Cramling, Nasimi Shabnam, No Justice MTG, Prime of Midlife, Widebeam and Wellingtons, Bouncy Clown, Munecat, Retrofutura, Isaac Arthur, Jamie Raines, Josh Everton, Lore Reloaded, A Brush with Bekah, Bryony Claire, Miranda Mills.
A member of the venerable Village Idiots whilst insulting an essayist whom I mention, complained to her that I list other trans creators. The Snowflake (cowardly, whinging, insecure, womanphobic, man-child) is a wonder to behold. A trigger warning then.
The channels I reference include the water colourist, bisexual, botanist, miniatures painter, sewist, Irish, military boardgamer, parent, cultural historian, redhaired, aviation modeller, asexual, comedienne, cosplayer, linguistic archaeologist, anarchist, architect, welder, military historian, trans, Indian, sociologist, philosopher, chess master, farmer, lumber yard worker, marine biologist, lesbian, political commentator, married, autistic, Iranian, pensioner, van life, writer, WOC, narrowboater, queer, communist, mechanic, language historian, English-language instructor, classics instructor, agricultural scientist, paleontologist, tall, psychologist, oils painter and other creators known as Women.
Almost as threatening are the marine archaeologist, other LGBTQIA, geologist, fashion historian, Boardgame historian, reenactor, marine archaeologist, other BIPOC, writer, book reviewer, socialist, wood worker, engineer, biologist, wooden boat restorer, anthropologist, chemist, other military boardgamer, museum curator, tailor, photographer, filmmaker, RPG player, chess instructor, zoologist, book reviewer, diorama builder, military miniatures wargamer, singer, mathematician and other creators known (outside the US) as Human Beings.
If despite the advisory, the voices insist that you visit, develop a new skill, reading perhaps and\or enrol in a remedial critical thinking course and\or seek emergency therapy.
Thinking on the existence of these failed human beings, can sometimes depress. In those moments, I often picture Spitfires in the skies during the Battle of Britain. Glory to Ukraine. Glory to the Heroes. Crimea is Ukraine.
Once more unto the book, dear friends. Once more. I forced myself to finish the book for the first hand experience of a White Nationalist space fantasy. The writing is bizarrely poor, the racial superiority theme is shouted at the reader on every page and the "natural" US hegemony is one of the cornerstones of the story.
There is no real world building as is usual for these low end works. Work is probably too generous a term for a book that illustrates how little thought or effort is required of sleazy, racist fantasies.
With no world building and being a fantasy for poor US white males, there is no need or room for character development. The dialogue is bad but revealing. The plot is ...., is ..., isn't. The writer inserts exposition directly because ...Reasons. Or lack of writing skill. Or that underpaid editor.
White US males control space because of some technology that only working class males of the right ethnicity can master. This is because .... Reasons. Or magic. Or .......?
Any white working class male from the american Midwest and West Coast who may or may not be literate are eligible for citizenship in space. It is a specific requirement, spelled out in exposition. I did warn you that this is a work of pure racism.
White american males do not need any skills because they have the "right values". Direct exposition again.
Non whites are allowed to work in space and do all the actual labour but are sent back to "mudball" Earth after each project. Non whites from ethnicities which are "natural!y inclined to suicide bombing" are excluded. Direct exposition again. "Mudball Earth" or the "mudball" is a term used by white nationalist writers to describe the brown person infested planet. Not a fit planet for an Aryan, don't you know?
We are reminded that these are very moral settlers, just before a discussion of whether they are strong enough to take some resource from the Martian colony. Trade is not in their vocabulary apparently.
The US government is evil because of its nature? Or history? Or they get in the way of libertarians? For whichever of those reasons, these settlers are preventing anyone of whom they do not approve into space. 😂
Corporations are evil? The main characters exhibit the same sociopathy but as I think on it, the characters are not fans of competition.
Non whites with the sale price of space condos are allowed into space, even Asians. I am certain that the writer would be more specific if he realized that South Asians are brown skinned.
