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Zenophobia #6
Emancipation
The final volume of this exciting all-new Zenophobia trilogy! Publisher's The issues in the first downloaded copy have been rectified with a new upload. If you downloaded a bad copy, force an update on your Kindle and that will take care of it. Our apologies for any consternation this may have caused.
Time’s run out for the zenos of Hinteran space. The devourers from the Pacjolal disc world have come to ravage every world, strip them of their resources. A merciless, all-consuming enemy which cannot be reasoned with. Even with the combined space fleets of Oterosan, Angelos, Medvegrad, and Cornelior working together, there doesn’t seem to be much hope of repelling the semi-intelligent machines.
But Sankar—the Heretic of Oterosan—has finally established contact with forces from Earth! Or at least, a Confederation of colonies descended from Earth long past. They aren’t the near-omnipotent people Sankar had secretly hoped, but they might be Sankar’s best and only allies against the machine menace which threatens to devour the zeno universe whole.
Meanwhile, the civil war on Golongal has exploded, with Arbai and her villainous crew threatening to destroy the planet, lest they forfeit it to Junak and the crew of the Bilkinmore, who’re determined to drive Arbai from her throne of power, and liberate the Golongans from tyranny. But can they do it in the midst of a galactic cataclysm? What hope does a single, fledgling planet have against a foe which only sees Golongal as raw material?
This is the ultimate entry in the Zenophobia saga! With Sankar and the Veracity Corporation facing impossible odds, their success means an exciting epoch of galactic exploration, breaking the boundaries of Hinteran space, and bringing all of the worlds into a new era of understand and prosperity. Their failure means the loss of every planet, and every zeno.
The stakes are epic. Read it today.
Time’s run out for the zenos of Hinteran space. The devourers from the Pacjolal disc world have come to ravage every world, strip them of their resources. A merciless, all-consuming enemy which cannot be reasoned with. Even with the combined space fleets of Oterosan, Angelos, Medvegrad, and Cornelior working together, there doesn’t seem to be much hope of repelling the semi-intelligent machines.
But Sankar—the Heretic of Oterosan—has finally established contact with forces from Earth! Or at least, a Confederation of colonies descended from Earth long past. They aren’t the near-omnipotent people Sankar had secretly hoped, but they might be Sankar’s best and only allies against the machine menace which threatens to devour the zeno universe whole.
Meanwhile, the civil war on Golongal has exploded, with Arbai and her villainous crew threatening to destroy the planet, lest they forfeit it to Junak and the crew of the Bilkinmore, who’re determined to drive Arbai from her throne of power, and liberate the Golongans from tyranny. But can they do it in the midst of a galactic cataclysm? What hope does a single, fledgling planet have against a foe which only sees Golongal as raw material?
This is the ultimate entry in the Zenophobia saga! With Sankar and the Veracity Corporation facing impossible odds, their success means an exciting epoch of galactic exploration, breaking the boundaries of Hinteran space, and bringing all of the worlds into a new era of understand and prosperity. Their failure means the loss of every planet, and every zeno.
The stakes are epic. Read it today.
267 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 31, 2022
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I see my other lives, a career in the Marines, those damn hand-written tests in law school, a business consultant, as if they're stories from a book. I see my books as if I lived there, as if I were friends with the characters. All things we remember are behind us, only those we imagine lie before.
I'm not sure which place I prefer, but I don't have to choose. They live together in my mind. My books have some award nominations, they have bestseller tags across multiple countries. I write about justice, honor, and loyalty because that's what I care about. My stories are mostly set within worlds that haven't been, but could be. We have to be ready for when those times come.
No matter where I went, I always had a book with me. Thanks to 21st Century technology, I now have hundreds of books loaded on my phone and always with me. This breakthrough allows me to binge read my favorites. How many books would I have read on deployments had I not had to have a physical book with me? I paced myself so I wouldn't finish too quickly.
