Rick Partlow's Blog, page 2
October 3, 2024
Lots of news…time to catch up!
Sorry I haven’t posted here lately but I’ve had a problem with the website that just got solved.
First of all is the last of all. The last Drop Trooper book in the series came out. Book 16: Kill Chain.
After years of wandering through the galactic wilderness, Cameron Alvarez is home.
But home isn’t there anymore. While the Orion mission was gone, an alien virus brought the Commonwealth to its knees and killed billions. All that’s left is a provisional government on an isolated colony and they need Cam’s help. The new Commonwealth is teetering on the edge of survival and one push could send it over the brink. That push might be the movement known as the Confluence.
Led by an intrepid cyborg called Marakit, the Confluence is trying to bring together the rejects of the old society—cultists, Tahni warriors and the cyborg Evolutionists—in a united front to help the colonists stranded by the apocalypse. But with that carrot comes a stick, in the form of an old and highly illegal sentient AI called Illyana. Illyana controls a fleet of drone warships that can take on anything left in the Commonwealth. And Marakit controls Illyana. She hopes.
While Cam and Vicky investigate the Confluence, the threat of the alien Unity hive mind still looms, one more menace to the fragile remnants of humanity.
One more link in the Kill Chain.
This is it! The epic finale you’ve been waiting for. Book 16, the last installment in the Bestselling Drop Trooper series by Rick Partlow, is here!
And then, Taken to the Stars Book 8: Sanctuary’s End came out as well!
Sanctuary. The perfect refuge from the enemy, the most closely held secret of the resistance, the planet has never been found, never been attacked.
Until now.
Charlie Travers has been preparing to strike at the Anguilar with the help of the US military, intent on going on the offense, but no battle plan survives contact with the enemy…particularly not when that enemy is General Zan-Tar.
The General is the worst sort of enemy, the kind that doesn’t hate, doesn’t take defeats personally. He’s intent on destroying the resistance and his aim is straight at its heart.
Will this be the end of Sanctuary?
And last but not least, Taken to the Stars Book 7: Road of Vengeance was released on Audible today!
https://www.audible.com/pd/Road-of-Vengeance-Audiobook/B0DGY295QG
August 13, 2024
Drop Trooper 12: Blue Force is out on audio!
Drop Trooper Book 12: Blue Force is out today on Audible as an audiobook!
https://www.audible.com/pd/B0DCZWQH73
July 21, 2024
Taken to the Stars Book 7 is out today!
But Giblet has other ideas.
Obsessed with revenge against the Anguilar General Zan-Tar for the death of the woman he loved, Gib steals a starfighter and sets off on a suicide mission for the heart of the Anguilar Empire.
Charlie is forced to make a decision: do his duty to his home and his people…or race to save his friend on the road of vengeance.
July 18, 2024
Deadline for Dragon Award Nominations is July 19th…please nominate World War Mars!
The deadline for nominations for the Dragon Awards is July 19th!
Please consider nominating my novel World War Mars in the SF novel category. It’s free! All it’ll cost you is a couple minutes!
https://application.dragoncon.net/dc_fan_awards_nominations.php
July 9, 2024
World War Mars 3 is out today!
A reprieve…
That’s all the victory over the bug-like Seekers has given Tom Bradstreet and his crew of Marines and Space Force troops on Mars.
Because the failure of his pawns among the Seekers has only made the creature known as the Monitor even more determined to destroy the Visitor and its crew of ancient alien Blessed, sleeping in stasis for tens of thousands of years.
They created the Seekers as their children, their heirs, and manufactured the Monitors to watch over them. But the Monitors rebelled against their gods and used the power they’d been given to devastate the worlds of the Blessed until only those in the Visitor are left. The Monitors are not about to give up until the last of their ancient masters are dead.
And the only thing standing in their way is the crew of the USS Morrigan.
New allies, ancient enemies and secrets as old as mankind itself come together in one last battle for the fate of the galaxy. The final battle in World War Mars.
Book 3 in the next action-packed, gritty military sci-fi series from Rick Partlow, the bestselling author of the Drop Trooper Series and Taken to the Stars.
June 7, 2024
May 21, 2024
Psi Wars Book 2: CONFLAGRATION audiobook is out today!
Psi Wars Book 2: Conflagration is out today on Audible and Amazon as an audiobook!
https://www.audible.com/pd/Conflagration-Audiobook/B0D2PJK2DX
It’s the end of everything….
The greatest heroes of the Commonwealth are gathered in the breach for one last fight. The Transformation Virus rages through human space like a wildfire, changing ordinary men and women into psionic demi-gods, bent on destruction and conquest.
The government has fallen, the military is helpless, and the fate of humanity rests in the hands of a collection of unlikely saviors.
Sandi Hollande, disgraced war hero. Kara McIntire, cold and calculating master spy. Randall Munroe, corporate mercenary. And Caleb Mitchell, the deadliest man alive.
Together, they make a stand against the darkness, but will their only hope for victory be in risking the destruction of all they hold dear?
May 11, 2024
April 30, 2024
Psi War Book 1: Homecoming is out on audiobook today!
Psi War Book 1: Homecoming is out today on audiobook on Amazon and Audible. Grab your copy now!
https://www.amazon.com/Psi-Wars-Homecoming-Book/dp/B0D15K4RJV