I strongly suspect that the writer does not realize that Thais, Bengali, Cambodians, Malaysians, Filipinos and Indonesians are Asian. If he does, I do not think that he realizes that they have different features and above all skin colour to the Han. 😂
"Because they do not discriminate", the settlers will set up embassies in "Switzerland and probably somewhere in Asia"? Some English speaking Europeans and rich Asians will be allowed to emigrate. The above constitutes a novel. 😣
This was a difficult rewrite after watching a number of FAFO channels. The writer amused me when first I read that book. Now that I know that many US males would view the book as a plausible and desired future, recalling the book was disturbing.
The masked commenter below is Br1cht, whom I discovered in a comment on another book, loves to pretend to be a military tough guy and is drawn to the paedophilia of John Ringo's Zombie series. What a site is this. 🤗
With low end US science fiction being so dismal and marketed alongside more worthwhile titles, it is a chore finding Unlimited fiction fit for purpose. I watch rather then read my science fiction at the moment and have ended my Unlimited sub.
The streaming services provide better written and more entertaining science fiction than print, despite providing fantasy that is somewhat inferior to print.
I began searching YouTube a but more than four years ago for science fiction recommendations. I found them and all the myriad special interest channels. The educational channels introduced me to educational video sites. My first visit was to Nebula.
At last, I stumbled upon the book channels. It was love at first video. 😍 There are a variety of creators that between them are covered every aspect of the bibliophilic experience. The reader communities which they foster are thoughtful, curious and above all enamoured of all things bookish. It is obviously the direct opposite to the Goodreads/Amazon experience.
This next made possible by YouTube's Doctor Who\Without Reward, Munecat, SciFi Scavenger, Boat Time, Biz, Liam, AllShortsPolitics, Parkrose Resistance, Confident Autistic, Nikki Osbourne, Sailing Melody, Catherine Warr, Clouds and Sky, Dr Void, ScaredKetchup, Motakuki, The Resistance, White Stork, Dr Fatima, Dr Becky, Biz,
Astrid Lundberg, Corkboards and Curiosities, Cruising Crafts, Kyiv Independent, Liam, IMY2, Megalithhunter, Geo Girl, Gutsick Gibbon, Dr Ben Miles, Professor Tim Wilson, Bladeworn, Karloff AI, Autistic Jenny, Aims Books, Just in Time Worldbuilding, The Dream Metropolis, Captured in Words, Science Insanity, Seizure Girl,Todd Maffin,
Jessie Paege, Dr Dr Octopus Lady, Mr Newberger's AI Funnies, Whitenoiz, Riverboat Jack, Chem Thug, Ada Palmer, Algal the Bard, Jill Bearup, Silver Fox, Faun, Grumpy Old Crone, Ember Green, Haropones, Nordic Perspective, Brittany Page, Samantha Lux, Saga Lore AI, Ally the Piper, Harp Twins, Twinshangout, Daily Hayley, Shaun,
Lena Down Under, Astrid Lundberg, JammiDodger, Barry's Economics, Unlearning Economics, IamBlakely, Heather Cox Richardson, Fran Blanche, Nylah Reacts, Parkrose Resistance, Reads with Rachel, No Justice MTG, Turn Left, Heather Delaney Reese, Luna Oi, KellieSnider, Sierra Hull, Blackboot Official, TheBrothersGwynne.
Consider treating this as a hostile site. 🤔
Goodreads do not do discourse. As example, I wrote a short negative review of Powers of the Earth by Travis Corcoran. Originally blurbed by Amazon as akin to a Heinlein classic, it was instead a poorly written rehash of "Atlas Shrugged" set on the Moon.
The story details the heroic efforts of a rich twat to enlist the military in overthrow of a US government in order that he not pay taxes. My opinion was that it and the many similar in Unlimited are dangerous and now prophetic.
Travis self-described as libertarian (now anarcho capitalist without millions, as if it were a creed), US veteran, employee of an unnamed US agency, admirer of Putin's Russia.
He also advocates for return of chattel slavery. The new forced labour prisons are labelled by US YouTubers Concentration Camps. Head of the Heath Agency has stated that working the fields is good for health. Travis no doubt is well pleased.
With prisoners now denied rights, generational enslavement is on the cards. Black Americans are being hung from trees and the murders are ruled suicides. It seems that 1930's Germany and 1840 USA are both being recreated which would describe Project 2025 objectives.
He and six fellow patriots were incensed by my communist judgement, in seeming defence of their democracy. 🤔 There followed a year-long comment stream.
