Douglas Dandridge
Doug Dandridge was born in Venice Florida in 1957, and grew up with a love of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror. After tours in the U S Army and the National Guard, and many years of Study at FSU (BS Psychology and Minor in Biology) and Alabama (Master's in Clinical Psych), he decided to pursue his dream of writing. He has worked as a Therapist, Manager and every odd job you can think of, in Prisons, Mental Health Centers and State Agencies. After fourteen years of writing Doug has decided to try the self publishing route. His love of the fantastic has led him to write in the genres of Science Fiction and Fantasy.
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Daemon
It is a world of magic where technology has stagnated for centuries. But the magic has been killing the world. Left is the last of the megacities, a million square miles of living land, and the last sixty million people. And the Shadows, the negative energy remains of the animals that used to roam the Earth. The Shadows prey on the living, and can only be kept at bay by light. But light requires magical energy, and that is in short supply. Daemon Corporation, the world's richest company, controlled by the world's most powerful mage, has found the solution. To rape other worlds of their life. Such a world has been found, and the innocents taken to our world to be sacrificed for their life energy. Something else has come with the little men from the other dimension. A force which cannot be stopped, on a mission to kill the men and women who are responsible. Jude Parkinson is a forensics' mage, one who communes with the dead, and sees through their eyes the last moments of their lives. He uses this power to solve murders, and only he can find out who is sending this Daemonic force to kill and kill again. But he finds out about the genocide being committed by Daemon Corp. Only the Church of God Ascendant, the last religion in an Atheistic world, stands with him. Will that be enough? Or will the world continue down a path of damnation?
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Refuge: The Arrival - Book 1
Fantasy
In the year 2025 a nuclear war breaks out in Central Europe, the Russians trying to secure their old empire. The dimensional gates open to another world, a world of magic, where our dreams of fantasy are real. The evil Emperor of the Ellala sees the millions of transplanted humans as soul energy to forward his scheme for immortality. He orders his armies to capture the newcomers, to place them in concentration camps where they can be harvested. But the Germans, French, Polish and other peoples or Earth have other ideas. With the help of their American allies and the modern weapons of war they will fight back against the magic of the evil elves, while gathering their own allies in the fight for survival. For they are seen by the native peoples as the fulfillment of an ancient prophecy. And they have brought immortals with them to this world. men and women of great power on Earth, who become true demigods on the new world. So it is tank against mage, attack helicopter against dragon, and nuclear warheads against impregnable fortress, as the humans must use their technology while they still have it, and gain a foothold on a world beyond their understanding.
The first book of a series about the establishment of a human Empire on a world of magic, led by their immortal king, Book 2 should be out by the first half of June, book 3 in the winter of 2012.
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Refuge: The Arrival - Book 2
Fantasy
The adventure continues. Millions of Earth humans are transported to a world of magic and are in the fight for their lives against an evil Ellala Elf Emperor who sees them as soul energy to extend his life as a lich. But the forces of NATO have brought their weapons along, and it's tanks against wizards, attack helicopters against dragons, nuclear weapons against elder Gods. The technology of Earth will only work for a short period of time on the new world, due to the laws of Refuge finally overwhelming the beliefs of the newcomers.
So it's use it or lose it, and the humans, under the command of United States Major General Zachary Taylor, use it with a vengeance. And the humans have brought along allies unlike an seen on Refuge in recent memory. Immortals of great physical power and an immunity to magic. Centenarian Kurt von Mannerheim, a veteran of the slaughter on the Eastern Front of World War Two. Ismael Levine, the Wandering Jew of legend, born prior to Christ. And newcomers, the American Jackie Smith, and the giant Brit Paul Mason-Smythe. Will they be enough to tilt the balance? Or will the humans have traded the nightmare of a nuclear ravaged world for one in which dark Gods prey on their souls? Allies will be gathered, and new enemies made, as technology fights magic in an effort to gain time and space for the forging of a new kingdom.
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The adventure continues. Millions of Earth humans are transported to a world of magic and are in the fight for their lives against an evil Ellala Elf Emperor who sees them as soul energy to extend his life as a lich. But the forces of NATO have brought their weapons along, and it's tanks against wizards, attack helicopters against dragons, nuclear weapons against elder Gods. The technology of Earth will only work for a short period of time on the new world, due to the laws of Refuge finally overwhelming the beliefs of the newcomers.
So it's use it or lose it, and the humans, under the command of United States Major General Zachary Taylor, use it with a vengeance. And the humans have brought along allies unlike an seen on Refuge in recent memory. Immortals of great physical power and an immunity to magic. Centenarian Kurt von Mannerheim, a veteran of the slaughter on the Eastern Front of World War Two. Ismael Levine, the Wandering Jew of legend, born prior to Christ. And newcomers, the American Jackie Smith, and the giant Brit Paul Mason-Smythe. Will they be enough to tilt the balance? Or will the humans have traded the nightmare of a nuclear ravaged world for one in which dark Gods prey on their souls? Allies will be gathered, and new enemies made, as technology fights magic in an effort to gain time and space for the forging of a new kingdom.
