Interregnum

Children of Steel #2

by John Van Stry

The war is over, Raj and Cassandra are together, and everything should be 'happily ever after', and return to normal, right? Well, they would be, but Cassandra still has issues to overcome after spending three years in POW camps where abuse and even torture were commonplace and many of the guards were sadists. Raj has gotten over most of his problems, after all he did save his mate's life, but there are still issues from his past that are dogging him. And of course, there are just a few minor things that need to be cleaned up, leftover issues from the war, and some of those issues shoot back. Interregnum is the sequel to 'Children of Steel' and picks up where it left off, continuing to follow the life of Raj, a genetic construct and wage slave to one of the major corporations that dominate Human explored space.

200 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 29, 2015

About the author

I've had a very varied life. I grew up in New York, on Long Island.
I went to school to become an Engineer, then joined the Air Force.
After that I worked first in Robotics, then in Aerospace as a Flight Test Engineer. I moved into the medical fields, then into more Technical markets working for a number of high tech companies where I became a Contractor.
I used to own and raise big cats. I love motorcycles and old cars. I'm a pilot and former martial arts instructor. I'm a fan of the Reno Air Races.
Then there's the stuff I'm not supposed to talk about, but that's another story.
I've seen a lot of interesting stuff go by, met a lot of interesting, wonderful, strange, or sometimes just psychotic people. I've had the opportunity to work on some truly game changing technologies. And while I've had some very bad things happen to me in my life, I've never let it stop me.
Keep smiling.
-John

Reviews

[Daniel Siddle · Rating 4 out of 5]

Conan the Space Pilot

Well written. Episodic. Well designed reality. Predictable. Lacks the sophistication of John Can Stry's later works. The hero is very similar to the author's others protaganosts

[Dave Stone · Rating 4 out of 5]

This second book breaks conventions
Military Sci-fi / Dystopian with optimism.
This book is less frantic than the second half of book one, but more action than the first half had.
This is a much shorter book, by over a hundred pages. and not what we're used to seeing. Most of the war is over and yet the work is not done. What? We don't just fade to black at the moment of Victory? Not here we don't. The war has changed the world, and we get to see how that new slightly different world shapes out. That's were the optimism comes in. This could be a better world than before, but only if opportunity is ceased and a lot of hard work is done. Wow, That's not something you see much of in Sci-fi action novels and if you do see anything like it, it's rarely this well done and enjoyable.

[Paps · Rating 4 out of 5]

Wonderful continuation to the series. Is good how Raj story still got somehting to tell, altough Raj is a good protagonist to follow, I don't see why Baltazar made that invitation at the end, can he truly make as much of a wave as it is expected??

[Mr Tdj · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved the way this expanded on the first book and I kinda hope there are more in this setting following some of the same people