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Echoes of the Fallen
When the mind dies, the body follows. When technology fails, only instinct remains.
The asteroid city-ship Bifrost—home to millions—has gone dark. Its last transmission was a scream that echoed across space before it cut to static. Now it’s drifting in orbit above a gas giant, and something is very, very wrong.
Major Zale Stathis leads the rescue team that boards the silent ship, expecting to find disaster. Instead, they find transformation. The vanhat haven’t just attacked Bifrost—they’ve infected it, turning the great fortress into a living weapon. Mechanical creatures hunt in the shadows, cyborg abominations patrol the corridors, and the ship itself is being rewritten from within.
But the greatest horror isn’t the monsters stalking them through the dark—it’s the silence in their heads. Cut off from their SCBI companions, stripped of the cybernetic links that have kept them alive through countless battles, Stathis and his Wolf Legionnaires are more vulnerable than they’ve been since basic training. Fighting with nothing but k-bars, grit, and half-remembered tactics, they must navigate a nightmare where technology has turned against them.
But when they enter Shorr space—where nightmares take physical form and madness spreads like a virus—even the Wolf Legion might not be enough.
When all technology fails, sometimes the only thing left is the warrior’s heart.
The asteroid city-ship Bifrost—home to millions—has gone dark. Its last transmission was a scream that echoed across space before it cut to static. Now it’s drifting in orbit above a gas giant, and something is very, very wrong.
Major Zale Stathis leads the rescue team that boards the silent ship, expecting to find disaster. Instead, they find transformation. The vanhat haven’t just attacked Bifrost—they’ve infected it, turning the great fortress into a living weapon. Mechanical creatures hunt in the shadows, cyborg abominations patrol the corridors, and the ship itself is being rewritten from within.
But the greatest horror isn’t the monsters stalking them through the dark—it’s the silence in their heads. Cut off from their SCBI companions, stripped of the cybernetic links that have kept them alive through countless battles, Stathis and his Wolf Legionnaires are more vulnerable than they’ve been since basic training. Fighting with nothing but k-bars, grit, and half-remembered tactics, they must navigate a nightmare where technology has turned against them.
But when they enter Shorr space—where nightmares take physical form and madness spreads like a virus—even the Wolf Legion might not be enough.
When all technology fails, sometimes the only thing left is the warrior’s heart.
432 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 29, 2025
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About the author
William S. Frisbee Jr.
34 books57 followersReader, writer, martial artist, US Marine, Veteran, Squad Leader, Team Leader, Saw Gunner, Rifleman, Computer Consultant, Security Officer, Dungeon Master, world traveler, Computer Gamer, dreamer, realist, American and best of all Dad!
Growing up in Europe during the height of the cold war and then serving in a Marine SOC (Special Operations Capable) Battalion during the collapse of Communism provided a lot of life experience and a unique perspective on life and the world. The first novel he read was Jules Vern's 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea' when he was ten and has been reading ever since.
Before the Marines he was a pocket protector wearing nerd, after the Marines he held jobs as a Security officer/Patrol Sergeant, Lieutenant and other odd specialized jobs like body guard or surveillance, and ended up brushing off the pocket protector to become a Computer Consultant.
These days he dreams of quitting his day job as a computer consultant to work full time as a writer and dad.
Learn more at http://www.WilliamSFrisbee.com Thank you!
Growing up in Europe during the height of the cold war and then serving in a Marine SOC (Special Operations Capable) Battalion during the collapse of Communism provided a lot of life experience and a unique perspective on life and the world. The first novel he read was Jules Vern's 'Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea' when he was ten and has been reading ever since.
Before the Marines he was a pocket protector wearing nerd, after the Marines he held jobs as a Security officer/Patrol Sergeant, Lieutenant and other odd specialized jobs like body guard or surveillance, and ended up brushing off the pocket protector to become a Computer Consultant.
These days he dreams of quitting his day job as a computer consultant to work full time as a writer and dad.
Learn more at http://www.WilliamSFrisbee.com Thank you!
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October 12, 2025
An improvement
Better than the previous instalment.
This picks up immediately from the conclusion of book 11. Things get hairy very fast. New safe zones are cleared on the Bifrost, and more politics become apparent.
Stathis is still written as an idiot. He continously says he feels useless, for instance when they're quiet and moving to an objective. What does he expect to be doing? His humour (or badly written attempts at humour) has just become annoying. The author presses on with Stathis using language terms of our modern English, that has no meaning to the people around him. Wasted dialogue and space. I assume simply to add unnecessary bulk to the book. It stopped being funny a very long time ago. The incident with Shrek is his own fault too, there's no excusing that. A five-minute timer when he knew damned well he'd never be clear. Perhaps this will mature him.