I had previously been generously criticised regarding my intelligence, punctuation, class background, the role of women readers both generally and in science fiction spaces, my inability to process that all HIstory was created by European men, interesting interpretations of Nietzsche and existentialism, the minimalist standards for science fiction and more.
Only in this one stream did I receive such a broad and inclusive set of guides to self-improvement. I was disappointed that no judgement was made of Timothy Snyder's work but irony is comforting I suppose.
The last comment was delivered by Claes Rees Jr aka cgr710 now ka Jesse R Clayton Jr. He declared that They had Won, after referencing the contents of my last message exchange with a Goodreads friend.
I discovered that these thugs and others had launched a year-long wave of threatening, insulting and other comments against apparently all female creators of channels I mentioned. It continues still.
They failed to establish romantic relations with the thirteen years old boater or her mother, paleontologist, linguistics historian, pensioner and other creators.
Despite that failure They certainly increased the global supply of ugliness and delivered the most accurate self-portrait of the Snowflake (poorly educated, cowardly, badly socialised, emotionally stunted US male) to a multinational audience.
By all metrics, a Victory indeed. That stream was normal to my experience on this site, except for duration and the Australian Intervention.
Ominous music begins,🙂 The comment gangs are prevalent in both the SciFi and Romantasy spaces. Their activities include the threat, hacking, doxxing and more similar. Amazon have not acknowledged of incident nor discipline the mental member, punish writers who encourage Them nor dismiss the criminal employees who enable both. I have experienced several hacking attempts as well as the rest.
My limited message history was given over to these bellends, after my Powers review.
A Pine Centre request was mysteriously routed to Australian Intelligence that They interrogate the one friend whom I occasionally messaged. The attempt at my personal history failed.
Amazon was unconcerned until we broadcast our experience widely. Suddenly all comments to my reviews were removed from others' view, all Lurkers I'd not been Permitted to remove for years were disappeared, Kindle bricking seem to have ended and all the rest.
I attempted to replace old my phone service and phone with MintMobile. They were overpriced but who does not like Ryan Reynolds. I mistakenly paid for phone and a year's service in advance. A fanboy processed order, accepted the payment and held up delivery of either for a mysterious review. I have not received a written response nor refund.
I can no longer stomach even a commercial featuring Ryan, who had been a favourite. My bank was Capital One and were happily complicit for reasons, I later unearthed.
More on Capital One another time but I suggest, avoiding that Indian-Chinese bank. They are like MintMobile, somewhat like bottom feeders and more importantly, are signs of things to come. US firms are being removed from both the EuroZone and BRICS as being dangerously uncontrolled.
Amazon, Yahoo and the rest are best used cautiously or replaced.
I suggest precautions for this site. Remove personal information from profile. Use messaging only to connect to members of the same temperament.
Remove all Lurkers, those who never post. They are likely gang monitors or employee dummies.
Given the Kindle\Goodreads fascination with altering customer pages, the screenshot of the odd, ugly and threatening are mandatory. These should be sufficient.
Kindle are a more serious threat. Do Not Use Email, Contacts, Calendar or Files. Amazon Sign Into customer email with neither notice nor permission. Make of that what you will.
Do Not purchase Amazon ebooks. You own only your device and if Kindle that is conditional. If purchased, download immediately. There are BookTubers to suggest other vendors of ebooks and devices or alternatives to ebook altogether.
Silk searches should be innocuous and non-critical.
There are deranged members and employees alike, who seem to possess no morality or healthy socialisation. They are however US patriots with all that implies. Ominous music ends. 🙂
Protect yourself. May we all find Good Reading. 😊
Some of my favourite YouTube channels.
Lindsay Ellis, Zoe Baker, Second Thought, Lady of the Library, The Amber Ruffin Show, Tara Mooknee, Alayna Joy, Philosophy Tube, Alizee, Art by Annamarie, Lily Alexandre, Double Down News, Novara Media, The Juice Media, Some More News,
Mrs Betty Bowers, Janelle Kayla, We're in Hell, IzzzYzzz, Alice Cappelle,
Life of Lit, Alison Pregler, Merphy Napier, I'm Rosa, Renegade Cut, Noelle Gallagher, Hello Future Me, Maggie Mae Fish, Melodie Rose, Serena Skybourne, Books with Chloe, Atun Shei Films, Sabine Hossenfelder, Christy Anne Jones, Elena Taber, Storyworldling, Jessica Gagnon, Natasha's Adventures, GK Reads,
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April 4, 2019
Needs a LOT of editing.
