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Star Inferno #1
Spark
How many starcaptains do you know with bones made of solid steel?
Captain Tayne Sondar finds things. Lost things. Stolen things. Whatever the client’s willing to pay standard Intergalactic Guild of Finders rates to track down. It’s a good job, with a steady paycheck (and a 10% discount at Sigma’s Starship Outfitters), but every once in a while, you wind up looking for something you wish you’d never agreed to look for.
Case in point. IGF item PX-119207E. A stolen datastick containing a revolutionary formula that could save trillions of lives. On the surface, it seemed like a simple enough mission. Locate the datastick, retrieve it by whatever means necessary and try not to take a laser to the face.
But as Tayne follows leads, hunts down clues and backfists anyone asking for trouble - here’s where that metal skeleton comes in handy - he soon comes to realise there’s more at risk than the lives of a few trillion intergalactic citizens. If he doesn’t get the datastick back, the entire universe is going to become as devoid of life as an orbital cemetery.
And as if that wasn’t enough to worry about, Tayne’s forced to work alongside two freakish aliens - one with a habitual love of backstabbing, the other with a proven track record of eating human flesh - a pink feline with an eyepatch fixation.
It's a good thing Tayne’s just had the bearings in his skeleton oiled…
Spark is the first novel in the hot new YA space opera series Star Inferno™. It’s packed to the air seals with action, adventure, mystery and humour. If you want to escape into a fun, imaginative universe with a gripping story, this is the book for you. Pick up Spark today, and you’ll soon be turning the pages like your fingertips were on fire.
Captain Tayne Sondar finds things. Lost things. Stolen things. Whatever the client’s willing to pay standard Intergalactic Guild of Finders rates to track down. It’s a good job, with a steady paycheck (and a 10% discount at Sigma’s Starship Outfitters), but every once in a while, you wind up looking for something you wish you’d never agreed to look for.
Case in point. IGF item PX-119207E. A stolen datastick containing a revolutionary formula that could save trillions of lives. On the surface, it seemed like a simple enough mission. Locate the datastick, retrieve it by whatever means necessary and try not to take a laser to the face.
But as Tayne follows leads, hunts down clues and backfists anyone asking for trouble - here’s where that metal skeleton comes in handy - he soon comes to realise there’s more at risk than the lives of a few trillion intergalactic citizens. If he doesn’t get the datastick back, the entire universe is going to become as devoid of life as an orbital cemetery.
And as if that wasn’t enough to worry about, Tayne’s forced to work alongside two freakish aliens - one with a habitual love of backstabbing, the other with a proven track record of eating human flesh - a pink feline with an eyepatch fixation.
It's a good thing Tayne’s just had the bearings in his skeleton oiled…
Spark is the first novel in the hot new YA space opera series Star Inferno™. It’s packed to the air seals with action, adventure, mystery and humour. If you want to escape into a fun, imaginative universe with a gripping story, this is the book for you. Pick up Spark today, and you’ll soon be turning the pages like your fingertips were on fire.
- GenresScience FictionFiction
448 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 9, 2021
209 people are currently reading
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About the author
Hadwin Fuller
18 books8 followersHadwin Fuller is the author of the space opera series Star Inferno. He writes sci-fi novels packed to the air seals with blaster brawls, space dogfights and misfit crews of loveable weirdos who are forced to band together to save the universe.
Like most sci-fi writers, Hadwin is the victim of a misspent youth (he blames his parents) in which his head was buried far too often in sci-fi novels and far too rarely in schoolbooks. It is from this vast expanse of wasted time that he channels his inner sci-fi writer.
Hadwin lives in Vietnam with his wife, newborn baby and robot vacuum cleaner. When he’s not pressing his eyeballs up against the display of his e-reader, Hadwin can be found blasting around town on his motorbike, loafing around in coffee shops and eating his way through every Vietnamese food they have a name for.
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Like most sci-fi writers, Hadwin is the victim of a misspent youth (he blames his parents) in which his head was buried far too often in sci-fi novels and far too rarely in schoolbooks. It is from this vast expanse of wasted time that he channels his inner sci-fi writer.
