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Gate Ghosts #6
Alien Intrigue
The Imperium executors are incensed. They thought to expel the empire’s invaders in a massive onslaught of powerful battleship fleets, the peacekeepers, but the attack failed miserably. Blame is tossed among the assembly. The primary antagonist of the presiding executor, Dakargk, sees an opportunity to oust the leader, Rebtar, in the upcoming election.
Thanks to the conclave, the Helgart dissidents are free. Except, they’re still confined to the warrens of Helgart, a lifeless planet. The joy of liberation fades, to be replaced by the unbearable realization that they will never see their home worlds again.
A dissident leader, Kelter, succumbs to depression, and the protectors find that unacceptable. Kelter, a Gorder, is trapped in the warrens’ limited spaces. There’s no place for him to spread his giant wings, much less soar high into the sky.
The SADE, Z, extracts Kelter from the warrens and transports him to Omnia to regain his strength. He intends to deliver Kelter to Jumanus. The conclave fleet waits in this system, where the Radag warriors, the Imperium’s dreaded mercenaries, were defeated.
Tocknicka, the commander of Outpost Union located at Helgart, sees the need to continue what Z has started. He decides to insert a second dissident, Baltart, into his home world, Vokslem. Unfortunately, Imperium Executor Dakargk perceives the possibility of a third system succumbing to the conclave. He plans a trap, which Tocknicka’s team encounters.
Thanks to the conclave, the Helgart dissidents are free. Except, they’re still confined to the warrens of Helgart, a lifeless planet. The joy of liberation fades, to be replaced by the unbearable realization that they will never see their home worlds again.
A dissident leader, Kelter, succumbs to depression, and the protectors find that unacceptable. Kelter, a Gorder, is trapped in the warrens’ limited spaces. There’s no place for him to spread his giant wings, much less soar high into the sky.
The SADE, Z, extracts Kelter from the warrens and transports him to Omnia to regain his strength. He intends to deliver Kelter to Jumanus. The conclave fleet waits in this system, where the Radag warriors, the Imperium’s dreaded mercenaries, were defeated.
Tocknicka, the commander of Outpost Union located at Helgart, sees the need to continue what Z has started. He decides to insert a second dissident, Baltart, into his home world, Vokslem. Unfortunately, Imperium Executor Dakargk perceives the possibility of a third system succumbing to the conclave. He plans a trap, which Tocknicka’s team encounters.
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435 pages, Kindle Edition
First published October 4, 2022
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About the author
S.H. Jucha
45 books472 followersFrom my early years to the present, books have been a refuge. They’ve fueled my imagination. I’ve traveled to faraway places and met aliens with Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke, Herbert, and Le Guin. I’ve explored historical events with Michener and Clavell, and I played spy with Ludlum and Fleming.
There’s no doubt that the early sci-fi masters influenced the writing of my first two series, The Silver Ships and Pyreans. I crafted my stories to give readers intimate views of my characters, who wrestle with the challenges of living in space and inhabiting alien worlds.
Life is rarely easy for these characters, who encounter aliens and calamities, but they persist and flourish. I revel in examining humankind’s will to survive. Not everyone plays fair or exhibits concern for other beings, but that’s another aspect of humans and aliens that I investigate.
My stories offer hope for humans today about what they might accomplish tomorrow far from our home world. Throughout my books, humans exhibit a will to persevere, without detriment to the vast majority of others.
Readers have been generous with their comments, which they’ve left on Amazon and Goodreads for others to review. I truly enjoy what I do, and I’m pleased to read how my stories have positively affected many readers’ lives.
If you’ve read my books, please consider posting a review on Amazon and Goodreads for every book, even a short one. Reviews attract other readers and are a great help to indie authors, such as me.
The Silver Ships novels have reached Amazon’s coveted #1 and #2 Best-Selling Sci-Fi book, multiple times, in the science fiction categories of first contact, space opera, and alien invasion.
There’s no doubt that the early sci-fi masters influenced the writing of my first two series, The Silver Ships and Pyreans. I crafted my stories to give readers intimate views of my characters, who wrestle with the challenges of living in space and inhabiting alien worlds.
Life is rarely easy for these characters, who encounter aliens and calamities, but they persist and flourish. I revel in examining humankind’s will to survive. Not everyone plays fair or exhibits concern for other beings, but that’s another aspect of humans and aliens that I investigate.
My stories offer hope for humans today about what they might accomplish tomorrow far from our home world. Throughout my books, humans exhibit a will to persevere, without detriment to the vast majority of others.
Readers have been generous with their comments, which they’ve left on Amazon and Goodreads for others to review. I truly enjoy what I do, and I’m pleased to read how my stories have positively affected many readers’ lives.
If you’ve read my books, please consider posting a review on Amazon and Goodreads for every book, even a short one. Reviews attract other readers and are a great help to indie authors, such as me.