Needs a Lot of editing. This story has potential, but the writer has a.d.d. too much is repeated & than contradicted.
Needs a Lot of editing. This story has potential, but the writer has a.d.d. too much is repeated & than contradicted.
June 18, 2021
Great story.
Completed the series through book #3
Looking forward to book 4!!
Completed the series through book #3
Looking forward to book 4!!
February 17, 2019
Great first book by an awesome up and coming author! A must read for sci-fi lovers! Simon and Kitty take a dream and make it a reality and the journey they take is fun to follow along with!
February 17, 2019
A lot of action. Good Sci-fi with intrigue. I look look forward to the next book.
February 16, 2019
An amazing first time for this writer. Intriguing with plenty of action to keep you reading. Loved it and can’t wait for the next book.
October 23, 2021
I am always interested in a turn at the trope of alien ship lands on Earth. The presmise this time around sounded interesting, taking a bit of a twist with human civilians taking off with the ship before the secretive government types show up. But I couldn’t get past the stilted writing and odd way of declaring the expertise of the characters.
Our campers are a married couple of retired DIA agent and MIT PhD who happens to know space shuttles. They must be middle aged due to the time spans tossed around, but come across as a youthful, young couple.
What really turned me off was how the story was written. Every page or two facts are repeated. The author attempts to take in everyone’s perspective, which makes for a constant adjustment of figuring out who is speaking and thinking in the paragraph. To get through a scene, pages are taken up to walk the reader through each character’s head. It didn’t flow as a story should.
There may be an interesting story in here, but it needs a strong editor to smooth over the rough writing.
Our campers are a married couple of retired DIA agent and MIT PhD who happens to know space shuttles. They must be middle aged due to the time spans tossed around, but come across as a youthful, young couple.
What really turned me off was how the story was written. Every page or two facts are repeated. The author attempts to take in everyone’s perspective, which makes for a constant adjustment of figuring out who is speaking and thinking in the paragraph. To get through a scene, pages are taken up to walk the reader through each character’s head. It didn’t flow as a story should.
There may be an interesting story in here, but it needs a strong editor to smooth over the rough writing.
August 30, 2019
What a disappointment
Slow paced with annoying repetitions of the same facts by multiple people, the government people are basically mentally retarded, the plot is as thin a spider silk, and the end is just plain bad. Not worth it.
Slow paced with annoying repetitions of the same facts by multiple people, the government people are basically mentally retarded, the plot is as thin a spider silk, and the end is just plain bad. Not worth it.
May 23, 2019
Fun read, but way too long. Very good for a first effort, but it could use a sharp edit to reduce redundancy and move it along more quickly. I'm looking for ward to the next volume..
January 29, 2023
This was a good space opera—nothing extraordinary, mind you, but a solid read. Earthlings find an alien spaceship, and all the aliens are dead except for one, who happens to transfer the ship's "captain command" to one of our main characters, Simon and Kitty. The ship's computer, recognizing a new captain and somehow understanding basic English already, begins to assist Kitty and Simon in "commandeering" the ship. They decided the best course of action is to take over the ship instead of turning it over to the US government. Then the drama starts. Kitty and Simon take over the ship and learn how to operate it. The ship's main computer instructs them, sort of like the “Computer” on Star Trek (there are many similarities to Star Trek in this book), and the humans somehow fully understand everything the ship says and become spaceship pilots almost instantly (huh?)
The story turns into a fight between the newly formed Terran Alliance and the suspicious United States government. The Terran Alliance is formed by the trio, Simon, Kitty, and their friend Lucy, who took over the alien spacecraft and the 1000s of people they recruit over time. The US government is pissed off that these US citizens did not turn over the craft to the government. Fearing World War three would break out, Simon and Kitty tell the US they are keeping the ship and will share what they learn about the technology with all the governments, in effect all of the people of Earth, not just the US so no one country gains a military advantage that another country would see as an apocalyptic threat. This becomes the main conflict in the story.