We aren't encumbered like that now. I love the works of Robert Heinlein, Anne McCaffrey, JRR Tolkien, Robert E. Howard, and so many more. I have been compared to Andre Norton and that is humbling - she was an incredible author with a huge list of novels to her credit. With every new book, I aspire to live up to those that you, the readers, have compared me to.
Through a bizarre series of events, I ended up in Fairbanks, Alaska. I never expected to retire to a place where golf courses are only open for four months out of the year. But that's the way it is. It is off the beaten path. My wife and I get to watch the northern lights from our driveway. Our dog has lots of room to run. And temperatures reach fifty below zero. We have from three and a half hours of daylight in the winter to twenty-four hours in the summer.
It's all part of the give and take of life. If we didn't have those extremes, then everyone would live in the sub-arctic.
I see my other lives, a career in the Marines, those damn hand-written tests in law school, a business consultant, as if they're stories from a book. I see my books as if I lived there, as if I were friends with the characters. All things we remember are behind us, only those we imagine lie before.
I'm not sure which place I prefer, but I don't have to choose. They live together in my mind. My books have some award nominations, they have bestseller tags across multiple countries. I write about justice, honor, and loyalty because that's what I care about. My stories are mostly set within worlds that haven't been, but could be. We have to be ready for when those times come.
No matter where I went, I always had a book with me. Thanks to 21st Century technology, I now have hundreds of books loaded on my phone and always with me. This breakthrough allows me to binge read my favorites. How many books would I have read on deployments had I not had to have a physical book with me? I paced myself so I wouldn't finish too quickly.
We aren't encumbered like that now. I love the works of Robert Heinlein, Anne McCaffrey, JRR Tolkien, Robert E. Howard, and so many more. I have been compared to Andre Norton and that is humbling - she was an incredible author with a huge list of novels to her credit. With every new book, I aspire to live up to those that you, the readers, have compared me to.
Through a bizarre series of events, I ended up in Fairbanks, Alaska. I never expected to retire to a place where golf courses are only open for four months out of the year. But that's the way it is. It is off the beaten path. My wife and I get to watch the northern lights from our driveway. Our dog has lots of room to run. And temperatures reach fifty below zero. We have from three and a half hours of daylight in the winter to twenty-four hours in the summer.
It's all part of the give and take of life. If we didn't have those extremes, then everyone would live in the sub-arctic.
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February 15, 2024
The sixth and final entry of Craig Martelle and Brad R. Torgersen’s Zenophobia series opens with a pre-prologue excerpt where Sankar, the Tigroid protagonist of the entire saga, recovers an old computer archive. The following prologue sees a robotic Swarm moving through outer space, with the main chapters seeing Sankar conversing with Colonel Callahan, a member of the fabled Ur-Race, who knows humans will be surprised by the existence of the zenos. Callahan provides his fleet of Confederation vessels, which Sankar’s love interest, Ausha, fears will conquer the zenos, regardless of whether they win the war against the forthcoming machines.
An outpost in the middle of space has zenos from the primary races in living conditions divergent from those on their homeworld, which the Devourers target. The adversarial Direwolf damages the Bilkinmore while the machines attack the Golongals on their homeworld. Sankar ultimately finds himself in alien surroundings, with a mystical cute responding to one’s genetic makeup introduced as a MacGuffin. A brief focus goes on an elderly Golongan woman named Bela (alternatively spelled Bella), who became tired of the Oligarchy and the Families, consequentially coming out of retirement.
Dekron becomes a notable enemy in the latter half of the novel as a female named Diio survives the wreck of the Direwolf when it crash-lands. Ausha, Sankar, and a random stranger named Zee find themselves in a collapsing building, having to deal with Dekron, who pleads for his life. One chapter features Maglor the Goroid surveying the decimated colony of Ommo and expressing his love for Olympus Alloy. On Golongal, Cho-Ma Continent’s Army contingent defects to the Golongan Peoples Revolution, while the stranded Diio tries to find help by taking another spaceship she happens to find.
