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Derelict: Marines

Derelict Saga, Book 1

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Fifty years ago, Mira, humanity's last hope to find new resources, exited the solar system bound for Proxima Centauri B. Seven years into her mission, all transmissions ceased without warning. Mira and her crew were presumed lost. Humanity, unified during her construction, splintered into insurgency and rebellion.

Now, an outpost orbiting Pluto has detected a distress call from an unpowered object entering Sol space: Mira has returned. When all attempts at communications fail, a search and rescue vessel is dispatched from Trident Station to intercept, investigate, and tow the beleaguered Mira to Neptune.

As the marines prepare for the journey, uncertainty and conspiracy fomented by Trident Station's governing AIs, begin to take their toll. Upon reaching Mira, they discover they've been sent on a mission that will almost certainly end in catastrophe.

The Derelict saga is a suspenseful mashup of hard military sci-fi, space opera, and mystery.

Some mysteries shouldn't be solved.

©2017 Paul E Cooley (P)2017 Paul E Cooley Fiction Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction Space Opera Solar System Military Mystery
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great story with plenty of depth which enables the listener to build clear images in their minds eye. can't wait to hear the next book.

enticing story makes you want more

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Writes sci-fi like a man born to the task. I enjoyed his first two novels immensely....I enjoyed this even more. Good story, good characters, great sense of unnameable horror. The second novel in this series? I look forward to it with relish. Kudos.

Good solid sci-fi. Well read and well written.

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Great StarCraft-y feel and setting, too ponderous with way too many of story irrelevant details.

The writer is trying too hard

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Have listened to all four books in the series: Aliens-style sci-fi nonsense but well done, good characterisation and enough mysteries to keep you listening. Very much enjoyed it.

Aliens-style imaginative fun

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This is a slow-paced, military science-fiction story. Or, at least, the start of one -- I guess anybody reading this will know that there are two more books in the same series. The settings and the equipment are painstakingly described, and the fictional world seems pretty convincing. Of course, the whole "space marine" genre isn't exactly new, and the influence of 'Starship Troopers' is pretty clear. And Alien, for that matter -- there are a lot of dark corridors, and characters with dubious motives.

So there's a lot to like, if you're a fan of military science-fiction; not so much for everybody else, I think. There isn't a great deal of character development, considering that not much actually happens that would distract from the characters.

I guess this first book is really setting the stage for some more intense action that is to follow later. I'm not sure I can be bothered, to be honest.

Nothing much happens

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