Sif gets told by the aliens how they survived the purge. She later had an episode and asks Munin how did they survive the purge. Lazy writing or poor writing?
Winters being useless as usual. No direction in her thinking. Unsure about everything. Yet she's supposed to be "a great Admiral". Oh wait let me guess, just cause she's former-USMC, that makes her great at everything and beyond reproach.
Better than the previous instalment.
This picks up immediately from the conclusion of book 11. Things get hairy very fast. New safe zones are cleared on the Bifrost, and more politics become apparent.
Stathis is still written as an idiot. He continously says he feels useless, for instance when they're quiet and moving to an objective. What does he expect to be doing? His humour (or badly written attempts at humour) has just become annoying. The author presses on with Stathis using language terms of our modern English, that has no meaning to the people around him. Wasted dialogue and space. I assume simply to add unnecessary bulk to the book. It stopped being funny a very long time ago. The incident with Shrek is his own fault too, there's no excusing that. A five-minute timer when he knew damned well he'd never be clear. Perhaps this will mature him.
Sif gets told by the aliens how they survived the purge. She later had an episode and asks Munin how did they survive the purge. Lazy writing or poor writing?
Winters being useless as usual. No direction in her thinking. Unsure about everything. Yet she's supposed to be "a great Admiral". Oh wait let me guess, just cause she's former-USMC, that makes her great at everything and beyond reproach.
August 25, 2025
Hellos and Goodbyes
Whoever wrote the synopsis for the book needs to be fired. The main events of the book don't happen until 60% of the way in. Winters and Sif have to deal with meeting a new alien race, which brings a whole new set of problems. Stathis and Hakala make progress on retaking Bifrost. There's no changing Bifrost into a weapon or anything like that. Stathis strikes back against Frogbath, great insult by the way, and has to deal with unforseen consequences. This makes him become a better leader and turn into the major he needs to be. Pretty heartbreaking event at the very end, but it makes me ready for book 13 even more
Whoever wrote the synopsis for the book needs to be fired. The main events of the book don't happen until 60% of the way in. Winters and Sif have to deal with meeting a new alien race, which brings a whole new set of problems. Stathis and Hakala make progress on retaking Bifrost. There's no changing Bifrost into a weapon or anything like that. Stathis strikes back against Frogbath, great insult by the way, and has to deal with unforseen consequences. This makes him become a better leader and turn into the major he needs to be. Pretty heartbreaking event at the very end, but it makes me ready for book 13 even more
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August 15, 2025This is one of the best
I've read so much military sci fi that they sometimes start to blend in. This series finds what everyone is doing and eats its face. Every book has been worth it. Every one 5 stars. This is a MUST READ series for those of us who love military science fiction. The first feeling I felt at the end of this one? Sadness, because I'm all caught up now and there is no next book. My second time reading through the series to get caught back up. Didn't slip a single book
I've read so much military sci fi that they sometimes start to blend in. This series finds what everyone is doing and eats its face. Every book has been worth it. Every one 5 stars. This is a MUST READ series for those of us who love military science fiction. The first feeling I felt at the end of this one? Sadness, because I'm all caught up now and there is no next book. My second time reading through the series to get caught back up. Didn't slip a single book
August 18, 2025
Outstanding
Last Marines. Lucky’s Marines. A lot of Marine stories out there. Who knew Marines are so literate? Frisbee makes a space Marine story drop and give him 20 in every chapter as he consistently gets 110% out of his plots and characters. If a good story wasn’t enough, the inner monologues and the banter between brothers makes you grin. 12 books in and I’m still expecting a “shut up, Stathis” to pop out at anytime as comic relief.
Last Marines. Lucky’s Marines. A lot of Marine stories out there. Who knew Marines are so literate? Frisbee makes a space Marine story drop and give him 20 in every chapter as he consistently gets 110% out of his plots and characters. If a good story wasn’t enough, the inner monologues and the banter between brothers makes you grin. 12 books in and I’m still expecting a “shut up, Stathis” to pop out at anytime as comic relief.
August 25, 2025
Wow !
This is an awesome chapter in the ongoing story. As always you get pulled into the story . Can't wait for the next installment
This is an awesome chapter in the ongoing story. As always you get pulled into the story . Can't wait for the next installment
October 2, 2025
Echoes
Loved it! Fast Paced interesting and compelling! Drew you in and kept you coming back for more! Great Read! Semp Fi
Loved it! Fast Paced interesting and compelling! Drew you in and kept you coming back for more! Great Read! Semp Fi
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