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Refuge: Book 3 - The Legions
Fantasy
It was a World of Magic, where their Greatest Dreams and Worst Nightmares were Realized, and their Life Energy was Desired by Rulers of the Planet. Clancy meets Salvatore and Lord of the Rings in a Military Fantasy.
During a nuclear war in Central Europe millions of humans are transported to a world of fantasy, where the archetypes of our myths are real. Elves, Dwarves, Trolls, and Dragons, as well as creatures of the night and Demons from the Hells roam the world. The evil ruler of an Elfin Empire sees the humans as life energy to fuel his bid for immortality. But the humans brought some of their own weapons with them, devices beyond the wildest dreams of the native peoples. It's use it or lose it, and the human General is determined to use it to the best advantage.
Now the modern tech is gone, but the Earth humans have other knowledge, of old tech that doesn't require internal combustion engines or explosives. Windmills, sailing vessels, and most important of all, the secrets and tactics of ancient armies. The Earth humans must train in the techniques of the Roman Legions, the best infantry of the pre-gunpowder world. Arrayed against them are warriors who have been killing for thousands of years, and their savage allies. The humans have the Immortals, demigods of great power on this world. And the former mental patients who become great users of magic on Refuge. Will it be enough to defeat people who see them as cattle? Ort will humanity become the legend of the lost, who appeared on a world of salvation only to die? The forces of Nato are on the march, on the offensive, for the only way to win this war is to attack, and keep the pressure on the enemy.
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It was a World of Magic, where their Greatest Dreams and Worst Nightmares were Realized, and their Life Energy was Desired by Rulers of the Planet. Clancy meets Salvatore and Lord of the Rings in a Military Fantasy.
During a nuclear war in Central Europe millions of humans are transported to a world of fantasy, where the archetypes of our myths are real. Elves, Dwarves, Trolls, and Dragons, as well as creatures of the night and Demons from the Hells roam the world. The evil ruler of an Elfin Empire sees the humans as life energy to fuel his bid for immortality. But the humans brought some of their own weapons with them, devices beyond the wildest dreams of the native peoples. It's use it or lose it, and the human General is determined to use it to the best advantage.
Now the modern tech is gone, but the Earth humans have other knowledge, of old tech that doesn't require internal combustion engines or explosives. Windmills, sailing vessels, and most important of all, the secrets and tactics of ancient armies. The Earth humans must train in the techniques of the Roman Legions, the best infantry of the pre-gunpowder world. Arrayed against them are warriors who have been killing for thousands of years, and their savage allies. The humans have the Immortals, demigods of great power on this world. And the former mental patients who become great users of magic on Refuge. Will it be enough to defeat people who see them as cattle? Ort will humanity become the legend of the lost, who appeared on a world of salvation only to die? The forces of Nato are on the march, on the offensive, for the only way to win this war is to attack, and keep the pressure on the enemy.
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Refuge: Doppleganger
Military fantasy
Kurt von Mannerheim had never wanted to become ruler of the Empire that became. He had enough of leadership during the bloodbath that was the Eastern Front of the Second World War. But the Gods of Refuge had prophesized such, and humans had come to the world in their numbers in fulfillment of that prophecy. And so he had become first King, and then Emperor, welding the disparate peoples together into one Empire. He had not wanted to take on the Nazi Empire of Tarakesh, the evil transplanted from his world by the follower of Hitler, Heinrich Stuppleheim. He had seen enough war, and wished to spare his people the evils of even a winning campaign. And then his bride, the Empress Gwenara Elyssisu von Mannerheim, was kidnapped from his Capital like the merest commoner. Now Kurt must ride the trail of war again, if he wishes to save her from a fate worse than death. And her soul from a fate far worse than damnation.
Kurt must do this alone. But his Immortal friends, Ismael Levine and Paul Mason-Smythe, are determined to stand with him, no matter the cost, no matter his wishes. The fate of the free peoples of the world is at stake. To lose will give Heinrich and the Death Gods he serves the advantage they seek. And that advantage will lead the world down a dark path from which there will be no recovery.
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Kurt von Mannerheim had never wanted to become ruler of the Empire that became. He had enough of leadership during the bloodbath that was the Eastern Front of the Second World War. But the Gods of Refuge had prophesized such, and humans had come to the world in their numbers in fulfillment of that prophecy. And so he had become first King, and then Emperor, welding the disparate peoples together into one Empire. He had not wanted to take on the Nazi Empire of Tarakesh, the evil transplanted from his world by the follower of Hitler, Heinrich Stuppleheim. He had seen enough war, and wished to spare his people the evils of even a winning campaign. And then his bride, the Empress Gwenara Elyssisu von Mannerheim, was kidnapped from his Capital like the merest commoner. Now Kurt must ride the trail of war again, if he wishes to save her from a fate worse than death. And her soul from a fate far worse than damnation.