I won't recount the rest of the story to avoid spoiling anything, but the action is mostly at the end. One thing I kept wondering the whole time is what alien race presumably loses contact with a fully functional colony-building spaceship and leaves it? One of the events at the story's beginning hints at what may have happened to the ship's original crew, but the story takes place over several years, and we are left wondering why no aliens have come to Earth to collect their spaceship!
The middle part dragged a bit (was painful at some points with mundane actions) with the ongoing day-to-day of building colonization and military spacecraft, but the interactions between the characters kept me reading. Kitty, Simon, and Lucy were all well-developed characters and their interaction with other characters is enjoyable to read.
The ending gives us a shocking and unexpected twist, at least for me. And I am not 100% certain that the setup for book two is a good enough hook, but I'll find out if I decide to read on in the series.
One thing that was hard to get past was how fast the people on the ship, even with the ship's computer, were so easily able to build more spaceships and adopt the technology. That part was a bit too "perfect," I think it made the weight of the story a tad less believable for a Sci-Fi space opera.
Overall, I liked the story. The audiobook had a preview of the next book in the series, which was a bit more of a hook to read book two than the events at the end of the book. Most likely, I will continue with the series since the opening chapter of book two provided a few answers about the aliens who originally built the captured spaceship.
If you have some time and don’t want a book you will read through in a single day but want to enjoy a good space opera, I recommend giving this book a chance. Stick with it if you sort of drift in the middle, as near the end, it gets picked up again.
The story turns into a fight between the newly formed Terran Alliance and the suspicious United States government. The Terran Alliance is formed by the trio, Simon, Kitty, and their friend Lucy, who took over the alien spacecraft and the 1000s of people they recruit over time. The US government is pissed off that these US citizens did not turn over the craft to the government. Fearing World War three would break out, Simon and Kitty tell the US they are keeping the ship and will share what they learn about the technology with all the governments, in effect all of the people of Earth, not just the US so no one country gains a military advantage that another country would see as an apocalyptic threat. This becomes the main conflict in the story.
I won't recount the rest of the story to avoid spoiling anything, but the action is mostly at the end. One thing I kept wondering the whole time is what alien race presumably loses contact with a fully functional colony-building spaceship and leaves it? One of the events at the story's beginning hints at what may have happened to the ship's original crew, but the story takes place over several years, and we are left wondering why no aliens have come to Earth to collect their spaceship!
The middle part dragged a bit (was painful at some points with mundane actions) with the ongoing day-to-day of building colonization and military spacecraft, but the interactions between the characters kept me reading. Kitty, Simon, and Lucy were all well-developed characters and their interaction with other characters is enjoyable to read.
The ending gives us a shocking and unexpected twist, at least for me. And I am not 100% certain that the setup for book two is a good enough hook, but I'll find out if I decide to read on in the series.
One thing that was hard to get past was how fast the people on the ship, even with the ship's computer, were so easily able to build more spaceships and adopt the technology. That part was a bit too "perfect," I think it made the weight of the story a tad less believable for a Sci-Fi space opera.
Overall, I liked the story. The audiobook had a preview of the next book in the series, which was a bit more of a hook to read book two than the events at the end of the book. Most likely, I will continue with the series since the opening chapter of book two provided a few answers about the aliens who originally built the captured spaceship.
If you have some time and don’t want a book you will read through in a single day but want to enjoy a good space opera, I recommend giving this book a chance. Stick with it if you sort of drift in the middle, as near the end, it gets picked up again.
April 8, 2024
This one was a frustrating read, to be honest.
I really liked the premise and was looking forward to how it would develop, but throughout, on a very regular basis, I found myself shaking my head at stupid and (to me at least) illogical decisions a lot of the characters kept making.
Now, it's pretty long for a standard military sci-fi series book, but that's not a problem, there were lots of interesting consequences of the new found space-fairing capabilities, which were interesting to explore.
So yes, I'm reading the second one as well. But if the heroes of the story don't start growing up a bit, I think I won't read the third.
I really liked the premise and was looking forward to how it would develop, but throughout, on a very regular basis, I found myself shaking my head at stupid and (to me at least) illogical decisions a lot of the characters kept making.