Back to Dekron, he yearns to prevent his enemies from escaping, having his subservient robots chase them. Diio finds herself in the darkness, hearing a transmission implying that Ocklar could be going through torture. The fate of the Direwolf is settled, with Sankar and Zee rushing through the capital city of the planet Artemis IV, with Ausha’s life imperiled, but the cube is her possible salvation. A moment of limbo comes for Sankar, who eventually meets Pacjolal, after which the war against the machines concludes. The epilogue sees Sankar and Ausha on Earth, walking along a beach.
After finishing this series, I can honestly say that it fell short of my expectations since while I usually enjoy novels starring animal characters, all six stories suffer from most of the pitfalls that plague literature of its kind. That the collection doesn’t utilize the Kindle X-Ray feature greatly mars the experience, given the near-total absence of reminders of the species of the various characters or various terms and entities, along with the constant leap in perspectives within the same chapters. In the end, Emancipation is an appropriate title for the conclusion of the Zenophobia saga since I am glad to be free from reading it and will happily avoid anything the authors have written or will write in the future.
An outpost in the middle of space has zenos from the primary races in living conditions divergent from those on their homeworld, which the Devourers target. The adversarial Direwolf damages the Bilkinmore while the machines attack the Golongals on their homeworld. Sankar ultimately finds himself in alien surroundings, with a mystical cute responding to one’s genetic makeup introduced as a MacGuffin. A brief focus goes on an elderly Golongan woman named Bela (alternatively spelled Bella), who became tired of the Oligarchy and the Families, consequentially coming out of retirement.
Dekron becomes a notable enemy in the latter half of the novel as a female named Diio survives the wreck of the Direwolf when it crash-lands. Ausha, Sankar, and a random stranger named Zee find themselves in a collapsing building, having to deal with Dekron, who pleads for his life. One chapter features Maglor the Goroid surveying the decimated colony of Ommo and expressing his love for Olympus Alloy. On Golongal, Cho-Ma Continent’s Army contingent defects to the Golongan Peoples Revolution, while the stranded Diio tries to find help by taking another spaceship she happens to find.
Back to Dekron, he yearns to prevent his enemies from escaping, having his subservient robots chase them. Diio finds herself in the darkness, hearing a transmission implying that Ocklar could be going through torture. The fate of the Direwolf is settled, with Sankar and Zee rushing through the capital city of the planet Artemis IV, with Ausha’s life imperiled, but the cube is her possible salvation. A moment of limbo comes for Sankar, who eventually meets Pacjolal, after which the war against the machines concludes. The epilogue sees Sankar and Ausha on Earth, walking along a beach.
After finishing this series, I can honestly say that it fell short of my expectations since while I usually enjoy novels starring animal characters, all six stories suffer from most of the pitfalls that plague literature of its kind. That the collection doesn’t utilize the Kindle X-Ray feature greatly mars the experience, given the near-total absence of reminders of the species of the various characters or various terms and entities, along with the constant leap in perspectives within the same chapters. In the end, Emancipation is an appropriate title for the conclusion of the Zenophobia saga since I am glad to be free from reading it and will happily avoid anything the authors have written or will write in the future.
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August 27, 2025A fun & exciting series!
I'll miss these people you've shared. Fine people you've designed & made into friends. These were glorious worlds to explore & admire.
Thank you both for sharing this story about some wonderful young folks who just want everyone to get along, but understand how difficult it is to do so. Keep writing gentlemen. I'll keep reading your stories.
I'll miss these people you've shared. Fine people you've designed & made into friends. These were glorious worlds to explore & admire.
Thank you both for sharing this story about some wonderful young folks who just want everyone to get along, but understand how difficult it is to do so. Keep writing gentlemen. I'll keep reading your stories.
January 13, 2023
WOW!
Great series , very unique premise, while also dealing with current problems. Will definitely follow this author in the future. Thank you for a great read!
Great series , very unique premise, while also dealing with current problems. Will definitely follow this author in the future. Thank you for a great read!
February 20, 2025
nice ending
Whole series was a good read. I enjoyed it. Like the many races, the technology did get in the way.
Whole series was a good read. I enjoyed it. Like the many races, the technology did get in the way.
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