Earth II - Box Set: Bks 3 & 4

by Ray Jay Perreault

”Earth II – Box Set”
“Earth II – You Have no Honor”
This is Book 3 in the Virus/Earth Series; End of Epoch 1
Earth was attacked by a suspicious virus, and over 99% of the population was lost. Just as the world was stabilizing Alien spacecraft appeared in orbit.
The remaining humans know who caused the virus. Julius sees an opportunity to gain resources and Joan, Tom Herl and SIMPOC must make a quick decision how to keep an eye on Julius and deal with the invasion.
Joan, Tom, and SIMPOC follow Julius to the home world of the aliens that invaded Earth and find an enemy that invaded Earth for surprising reasons.
The battle on Earth rages as the US Navy face an attacking alien force of sophisticated robots. Battles are fought in the Indian Ocean and Pearl Harbor.
“Earth II – Rebirth”
This is the 4th book in the Virus/Earth II series.
Humanity has dealt with the alien invasion and found themselves traveling among the stars. They find other alien cultures, some they can trust and some they can’t.
More than 99% of the humans on Earth have died due to a suspicious virus from an alien invasion. A truce is finally worked out with the invading aliens, but now humans have thousands of space ships as reparations for the mistaken invasion.
The remnants of the US Government try to rebuild the world, but they encounter other aliens, some of whom may not be friendly. The rebuilding must be balanced with possible alien conflicts.
Julius, the A.I. Android that was part of the original collapse of humanity, still, lurks on the horizon. His only objectives are to eliminate the threats to his existence; the remaining humans and the other AI computer SIMPOC.

Audible Audio

Published December 4, 2019

About the author

I’m a retired Aeronautical Engineer who is trying to bring a different style to science fiction writing. I’ve always loved science fiction and I’m trying to write with deeper characters and create stories and situations that a reader can feel part of. The be honest I love a hero that has amazing weapons, takes on hundreds of aliens and can survive anything, but I also want to read a situation and be able to relate to it. An extrapolation of what might really happen with a little less stretch in my imagination.

I’ve been fortunate and I flew in the US Air Force for 10 years, during which time I flew C-130’s and visited 27 countries, then I flew T-38's and trained the best pilots in the world, as well as the first female US Air Force pilots. I then was fortunate to spend 28 years in a major aerospace firm and worked on some of the best programs in the world including the F-23, F-35, B-2, Global Hawk and many I can’t tell you about….
I hope I can bring my real life experiences into my writing so you can appreciate my work.

Reviews

[Lis Carey · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is the third and fourth books of the Earth II series. Book 3, You Have No Honor, brings together two threads, that of SIMPOC, one of the first two true artificial intelligences, and of a deeply strange and suspicious virus that wipes out 90% of the human population. As the story opens, the virus has burnt itself out, and the remaining humans are trying to pick themselves up and preserve human civilization. Unfortunately, just at this point, alien spacecraft start landing on Earth in large numbers and, ignoring the remaining population centers, set out on a project the purpose of which isn't yet apparent.

SIMPOC, having worked out the outlines of what has happened, has made itself mobile and, based on its programming to help people, has decided that its first necessity is to stop the other artificial intelligence, which calls itself Julius after its now-deceased programmer. Julius has been programmed to protect itself--seemingly a sensible precaution, and in fact very dangerous. SIMPOC teams up with returned leadership of the space station OASIS, which supported the now-isolated research colony on Mars--the only human population completely isolated from the virus. OASIS commander Joan Herl, her husband, chief engineer Tom Herl, SIMPOC, and the rest of the OASIS group, reconnect with the surviving US government, start working out what's going on with the alien invasion, going after the dual threats of the aliens and Julius--who has decided that the two biggest threats to its existence are SIMPOC, and the surviving humans.

Book 3, Rebirth, has the humans in control of a substantial number of alien ships and machines. They just have to figure out how to control and crew them. At the same time, the surviving US government is starting to pull together the remaining American population, while also reaching out to the remnants of other governments and countries.

While this is going on, Joan, Tom, and SIMPOC have mastered the alien craft sufficiently that they decide it's sensible to try out its FTL drive to do some cautious exploration of Earth's interstellar neighborhood--but in a different direction than Earth's former invaders. That leads to some interesting discoveries, and some new decisions that need to be made in a hurry.

I enjoyed both of these books quite a bit. They are fast-paced, well plotted, and have interesting characters. In many ways they have the characteristics of the 1960s sf I enjoyed as a much younger reader--except Perreault seems to quite naturally include a degree of diversity and natural human equality quite unlike the stories that left me identifying with male characters because there were so often no female characters that weren't just window dressing. It's just a lot of fun and very enjoyable.

Perreault narrates this audiobook, and is a very good narrator of his own work.

I received a free copy of this audiobook from the author, and am reviewing it voluntarily.

[Bonnie Dale Keck · Rating 5 out of 5]

Kindle Unlimited Odd but enjoyable.

This is book 3 & book 4 also has Virus Box set, noted below

Book 3 in the Virus/Earth Series; End of Epoch 1
Earth was attacked by a suspicious virus (Bk1), the remaining survivors deal with the loss (Bk2), then face the attackers (Bk3) and begin to explore the universe (Bk4). Earth is under attack and losing. The evil computer Julius takes steps to remove the threats to its existence, SIMPOC, and the remaining humans take a desperate step to control Julius and face their attackers.

This is the 4th book in the Virus/Earth II series.
Humanity has dealt with the alien invasion and found themselves traveling among the stars. They find other alien cultures, some they can trust and some they can’t. More than 99% of the humans on Earth have died due to a suspicious virus from an alien invasion. A truce is finally worked out with the invading aliens, but now humans have thousands of space ships as reparations for the mistaken invasion.The remnants of the US Government try to rebuild the world, but they encounter other aliens, some of whom may not be friendly. The rebuilding must be balanced with possible alien conflicts.Julius, the A.I. Android that was part of the original collapse of humanity, still, lurks on the horizon. His only objectives are to eliminate the threats to his existence; the remaining humans and the other AI computer SIMPOC.

Virus: 72 Hours to Live (Virus/Earth II Book 1)
Virus-Earth's Last Battle
Earth II-You Have no Honor (Virus Book 3)
Earth II: Rebirth (Virus Book 4)
Earth II - Julius the First (Virus/Earth II Book 5)

Also {SIMPOX box set is books 1 & 2}, singles, and possibly other box sets