Emergence

Polecat Protocol #3

by John M. Olsen

Jericho Jackson has some difficult choices to make. He controls a motley fleet of cargo jump ships with nowhere to go, and has a fledgling colony to protect from discovery.
Shanna Percival (now Shanna Jackson) hopes to solve their problems with information gleaned from the Polecat Protocol archive, suspecting it has yet to give up its greatest secrets. Curiosity can be its own reward, but she needs answers.
Military deserters would kill for Jericho’s stockpile of jump-ship fuel, and there is nowhere to hide.

246 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 22, 2023

About the author

John M. Olsen uses writing to harness his burning desire to create, hoping to entertain and enlighten others as well as himself. A love of stories about ordinary people stepping up to extraordinary circumstances permeates his writing. He approaches writing and editing like he approaches his secret lair full of dangerous power tools (aka wood shop), hoping to create something new and interesting with each new project.

As the 2020-2021 President of the League of Utah Writers and as a speaker at several conferences and conventions, he helps other writers to identify and reach their goals to improve and succeed at their craft.

John lives in Utah with his lovely wife and a variable number of mostly grown children and a constantly changing subset of extended family.

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Reviews

[Karina Fabian · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book

This is book 3 and gets back to what I loved about book 1: exciting scenes, great ideas, interesting science. Highly recommend.

[Chuck Woodbury · Rating 5 out of 5]

loved the series

In book one we meet a group of miners light years from home extracting an extremely valuable and energy rich material called Poly. It’s a lucrative job and takes a high degree of skill. Nefarious elements steal the ore and destroy the mining station and leave the miners to die. The miners prevail but are stranded far from home. Interesting premise and engineering skills save the miners from disaster.

In book 2, the miners use the poly and a high tech fabrication machine to build a ship to get them home. They have long been declared dead though and the homecoming has complications. Poly production has collapsed and earth is dependent on it for everything.

In book three the miners have escaped earth and are trying to survive on one of the colony worlds while using their poly reserve and engineering skills to side the colonists.

I love the world building here and how advanced fabrication tech in the hands of some brilliant engineers save the day. Great story and characters you can root for. I hope there is more stories to come, would love to see where they all are in a few years.

[Dr susan]

Great sci fi adventure

The worldbuilding is excellent and believable, Jericho and his extended family are fascinating characters, and the story is engrossing. I admit I skimmed some of the technical discussions, but they were well-written and understandable. Emergence felt like a series conclusion with multiple story arcs finished, but I would enjoy reading about the group's further adventures.

[Bob · Rating 4 out of 5]

A bit of a slow start, and an abrupt ending. Yet, the ending was partially revealed, so it fit well. The beginning's slowness was like a transition from the earlier novels, but there wasn't sufficient connection until later in the story. There was plenty of action, including use of the protocol, in the rest of the story to make up for those minor distractions.

[Jude · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well done.

This series was a wonderful read. Well written with good character development. Rated PG, no sex involved. I liked the authors writing style and it was well edited.