Flight of the Medusa blends the meticulous realism of The Martian with the sweeping scope of Dune, an epic hard-SF adventure aboard a starship with no faster-than-light drive, no hibernation pods, and no generations to wait.
When the Kremkellic shoot thirteen-year-old Thristle, and she dies in Marsie's arms, Marsie vows to protect the refugee children at any cost. Now captain of a near-light-speed starship fleeing genocide, she must cross forty-two light-years to a human colony whose transmissions have fallen silent with a saboteur aboard, a pursuing fleet behind, and a secret that could destroy her daughter.
At Sarpedon, Rebel, a two-inch, donut-shaped alien, searches the ashes of her home for her surviving child. Her people communicate in sparkling pictures danced across thousands of limbs, think a hundred times faster than humans, and have made a catastrophic mistake: they don't realize the enormous, nearly motionless structures that descended from the sky are living creatures.
When Medusa reaches Sarpedon, refugees, colonists, and aliens separated by decades of silence, deception, and dangerous misunderstandings must find one another and discover the truth. No faster-than-light drive. No hibernation pods. No generations to wait. Captain Marsie Carlyle leads a starship of refugees across forty-two light-years toward a human colony whose transmissions have fallen silent. A pursuing fleet follows behind. A saboteur hides aboard. And Marsie’s promise to protect the refugee children may demand more than she can give.
At their destination, a two-inch alien searches the ashes of her home for her surviving child. Her people think a hundred times faster than humans and don’t realize that the enormous, nearly motionless structures descending from the sky are living creatures.
If you enjoy interstellar journeys, unusual alien civilizations, and survival stories grounded in real physics, I’d love for you to take a look.
Genre: Hard science fiction / first contact / space adventure Length: Approximately 203,000 words Format: Digital ARC through BookSirens https://booksirens.com/book/P98TU6F/E... Honest reviews are welcome and appreciated, but optional.
Hi everyone,
I’m offering free digital advance copies of my novel, Flight of the Medusa, through BookSirens.
Book Trailer:
https://youtu.be/11Ln7q_vqA4
Blurb:
Flight of the Medusa blends the meticulous realism of The Martian with the sweeping scope of Dune, an epic hard-SF adventure aboard a starship with no faster-than-light drive, no hibernation pods, and no generations to wait.
When the Kremkellic shoot thirteen-year-old Thristle, and she dies in Marsie's arms, Marsie vows to protect the refugee children at any cost. Now captain of a near-light-speed starship fleeing genocide, she must cross forty-two light-years to a human colony whose transmissions have fallen silent with a saboteur aboard, a pursuing fleet behind, and a secret that could destroy her daughter.
At Sarpedon, Rebel, a two-inch, donut-shaped alien, searches the ashes of her home for her surviving child. Her people communicate in sparkling pictures danced across thousands of limbs, think a hundred times faster than humans, and have made a catastrophic mistake: they don't realize the enormous, nearly motionless structures that descended from the sky are living creatures.
When Medusa reaches Sarpedon, refugees, colonists, and aliens separated by decades of silence, deception, and dangerous misunderstandings must find one another and discover the truth.
No faster-than-light drive. No hibernation pods. No generations to wait.
Captain Marsie Carlyle leads a starship of refugees across forty-two light-years toward a human colony whose transmissions have fallen silent. A pursuing fleet follows behind. A saboteur hides aboard. And Marsie’s promise to protect the refugee children may demand more than she can give.
At their destination, a two-inch alien searches the ashes of her home for her surviving child. Her people think a hundred times faster than humans and don’t realize that the enormous, nearly motionless structures descending from the sky are living creatures.
If you enjoy interstellar journeys, unusual alien civilizations, and survival stories grounded in real physics, I’d love for you to take a look.
Genre: Hard science fiction / first contact / space adventure
Length: Approximately 203,000 words
Format: Digital ARC through BookSirens
https://booksirens.com/book/P98TU6F/E...
Honest reviews are welcome and appreciated, but optional.
Thanks,
Jeff