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Post Contact: First Days
Today a new order is forming across the galaxy. Will humanity be at its centre or lost as victims of change?
A chance encounter offers humanity the opportunity to instantly progress from moon shots to galactic travel. But the exciting opportunity comes with a heavy responsibility that humanity may not be able to bear. As Earth balances on the cusp of a brilliant and unexpected future, age-old human failings assert themselves when greed, betrayal and violence undermine everything.
Even as Earth’s leaders fumble humanity’s greatest opportunity, first contactors Steph Simpson and Jamie MacAulay rally a few good people to join with the last remnant of an ancient species and face out to the galaxy with its unknown challenges.
How much punishment can humanity bear?
A chance encounter offers humanity the opportunity to instantly progress from moon shots to galactic travel. But the exciting opportunity comes with a heavy responsibility that humanity may not be able to bear. As Earth balances on the cusp of a brilliant and unexpected future, age-old human failings assert themselves when greed, betrayal and violence undermine everything.
Even as Earth’s leaders fumble humanity’s greatest opportunity, first contactors Steph Simpson and Jamie MacAulay rally a few good people to join with the last remnant of an ancient species and face out to the galaxy with its unknown challenges.
How much punishment can humanity bear?
- GenresScience Fiction
376 pages, Kindle Edition
Published October 30, 2022
29 people are currently reading
7 people want to read
About the author
D.C. Macey
8 books40 followersD. C. Macey is an author and lecturer based in the United Kingdom.
A first career in the Merchant Navy saw Macey’s early working life devoted to travelling the globe. In the process, it gave him an introduction to the mad mix of beauty, kindness, cruelty and inequality that is the human experience everywhere. Between every frantic coastal encounter was a trip across the ocean, which brought the contrast of tranquil moments and offered time for reading, writing and reflection.
Those roving days came to a close, however, with Macey serving as a ship’s officer in the North Sea oil industry.
Several years working in business made it apparent that Macey’s greatest commercial skill was the ability to convert tenners into fivers, effortlessly and unerringly – a skill that ensured Macey had the unwelcome experience of encountering those darker aspects of life that lie beneath the veneer of our developed world and brought fleeting glimpses into the shadows where bad things lurk.
Eventually, life’s turbulence, domestic tragedy and impending poverty demanded a change of course. As a result, more recent years have been spent in the academic world lecturing and producing predominantly corporate media resources, the resultant stability allowing the time and opportunity to return to the written word.
In the current year, Macey has surrendered his lecturing role entirely, stepping away from academia to focus exclusively on his writing.
A first career in the Merchant Navy saw Macey’s early working life devoted to travelling the globe. In the process, it gave him an introduction to the mad mix of beauty, kindness, cruelty and inequality that is the human experience everywhere. Between every frantic coastal encounter was a trip across the ocean, which brought the contrast of tranquil moments and offered time for reading, writing and reflection.
Those roving days came to a close, however, with Macey serving as a ship’s officer in the North Sea oil industry.
Several years working in business made it apparent that Macey’s greatest commercial skill was the ability to convert tenners into fivers, effortlessly and unerringly – a skill that ensured Macey had the unwelcome experience of encountering those darker aspects of life that lie beneath the veneer of our developed world and brought fleeting glimpses into the shadows where bad things lurk.
Eventually, life’s turbulence, domestic tragedy and impending poverty demanded a change of course. As a result, more recent years have been spent in the academic world lecturing and producing predominantly corporate media resources, the resultant stability allowing the time and opportunity to return to the written word.
In the current year, Macey has surrendered his lecturing role entirely, stepping away from academia to focus exclusively on his writing.
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September 1, 2023
Not What I Expected
This book starts out strong and follows the expected path, fairly complex with multiple conflicting story threads. Reasonable character and plot development. About 40% in though, it starts adding in “hand-wavium” technology with minimal explanation, even for the aspects which become primary influences later in the story. I generally have no issues with sci-fi technology even when it is mostly of the “deus ex machina” variety, but the vacuous nature to the background storyline and a lack of definition for a primary plot function finally pushed me out of the narrative at 82%.
This book starts out strong and follows the expected path, fairly complex with multiple conflicting story threads. Reasonable character and plot development. About 40% in though, it starts adding in “hand-wavium” technology with minimal explanation, even for the aspects which become primary influences later in the story. I generally have no issues with sci-fi technology even when it is mostly of the “deus ex machina” variety, but the vacuous nature to the background storyline and a lack of definition for a primary plot function finally pushed me out of the narrative at 82%.
March 7, 2024
The book started well, although it seemed to take forever for the author to get Weeman to explain to Jamie and Steph what was going on and why they were taken, perhaps this was just me being impatient.
However as the story progresses I found it just felt 'off'. Weeman’s explanation of all the Alien activity throughout the Galaxy didn’t really make sense.
Also the US agents Rivers and Swires were really caricatures and only an idiot would not have dealt with them earlier in the project.
By halfway the story had degenerated into political chaos and the original purpose of finding out what was happening to Weeman’s ships hadn’t progressed. This might be want the author wanted to write, but it wasn’t what I was hoping to read.
However as the story progresses I found it just felt 'off'. Weeman’s explanation of all the Alien activity throughout the Galaxy didn’t really make sense.
Also the US agents Rivers and Swires were really caricatures and only an idiot would not have dealt with them earlier in the project.
By halfway the story had degenerated into political chaos and the original purpose of finding out what was happening to Weeman’s ships hadn’t progressed. This might be want the author wanted to write, but it wasn’t what I was hoping to read.
March 14, 2024
Multiple plots, plenty of non stop action, very little fluff
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