★★★★★ "Highly imaginative, intense, adventurous, and fun!" - Reader Review ___ Aliens have invaded Earth and the fate of all humankind is not about an endless war against the countless hostile aliens and mutant species, but something far worse! Death arenas, killer drones and new planets are only the beginning... While they search for a new home - a new Earth, the few humans that have survived are fending for themselves in a hostile world. Outnumbered and outgunned by the drones and human hunters sent by the Grey Ones, they must use all of their cunning and wits to survive. One renegade fighter with an unlikely crew, and an aging ship the Avalon are all that stands between humanity and its destruction! Ready for epic space battles, killer drones and mutant species? Then click the BUY NOW button at the top and join the fight for humanity's survival!
J.C. Moore has worked as a bartender, IT tech, touring musician, horse farm manager, and for one ill-fated season, ran a restaurant (the health inspector survived). His songs have turned up in TV and film, but these days his stories are more likely to end up in your hands than on your playlist.
He writes thrillers that dig into ordinary lives turned upside down. Secrets From a Serial Killer pulls readers into a small town hiding big secrets. Dead Man’s Payback follows Frank Mallory, a man who discovers that grief and vengeance can be two sides of the same coin.
Moore’s characters are rarely superheroes—they’re people with regrets, bad decisions, and just enough fight left to make things interesting.
He lives in upstate New York, where the roads disappear into woods, the neighbors wave from porches, and story ideas have a habit of following him home.
I read this before and posted a review, but Amazon ignored me (not for the first time)!!
I hope this was written in a tongue-in-cheek style because it presents itself as a homage to pulpy 1950s sci-fi stories, which would now be quite kitsch and representative of a golden age. You have to read it in the style that it’s trying to portray.
If that’s the case then this is a good story, with plenty of action and adventure (kind of reminded me of Flash Gordon, which was actually a movie serial in the 1930s and not a series of books).
There doesn’t seem to be any mention of this being part 1 of a bigger series, so to end on a cliff-hanger was a surprise.
This book was a really cool idea. It was like hunger games meets ready player one.
Then with some magic added in.
The main characters are likable and relatable. And the idea behind the elimination drones was pretty cool. A future of endless more and annihilation. I was always a big fan of those old-school dime store Alien books, and this is reminiscent of that awesome old nostalgia.