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A lone astronomer spies a massive object in space hurtling towards earth at a pace defying the laws of known physics. When word finally gets out to the public, an unrivaled panic clenches the world's leaders - and global chaos unfolds. When Halcyon finally arrives, and it doesn't act as predicted, military, civilian and scientific leaders aboard the International Space Station are left to try and make sense of the aftermath, and the unexplained events unfolding in Halcyon's wake.
146 pages, Paperback
First published October 9, 2013
About the author
A. Dale Triplett
5 books11 followersArbra Dale Triplett is an Editor, freelance writer, UFO researcher and journalist - scribbling fiction, advertising, marketing and bad poetry on public bathroom walls for more than two decades. As a military brat he spent most of his youth in Germany, then later served in both the Marine Corps and Air Force. After galavanting around the globe, he now hangs his hat in Phoenix.
Dale is the author of illustrated children's book 'Benjamin Oliver Flanagan' and 'The Halcyon's Wake Chronicles' of which episode I, 'Halcyon's Wake: Faith' is currently available in print and kindle versions. Visit 'The Halcyon's Wake Chronicles' fan page on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HalcyonsWake
Follow him on Twitter @DaleTriplett.
Dale is the author of illustrated children's book 'Benjamin Oliver Flanagan' and 'The Halcyon's Wake Chronicles' of which episode I, 'Halcyon's Wake: Faith' is currently available in print and kindle versions. Visit 'The Halcyon's Wake Chronicles' fan page on facebook at https://www.facebook.com/HalcyonsWake
Follow him on Twitter @DaleTriplett.
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December 12, 2017
Sooooooo
I started reading this expecting a fantasy (it's part of a fantasy contest), and what I got was more of a scifi. I was 50% through and had read about multiple kinds of aliens, alien human hybrids, the world ended and people were living on a space station and the moon.
I was waiting around for Mighty Moon Dragons and Space Elves….. but I got…. Thor?
This was a crazy book and I hope I can actually review it.
Plot:
Zek is a marine who’s watching the world go insane after a giant unidentified object started hurtling through space directly towards earth. Countries are throwing nukes at each other, scientists are baffled because it came out of nowhere, religious cults are committing suicide and the whole world panics.
The elite of humanity… basically military and leaders…. are sent into space to go live on a space station, and eventually, go to the moon.
While everyone else leaves to go to the moon, Zek and a woman are left behind on space station to keep things up and to monitor Earth more closely. As it turns out, this woman who Zek has known for decades is actually in on the whole thing. She’s been talking to aliens since she was 4 years old, and she’s convinced that her aliens are the good guys, and the aliens who are on the space station and the Luna station are the evil ones.
The ‘good’ aliens want Zek and her to travel back to Earth after destroying the station they’re on. Zek doesn’t know what to think, and after this point, the story gets crazier and crazier with lizard-like aliens, grey aliens, and telepathic aliens who transfer memories and feelings. Thor gets thrown in the mix as well.
Final Score: 7/10
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Characters:
Zek is the character we start out with, but it branches into other people who are on the station later on in the book.
Zek is a military guy, he was the one who was piloting the space shuttle carrying all of the leaders and important people into space. However, the President orders him to release the cargo hold which had a portion of the passengers in it, with the reasoning they won’t have enough resources to keep them. That may not have been the real reason though, and Zek is haunted by those he sent to their deaths. One of them was his best friend, who was married to the woman he has to stay on the station with.
He’s a pretty grey character, he debates whether he should have refused the order from the president, but he’s not too overly burdened by it. I didn’t know if I liked him or not.
Final Score: 6/10
World Building:
There are lizard-like aliens that are here to ‘destroy and enslave’ humanity, they can shapeshift and make you think they look like someone else.
There are ‘grey’ aliens like the standard 1950’s style aliens
There are the aliens that have been in contact with humanity for a long time including the woman on the station, they have telepathic abilities that send images, emotions and thoughts to the recipient, and can bestow those gifts on others.
This was set in the modern world, so it wasn’t some kind of alternate Earth or something.
Final Score: 6/10
Pacing/Prose/Tone:
This was a very short book, 143 pages, and it read SO FAST. It was over and done before I knew it.
The tone started off adventurous kind of, but it went dark places quickly. There was a POV of a little girl who’s been captured by the alien lizard things, and she’s lead to a killing ground. Women are tied to stakes and being raped to give birth to more alien like hybrids, and killed afterwards – the children are eaten in front of their mothers. It was fucked up.