Kurt must do this alone. But his Immortal friends, Ismael Levine and Paul Mason-Smythe, are determined to stand with him, no matter the cost, no matter his wishes. The fate of the free peoples of the world is at stake. To lose will give Heinrich and the Death Gods he serves the advantage they seek. And that advantage will lead the world down a dark path from which there will be no recovery.
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The Shadows of the Multiverse
Science fiction
No one knew where the gates came from, the wondrous planet sized globes whose millions of facets led to destinations across the Universe. No one knew what had killed the thousands of civilizations that had once roamed space across the billions of years since the origin point. Whatever it was, it was back, with a vengeance, destroying the intelligences that might challenge its hegemony of multi-dimensional space. It is up to a few humans, endowed with the very powers the creatures’ fear, to save sentient life in the Universe, and end the threat forever.
Lucille Yamamoto is a warrior, the captain of an Earth Navy battle-cruiser. Howard Turner is a wealthy scientist, physicist turned archeologist, trying to discover the secrets of the ancients. Siobahn Hunsicker is the child of mercenaries, controlling powers she does not understand. Together the three are the only hope for the extant intelligences of the Universe. If they have the time to survive the learning curve and challenge the weavers of reality.
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No one knew where the gates came from, the wondrous planet sized globes whose millions of facets led to destinations across the Universe. No one knew what had killed the thousands of civilizations that had once roamed space across the billions of years since the origin point. Whatever it was, it was back, with a vengeance, destroying the intelligences that might challenge its hegemony of multi-dimensional space. It is up to a few humans, endowed with the very powers the creatures’ fear, to save sentient life in the Universe, and end the threat forever.
Lucille Yamamoto is a warrior, the captain of an Earth Navy battle-cruiser. Howard Turner is a wealthy scientist, physicist turned archeologist, trying to discover the secrets of the ancients. Siobahn Hunsicker is the child of mercenaries, controlling powers she does not understand. Together the three are the only hope for the extant intelligences of the Universe. If they have the time to survive the learning curve and challenge the weavers of reality.
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The Deep Dark Well
Science Fiction
Pandora Latham was just a country girl from Alabama turned Kuiper Belt miner. The last thing Pandi expected was to run into a ship from the future on the outskirts of Sol system. Even less expected was that the ship would fall apart while she was inside it, the Universe correcting the paradox in time. The wormhole in the center of the ship beckoned, the only possible escape, and Pandi jumped through, forty thousand years into the future.
She arrived on a massive station built around a black hole. Once the center of a Galactic Civilization, the station was used to generate wormhole gates linking the Cosmos. The empty station is now a memorial to the civilization that once was.
One survivor, an immortal being called Watcher, remains, guarding the secrets of the station from those who covet its advanced technology, the rising civilizations of the Galaxy. Watcher, lonely from his self-enforced exile, befriends Pandi. Soon the woman from Alabama discovers that there is more to Watcher than is apparent on the surface. What was Watcher’s part in the fall of civilization? The answer to this question will decide whether Pandora Latham survives in this world, or becomes just one more death to add to the trillions who died before her.
Grand Science Fiction in the tradition of Niven and Anderson, with megastructures use to tap into massive sources of energy. An enigma, a mystery to solve, and a 21st Century girl thrown into the fires, her will to survive the only hope for the future.
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Pandora Latham was just a country girl from Alabama turned Kuiper Belt miner. The last thing Pandi expected was to run into a ship from the future on the outskirts of Sol system. Even less expected was that the ship would fall apart while she was inside it, the Universe correcting the paradox in time. The wormhole in the center of the ship beckoned, the only possible escape, and Pandi jumped through, forty thousand years into the future.
She arrived on a massive station built around a black hole. Once the center of a Galactic Civilization, the station was used to generate wormhole gates linking the Cosmos. The empty station is now a memorial to the civilization that once was.
One survivor, an immortal being called Watcher, remains, guarding the secrets of the station from those who covet its advanced technology, the rising civilizations of the Galaxy. Watcher, lonely from his self-enforced exile, befriends Pandi. Soon the woman from Alabama discovers that there is more to Watcher than is apparent on the surface. What was Watcher’s part in the fall of civilization? The answer to this question will decide whether Pandora Latham survives in this world, or becomes just one more death to add to the trillions who died before her.
Grand Science Fiction in the tradition of Niven and Anderson, with megastructures use to tap into massive sources of energy. An enigma, a mystery to solve, and a 21st Century girl thrown into the fires, her will to survive the only hope for the future.
