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Post Contact: Holding On
Outnumbered, unprepared, inexperienced: redemption or extinction?
Fierce adversity can bring out the best of human traits. Today it must. Through sweeping space battles to vicious hand to hand combat with cruel alien species, everywhere mankind is beset. Everywhere humanity’s remnant is desperately holding on. Stunned by Earth’s calamitous collapse, the few survivors are kept going only by a grim determination that humanity must continue.
With resources stretched thin as paper, they face daunting tasks. Against the clock, Professor Steph Simpson and her team struggle to unravel the puzzles of the new technology in a desperate race to rescue any who may survive on Earth.
That same technology is needed elsewhere to fend off terrifying alien attacks and fulfil the responsibilities that accompany the new technology.
Meanwhile, Jamie MacAulay is marooned, lost in the furthest reaches of the Orion Arm. He and his crew struggle amidst an alien nature and environment. Everywhere the threats grow, and everywhere the price of resistance rises.
Follow humanity’s journey to the edge in this second in series book, Post Contact: Holding On. This story can be read as a standalone, though some readers may like to begin with the first in series, Post Contact: First days as an introduction to the series and some of the continuing characters’ backgrounds. Then look out for the third in series, Post Contact: Breaking Back.
Fierce adversity can bring out the best of human traits. Today it must. Through sweeping space battles to vicious hand to hand combat with cruel alien species, everywhere mankind is beset. Everywhere humanity’s remnant is desperately holding on. Stunned by Earth’s calamitous collapse, the few survivors are kept going only by a grim determination that humanity must continue.
With resources stretched thin as paper, they face daunting tasks. Against the clock, Professor Steph Simpson and her team struggle to unravel the puzzles of the new technology in a desperate race to rescue any who may survive on Earth.
That same technology is needed elsewhere to fend off terrifying alien attacks and fulfil the responsibilities that accompany the new technology.
Meanwhile, Jamie MacAulay is marooned, lost in the furthest reaches of the Orion Arm. He and his crew struggle amidst an alien nature and environment. Everywhere the threats grow, and everywhere the price of resistance rises.
Follow humanity’s journey to the edge in this second in series book, Post Contact: Holding On. This story can be read as a standalone, though some readers may like to begin with the first in series, Post Contact: First days as an introduction to the series and some of the continuing characters’ backgrounds. Then look out for the third in series, Post Contact: Breaking Back.
282 pages, Paperback
Published November 29, 2022
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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