Pacing Final Score: 9/10
Writing Final Score: 7/10
Originality:
I can’t say I’ve ever read anything like this, there was so much going on by the end my head was spinning
Final Score: 8/10
Audience:
People who like sci-fi
People who like darker stories
People who like apocalyptic stories
People who like aliens
People who like a lot of action
People who like shorter and faster-paced books
I started reading this expecting a fantasy (it's part of a fantasy contest), and what I got was more of a scifi. I was 50% through and had read about multiple kinds of aliens, alien human hybrids, the world ended and people were living on a space station and the moon.
I was waiting around for Mighty Moon Dragons and Space Elves….. but I got…. Thor?
This was a crazy book and I hope I can actually review it.
Plot:
Zek is a marine who’s watching the world go insane after a giant unidentified object started hurtling through space directly towards earth. Countries are throwing nukes at each other, scientists are baffled because it came out of nowhere, religious cults are committing suicide and the whole world panics.
The elite of humanity… basically military and leaders…. are sent into space to go live on a space station, and eventually, go to the moon.
While everyone else leaves to go to the moon, Zek and a woman are left behind on space station to keep things up and to monitor Earth more closely. As it turns out, this woman who Zek has known for decades is actually in on the whole thing. She’s been talking to aliens since she was 4 years old, and she’s convinced that her aliens are the good guys, and the aliens who are on the space station and the Luna station are the evil ones.
The ‘good’ aliens want Zek and her to travel back to Earth after destroying the station they’re on. Zek doesn’t know what to think, and after this point, the story gets crazier and crazier with lizard-like aliens, grey aliens, and telepathic aliens who transfer memories and feelings. Thor gets thrown in the mix as well.
Final Score: 7/10
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Characters:
Zek is the character we start out with, but it branches into other people who are on the station later on in the book.
Zek is a military guy, he was the one who was piloting the space shuttle carrying all of the leaders and important people into space. However, the President orders him to release the cargo hold which had a portion of the passengers in it, with the reasoning they won’t have enough resources to keep them. That may not have been the real reason though, and Zek is haunted by those he sent to their deaths. One of them was his best friend, who was married to the woman he has to stay on the station with.
He’s a pretty grey character, he debates whether he should have refused the order from the president, but he’s not too overly burdened by it. I didn’t know if I liked him or not.
Final Score: 6/10
World Building:
There are lizard-like aliens that are here to ‘destroy and enslave’ humanity, they can shapeshift and make you think they look like someone else.
There are ‘grey’ aliens like the standard 1950’s style aliens
There are the aliens that have been in contact with humanity for a long time including the woman on the station, they have telepathic abilities that send images, emotions and thoughts to the recipient, and can bestow those gifts on others.
This was set in the modern world, so it wasn’t some kind of alternate Earth or something.
Final Score: 6/10
Pacing/Prose/Tone:
This was a very short book, 143 pages, and it read SO FAST. It was over and done before I knew it.
The tone started off adventurous kind of, but it went dark places quickly. There was a POV of a little girl who’s been captured by the alien lizard things, and she’s lead to a killing ground. Women are tied to stakes and being raped to give birth to more alien like hybrids, and killed afterwards – the children are eaten in front of their mothers. It was fucked up.
Pacing Final Score: 9/10
Writing Final Score: 7/10
Originality:
I can’t say I’ve ever read anything like this, there was so much going on by the end my head was spinning
Final Score: 8/10
Audience:
People who like sci-fi
People who like darker stories
People who like apocalyptic stories
People who like aliens
People who like a lot of action
People who like shorter and faster-paced books
January 18, 2016
I love this book. Can't believe I just said that, but it's true. Something about Triplett's style, plotting and the subject matter gave me that feeling I used to get as a kid when I'd read something that would make me giggle and squirm and be mortified at the same time, and just be thinking, "this is sooo cool." I mean, we've got astronauts, aliens, mythological beings, and even Bigfeet, Bigfoots Sasquatches, yeah those things. Triplett makes it work. And a comet is heading straight toward earth - far faster than a comet should be able to travel. Straightforward, intelligent prose with style in a fast moving adventure that takes us into orbit, beneath the earth, and even to the moon.
As fantastical as that all sounds, Triplett brings his military experience, as both Marine and Airman, to bear with just enough technical and procedural detail to make it all feel just right. His knowledge (and obvious fascination with) space travel, UFOs, and mythology is apparent throughout, and infuses the story with his bubbling enthusiasm for all things wacky - but possible.
If you haven't read it, and are looking for something seriously fun and refreshing but with real depth, then do. Right away. You won't be disappointed.