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The Hunger
Urban Fantasy
Hooker, heroin addict, victim, Lucinda lived her life at the mercy of evil men. After her pimp leaves her for dead she is turned by a passing vampire. Satan’s plan for the undead is to spread like a plague, striking at the innocents of the world and turning them toward evil. When Lucinda’s master is destroyed she becomes a free agent, able to do as she wills. Now she has the power, and she uses it to strike back at the evil men who tormented her in life, while making sure that they do not rise again.
Crime boss George Padillas is dying of cancer. His money and his power make no difference to the disease. His choices for the afterlife unappealing, Padillas decides that the unlife of a vampire is the best way out. He has a plan, using the priest who is chasing Lucinda as his instrument, to become a free agent vampire.
Lucinda must avoid the attentions of an FBI agent, a priest, an ancient vampire, and the failed attempt, the one she killed who rose again, in her quest to take down the crime boss of sunny Tampa. While at the same time controlling the vampire Hunger that urges her toward evil.
The Hunger is a different kind of vampire tale. Like the vampires of Stoker, able to turn into beasts, mist, control weather and people, they live to feed and feed to live. The Heroine, Lucinda, is a different breed, only killing the evil mortals of the world and ensuring that they do not rise. Strong language and sexual situations, as befits the world of the street, the hooker, the pimp and the drug dealer. Not recommended for younger readers.
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Hooker, heroin addict, victim, Lucinda lived her life at the mercy of evil men. After her pimp leaves her for dead she is turned by a passing vampire. Satan’s plan for the undead is to spread like a plague, striking at the innocents of the world and turning them toward evil. When Lucinda’s master is destroyed she becomes a free agent, able to do as she wills. Now she has the power, and she uses it to strike back at the evil men who tormented her in life, while making sure that they do not rise again.
Crime boss George Padillas is dying of cancer. His money and his power make no difference to the disease. His choices for the afterlife unappealing, Padillas decides that the unlife of a vampire is the best way out. He has a plan, using the priest who is chasing Lucinda as his instrument, to become a free agent vampire.
Lucinda must avoid the attentions of an FBI agent, a priest, an ancient vampire, and the failed attempt, the one she killed who rose again, in her quest to take down the crime boss of sunny Tampa. While at the same time controlling the vampire Hunger that urges her toward evil.
The Hunger is a different kind of vampire tale. Like the vampires of Stoker, able to turn into beasts, mist, control weather and people, they live to feed and feed to live. The Heroine, Lucinda, is a different breed, only killing the evil mortals of the world and ensuring that they do not rise. Strong language and sexual situations, as befits the world of the street, the hooker, the pimp and the drug dealer. Not recommended for younger readers.
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The Scorpion
Science Fiction
Kestrel McMann had faced the Scorpion before. While a Ranger officer, a Cyborg, Kestrel had bearded the terrorist in his lair in the deserts of Sudan. The Scorpion had escaped by uploading his mind to a computer network, leaving behind his corpse as a hollow trophy. McMann moved on to Homeland Security, working for a corrupt government led by an insane President, firm in his convictions that the people needed protection no matter who ruled.
Now the Scorpion is back. Cloning people who occupy high level positions and moving the bodies, under the control of his mind, to important targets, the Scorpion is striking back at the Great Satan. High level targets of opportunity are hit, thousands of people are killed, and the nation once again trembles before the name of the Scorpion. It is up to Kestrel, with the aid of a beautiful Massad agent, a cyborg like himself, to once again stop the super terrorist, before he springs his final strike, and knocks Western Civilization back into the Stone Age.
The Scorpion is a Science Fiction Adventure page turner, in which the villain wears many faces, and could be anyone. The United States is on the verge of becoming the world's only superpower. But the world's greatest terrorist is determined to stop that rise with an equally powerful fall.
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Kestrel McMann had faced the Scorpion before. While a Ranger officer, a Cyborg, Kestrel had bearded the terrorist in his lair in the deserts of Sudan. The Scorpion had escaped by uploading his mind to a computer network, leaving behind his corpse as a hollow trophy. McMann moved on to Homeland Security, working for a corrupt government led by an insane President, firm in his convictions that the people needed protection no matter who ruled.
Now the Scorpion is back. Cloning people who occupy high level positions and moving the bodies, under the control of his mind, to important targets, the Scorpion is striking back at the Great Satan. High level targets of opportunity are hit, thousands of people are killed, and the nation once again trembles before the name of the Scorpion. It is up to Kestrel, with the aid of a beautiful Massad agent, a cyborg like himself, to once again stop the super terrorist, before he springs his final strike, and knocks Western Civilization back into the Stone Age.
The Scorpion is a Science Fiction Adventure page turner, in which the villain wears many faces, and could be anyone. The United States is on the verge of becoming the world's only superpower. But the world's greatest terrorist is determined to stop that rise with an equally powerful fall.