The Silver Ships novels have reached Amazon’s coveted #1 and #2 Best-Selling Sci-Fi book, multiple times, in the science fiction categories of first contact, space opera, and alien invasion.
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March 20, 2024
Alien Intrigue is book number six in the Gate Ghost Series. I have thoroughly enjoyed this series. I like that the author refers back to Alex from the Silver Ships Series. It is the basis for all these secondary series that are far into the future from the original series. The humans have passed on, but the SADAs continue to function and are carrying on Alex’s mission. If you are looking for a reasonable, exciting and easy to read science fiction series, please consider S. H. Jucha books.
I read this as an audiobook downloaded from Audible. The book is thirteen hours and twenty-five minutes. Nicole Poole does a good job narrating the series.
I read this as an audiobook downloaded from Audible. The book is thirteen hours and twenty-five minutes. Nicole Poole does a good job narrating the series.
August 3, 2024
Mildly-distracting, mediocre, monotonous, metronomic, melodrama.
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November 17, 2022Quite good!
October 16, 2022
excellent book
Excellent author, excellent series, excellent book. This book is a continuation of the Silver Ships series by this author. I recommend you read them first. It’ll give you inside information on the main hero who is Alex Racine of a past time in the Sades lives. The Sades are continuing Alex’s mission to help mankind further their technological development as well as helping mankind work together for the greater good. But of course their are always people, or other races who don’t agree with that and instead want to help themselves first. Excellent read with interesting characters. I love the entire series. I’ve reread them many times. Well worth your time getting involved with a future generation of humans.
Excellent author, excellent series, excellent book. This book is a continuation of the Silver Ships series by this author. I recommend you read them first. It’ll give you inside information on the main hero who is Alex Racine of a past time in the Sades lives. The Sades are continuing Alex’s mission to help mankind further their technological development as well as helping mankind work together for the greater good. But of course their are always people, or other races who don’t agree with that and instead want to help themselves first. Excellent read with interesting characters. I love the entire series. I’ve reread them many times. Well worth your time getting involved with a future generation of humans.
December 15, 2022
Felt like a checklist to Setup for Book 7
I've read and loved the Omnia series for years and I would say that this book feels like a giant effort to introduce plot points and quickly quickly quickly move the story forward. In some ways I appreciate that Jucha won't spend time talking about the minutia of space travel and will instead use two sentences to describe the trip - but with various speeds of space travel, wormholes, teleportation platforms, quantum coupled communication..I have no consistent idea of how much time has passed throughout these events.
Jucha also switches POVs without warning and with so many threads and plotlines up in the air, I get the sense that this was done to wrap up some story beats and ultimately move us toward the inevitable conflict.
I'm interested to see where this goes since for years Juhca has been hesitant to waste his characters on needless conflict and death, and they always use Biological ingenuity + SADE precision and otherworldly capabilities to get out of a situation. I did not feel any tension at all while reading this, and in many ways I'm hoping that this might be one of the FIRST times in years where the characters actually have to be morally grey and commit some war crimes.
Juhca's books are enjoyable (I've been reading them all this time, after all), so I'm interested to see if he has the chops to truly write a Space Opera.
Hope that this pays off in Book 7.
I've read and loved the Omnia series for years and I would say that this book feels like a giant effort to introduce plot points and quickly quickly quickly move the story forward. In some ways I appreciate that Jucha won't spend time talking about the minutia of space travel and will instead use two sentences to describe the trip - but with various speeds of space travel, wormholes, teleportation platforms, quantum coupled communication..I have no consistent idea of how much time has passed throughout these events.
Jucha also switches POVs without warning and with so many threads and plotlines up in the air, I get the sense that this was done to wrap up some story beats and ultimately move us toward the inevitable conflict.
I'm interested to see where this goes since for years Juhca has been hesitant to waste his characters on needless conflict and death, and they always use Biological ingenuity + SADE precision and otherworldly capabilities to get out of a situation. I did not feel any tension at all while reading this, and in many ways I'm hoping that this might be one of the FIRST times in years where the characters actually have to be morally grey and commit some war crimes.
Juhca's books are enjoyable (I've been reading them all this time, after all), so I'm interested to see if he has the chops to truly write a Space Opera.
Hope that this pays off in Book 7.
October 10, 2022
The Imperium is revealed as having teeth
The Conclave continues to out match the Imperium resulting in the THE SADES etc. becoming even more confident in their ability to handle whatever the Imperium throws at them. In the mean time it is revealed that even more effective technology has been ignored for years by the Imperium but in their desperation to halt the Conclave's advances they start developing what may very well give the Conclave serious problems in the future.
A far more realistic approach to the story is being developed, kudos to Jucha.
Would like to see the story include more character development for Escher, Ceda and the Mickies that we were introduced to in the first few books of the "Ghost Gates".