As fantastical as that all sounds, Triplett brings his military experience, as both Marine and Airman, to bear with just enough technical and procedural detail to make it all feel just right. His knowledge (and obvious fascination with) space travel, UFOs, and mythology is apparent throughout, and infuses the story with his bubbling enthusiasm for all things wacky - but possible.
If you haven't read it, and are looking for something seriously fun and refreshing but with real depth, then do. Right away. You won't be disappointed.
January 8, 2018
I have never had this much fun with a book before. Halcyon’s Wake is insane. OK so have you ever been drinking and things get out of hand? You’re telling a story and some guy across from you starts telling a story that one ups yours. So you tell another, even crazier story. Then the same jerk hits you again with a better one. I’m pretty sure that Dale Triplett was having both of those conversations with himself.
Halcyon starts almost reasonable. Asteroid comes screaming toward Earth. Our planet can’t just dodge it, so there is a modest evacuation, and we are on our way. He has a technically sound knowledge of how modern space shuttles work, so you settle into a comfortable stride and you are moving along just fine. Then he hits you.
“Are you going to let me get away with this?” Triplett asks his reader. He gives you a curve ball that has you slowly nodding your head. “Sure,” you say, “Let’s keep going.” A few chapters later he introduces a new idea. It gives you pause. You stop, look around to see if the room is with you or not, because this idea is kind of out there. It takes a leap to follow, but you nod and keep reading.
“Are you gonna let me get away with this?”
Now you are moving down hill. You are at a pretty hefty trot and things are starting to get a little treacherous. You are in unsafe land now. Running too fast. A bit out of breath. You are in this far, so why go back now?
“Double Dog Dare you to follow me here,” he says.
At this point the idea is so intense, so mind blowing that you can’t not go along. You can only nod and keep running. One dare after the next he gives us. “What do you think of this? This OK, are you still comfortable?” he asks.
No, you are not comfortable, things are moving fast now. Ideas are coming that are out of your control. You are moving so fast that you can’t catch your breath. You get more and more concepts thrown at you, more and more outright brilliant, outright crazy ideas. You are starting to realize now that your author might not be all there. You are starting to see that he has no filter. He will take you places that you are not ready for, give you visions that you could never prepare yourself to see. The book is hot now, running out of control and all you can do is hold on with white knuckle, the wind screaming in your ears, your cheeks flapping as he drags you along into the wildest read you have ever had.
There are things in this book that you will not be ready for. Every now and then, you will look at it wondering if the writer is seriously taking you there, wondering if you can suspend disbelief long enough to finish the book.
Do it. Don’t let this one get away. Halcyon is not an experience that you want to go without.
When you are done, go out and buy a bag of Peanut M&M’s. You have earned them.
Halcyon starts almost reasonable. Asteroid comes screaming toward Earth. Our planet can’t just dodge it, so there is a modest evacuation, and we are on our way. He has a technically sound knowledge of how modern space shuttles work, so you settle into a comfortable stride and you are moving along just fine. Then he hits you.
“Are you going to let me get away with this?” Triplett asks his reader. He gives you a curve ball that has you slowly nodding your head. “Sure,” you say, “Let’s keep going.” A few chapters later he introduces a new idea. It gives you pause. You stop, look around to see if the room is with you or not, because this idea is kind of out there. It takes a leap to follow, but you nod and keep reading.
“Are you gonna let me get away with this?”
Now you are moving down hill. You are at a pretty hefty trot and things are starting to get a little treacherous. You are in unsafe land now. Running too fast. A bit out of breath. You are in this far, so why go back now?
“Double Dog Dare you to follow me here,” he says.
At this point the idea is so intense, so mind blowing that you can’t not go along. You can only nod and keep running. One dare after the next he gives us. “What do you think of this? This OK, are you still comfortable?” he asks.
No, you are not comfortable, things are moving fast now. Ideas are coming that are out of your control. You are moving so fast that you can’t catch your breath. You get more and more concepts thrown at you, more and more outright brilliant, outright crazy ideas. You are starting to realize now that your author might not be all there. You are starting to see that he has no filter. He will take you places that you are not ready for, give you visions that you could never prepare yourself to see. The book is hot now, running out of control and all you can do is hold on with white knuckle, the wind screaming in your ears, your cheeks flapping as he drags you along into the wildest read you have ever had.
There are things in this book that you will not be ready for. Every now and then, you will look at it wondering if the writer is seriously taking you there, wondering if you can suspend disbelief long enough to finish the book.
Do it. Don’t let this one get away. Halcyon is not an experience that you want to go without.