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Diamonds In The Sand
Science Fiction
When a perfectly fit scientist falls dead in a closed room of an apparent heart attack, Detective Lieutenant Gary Lariviere is called in to solve the case. Doctor Matheson has been working in the field of nanotechnology, a science that promises great advances, and the potential for great disaster. There are many who would see the scientist fail. Religious fanatics who see the potential for transformation of the human genome as a violation of God’s will. White supremacists angry that a black man of prominence is married to a white woman. International corporations that would like nothing better than to control the secret for themselves. Diamond smuggling crime syndicates with greed in their eyes at the prospect of making diamonds from the sand. And the graduate students who had lived in the shadow of the great man while their own accomplishments were ignored.
Gary must navigate the shady undercurrents of the sunny Florida retirement city, trying to get at the truth. Obstacles are thrown in his way by powers both legal and illegal as he closes in on the secret. Until he runs into the full potential of the new technology, and the full terrors.
This was my first exploration of the Cyborg ex-ranger that evolved into the Homeland Security Agent in The Scorpion. Cyborgs unlike the six million dollar man, with integrated systems that make them more than the match for a normal man, without giving away their secret. Also explores retroactive genetic engineering through nanotech, a subject that is again explored in some of my other works.
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When a perfectly fit scientist falls dead in a closed room of an apparent heart attack, Detective Lieutenant Gary Lariviere is called in to solve the case. Doctor Matheson has been working in the field of nanotechnology, a science that promises great advances, and the potential for great disaster. There are many who would see the scientist fail. Religious fanatics who see the potential for transformation of the human genome as a violation of God’s will. White supremacists angry that a black man of prominence is married to a white woman. International corporations that would like nothing better than to control the secret for themselves. Diamond smuggling crime syndicates with greed in their eyes at the prospect of making diamonds from the sand. And the graduate students who had lived in the shadow of the great man while their own accomplishments were ignored.
Gary must navigate the shady undercurrents of the sunny Florida retirement city, trying to get at the truth. Obstacles are thrown in his way by powers both legal and illegal as he closes in on the secret. Until he runs into the full potential of the new technology, and the full terrors.
This was my first exploration of the Cyborg ex-ranger that evolved into the Homeland Security Agent in The Scorpion. Cyborgs unlike the six million dollar man, with integrated systems that make them more than the match for a normal man, without giving away their secret. Also explores retroactive genetic engineering through nanotech, a subject that is again explored in some of my other works.
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Afterlife
Science Fiction
What if you didn't believe in the afterlife promised by the religions of the world? What if science could give you guaranteed eternity? What would you do to keep it, if others try to take it away?
Gary Jeffers was a genius at electronics, and all of his money could not stop the cancer that was eating his life. Afterlife corporation promised him the chance to live, love and work for the rest of eternity. But his wife and his church are convinced that mind uploading is assisted suicide, and that Gary will condemn his soul to hell. Gary finds all he is looking for In the virtual world and more. All his dreams, all his fantasies, and a mind and memory like he had never imagined.But the religions of the world stand against Afterlife, rallying around the fundamentalist President of the United States. It becomes a fight to the finish, the quantity of the real world versus the quality of Afterlife. Can the virtuals survive, to enhance the world with their knowledge and wisdom? Or will ignorance and superstition wipe the grand experiment from the face of the Earth?
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What if you didn't believe in the afterlife promised by the religions of the world? What if science could give you guaranteed eternity? What would you do to keep it, if others try to take it away?
Gary Jeffers was a genius at electronics, and all of his money could not stop the cancer that was eating his life. Afterlife corporation promised him the chance to live, love and work for the rest of eternity. But his wife and his church are convinced that mind uploading is assisted suicide, and that Gary will condemn his soul to hell. Gary finds all he is looking for In the virtual world and more. All his dreams, all his fantasies, and a mind and memory like he had never imagined.But the religions of the world stand against Afterlife, rallying around the fundamentalist President of the United States. It becomes a fight to the finish, the quantity of the real world versus the quality of Afterlife. Can the virtuals survive, to enhance the world with their knowledge and wisdom? Or will ignorance and superstition wipe the grand experiment from the face of the Earth?
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Aura
Science Fiction
The Aura decides the fate of its possessor on this World of battling Gods. Those with a strong Aura are able to control the forces of magic. Those with weaker Auras are controlled by the strong. And those without an Aura are outside the game.
Triplets are born in an out of the way village to the headman and his wife. Ariel, the girl, has a more than double Aura, and is destined to become a mighty magic user, Mage or Priest. Aiden possesses a less than average Aura, and will be a soldier or laborer. Arlen has no Aura, and is seen as an abomination in the eyes of the Church of Baalra, the Dragon God. When Arlen is discovered the parents are killed by the soldiers of the Church. Ariel is taken to the capital to be raised to become the future Avatar of the God Baalra, while Aiden is sold into slavery. Arlen is rescued before he can be killed, to be raised as an Assassin of the Rosacaran Order, his purpose in life to destroy those Evil Priests thought to be too dangerous to live.
