Nova Edition, v2.5, "My sin is greater than yours. Millions are dying due to my recklessness, my arrogance. There is a place in hell where the devil has made a bed for me. I am most assuredly damned, Sir, but I will have this one thing, this last act of redemption. You will give me the coordinates of the jump-point, so that my friends might save the lives of the countless billions that will surely perish. YOU WILL ANSWER ME, DOCTOR!!!"
A chilling mystery from a colony out on the rim! Traveling the trade routes across the League of Worlds, a merchant vessel arrives at Madras, a world on the very fringe of colonized space. Fear mounts when the once-busy colony falls silent, refusing to respond to the usual hails. Bringing their ship planet-side, the crew is shocked to find the colony reduced to sand and its twenty thousand inhabitants missing. Eager to report the incident and leave the terrible puzzle behind, they are unaware that something has come back with them. Invisible, voracious, and relentless, it is a killer of worlds.
Join our hero, Finn Holt, the young and courageous Captain of the frigate, Ajax, as he receives orders to escort a Science Council vessel to investigate the decimated colony of Madras. A routine assignment quickly turns to horror when the magnitude of what is happening becomes clear. Disaster looms when he realizes the Ajax is contaminated and showing signs of a deadly transformation. As ship systems begin to fail and fear grips the crew, an impossible survivor arrives to tell his desperate story. 'The scourge,' he says, 'is spreading from colony to colony across the inner systems. Millions upon millions have already perished. All of humanity is at risk and time is running out.'
Come with Finn and the crew of the Ajax as they search for answers amidst an exploding chaos. In a horrific and mind-bending climax, Finn comes face-to-face with the enigmatic truth, the secret ravager of the human empire, and is shocked to discover its origin. Stunningly suspenseful, Athena Rising is an exciting sci-fi thriller placed in the future, in the style of Niven and Pournelle, and Frank Herbert with a dash of Stephen King. (Length: +106,000 words.)
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### From the Author
This is the final edit of Athena Rising. The Nova Edition has nearly 30,000 words of additional content that I hope will bring the plot to life for my readers. I have enjoyed this book immensely. It has been difficult to leave it alone, but I think the revisions, edits, and new content will set it apart from other stories in this genre. I am working on the second book in this series and hope to deliver in 2015. A special thanks goes out to my readers and especially for those who took the time to tell me what you thought. Thank you for being a part of the experience!
### About the Author
I grew up in Texas, wishing it were a colony on Mars or maybe Europa(but not Pluto because that would be really embarrassing now). To date, I've written three books and I loved every minute of it. I naturally gravitated to science fiction because I love the sexy technology and the opportunities for truly powerful antagonists. Show me an adversary that plots for total annihilation, and I'll show you a character with something interesting to say... and probably pretty well-dressed, too! Thank you, for reading. I hope you find the books as interesting and fun to read as they were to write.
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Nova Edition, v2.5, "My sin is greater than yours. Millions are dying due to my recklessness, my arrogance. There is a place in hell where the devil has made a bed for me. I am most assuredly damned, Sir, but I will have this one thing, this last act of redemption. You will give me the coordinates of the jump-point, so that my friends might save the lives of the countless billions that will surely perish. YOU WILL ANSWER ME, DOCTOR!!!"
A chilling mystery from a colony out on the rim! Traveling the trade routes across the League of Worlds, a merchant vessel arrives at Madras, a world on the very fringe of colonized space. Fear mounts when the once-busy colony falls silent, refusing to respond to the usual hails. Bringing their ship planet-side, the crew is shocked to find the colony reduced to sand and its twenty thousand inhabitants missing. Eager to report the incident and leave the terrible puzzle behind, they are unaware that something has come back with them. Invisible, voracious, and relentless, it is a killer of worlds.
Join our hero, Finn Holt, the young and courageous Captain of the frigate, Ajax, as he receives orders to escort a Science Council vessel to investigate the decimated colony of Madras. A routine assignment quickly turns to horror when the magnitude of what is happening becomes clear. Disaster looms when he realizes the Ajax is contaminated and showing signs of a deadly transformation. As ship systems begin to fail and fear grips the crew, an impossible survivor arrives to tell his desperate story. 'The scourge,' he says, 'is spreading from colony to colony across the inner systems. Millions upon millions have already perished. All of humanity is at risk and time is running out.'
Come with Finn and the crew of the Ajax as they search for answers amidst an exploding chaos. In a horrific and mind-bending climax, Finn comes face-to-face with the enigmatic truth, the secret ravager of the human empire, and is shocked to discover its origin. Stunningly suspenseful, Athena Rising is an exciting sci-fi thriller placed in the future, in the style of Niven and Pournelle, and Frank Herbert with a dash of Stephen King. (Length: +106,000 words.)
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### From the Author
This is the final edit of Athena Rising. The Nova Edition has nearly 30,000 words of additional content that I hope will bring the plot to life for my readers. I have enjoyed this book immensely. It has been difficult to leave it alone, but I think the revisions, edits, and new content will set it apart from other stories in this genre. I am working on the second book in this series and hope to deliver in 2015. A special thanks goes out to my readers and especially for those who took the time to tell me what you thought. Thank you for being a part of the experience!
### About the Author
I grew up in Texas, wishing it were a colony on Mars or maybe Europa(but not Pluto because that would be really embarrassing now). To date, I've written three books and I loved every minute of it. I naturally gravitated to science fiction because I love the sexy technology and the opportunities for truly powerful antagonists. Show me an adversary that plots for total annihilation, and I'll show you a character with something interesting to say... and probably pretty well-dressed, too!
Thank you, for reading. I hope you find the books as interesting and fun to read as they were to write.