When you are done, go out and buy a bag of Peanut M&M’s. You have earned them.
November 26, 2018
I read much more fantasy than science fiction, but I've been curious about this book for awhile. It starts off with a typical, asteroid-is-coming-to-destroy-Earth type of scenario, but doesn't stay typical for long!
The main POV, Zack Dalton, is a cool guy with lots of training, a Marine and astronaut who escapes to the International Space Station with a small group of VIPs. After a couple of months, they have to evacuate the space station and Zack is pulled down the proverbial rabbit hole.
This story gave me so many great moments. It's reminiscent of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, with a bit of Unsolved Mysteries thrown in. Zack and his party find out there's much more to Earth than any of them previously assumed, and inhabitants who had been dormant or in hiding come out in our planet's perilous time of need. I'm a sucker for the supernatural, and I just smiled bigger and bigger as more such elements were piled in.
I had a lot of questions left unanswered, and the ending felt too abrupt, but being book one of a series, I'm assuming more explanations will unfold in detail later. In the latter half of the book a few point of view characters are added who don't have their own story arcs. They give additional glimpses about what's going on, and what Zack will have to face (presumably in the next book), but it felt like a less-than-elegant way to handle these reveals. Despite that, I enjoyed this story immensely. Triplett pulls off an unbelievable story progression with an authentic level of detail.
It's written in first person past tense from Zack's point of view. The additional POV characters are in third person past tense.
I would describe this as science fiction with fantasy elements. Although it could be science fantasy if the remainder of the series continues heavier in the fantasy direction. The potential for that is certainly established, but there's no telling where this ride will take us next. It's safe to say, I'm looking forward to the sequel.
The main POV, Zack Dalton, is a cool guy with lots of training, a Marine and astronaut who escapes to the International Space Station with a small group of VIPs. After a couple of months, they have to evacuate the space station and Zack is pulled down the proverbial rabbit hole.
This story gave me so many great moments. It's reminiscent of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, with a bit of Unsolved Mysteries thrown in. Zack and his party find out there's much more to Earth than any of them previously assumed, and inhabitants who had been dormant or in hiding come out in our planet's perilous time of need. I'm a sucker for the supernatural, and I just smiled bigger and bigger as more such elements were piled in.
I had a lot of questions left unanswered, and the ending felt too abrupt, but being book one of a series, I'm assuming more explanations will unfold in detail later. In the latter half of the book a few point of view characters are added who don't have their own story arcs. They give additional glimpses about what's going on, and what Zack will have to face (presumably in the next book), but it felt like a less-than-elegant way to handle these reveals. Despite that, I enjoyed this story immensely. Triplett pulls off an unbelievable story progression with an authentic level of detail.
It's written in first person past tense from Zack's point of view. The additional POV characters are in third person past tense.
I would describe this as science fiction with fantasy elements. Although it could be science fantasy if the remainder of the series continues heavier in the fantasy direction. The potential for that is certainly established, but there's no telling where this ride will take us next. It's safe to say, I'm looking forward to the sequel.
February 22, 2018
This is the 5th SPFBO 2017 book I've finished reading and it is indeed one hell of a strange ride.
Zack is a widowed Marine that has been tasked with the mission to fly the recently revamped Discovery Shuttle out to space with the president and a few other lucky people including several soldiers, scientists and a bottle of really, really good bourbon. Why is this happening? Because just a few days ago a strange meteor defying physics called Halcyon is going to hit Earth and everyone thinks its the end of the world. As expected, nuclear bombs blast left & right and maybe humans will kill each other before the meteor does. When President Bielski orders Zack to open the compartment door and kill nearly everyone on the ship, he starts to realize things are only going to get wierder and he has unwittingly been tossed into the middle of a massive alien contact situation.
I think that if you are into ufos mixed with Nordic mythology gods (aliens?) with the type of witty comedy from Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, you're going to have a lot of fun with this book. The writing is very easygoing, Zack and a fellow geeky scientist turned Rambo named Mouse are pretty much the two protagonists and the two new friends share an opposing view of what happens to Earth and all of the aliens that have suddenly popped out of their secret hideouts and into the open.
The story started a bit slow for me, but things get interesting once Zack is in the International Space Station and discovers there is a secret moon base that isn't what it all seems...