It will be up to the brothers to save their sister before she can be taken by Baalra, her soul destroyed and her body the powerful instrument of the Evil God. But can the triplets stand before the military and magical might of the Empire? Or will the boys die in a vain attempt to save their sister from damnation.
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The Aura decides the fate of its possessor on this World of battling Gods. Those with a strong Aura are able to control the forces of magic. Those with weaker Auras are controlled by the strong. And those without an Aura are outside the game.
Triplets are born in an out of the way village to the headman and his wife. Ariel, the girl, has a more than double Aura, and is destined to become a mighty magic user, Mage or Priest. Aiden possesses a less than average Aura, and will be a soldier or laborer. Arlen has no Aura, and is seen as an abomination in the eyes of the Church of Baalra, the Dragon God. When Arlen is discovered the parents are killed by the soldiers of the Church. Ariel is taken to the capital to be raised to become the future Avatar of the God Baalra, while Aiden is sold into slavery. Arlen is rescued before he can be killed, to be raised as an Assassin of the Rosacaran Order, his purpose in life to destroy those Evil Priests thought to be too dangerous to live.
It will be up to the brothers to save their sister before she can be taken by Baalra, her soul destroyed and her body the powerful instrument of the Evil God. But can the triplets stand before the military and magical might of the Empire? Or will the boys die in a vain attempt to save their sister from damnation.
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We Are Death, Come For You
Science Fiction
Humankind had a bright future among the stars. A dozen interstellar colonies thrive under the light of far stars, while at home there has been peace between the contentious system governments for several decades. There is even the hope that faster than light travel may be on the horizon, and with it a more massive expansion of mankind to the stars.
That future is put in doubt by the signal received from the Tau Ceti colony. First contact, five enormous alien ships entering the system. It was something humanity had dreamed of for centuries. And it was a nightmare. The aliens are death worshippers whose creed calls for the extermination of all life in the Universe. The aliens leave the Tau Ceti system devoid of life and head for Sol. We know they are coming, and have years to build up the fleet. But will it be enough to defeat an enemy that plies the stars in eighty thousand cubic kilometers of warships, with technologies beyond ours? Or will the human race become just another species sent into the long night by the Hsszat?
The humans are not without their own technological advantages, and the war making wisdom millenia of battling their own. Will it be enough?
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Humankind had a bright future among the stars. A dozen interstellar colonies thrive under the light of far stars, while at home there has been peace between the contentious system governments for several decades. There is even the hope that faster than light travel may be on the horizon, and with it a more massive expansion of mankind to the stars.
That future is put in doubt by the signal received from the Tau Ceti colony. First contact, five enormous alien ships entering the system. It was something humanity had dreamed of for centuries. And it was a nightmare. The aliens are death worshippers whose creed calls for the extermination of all life in the Universe. The aliens leave the Tau Ceti system devoid of life and head for Sol. We know they are coming, and have years to build up the fleet. But will it be enough to defeat an enemy that plies the stars in eighty thousand cubic kilometers of warships, with technologies beyond ours? Or will the human race become just another species sent into the long night by the Hsszat?
The humans are not without their own technological advantages, and the war making wisdom millenia of battling their own. Will it be enough?
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Exodus: Empires at War - Book One
Science Fiction
Humanity's worst nightmare has again come out of the Dark. Can a human race in turmoil survive?
It's a Fight to the Finish as Two Interstellar Empires go Toe to Toe.
When the human race faces extermination at the hands of an expanding species the last survivors travel a thousand years to reestablish the race ten thousands light years away. It is now a thousand years after the birth of the New Terran Empire. The race has aggressively expanded during that time, with a fleet that has never lost a war against an alien species. But the signs are there, the old enemy is back, and the Fleet will face its greatest challenge in a foe fifty times their size.
Science fiction in the tradition of Anderson and Weber, where the physics of normal and hyperspace dictate the strategy and tactics. Enormous fleets battle across the immensity of space with advanced technologies. Can the proud human Fleet hold off the tide of an advancing enemy, rallying allies and deploying new tech? Or will the conquerors achieve what they could not two thousand years before, and end the existence of the upstarts.
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Humanity's worst nightmare has again come out of the Dark. Can a human race in turmoil survive?
It's a Fight to the Finish as Two Interstellar Empires go Toe to Toe.
When the human race faces extermination at the hands of an expanding species the last survivors travel a thousand years to reestablish the race ten thousands light years away. It is now a thousand years after the birth of the New Terran Empire. The race has aggressively expanded during that time, with a fleet that has never lost a war against an alien species. But the signs are there, the old enemy is back, and the Fleet will face its greatest challenge in a foe fifty times their size.
