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Centers of Gravity

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Centers of Gravity

By: Marko Kloos
Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
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Stranded light-years from home, Major Andrew Grayson and his crew are on a desperate mission to discover the Lankies’ secrets. They can’t let what they’ve found die with them.

Nine hundred light-years from home, Major Andrew Grayson and the crew of NACS Washington are marooned in a sunless system with limited water, reactor fuel, and food. The last hope for survival is to go where nothing human has gone before.

After embarking on a scouting mission to the only moon with surface signs of life, Andrew and his Special Tactics Team make two startling discoveries. One is a dream: a form of protein and plant life that could save the starving humans in the rogue system. The second is a nightmare: this harvested rock is infested with Lankies. Far from the seemingly mindless aggressors Andrew has battled for years, these show a terrifying awareness, and they have surprising secrets of their own hidden away in the darkness.

When the Lankies sense an uninvited presence in their world, Andrew’s operation becomes an expedition to hell. The odds against his small crew are stacked high. Of all the mysteries of space, how to escape with their lives is the greatest unknown of all.

©2022 Marko Kloos (P)2022 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Fiction First Contact Military Science Fiction Space Opera

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“…flawlessly performed by the narrative talents of Eric G. Dove who brings this science fiction adventure come to life in a true 'theatre of the mind' experience. …strongly recommended.” (Midwest Book Review)
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Seems like someone got bored with writing this series! Loved these books.... but the ending was kind of "that will do"

Great series...but the ending was kind of meh

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Well written story will lots of suspense and believe-able characters just what you would expect from the this author

The Military off worldwide

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Great book loved the story and the book narration it is a great book series I highly recommend it ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️😀👍😀

Great book 📖👍😀

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Great story eight books is a lot but covers a great timeliness. there is no need to write catchup in ech book as no one is going to jump in at late book numbers. sometimes repetitive content setting the scenes sometimes.

overall a good series.

consistency and continuity

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Well,

I cried.

I’ve no idea if this is the last book in the series, and I’m sure that if it is, many fans will be deeply disappointed - but I’m sure that others will find it to be an excellent novel.

The main character is once again cast into the unknown and brought back again (I really don’t think that’s a spoiler) after having given up even more of himself, and to discover a world unrecognisable to him, with only a few points of his old life with which to bond with.

We as readers are left as blind as he is - maybe a little less - to the motivations, technology and overall shape of the interstellar war which has driven humanity to the brink of extinction. He has once again made and broken solid bonds with scientists and military personnel on his deployment who he will likely never see again.

I used to feel that was a point of criticism - the lack of plot progression and the continuous shifting of characters. I suspect that many will agree with this point of view, particularly as the character has no reason to continue with military service as of the end of this novel, except perhaps in an academic or flag officer role which seem to be unlikely stories for Andrew Grayson, particularly given how they would separate him from the long term characters in the series.

But then, this series is a decade old, and perhaps the character has aged as much as the author, certainly, as a reader I have done so.

As a story of a conventional military career - where in the end your life changes completely and yet not at all, and where despite your being present as the very first molecules on the tip of the spear, your role in shaping humanities future is not acknowledged - this would be a superb novel and series.

But I hope this goes on, I hope somehow that Admiral Grayson has a role to play in the final defeat of the First Lanky War. Simply because *he* deserves that acknowledgment as a character.

And he deserves more of a reward than he’s been given on camera, despite the immense off-camera value Phoebe no doubt provides to him.

The End?

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