Author Archive: Sarah Hoyt

MY FRIEND MARTIN L. SHOEMAKER IS HAVING A KICKSTARTER FOR A BOOK HE REALLY WANTS TO WRITE:  Ulla: Martian Song Book 1.

Ulla: Martian Song Book 1 is the first in a line of novellas (short books: around 130 pages) telling a new historical science fiction saga that asks: the question…

What if H.G. Wells was wrong?

 

Once Eugene Hardy was a trailblazer, with a promising future studying law.

But the world outside his small town was cold and unforgiving. By 1907 he has returned home, teaching music at local schools and at his church. His life is quiet now, settled.

Then he encounters the circus train; and he meets the Martian…

The tragedy of London sweeps the world, threatening Martian refugees who never hurt anyone, but who cannot speak for themselves. Suddenly Eugene must stand for individual justice over collective guilt. Only this pacifist musician can protect the last free Martians.

From Martin L. Shoemaker, bestselling author of The Last Dance, The Last Campaign, and Today I Am Carey. Cover by Luca Oleastri.

This book is being produced via a Kickstarter campaign at https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/martinlshoemaker/ulla-martian-song-book-1. Ends June 23.

FROM KAL SPRIGGS:  Valor’s Inheritance.  #CommissionEarned


Her home world and most of its people have been captured by alien invaders. All too many of the cadets and personnel she served with have been killed in the defense of their planet. The Century Planetary Militia’s starships and fighters thrown away by Admiral Drien to cover his cowardly retreat.

All that is left is a meager inheritance for the survivors: a handful of ships, off-world accounts, and refugees willing to give all they have to save their homeworld. Multiple factions of survivors compete to control those resources. Some, like Jiden’s grandmother, want to build up a force to liberate their planet. Others, like Admiral Drien, want to gain the support of a stronger power and let others do the bleeding to save Century.

Jiden, as before, is in the middle of it all. She will have to manage meager resources while she trains up new recruits to save Century. Because whether they can acquire more resources or not, the Centurions are going to save their people. Jiden knows that in the end: all the wealth and power of Century doesn’t matter; the true inheritance of Century is the willingness to shed blood to save it.