Science fiction in the tradition of Anderson and Weber, where the physics of normal and hyperspace dictate the strategy and tactics. Enormous fleets battle across the immensity of space with advanced technologies. Can the proud human Fleet hold off the tide of an advancing enemy, rallying allies and deploying new tech? Or will the conquerors achieve what they could not two thousand years before, and end the existence of the upstarts.
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Exodus: Empires at War - Book Two
Science Fiction
They are our worst Nightmare. Unfortunately, they do not go away when we open our eyes.
The Battle continues as two immense Empires fo Toe to Toe, the fate of both species on the line.
The Saga Continues as the Ca'cadasan menace prepares to assault the New Terran Empire. A menace humankind fled across the Galaxy two thousand years before.
Humankind has grown complacent, confident in the victories their fleet has won for them through the last thousand years over numerous alien races. But the Ca'cadasan Empire has continued to grow, and now the massive Imperialistic power has found the hated humans. The Emperor knew this was going to happen, but most of Parliament ignored his strident call. And the Prince Sean Lee Ogden Romanov, third in line for the throne, finds himself placed into a position he had never thought would come his way. The fate of the Empire may rest on the abilities of one young man, and his skills at navigating the maze of Imperial politics amidst a war of extermination. Book two of the popular Exodus Series.
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They are our worst Nightmare. Unfortunately, they do not go away when we open our eyes.
The Battle continues as two immense Empires fo Toe to Toe, the fate of both species on the line.
The Saga Continues as the Ca'cadasan menace prepares to assault the New Terran Empire. A menace humankind fled across the Galaxy two thousand years before.
Humankind has grown complacent, confident in the victories their fleet has won for them through the last thousand years over numerous alien races. But the Ca'cadasan Empire has continued to grow, and now the massive Imperialistic power has found the hated humans. The Emperor knew this was going to happen, but most of Parliament ignored his strident call. And the Prince Sean Lee Ogden Romanov, third in line for the throne, finds himself placed into a position he had never thought would come his way. The fate of the Empire may rest on the abilities of one young man, and his skills at navigating the maze of Imperial politics amidst a war of extermination. Book two of the popular Exodus Series.
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Exodus: Empires at War - Book Three - The Rising Storm
Science Fiction
They're Back, and They want to End us.
The Ca'cadasan Empire is at the gates, and they mean to destroy the human race. But we will not go quietly into the night.
The saga continues, as Sean Ogden Lee Romanov finds himself the uncrowned leader of the New Terran Empire. After two thousand years the old enemy has found them, but the humans are no longer the technologically inferior species they once were. A thousand years of Empire has forged a mighty military that has never lost a war. The Ca'cadasans are still slightly ahead in tech, are much larger, and have never failed in a conquest. There is dissension within as Parliament wants to put their own man in charge, and Sean is woefully unprepared for the task that awaits him. Time is running out, and if the Empire and the species are to survive the new man must be installed and humanity must rally behind him. New technologies are on the horizon, the technologies on which the course of the war could turn, for better or worse. War rages across the stars on a Galactic scale. The third book of a series that will span over a century of time and tens of thousands of light years of space.
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They're Back, and They want to End us.
The Ca'cadasan Empire is at the gates, and they mean to destroy the human race. But we will not go quietly into the night.
The saga continues, as Sean Ogden Lee Romanov finds himself the uncrowned leader of the New Terran Empire. After two thousand years the old enemy has found them, but the humans are no longer the technologically inferior species they once were. A thousand years of Empire has forged a mighty military that has never lost a war. The Ca'cadasans are still slightly ahead in tech, are much larger, and have never failed in a conquest. There is dissension within as Parliament wants to put their own man in charge, and Sean is woefully unprepared for the task that awaits him. Time is running out, and if the Empire and the species are to survive the new man must be installed and humanity must rally behind him. New technologies are on the horizon, the technologies on which the course of the war could turn, for better or worse. War rages across the stars on a Galactic scale. The third book of a series that will span over a century of time and tens of thousands of light years of space.
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Exodus: Empires at War - Book Four - The Long Fall
Science Fiction
The Ca'cadasan Empire has it out for the humans. Their Emperor had ordered the human species exterminated. But the humans got away, at least some of them, and established themselves ten thousand light years away in the Persius Arm. They were given a thousand years to establish themselves, but now the Ancient Enemy has found them, and they are still determined to wipe out over a trillion humans. Those humans are not so inferior in their tech as they were, only a couple of decades behind the Ca'cadasans. And they have the Donut, the enormous space station built around a black hole, a century in the construction. The Donut generates wormholes, the one major adantage of the humans over their enemies. There are other technologies on the horizon that the canny humans hope to gain advantage from. If they can keep their Fleet together long enough in the face of a mighty foe to deploy what they hope are war winning techs. And in the capital of the New Terran Empire plots are still alive. The plots of other governments, and of humans with their own agendas. Old enemies sharpen their knives, determined to catch the humans in disarray, while new allies come in on the human side. Will it be enough? Or will humanity be forced to flee once again.
