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Trinity #2
Trinity's Children
ONCE A DEFECTOR, NOW A LEADER, JARED CLEMENT MUST RISE TO THE OCCASION OR BE RESPONSIBLE FOR GENOCIDE
Jared Clement has returned to Trinity, not as a mere ship captain but as a Five Suns Fleet Admiral. With his promotion comes increased responsibility that weighs heavy on his 30,000 settlers are leaving the dying planets of the Rim, his home, and resettling next to the natives of the planet Bellus.
Clement is responsible for those lives and the lives of the natives, Trinity’s children, and for building a better future for them all. But when his migrant fleet arrives in the Trinity system, they are faced with enemies both old and new. Former Fleet Admiral Elara DeVore has escaped her exile on the planet Alphus and vanished into parts unknown. Soon, however, Clement discovers she has a new fleet and a new ally, the Solar League from Earth. The Solar League has arrived with a massive fleet and plans on taking Trinity for itself, forcing the Five Suns to surrender. With just a small military fleet to accompany the migrants, Clement is faced with the almost impossible task of defending both his people and the natives from becoming slaves of the Solar League.
About Trinity :
“[A] rousing. . . far-future tale, taking hard-drinking former Rim Confederacy Navy Capt. Jared Clement of the gunship Beauregard into a whopper of a galactic confrontation. . . . [with] Clement’s rebirth as an idealistic military commander, leading to breathless Horatio Hornblower–type ship-to-ship action updated into a Star Trek–like environment. . . [with] plenty of fun, derring-do, and even some tension-relieving fraternization will keep readers invested in Clement and crew. This is an entertaining escape from the here and now.”— Publishers Weekly
About Dave
“. . . fun, fast, and proper science fiction, where the stakes are big and things matter.”— New York Times best-selling author Simon R. Green on Dave Bara’s Lightship Chronicles Series
"A true talent in the genre, Bara brings a scope of imagination to his worlds, building them brick by brick in your mind and populating them with stalwart characters, men and women of action rather than words... If far-flung space opera is what you seek, Bara is the author for you."—Rick Partlow, bestselling author of the Drop Troopers series
“This energetic mélange of tried-and-true elements—futuristic jargon, military and romantic tactics, and multiple levels of skullduggery—easily grabs the reader’s attention; more impressive is that Bara’s story holds that attention all the way to the end.” — Publishers Weekly on The Lightship Chronicles Series
“Bara manages to ramp up the depth and complexity of his world while retaining that sense of excitement, suspense, and adventure.” — Barnes & Noble Sci Fi & Fantasy Blog
Jared Clement has returned to Trinity, not as a mere ship captain but as a Five Suns Fleet Admiral. With his promotion comes increased responsibility that weighs heavy on his 30,000 settlers are leaving the dying planets of the Rim, his home, and resettling next to the natives of the planet Bellus.
Clement is responsible for those lives and the lives of the natives, Trinity’s children, and for building a better future for them all. But when his migrant fleet arrives in the Trinity system, they are faced with enemies both old and new. Former Fleet Admiral Elara DeVore has escaped her exile on the planet Alphus and vanished into parts unknown. Soon, however, Clement discovers she has a new fleet and a new ally, the Solar League from Earth. The Solar League has arrived with a massive fleet and plans on taking Trinity for itself, forcing the Five Suns to surrender. With just a small military fleet to accompany the migrants, Clement is faced with the almost impossible task of defending both his people and the natives from becoming slaves of the Solar League.
About Trinity :
“[A] rousing. . . far-future tale, taking hard-drinking former Rim Confederacy Navy Capt. Jared Clement of the gunship Beauregard into a whopper of a galactic confrontation. . . . [with] Clement’s rebirth as an idealistic military commander, leading to breathless Horatio Hornblower–type ship-to-ship action updated into a Star Trek–like environment. . . [with] plenty of fun, derring-do, and even some tension-relieving fraternization will keep readers invested in Clement and crew. This is an entertaining escape from the here and now.”— Publishers Weekly
About Dave
“. . . fun, fast, and proper science fiction, where the stakes are big and things matter.”— New York Times best-selling author Simon R. Green on Dave Bara’s Lightship Chronicles Series
"A true talent in the genre, Bara brings a scope of imagination to his worlds, building them brick by brick in your mind and populating them with stalwart characters, men and women of action rather than words... If far-flung space opera is what you seek, Bara is the author for you."—Rick Partlow, bestselling author of the Drop Troopers series
“This energetic mélange of tried-and-true elements—futuristic jargon, military and romantic tactics, and multiple levels of skullduggery—easily grabs the reader’s attention; more impressive is that Bara’s story holds that attention all the way to the end.” — Publishers Weekly on The Lightship Chronicles Series
“Bara manages to ramp up the depth and complexity of his world while retaining that sense of excitement, suspense, and adventure.” — Barnes & Noble Sci Fi & Fantasy Blog
- GenresScience Fiction
288 pages, Paperback
Published November 1, 2022
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About the author
Dave Bara
13 books52 followersDave Bara was born at the dawn of the space age and grew up watching the Gemini and Apollo space programs on television. He dreamed of becoming an astronaut one day. This soon led him to an interest in science fiction, especially on television. His early years were filled with dozens of episodes of the original Star Trek, Lost in Space, The Outer Limits, and The Twilight Zone.
