Sun Chaser - Sci-Fi Novel
Work
Started on Sun Chaser on 4 Nov, 2016, just after I had published a
fantasy novel called City ofDragons. With my epicfantasy trilogy out
of the way, I turned my attention to the third book in my sciencefiction trilogy.
Doing the math, that means it took me five months to write the book.
I’m starting my next book now, so on that timetable I could have it
out before the end of the year. Anyway, back to my current book, a
ripsnorting chunk of space opera with lashings of spaceships,
swashbuckling and adventure.
Here is
the blurb to be found on the
back cover (except of course it’s an eBook so it doesn’t have a
back cover).
The
Tarazet Galactic Star Empire should be a realm without hunger,
disease, violence or suffering, with plenty for all, but the greed of
those at the top, terraforming entire planets just so they can hunt
the best game with their cronies is sucking the vitality out of the
economy. In the future, as now, and also as in the past, uncaring
nobles laughing in the faces of their starving subjects is a recipe
for... rebellion.
Over
the course of three books, the most prominent young scientist in the
empire, a young soldier and a humble logistics robot are sucked into
this rebellion, then rise to become its leaders, and this sci-fi
series is primarily the story of their adventures.
There
are plenty of space battles, unknowable aliens, and galactic power
struggles in the series and this third book is no exception. This is
not a dry old book full of visionary concepts but dull on action,
plot, and characters. It is a series that combines the action of
militaristic science fiction with the heart of good space opera.
The
only reason the heroes - Altia, Knave and Jay - have any chance of
surviving in the face of the repression of the Tarazet Star Empire is
the alien starship they discover in the first book. Just what this
spaceship is capable of becomes apparent through the second book, and
in this third installment the entire star empire and at least one
neighboring alien culture is being slowly destabilized by this new
force in the galaxy. It seems, at last, as though the empire might
topple, bringing a new utopia, or possibly just political chaos in
its wake.
The
ancient aliens, the source of the destabilizing technology, remain
enigmatic throughout, even as more is discovered about them, with
just the right amount of mystery and suspense to keep you captivated
the whole way through. Sun Chaser is book 3 in the Dark Galaxy series
and is about 115,000 words long.
So
join Altia and Knave as they try to found New Tarazet, by getting a
copy of Sun Chaser, or start
at the beginning of the series with GalaxyDog.
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