Now, it's pretty long for a standard military sci-fi series book, but that's not a problem, there were lots of interesting consequences of the new found space-fairing capabilities, which were interesting to explore.
So yes, I'm reading the second one as well. But if the heroes of the story don't start growing up a bit, I think I won't read the third.
September 17, 2021
Not a bad start.
Pros:
I like the story line, and the path chosen by the author.
Loving the part where we have to deal with woke socialist doctrine so comments in today's authers.
Cons:
As person who was once part of the us military, I am well aware of how heavy handed it, and its sister agency's can be.
the lack of professionalism re the behaviour of our suits and military personal is not realistic. people like this do exist, but they do not get the plush career making assignments represented in this book ( we save them 3 rd world county's). Following procedures, professional ism, and an awareness of what public image is expected at any given setting is required for these positions. they CA be cutthroat, but they will do it with polite/ political nature, A smile, and warm body language( trained to put the public at ease).
3rd world country in this day and age do not have starvation and poverty because a larger nation took all the resources available. The box lens are internal, with corrupt people controlling/ hoarding the resources avalable. This corrupt ion prevents education and technology that would allow the comment fold to have better lives. this education and technology would also rob the Despots running things of their power and control.
Pros:
I like the story line, and the path chosen by the author.
Loving the part where we have to deal with woke socialist doctrine so comments in today's authers.
Cons:
As person who was once part of the us military, I am well aware of how heavy handed it, and its sister agency's can be.
the lack of professionalism re the behaviour of our suits and military personal is not realistic. people like this do exist, but they do not get the plush career making assignments represented in this book ( we save them 3 rd world county's). Following procedures, professional ism, and an awareness of what public image is expected at any given setting is required for these positions. they CA be cutthroat, but they will do it with polite/ political nature, A smile, and warm body language( trained to put the public at ease).
3rd world country in this day and age do not have starvation and poverty because a larger nation took all the resources available. The box lens are internal, with corrupt people controlling/ hoarding the resources avalable. This corrupt ion prevents education and technology that would allow the comment fold to have better lives. this education and technology would also rob the Despots running things of their power and control.
March 26, 2024
Spoiler warning:
I have this rated at a four star until about the last 3% of the book, rarely do books pull a bait and switch that I enjoy, when they do I hate it which caused me to drop it to a two-star.
Moving on to the second book now and if it's able to redeem itself I may come back and adjust.
I didn't like everything about the book leading up to the last two or three percent but for the majority I was entertained. I just really hate it when authors think they need to throw a twist.
Okay so I'm a couple dozen pages into the second book and the author has been able to redeem what I found so atrocious about the ending of the first book so I will continue to read the series, but I was so pissed I have almost decided not to read the second book and I'm glad I did continue on.
I have this rated at a four star until about the last 3% of the book, rarely do books pull a bait and switch that I enjoy, when they do I hate it which caused me to drop it to a two-star.
Moving on to the second book now and if it's able to redeem itself I may come back and adjust.
I didn't like everything about the book leading up to the last two or three percent but for the majority I was entertained. I just really hate it when authors think they need to throw a twist.
Okay so I'm a couple dozen pages into the second book and the author has been able to redeem what I found so atrocious about the ending of the first book so I will continue to read the series, but I was so pissed I have almost decided not to read the second book and I'm glad I did continue on.
August 2, 2021
I generally loved this series. While I did find a couple of inconsistencies, I feel that they didn't diminish my enjoyment of the story. This book starts a short series (by today's standard of sci-fi indie publishing) of four books with great characters and creates a very likable universe.
The end of the fourth book, the last in the series, leaves many open threads in this universe but brings closure to the story arc of the main characters in a way that was not surprising or disappointing in my view.
I do believe that the author was setting up the universe for spin-off stories with open threads. Still, unfortunately, he passed away, and we will miss the opportunity of enjoying those untold stories. Please, don't let this keep you from enjoying the four stories that we did get.
The end of the fourth book, the last in the series, leaves many open threads in this universe but brings closure to the story arc of the main characters in a way that was not surprising or disappointing in my view.
I do believe that the author was setting up the universe for spin-off stories with open threads. Still, unfortunately, he passed away, and we will miss the opportunity of enjoying those untold stories. Please, don't let this keep you from enjoying the four stories that we did get.
