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Join Peter Cochrane, a lieutenant in the space Navy, on a star-spanning journey of discovery, diplomacy, and danger . . .
Lieutenant Peter Cochrane of the Quantar Royal Navy believes he has his future clearly mapped out. It begins with his new assignment as an officer on Her Majesty’s Spaceship Starbound, a Lightship bound for deep space voyages of exploration.
But everything changes when Peter is summoned to the office of his father, Grand Admiral Nathan Cochrane, and given devastating news: the death of a loved one. In a distant solar system, a mysterious and unprovoked attack upon Lightship Impulse resulted in the deaths of Peter’s former girlfriend and many of her shipmates.
Now Peter’s plans are torn asunder as he is transferred to a Unified Space Navy ship under foreign command, en route to an unexpected destination, and surrounded almost entirely by strangers. To top it off, his superiors have given him secret orders that might force him to become a mutineer.
The crisis at hand becomes a gateway to something much more when the ship’s Historian leads Peter and his shipmates into a galaxy of the unknown—of ancient technologies, age-old rivalries, new cultures, and unexpected romance. It’s an overwhelming responsibility for Peter, and one false step could plunge humanity into an apocalyptic interstellar war . . .
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- ISBN: 9780698161689
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- ISBN: 9780698161689
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December 15, 2014
Enthusiasm reinvigorates familiar material in this lively space opera debut. Centuries after civil war shattered an interstellar civilization, planetary enclaves are beginning to reconnect, with the aid of tech-wizard Historians from Earth. Studly young Lt. Peter Cochrane of the Quantar Royal Navy is suddenly given huge responsibilities when he’s assigned to help investigate a mysterious assault on a lightship that was exploring close to the ruins of the old empire. Peter has plenty of concerns to keep him busy aboard the lightship Impulse, but he also finds himself increasingly attracted to his immediate superior officer, Cmdr. Dobrina Kierkopf. The action kicks in fast, as Peter, Dobrina, and a few others are stranded aboard a little landing craft when ancient machines attack, while a renegade Historian steals the Impulse. From that point, the plot gets complicated. This energetic mélange of tried-and-true elements—futuristic jargon, military and romantic tactics, and multiple levels of skullduggery—easily grabs the reader’s attention; more impressive is that Bara’s story holds that attention all the way to the end. Agent: Joshua Bilmes, Jabberwocky Literary Agency. -
January 1, 2015
Peter Cochrane is disappointed when an emergency pulls him off what was supposed to be his first lightship posting to a new job on the HMS Impulse. The role comes with a promotion, but a hostile new captain from a rival culture and an attractive but prickly executive officer are just two early obstacles Peter must face. When they try to investigate the site where the Impulse was attacked by a strange hyperdimensional pulse wave, Peter and the crew are dragged into a diplomatic quagmire and a military mystery. VERDICT Debut author Bara sets a few too many pieces on his space opera chessboard with opposing military powers, quasi-religious historical orders, and remnants of imperial civilizations and ancient founders left offstage. The characters are shallow (especially inexplicable babe-magnet Peter), the plot is both overly complicated in places and suddenly paper thin, and Bara appears to believe that if he keeps the action fast enough readers won't notice that his story doesn't make any sense.
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