Hadwin lives in Vietnam with his wife, newborn baby and robot vacuum cleaner. When he’s not pressing his eyeballs up against the display of his e-reader, Hadwin can be found blasting around town on his motorbike, loafing around in coffee shops and eating his way through every Vietnamese food they have a name for.
Get a FREE full-length novel here: https://hadwinfuller.com/freebook
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January 3, 2022
Excellent SF story. 3 different indiviuals, one being a human are tasked with bringing back a datastick.
However; things don't always work out the way you want then to. Tayne , a human and Hoogris are separated from Rath who is now working against them. In the meantime Tayne acquires a talking , intelligent cat that noone knew could talk. Trying to find the datastck still evaded them Could they find it and return it foe the reward. Once they returned to the planet where they were to return the datastick, they were in for another surprise. you have to read in order to find out . Well worth reading. Plenty of action and humor.
However; things don't always work out the way you want then to. Tayne , a human and Hoogris are separated from Rath who is now working against them. In the meantime Tayne acquires a talking , intelligent cat that noone knew could talk. Trying to find the datastck still evaded them Could they find it and return it foe the reward. Once they returned to the planet where they were to return the datastick, they were in for another surprise. you have to read in order to find out . Well worth reading. Plenty of action and humor.
February 12, 2022
Who doesn't love a space captain with a moral compass... add a mismatched and feisty crew, futuristic settings, astonishing lifeforms (and snarky AI's), and a convoluted mystery with creative solutions... well this is it!
This has everything you'd want from a grand space opera adventure and so much more!
Highly recommend this Book.
Am now off to find book 2, Ignite.
This has everything you'd want from a grand space opera adventure and so much more!
Highly recommend this Book.
Am now off to find book 2, Ignite.
July 9, 2022
If you’ve shared any amount of time with me in Facebook SFF groups, you might recall that I am a huge fan of found family and more especially, ragtag crew stories.
Introducing Tayne, our human starship captain, a 500 year old Guild member who has inherited The Firestorm. And Ri, the AI who runs the ship ... until she shuts itself down in a fit of remorse. They’re “finders” … like bounty hunters, but more polite.
Tayne signs on to find an item for the galaxy’s wealthiest person, but the catch is that he has to take on a couple of partners, a thing he’d like marginally more than toe fungus.
The Kyletite, Rath,is a psychopath. She’s a hell of a pilot, a crack sharpshooter, a strategist beyond compare and has uncanny racial abilities. All of those things are great if she’s on your team … Tayne is pretty sure she isn’t.
The Chubwubber, Hoogris, thinks humans are like the cheezies in a dish of nuts and bolts ... best eaten fresh. There’s a couple of screws rattling around loose in his upstairs cavity, but as long as Tayne keeps a hand on his holster, things should be good, right?
Fuller has his characterizations down pretty well. These people are all fully-fleshed with their quirks and tics. There’s a surprise character waiting for you a little further in, but I won’t spoil the fun. The bad guys, while leering and slightly cheesy when they need to be, can also come across as sincere and trustworthy.
The plotting is wonderful and timed so, so well. As with any space opera, there are battles and things that happen in battles (like explosions, lots and lots of explosions) all piled up on top of one another, until you don’t know whether to look for more trouble out the airlock or the cargo bay doors. When things look hopeless, you join Tayne in his prayers to his Fire god.
The infrastructure in terms of real estate, planets, cities, and Gadgets that Do Things, is solid. When airships shudder under fire and things start popping out of cubbyholes and rolling around, you can feel the mayhem and panic. There is some exposition, but none of it gets in the way of the story. Tayne carries around his religion; it’s odd, not gonna lie, but it’s important to who he is, less so to the story although it does pop up. Maybe more in future books, pretty certain that’s a guarantee.
I’m off to start Book Two. For more explosions
Introducing Tayne, our human starship captain, a 500 year old Guild member who has inherited The Firestorm. And Ri, the AI who runs the ship ... until she shuts itself down in a fit of remorse. They’re “finders” … like bounty hunters, but more polite.
Tayne signs on to find an item for the galaxy’s wealthiest person, but the catch is that he has to take on a couple of partners, a thing he’d like marginally more than toe fungus.
The Kyletite, Rath,is a psychopath. She’s a hell of a pilot, a crack sharpshooter, a strategist beyond compare and has uncanny racial abilities. All of those things are great if she’s on your team … Tayne is pretty sure she isn’t.