July 7, 2020
Horrible Ending (SMH awful)
The story was entertaining, in spite of the many grammatical errors, until it just wasn’t. The last few pages of the last chapter absolutely destroyed the storyline, as far as I was concerned.
The sudden change in character direction, the devastating slash-and-burn action was unexpected and unacceptable. Without that last action this would have been a 4.5 star review. The MCs deserve better treatment than that last, sloppy ending.
Yes, there is a postscript following the book mentioning one should read book 2 because it does make sense of the ending, but the reviews for book 2 don’t give me any promise that it will.
The story was entertaining, in spite of the many grammatical errors, until it just wasn’t. The last few pages of the last chapter absolutely destroyed the storyline, as far as I was concerned.
The sudden change in character direction, the devastating slash-and-burn action was unexpected and unacceptable. Without that last action this would have been a 4.5 star review. The MCs deserve better treatment than that last, sloppy ending.
Yes, there is a postscript following the book mentioning one should read book 2 because it does make sense of the ending, but the reviews for book 2 don’t give me any promise that it will.
June 4, 2022
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Too many wurds and names for my pea-brain to absorb.
A horrible book.
I hate it.
“…He remembered the necklace and its silvery setting, entwined with the sigil of Rami’s minor house at the bottom. She had placed it around his neck herself on their wedding in the little chapel overlooking the port city of Quillas the night before the Dalgor Kreth left on its mission. The gava stone center was almost two inches across and showed the esteem that she and her house were held in by clan sel Garian. Once, he’d been proud of the associations that one piece of jewelry had entitled him to. Now he saw it as evidence….”
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Too many wurds and names for my pea-brain to absorb.
A horrible book.
I hate it.
“…He remembered the necklace and its silvery setting, entwined with the sigil of Rami’s minor house at the bottom. She had placed it around his neck herself on their wedding in the little chapel overlooking the port city of Quillas the night before the Dalgor Kreth left on its mission. The gava stone center was almost two inches across and showed the esteem that she and her house were held in by clan sel Garian. Once, he’d been proud of the associations that one piece of jewelry had entitled him to. Now he saw it as evidence….”
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August 15, 2026
This book had so much potential to be good. The initial few chapters had me hooked. Then it went off the rails anti-United States government anti-military themes throughout the entire book. The science fiction was weak and poorly written. A bunch of no nothing except for some having a scientific background are going to learn how to use a spaceship a space fighters and flying techniques without the use of the military or fighter pilots. Too many holes in the science fiction and plot. All the white males are the bad guys or are wimps. most of the premises are not even plausible and wasted sci-fi nuggets that could’ve been developed in the Greater stories.
August 25, 2019
A BM. SYFY. Action Adventure Novel (L) (SHB. - 1)
BM. has penned a SYFY Action Adventure About the discovery of an abandoned shuttle craft from a source other than Earth. Four people use the shuttle to enter the derelict spaceship. They discover the computer is operational and willing to help the new crew as they are accepted. Their objective is to build for Earth and not one government. They make plans but are stabbed in the back by the United States. This is an excellent read for the genre.....DEHS
BM. has penned a SYFY Action Adventure About the discovery of an abandoned shuttle craft from a source other than Earth. Four people use the shuttle to enter the derelict spaceship. They discover the computer is operational and willing to help the new crew as they are accepted. Their objective is to build for Earth and not one government. They make plans but are stabbed in the back by the United States. This is an excellent read for the genre.....DEHS
May 25, 2019
Well the first book of this series has given the readers a interesting start, but not sure how the author is going to get over the last few pages. It does show what I think would happen with the american government, as far has they are concerned , if it appears in the states then it belongs to them, and as long as they can make money from it all the better. But am looking forward to see how the author handles what happened in book 1 during the start of book 2.
May 19, 2020
Legacy, book 1 a good start
Well that was a pretty good start for a new Author of a sci-fi novel. Like many I've read it begins when the hero discovers an alien 👽 spaceship and inherits the ship . As usual he decides to keep it, falling on the wrong side of his governments approval. As he masters the technology aboard he recruits a crew and makes more ships, all standard stuff until the last. When he appears to suddenly for in an atack.
