Blog Tour: RED PLANET LANCERS by Brian H. Roberts

 

RED PLANET LANCERS

by Brian H. Roberts

 

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GENRE:  Science Fiction Thriller

 

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BLURB:

 

Howfar will you go to save a friend?

 

Aftersweeping Dallas Gordon and the American base from Earth’s moon, Emperor ZhangAiguo launches an armada to conquer Ep City and control Mars.

 

RuthlessColonel Song Dajing leads his Emperor’s flotilla to defeat EPSILON’s isolatedMars colony. He brings the same armaments he used to defeat Dallas Gordon onthe moon, plus a high yield missile to annihilate Ep City and its occupants.The US Space Force, occupied with plans to take back the moon, refuses tointervene.

Ina race against time, Dallas Gordon must organize a mercenary squadron andpursue Song before he can deploy his weapons on the defenseless colony. Ep Citycommander Genady Antonov must prepare his civilian workforce for the cominginvasion and plan for the unthinkable should Gordon fail to reach Mars beforeSong does.

 

Taughtand fast-paced, Red Planet Lancers builds tension until the exciting climax.Once you start this Earth-to-Mars rocket ride, you won’t want to stop. Orderyour copy today!

 

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ExcerptThree:

 

As the squadron squeezed in on the rovers, a dense cloud ofdust erupted, obscuring the wheeled transports from view.

 

Dallas said, “The rovers are using rotating brushes. PangXianjing used them to erase his tracks. Song is using them to generate a dustscreen.

 

“Fire into the cloud,” barked the exasperated commander.

 

As they did, rovers nosed out of the dense screen. An orangeglow announced missile launches. The transports backed into the cloud.Brilliant green beams lanced across the distance, but to no effect.

 

“Missiles away!” shouted Dallas. Streaks of orange leapt inall directions. The ASSETs’ AI briefly disengaged from their primary targetsand attacked any missiles within their thirty-degree field of fire. Missilesthat escaped, suddenly veered toward the nearest Water Bug.

 

The hair on Dallas’s neck stood on end. “Evasive, evasive!”he screamed. He jerked his Bug up and away from two missiles, barelymaintaining control.

 

Six klicks away, Sake’ rolled her Bug just as a missilestreaked by. The rocket’s scream was deafening as it passed. She turned and theprojectile disappeared in a green flash.

 

Her echelon was not so lucky. Both Dusty and Big Seal tookdirect hits before they could react. “Big Seal!” shouted the wing leader. “He’shit!”

 

“NO, NO, NO!” Dallas tracked the smoking ruin of theNavajo’s water Bug as it tumbled to the ground, raising a rusty cloud of duston impact.

 

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What was the mostchallenging thing about writing this book and how did you overcome it?

 

I’m a plotter. When I writea book, I don’t just sit down at my keyboard and bang away. I like to buildthings from the bottom up. I use an excel workbook to detail the backstory formy main characters and outline the plot, determining what happens when. Once Isit down, I know what each chapter will contain, making the writing effortless.

Red Planet Lancers has anumber of plot lines, each weaving through the others, coming to theirconclusions at the end. Normally it takes me about a month to flesh out mycharacters and lay out the plot. But I had a number of plotlines that weredead-ending for me. For the first time in my career, I experienced writer’sblock. Or more accurately, plotter’s block.

The months began to tickby—two, three, four. I was getting frustrated. Then one night I woke up at 3AM. Seeing the entire book in my mind’s eye, I rushed out to my desk—afterputting some clothes on, it’s cold in Central Oregon in January—grabbed a stackof scratch paper and started writing down my thoughts. I ended up with aboutfive pages of hand-written notes. When I dotted my last “i” and crossed my last“t”, I headed back to bed. It was the best I’d slept in weeks.

The next day I typed mynotes into my outline. After that the writing flowed. My characters faced asuperior adversary, fell in love, squabbled, problem-solved and betrayed oneanother. How did it end? You’ll have to read Red Planet Lancers to find out!

 

 

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

In his first life, BRIAN H. ROBERTS worked asa contractor and civil engineer in bustling Seattle. In his spare time he readnovels by the greatest names in science fiction: Andy Weir, Frank Herbert,Arthur C. Clarke, Ray Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, and so many others. As he readthese authors’ works, he was inspired to write Sci-Fi Thrillers to engage andentertain readers like him.

As with so many of us, life intervened. Raising afamily, work, remarriage and finally retirement all placed demands on his time.Desiring a change – and time to write – he and his wife traded big city lifefor the outdoor adventures of Central Oregon. His writing draws deeply on hislifelong loves of science/technology and adventure sports. The EPSILON Sci-FiThrillers is Brian’s first series.

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