He began to read science fiction voraciously in his teens, with authors like Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Frederick Pohl, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Gordon Dickson, and Joe Haldeman being among his favorites. This led him to try his hand at writing, which he continued all through his college years, even using a novel project as part of his undergraduate degree studies. During these years the story concepts for what would become The Lightship Chronicles series began to take form.
Dave's writing is influenced by the many SF novels he has read over the years, but most notable were books like Dune (Herbert), The Mote In God's Eye (Niven and Pournelle), Dorsai! (Dickson), The Forever War (Haldeman), Tau Zero (Poul Anderson) and the Foundation novels (Asimov), among many others.
Dave looks forward to bringing SF fans many years of exciting and interesting writing, heroic characters, and soaring adventure in the years to come.
Look for IMPULSE: The Lightship Chronicles, Volume I on February 3, 2015 from DAW Books in the US and Del Rey Books in the UK and Europe. Volume II, STARBOUND, should be coming later in 2015.
He began to read science fiction voraciously in his teens, with authors like Isaac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Frederick Pohl, Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle, Gordon Dickson, and Joe Haldeman being among his favorites. This led him to try his hand at writing, which he continued all through his college years, even using a novel project as part of his undergraduate degree studies. During these years the story concepts for what would become The Lightship Chronicles series began to take form.
Dave's writing is influenced by the many SF novels he has read over the years, but most notable were books like Dune (Herbert), The Mote In God's Eye (Niven and Pournelle), Dorsai! (Dickson), The Forever War (Haldeman), Tau Zero (Poul Anderson) and the Foundation novels (Asimov), among many others.
Dave looks forward to bringing SF fans many years of exciting and interesting writing, heroic characters, and soaring adventure in the years to come.
Look for IMPULSE: The Lightship Chronicles, Volume I on February 3, 2015 from DAW Books in the US and Del Rey Books in the UK and Europe. Volume II, STARBOUND, should be coming later in 2015.
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September 28, 2022
I want to thank Baen marketing for providing me with a copy of this eARC in return for this review. Trinity's Children is the second in a series by Dave Bara, following the adventures of Jared Clement. I did not find it to be a problem that I had not read the previous book in the series, Trinity.
In Trinity's Children, Jared is now Admiral in the Five Suns Fleet, tasked with relocating 30,000 settlers (including his parents) from dying planets of the Rim, to a new paradise planet Bellus. Bellus has primitive natives, and Bara does not pretend there is not a potential conflict in such a setup. The resettlement of the Rim citizens is threatened by the appearance of a superior fleet from Earth's Solar League which wants to enslave the Trinity system, natives and settlers both.
Adding to the mix is the fact that the Solar League fleet is led by Clement's former lover. Clement is a military history reader, and the best part of the novel (for me) was the space battles and tactics which includes innovative, but potentially life threatening, use of new weapon and travel technology.
I found Trinity's Children to be an exciting read. I took a star off my rating because I felt the relationships between Clement and females to be a little stiff, and his parent's interactions with him to be annoying. Perhaps, however, this is just avreally accurate portrayal of a "stiff" military type and annoying families. I recommend you read Trinity's Children and decide for yourself. ; )
In Trinity's Children, Jared is now Admiral in the Five Suns Fleet, tasked with relocating 30,000 settlers (including his parents) from dying planets of the Rim, to a new paradise planet Bellus. Bellus has primitive natives, and Bara does not pretend there is not a potential conflict in such a setup. The resettlement of the Rim citizens is threatened by the appearance of a superior fleet from Earth's Solar League which wants to enslave the Trinity system, natives and settlers both.
Adding to the mix is the fact that the Solar League fleet is led by Clement's former lover. Clement is a military history reader, and the best part of the novel (for me) was the space battles and tactics which includes innovative, but potentially life threatening, use of new weapon and travel technology.
I found Trinity's Children to be an exciting read. I took a star off my rating because I felt the relationships between Clement and females to be a little stiff, and his parent's interactions with him to be annoying. Perhaps, however, this is just avreally accurate portrayal of a "stiff" military type and annoying families. I recommend you read Trinity's Children and decide for yourself. ; )
July 30, 2023
See my review of the prequel Trinity. I read this to see if things got better. Not really. Formulaic and no understanding of distances. Or, really, units. Ships going from .15C to a dead stop in five minutes at 2 Gs. Riiiight.
July 15, 2023
formulaic, good story but nothing beyond normal.
September 12, 2023
Good but not as good as the first book
February 17, 2024
Some great battle scenes.
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