Ceti

Reach For The Stars #3

by John Wegener

Newly married Ethan Richards’s life couldn’t be better, or could it? He still dreams of reaching for the stars…again.
Scientists discover a mysterious star map on a cave wall, luring Ethan and his team to Tau Ceti. When Loki Mason demands to be involved, Ethan refuses him and races to reach the star before Loki can.
On arriving at Tau Ceti, Ethan is confronted by a sentient being, who tells him how humanity ultimately evolved. By accidentally activating a black stela in the alien’s compound, Ethan discovers a portal gateway between universes, across branes. Would Ethan risk using it to find out what is at the other end?
When Loki finds out about the sentient being, he hijacks a new hyperdrive ship to reach Tau Ceti quickly. Forcing Ethan to take him to the alien, his thirst for wealth and power drives him to find a way of making a deal with the alien at any cost. After a rescue is attempted to free them from Loki, Jade Richards lies close to death. Ethan must take Jade through the portal to save her. But is the sentient telling the truth about the portal? Will Ethan risk his own life to save Jade’s?

299 pages, Kindle Edition

Published October 1, 2020

About the author

I'm a dreamer…always have been.

I have dreamed of flying to the stars since I was a child, looking up at the Milky Way on a moonless and cloudless winter’s night, wondering what’s out there.

I started writing in 2016 and now write full time. Ten published books later, I’m still writing strong with many more stories in my head for others to enjoy. My stories revolve around science fiction, primarily space based stories with as strong an element of hard science as I can place into the stories. This means they usually occur in the near future (next one to two hundred years). But I do delve into the fantastic sci fi for stories of intrigue and adventure other than hard science based ones.

Before taking up writing, I undertook chemical engineering in the steel industry for 35 years.

So I now write, drawing on my many experiences in exotic places throughout my working life. These were incredible at times! I also draw on many other experiences. Some are funny and interesting.

Being an avid reader, I read almost anything. It is common for me to read three or four books at the same time on completely differing topics, both fiction and non-fiction. I mainly enjoy reading science fiction and fantasy books, my favorite authors being Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke and J.R.R. Tolkien. I also enjoy crime mysteries. Ancient and medieval history in Europe fascinate me and I use extrapolated facts from this history in my stories at times.

Cosmology, general relativity and quantum physics intrigue me. New concepts and understanding continually develop in these fields. This is exciting to me and is the way of the future. Humanity is finally escaping the shackles of Earth and seriously reaching out into space.

I rarely use aliens in my stories as the aliens I encounter in the stories I read are usually humans dressed up as aliens. So why not use humans. I do delve into genetic engineering. That is a realistic scientific development worth exploring in science fiction.

You can get to know me better by viewing my website and subscribing to my emails, where I provide more information on my activities and explore interesting topics. Or follow me on facebook.

I live in Wollongong, Australia with my wife and family.

Reviews

[Rudeford Norman · Rating 4 out of 5]

The new ones

This story did not end with the birth of the first new residents of the planet. It is just the beginning g

[cameron ross paton · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed the final book in this sci-fi trilogy.
Simply written, with romantic interests.
Not meant to be great literature, but written for light entertainment.
I gave it 4 stars.