The Chubwubber, Hoogris, thinks humans are like the cheezies in a dish of nuts and bolts ... best eaten fresh. There’s a couple of screws rattling around loose in his upstairs cavity, but as long as Tayne keeps a hand on his holster, things should be good, right?
Fuller has his characterizations down pretty well. These people are all fully-fleshed with their quirks and tics. There’s a surprise character waiting for you a little further in, but I won’t spoil the fun. The bad guys, while leering and slightly cheesy when they need to be, can also come across as sincere and trustworthy.
The plotting is wonderful and timed so, so well. As with any space opera, there are battles and things that happen in battles (like explosions, lots and lots of explosions) all piled up on top of one another, until you don’t know whether to look for more trouble out the airlock or the cargo bay doors. When things look hopeless, you join Tayne in his prayers to his Fire god.
The infrastructure in terms of real estate, planets, cities, and Gadgets that Do Things, is solid. When airships shudder under fire and things start popping out of cubbyholes and rolling around, you can feel the mayhem and panic. There is some exposition, but none of it gets in the way of the story. Tayne carries around his religion; it’s odd, not gonna lie, but it’s important to who he is, less so to the story although it does pop up. Maybe more in future books, pretty certain that’s a guarantee.
I’m off to start Book Two. For more explosions
March 20, 2022
Donut
Five star rating would have been my choice but for one thing. One thing I find hard to dismiss. Why do authors always make the, and I use the term loosely, hero into a stumbling idiot. There is no suggestion that he should come out of any fight unscathed. But it becomes rapidly boring when the main character always comes worse off and near death every time he gets I to a scrape.
The story is interesting, but not overly exciting. Many locations and some adventure. Two really great characters are the Chubberwubber and the cat, love the cat. Followed by Ri the cantankerous ship AI. Perhaps the next book will see some redemption with the New captain.
Five star rating would have been my choice but for one thing. One thing I find hard to dismiss. Why do authors always make the, and I use the term loosely, hero into a stumbling idiot. There is no suggestion that he should come out of any fight unscathed. But it becomes rapidly boring when the main character always comes worse off and near death every time he gets I to a scrape.
The story is interesting, but not overly exciting. Many locations and some adventure. Two really great characters are the Chubberwubber and the cat, love the cat. Followed by Ri the cantankerous ship AI. Perhaps the next book will see some redemption with the New captain.
March 6, 2023
Enjoyable sci fi adventure with some fantasy elements
The worldbuilding is interesting, the characters kept me guessing and entertained, and the story is intense. There is graphic, and sometimes gruesome, violence. Cat, Ri, and the spider cams are great. Tayne needs therapy, but what main character doesn't?
The worldbuilding is interesting, the characters kept me guessing and entertained, and the story is intense. There is graphic, and sometimes gruesome, violence. Cat, Ri, and the spider cams are great. Tayne needs therapy, but what main character doesn't?
January 10, 2023
Interesting and fun book. The plot is good with lots of twists and really good descriptions of the characters and the different life forms. The subplots made for a richer story. I really like how Tayne was doing his best to live by the teachings of his beliefs. This is a good escapist a read.
February 21, 2022
Thoroughly enjoyable
I enjoyed the thrill ride front to back. The writing was a bit simplistic but the story itself more than made up for it. I'm moving on to the 2nd book asap.
I enjoyed the thrill ride front to back. The writing was a bit simplistic but the story itself more than made up for it. I'm moving on to the 2nd book asap.
February 23, 2022
Quite a far fetched tale
I found this book quite interesting and very amusing with some ingenious and twists and turns I look forward to reading the next adventure
I found this book quite interesting and very amusing with some ingenious and twists and turns I look forward to reading the next adventure
February 19, 2023
A very enjoyable read - Tayne could run through a feed lot and come out the other side clean.
December 29, 2023
Quite an imaginative sci-fi story
Really fascinating world-building combined with intriguing characters and a fast-paced plot. Quite enjoyable. Looking forward to the next book 😁
Really fascinating world-building combined with intriguing characters and a fast-paced plot. Quite enjoyable. Looking forward to the next book 😁
June 1, 2023
Okay, a few slow spots.
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