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Hellgate #4
Probe
Recovering from the events of Cry Liberty, Neil Travers and Curtis Marin are pleased to be mere spectators for a time ... but the scenes at which they are on the sidelines are beyond their imagination.
The super-carrier Shanghai has driven into the Deep Sky, poised for the invasion of Ulrand ... on Kjorin, Dario Sherratt believes he has discovered the key to the Zunshu stasis chamber ... in the storms of the Rabelais Drift, the Wastrel plays pool with cosmic forces ... in Marak ‘city bottom’, Vaurien and Jazinsky pit themselves against old enemies.
And Michael Vidal prepares to fly the mission of his life, into the dark heart of Hellgate. A place the Resalq call El’arne ... ‘The stormy side of the sky.’ Into this void, the explorer Ernst Rabelais vanished many years ago; and out of it, the Zunshu strike at the new human worlds as they once destroyed the Resalq...
For Travers and Marin, these are strange, bittersweet days, on one hand filled with self-discovery, on the other, shadowed by fear. They long for the so-called ‘Colonial Wars’ to be over, yet find themselves at the very crux of the danger, politics and intrigue as General Harrison Shapiro makes his gambit.
The stakes are the liberty and the survival of the Deep Sky.
The super-carrier Shanghai has driven into the Deep Sky, poised for the invasion of Ulrand ... on Kjorin, Dario Sherratt believes he has discovered the key to the Zunshu stasis chamber ... in the storms of the Rabelais Drift, the Wastrel plays pool with cosmic forces ... in Marak ‘city bottom’, Vaurien and Jazinsky pit themselves against old enemies.
And Michael Vidal prepares to fly the mission of his life, into the dark heart of Hellgate. A place the Resalq call El’arne ... ‘The stormy side of the sky.’ Into this void, the explorer Ernst Rabelais vanished many years ago; and out of it, the Zunshu strike at the new human worlds as they once destroyed the Resalq...
For Travers and Marin, these are strange, bittersweet days, on one hand filled with self-discovery, on the other, shadowed by fear. They long for the so-called ‘Colonial Wars’ to be over, yet find themselves at the very crux of the danger, politics and intrigue as General Harrison Shapiro makes his gambit.
The stakes are the liberty and the survival of the Deep Sky.
354 pages, ebook
First published January 1, 2006
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Mel Keegan
52 books71 followersA self-confessed science fiction and fantasy devotee, Keegan is known for novels across a wide range of subjects, from the historical to the future action-adventure. Mel lives in South Australia with an eccentric family and a variety of pets.
Every Mel Keegan book is strong on gay or bisexual heroes (also, often, on gay villains), and some of these heroes are the most delicious in fiction: Jarrat and Stone from the NARC series, Bill Ryan and Jim Hale from The Deceivers, Neil Travers and Curtis Marin from Hellgate, and many more unforgettable characters. Because Mel's books feature the same sex relationships, the partnership at the core of each book is integral: this is the relationship driving the story, and it can be very powerful indeed.
Every Mel Keegan book is strong on gay or bisexual heroes (also, often, on gay villains), and some of these heroes are the most delicious in fiction: Jarrat and Stone from the NARC series, Bill Ryan and Jim Hale from The Deceivers, Neil Travers and Curtis Marin from Hellgate, and many more unforgettable characters. Because Mel's books feature the same sex relationships, the partnership at the core of each book is integral: this is the relationship driving the story, and it can be very powerful indeed.
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December 12, 2013
Things are moving slowly but surely toward the grand confrontation - with Confederacy as well as Zunshu. And, I knew eventually someone had to die, but I was surprised how much the deaths of have shaken me. There is still a tiny, tiny hope for them, yet I'm not exactly holding my breath.
The story grows as well as characters, the science goes off all speculative charts and the Zunshu territory beacons with both dread and infinite possibilities. Who are the people (if they can even be defined that way) who conquered the wild powers of universe and destroy the entire civilizations with the impunity without once showing their faces? With the help gathered from Zunshu technology, the group around Marin and Traverse is approaching the answers. But, before that happens, our guys have to brave the Halfway. Maybe they manage to sneak the handfasting somewhere. ^^
The story grows as well as characters, the science goes off all speculative charts and the Zunshu territory beacons with both dread and infinite possibilities. Who are the people (if they can even be defined that way) who conquered the wild powers of universe and destroy the entire civilizations with the impunity without once showing their faces? With the help gathered from Zunshu technology, the group around Marin and Traverse is approaching the answers. But, before that happens, our guys have to brave the Halfway. Maybe they manage to sneak the handfasting somewhere. ^^
March 25, 2015
My full review of “Probe” can be found at my web site.
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