*The Fourth Book of the enormously popular Exodus: Empires at War Series.
The verdict is in, with over five hundred reviews with a 4.4 star average. Exodus is a hit. Continue the journey, or find out what tens of thousands already have.
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The Ca'cadasan Empire has it out for the humans. Their Emperor had ordered the human species exterminated. But the humans got away, at least some of them, and established themselves ten thousand light years away in the Persius Arm. They were given a thousand years to establish themselves, but now the Ancient Enemy has found them, and they are still determined to wipe out over a trillion humans. Those humans are not so inferior in their tech as they were, only a couple of decades behind the Ca'cadasans. And they have the Donut, the enormous space station built around a black hole, a century in the construction. The Donut generates wormholes, the one major adantage of the humans over their enemies. There are other technologies on the horizon that the canny humans hope to gain advantage from. If they can keep their Fleet together long enough in the face of a mighty foe to deploy what they hope are war winning techs. And in the capital of the New Terran Empire plots are still alive. The plots of other governments, and of humans with their own agendas. Old enemies sharpen their knives, determined to catch the humans in disarray, while new allies come in on the human side. Will it be enough? Or will humanity be forced to flee once again.
*The Fourth Book of the enormously popular Exodus: Empires at War Series.
The verdict is in, with over five hundred reviews with a 4.4 star average. Exodus is a hit. Continue the journey, or find out what tens of thousands already have.
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Exodus: Empires at War - Book Five - Ranger
Science Fiction
No One Is Safe During a War of Extermination. Especially the Civilians.
Rebecca Goldman was a bright and pretty child, a twelve-year-old with a loving family. Technology allowed them to live comfortably on the most dangerous planet in the Empire, Azure. And then the Ca'cadasans came, and it was suddenly survival of the fittest out in the wilderness. Losing everything, Rebecca has only herself to depend on in a jungle where everything is an enemy.
Cornelius Walborski just wanted to killed Cacas. After losing his wife to the aliens on Sestius, he trains to become a Ranger, the augmented warriors of the Imperial Army. He has never seen anything like Azure, but there are Cacas to hunt, and a mission to perform.
Two unlikely survivors find themselves thrust together, where the man will save the child, and save himself at the same time.
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No One Is Safe During a War of Extermination. Especially the Civilians.
Rebecca Goldman was a bright and pretty child, a twelve-year-old with a loving family. Technology allowed them to live comfortably on the most dangerous planet in the Empire, Azure. And then the Ca'cadasans came, and it was suddenly survival of the fittest out in the wilderness. Losing everything, Rebecca has only herself to depend on in a jungle where everything is an enemy.
Cornelius Walborski just wanted to killed Cacas. After losing his wife to the aliens on Sestius, he trains to become a Ranger, the augmented warriors of the Imperial Army. He has never seen anything like Azure, but there are Cacas to hunt, and a mission to perform.
Two unlikely survivors find themselves thrust together, where the man will save the child, and save himself at the same time.
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To Well and Back (The Deep Dark Well)
Science Fiction
*Caution: This work contains strong language, brief sex, and extreme violence, including torture.
Pandora Latham is back. It is two years after the events in The Deep Dark Well, and the Nation of Humanity has sent a force to destroy their enemies, the Kingdom of Surya's, presence in the Supersystem. The Nation has the ships and the plan, and the horrific continuation of the plan, the extermination of all aliens in the systems orbiting the black hole. Pandora puts her own plans on hold for the advancement of the cultures around the systems, and comes to the aid of the Suryans. But she may have taken on more than she can handle, and Watcher must come to her rescue, leaving the Donut, the space station around the hole, for the first time in over a thousand years.
The pair confront true evil, as only the perversion of a loving religion into a hate filled creed can be. The Nation should have known better than to challenge the pair in their backyard. Now it is time for the Nation of Humanity to pay.
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*Caution: This work contains strong language, brief sex, and extreme violence, including torture.
Pandora Latham is back. It is two years after the events in The Deep Dark Well, and the Nation of Humanity has sent a force to destroy their enemies, the Kingdom of Surya's, presence in the Supersystem. The Nation has the ships and the plan, and the horrific continuation of the plan, the extermination of all aliens in the systems orbiting the black hole. Pandora puts her own plans on hold for the advancement of the cultures around the systems, and comes to the aid of the Suryans. But she may have taken on more than she can handle, and Watcher must come to her rescue, leaving the Donut, the space station around the hole, for the first time in over a thousand years.
The pair confront true evil, as only the perversion of a loving religion into a hate filled creed can be. The Nation should have known better than to challenge the pair in their backyard. Now it is time for the Nation of Humanity to pay.
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