The Conclave continues to out match the Imperium resulting in the THE SADES etc. becoming even more confident in their ability to handle whatever the Imperium throws at them. In the mean time it is revealed that even more effective technology has been ignored for years by the Imperium but in their desperation to halt the Conclave's advances they start developing what may very well give the Conclave serious problems in the future.
A far more realistic approach to the story is being developed, kudos to Jucha.
Would like to see the story include more character development for Escher, Ceda and the Mickies that we were introduced to in the first few books of the "Ghost Gates".
November 5, 2022
Red sky in the morning
The saga continues with a trajectory of status. Dangerous is and dangerous does. Live free or die. Sometimes you think a little maple syrup would go a long way.
Sorry I think I've run out of syfi sayings. Have you ever noticed that that the quest for ultimate power leaves a wake of decay. You know that the conclave will not end the imperium. The imperium will end itself in a catastrophic mess. Hopefully the conclave will. Be smart enough to get out of the way,
The saga continues with a trajectory of status. Dangerous is and dangerous does. Live free or die. Sometimes you think a little maple syrup would go a long way.
Sorry I think I've run out of syfi sayings. Have you ever noticed that that the quest for ultimate power leaves a wake of decay. You know that the conclave will not end the imperium. The imperium will end itself in a catastrophic mess. Hopefully the conclave will. Be smart enough to get out of the way,
December 7, 2022
The saga continues in this installment with multiple story lines going at the same thing. The author is truly amazing to be able to write about multiple planets, multiple alien species, multiple space ships and multiple characters in the saga. The scope of the diversity of all of these is evident in the glossary at the end of the book (and all of the books in the saga). Its difficult to write a review summarizing the book because there is so much going on.
Its a great book and well worth the read.
Its a great book and well worth the read.
January 3, 2023
Good series
The Krackus continue to refuse to cooperate with the Sades and humans so the effort to control the different systems continues. The Sades are helping their new allies and they are making progress but still not all accept them. Hard to believe we are on book 6 already. I still wonder how many of the Sisters are really working with the Sades and how many are just biding their time.
The Krackus continue to refuse to cooperate with the Sades and humans so the effort to control the different systems continues. The Sades are helping their new allies and they are making progress but still not all accept them. Hard to believe we are on book 6 already. I still wonder how many of the Sisters are really working with the Sades and how many are just biding their time.
October 12, 2022
Fabulous
I've read this series from the beginning, one after the other and have enjoyed them totally. I was sorry to not see another book after this one. S. H. Jucha is an inventive and creative writer of my favorite genre.
I've read this series from the beginning, one after the other and have enjoyed them totally. I was sorry to not see another book after this one. S. H. Jucha is an inventive and creative writer of my favorite genre.
October 14, 2022
Thank you so much.
You gave me hope.
One day, Man will transcend its limitations guided by the gentle hands of sentient digital entities.
The future remain theirs.
The total merge between digital intelligence and Man must happen.
The New Man must be.
You gave me hope.
One day, Man will transcend its limitations guided by the gentle hands of sentient digital entities.
The future remain theirs.
The total merge between digital intelligence and Man must happen.
The New Man must be.
November 13, 2022
some unusual words that just don’t fit
The author uses words such as “opined”, it doesn’t fit the modern vernacular, especially of this genre. It sounds like it comes from a Bill O’Reily word of the day. Otherwise a good read!
The author uses words such as “opined”, it doesn’t fit the modern vernacular, especially of this genre. It sounds like it comes from a Bill O’Reily word of the day. Otherwise a good read!
November 22, 2022
More challenges from the Empire for our heroes to address.
From freeing the planet prisoners the Concave finds they have walked into a trap. Rescue is in order with more suited support to handle the other warrior race. Plans continue to defeat our hero's.
From freeing the planet prisoners the Concave finds they have walked into a trap. Rescue is in order with more suited support to handle the other warrior race. Plans continue to defeat our hero's.
October 18, 2022
Satisfying read
I have enjoyed the entire series. The continued storyline centuries after the events of the Silver Ships. Characters evolve yet the emotional feelings of being that character is very personal at times. I look forward to the next book.
I have enjoyed the entire series. The continued storyline centuries after the events of the Silver Ships. Characters evolve yet the emotional feelings of being that character is very personal at times. I look forward to the next book.
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November 13, 2022Great book and series.
Again excellent work by one of my favorite authors. These books would be great read alone but are so much better read as a series.
Again excellent work by one of my favorite authors. These books would be great read alone but are so much better read as a series.
December 3, 2022
Interesting shift at the end
One of the most interesting and human book from this series. The evolution of the Sisters is something to follow.
One of the most interesting and human book from this series. The evolution of the Sisters is something to follow.
December 19, 2022
Wow!
I believe I just spent the last couple of weeks reading a great new series by one of my favorite authors, S. H. Jucha. I only wish I could get the next one NOW!
I believe I just spent the last couple of weeks reading a great new series by one of my favorite authors, S. H. Jucha. I only wish I could get the next one NOW!
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