*** Hard science fiction at its best-with a strong military twang !
*** A rip-roaring journey of discovery - the first steps of humans towards their galactic destiny !
In three months, this generation ship--the “Rock”--is leaving Earth. But on Steele’s first day aboard, someone blows up the place. And tries to kill him.
The Fates are laughing. The dice are thrown. They tumble and dance.
Will it be freedom? Or death?
Tricked, imprisoned, separated from his lover Summer, Oscar Steele is running out of choices. As aliens burn and pillage their way through the Rock, he sits locked in a prison cell—and watches his world burn.
Surrounded by slavers, pirates, and thieves, they fight their way toward redemption. Will it be cold steel that decides their survival? Or will it be the weapons of the heart and soul?
Summer: kidnapped by the pirate queen Gaella, her memory savaged by drugs, brainwashed into believing she is Gaella’s lover. In her nightmares, she dreams of a...
Like Huckleberry Finn, Phil Huddleston grew up barefoot and outdoors, catching mudbugs down by the creek, chasing rabbits through the fields, and forgetting to come home for dinner. Then he discovered books. Thereafter, he read everything he could get his hands on, including reading the Encyclopedia Britannica and Funk & Wagnalls from A to Z multiple times. He served in the U.S. Marines for four years, returned to college and completed his degree on the GI Bill. Since that time, he built computer systems, worked in cybersecurity, played in a band, flew a bush plane from Alaska to Texas, rode a motorcycle around a good bit of America, and acted as assistant while his wife raised two wonderful daughters. And would like to do it all again. Except without the mistakes.
Like Huckleberry Finn, Phil Huddleston grew up barefoot and outdoors, catching mudbugs down by the creek, chasing rabbits through the fields, and forgetting to come home for dinner. Then he discovered books. Thereafter, he read everything he could get his hands on, including reading the Encyclopedia Britannica and Funk & Wagnalls from A to Z multiple times. He served in the U.S. Marines for four years, returned to college and completed his...