Well that was a pretty good start for a new Author of a sci-fi novel. Like many I've read it begins when the hero discovers an alien 👽 spaceship and inherits the ship . As usual he decides to keep it, falling on the wrong side of his governments approval. As he masters the technology aboard he recruits a crew and makes more ships, all standard stuff until the last. When he appears to suddenly for in an atack.
October 4, 2020
When I think of scifi, this is exactly the kind of book I think of. If you like space travel, aliens, new technologies, and of course, the ever present battle with the powers that be to keep the new tech free for the masses, then this is the kind of series you want to read too. Great things happen in this book, and promise even more great things in future books. I haven't had this much fun reading a scifi book since I read the NFI series.
May 25, 2021
I wanted to like this. I think there is a decent story in there somewhere. But I couldnt get far. This is written as though it were intended to be released in tiny episodes over large gaps. Where each epsoide needed to recap the one before it. But sometimes it goes ever board. Just flat out completely repeating all the info in the prior episode. And then when they decided to compile it as one story... No one bothered to edit it into one smooth story. Its unfortunate.
June 18, 2021
There was a different series (can't remember the name or author, sadly) which took this same exact concept and did it better.
The people in this kept rehashing the same conversations over and over. While for some that might be realistic, it is tedious to read and reread and read yet again.
We get the concept - move on.
Gave up part way in. Perhaps a lot better editor would be of assistance?
The people in this kept rehashing the same conversations over and over. While for some that might be realistic, it is tedious to read and reread and read yet again.
We get the concept - move on.
Gave up part way in. Perhaps a lot better editor would be of assistance?
July 2, 2021
Wow, this is not well written. Facts are repeated three times within a minute or two of the audiobook, information is delivered by having characters think about it (like 'I have a masters degree in this subject and a Bachelor's in that subject and therefore I know that...'). Characters' thought processes and conversations feel contrived and add little, slowing down what should be fast-paced scenes. I stopped listening after 20 minutes.
August 22, 2019
I really liked how Bob Mauldin showed us how one should care for tech powerful enough to change the world. Well written and thought out, this sci-fi story is one everyone should read, cuz, you know, it could happen to you and it's best to be prepared. Legacy, book 1 in the Stellar Heritage Series, is an easy and fairly exciting start to what I believe will be a great series.
October 10, 2019
Great book ruined by the final 2 chapters
Thus was an excellent book, well written and of a subject I love to read about. The characters are all likable, and believable.
While I can understand a good twist and certain things happening, the last 2 chapters totally ruined this book for me, even going as far as that I now refuse to buy the second book.
Thus was an excellent book, well written and of a subject I love to read about. The characters are all likable, and believable.
While I can understand a good twist and certain things happening, the last 2 chapters totally ruined this book for me, even going as far as that I now refuse to buy the second book.
September 18, 2020
A great book
I loved the book I found it a little confusing until I understood the importance of points of view being explained by the charters . I found the end charged with emotion and found the charters quite human. I am sorry to the author has passed. As for his first book I have read of his I am impressed on his dedication to the work he prduced
I loved the book I found it a little confusing until I understood the importance of points of view being explained by the charters . I found the end charged with emotion and found the charters quite human. I am sorry to the author has passed. As for his first book I have read of his I am impressed on his dedication to the work he prduced
June 3, 2022
Excellent story of action and adventure
Definitely a must read. Absolutely exciting and entertaining as well as inspiring. The characters are definitely inspiring and interesting as well as the story line. So much learning to intake and such an inspiring and intriguing journey. I am absolutely looking forward to the next book. Excellent writing!
Definitely a must read. Absolutely exciting and entertaining as well as inspiring. The characters are definitely inspiring and interesting as well as the story line. So much learning to intake and such an inspiring and intriguing journey. I am absolutely looking forward to the next book. Excellent writing!
February 21, 2019
Have you ever wondered what you would do if you found a space ship? Well Simon and Kitty have one fall out of the sky in front of them. A quick decision has them flying it away! How will the world react? The powers that be? Read this book to find out! Lots of action and excitement!
May 13, 2019
Wanderful New read
Well written action pack book, defined imaginative story line if a little too earth base. Still wort the wait for the next installment. Hope sooner rather than later.
Well written action pack book, defined imaginative story line if a little too earth base. Still wort the wait for the next installment. Hope sooner rather than later.
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