Plotwise the story is really unusual for a fantasy novel, it sort of blends SciFi, UFO type stuff and fantasy all into one place. The book clearly has a broad genre appeal. The book has some scenes that gave me a vibe from the first Men in Black Movie (in a good way). There is some swearing and an implied rape scene at the end so the book might not be adequate for younger readers. I do think that the one really bad thing about the book is that it sort of starts to fly all over the place once they start to introduce the 5 different alien races. I got confused with the hybrids and Cycerans and we still don't know if the alien with telekinesis that lives in Alaska is of the same race as the others popping left & right in the plot.
Since several of the alien races are giant Bigfoot species that are meeting long lost brother clans, I would have wanted a bit more description to tell them apart. We get introduced in the last third of the book to so many different alien races that it became really confusing.
For better or worse, the book doesn't explain what the meteor is, why its floating above the atmosphere, what the purple skyskin thing is and why Zack and a horse named Álo now have purple eyes as an after effect of the weird stuff named liland whereas it didn't have any effect on nearly anyone else. There is definitely a lot of questions left in the open that will have to be explained in the still unreleased sequel. A very fun book to read.
Zack is a widowed Marine that has been tasked with the mission to fly the recently revamped Discovery Shuttle out to space with the president and a few other lucky people including several soldiers, scientists and a bottle of really, really good bourbon. Why is this happening? Because just a few days ago a strange meteor defying physics called Halcyon is going to hit Earth and everyone thinks its the end of the world. As expected, nuclear bombs blast left & right and maybe humans will kill each other before the meteor does. When President Bielski orders Zack to open the compartment door and kill nearly everyone on the ship, he starts to realize things are only going to get wierder and he has unwittingly been tossed into the middle of a massive alien contact situation.
I think that if you are into ufos mixed with Nordic mythology gods (aliens?) with the type of witty comedy from Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, you're going to have a lot of fun with this book. The writing is very easygoing, Zack and a fellow geeky scientist turned Rambo named Mouse are pretty much the two protagonists and the two new friends share an opposing view of what happens to Earth and all of the aliens that have suddenly popped out of their secret hideouts and into the open.
The story started a bit slow for me, but things get interesting once Zack is in the International Space Station and discovers there is a secret moon base that isn't what it all seems...
Plotwise the story is really unusual for a fantasy novel, it sort of blends SciFi, UFO type stuff and fantasy all into one place. The book clearly has a broad genre appeal. The book has some scenes that gave me a vibe from the first Men in Black Movie (in a good way). There is some swearing and an implied rape scene at the end so the book might not be adequate for younger readers. I do think that the one really bad thing about the book is that it sort of starts to fly all over the place once they start to introduce the 5 different alien races. I got confused with the hybrids and Cycerans and we still don't know if the alien with telekinesis that lives in Alaska is of the same race as the others popping left & right in the plot.
Since several of the alien races are giant Bigfoot species that are meeting long lost brother clans, I would have wanted a bit more description to tell them apart. We get introduced in the last third of the book to so many different alien races that it became really confusing.
For better or worse, the book doesn't explain what the meteor is, why its floating above the atmosphere, what the purple skyskin thing is and why Zack and a horse named Álo now have purple eyes as an after effect of the weird stuff named liland whereas it didn't have any effect on nearly anyone else. There is definitely a lot of questions left in the open that will have to be explained in the still unreleased sequel. A very fun book to read.
October 15, 2013
To be perfectly honest, I don’t read a lot of science fiction. Every once in a while, I get a hankering, but it’s not something I read on a regular basis. That being said, the narrative of Halcyon’s Wake: Faith, was so easy to sink into. The first person narrative of the main character, which was at times so snarky and relative I couldn’t help but love him, made the experiences in the story feel frightening real. It made me wonder, as I’ve often done, how the survivors of an apocalypse would really carry on, and I think Triplett did a believable job capturing the chaos and the fortitude necessary to carry on when all is seemingly lost.
I gave it 4 out of 5 stars, and highly recommend to hardcore sci-fi fans, as well as the occasional sci-fi dabblers (like me!) Triplett knows how to tell a story
I gave it 4 out of 5 stars, and highly recommend to hardcore sci-fi fans, as well as the occasional sci-fi dabblers (like me!) Triplett knows how to tell a story
October 16, 2013
Triplett's writing grabs your attention from start to cliff-hanging finish! Rough and ready action with quick-witted humor, and wildly imaginative plot, characters, and scenes. The descriptive writing jumps off the page, creating a new world unlike any other in Sci - Fi fiction. Grab a copy and start reading!
October 26, 2013
Just got done reading this book...DAMN YOU CLIFF HANGERS! It is so freaking good I can not wait for the next episode to come out! Dale Is it done yet?! lol I cant wait! Its gonna keep me awake at night just thinking about it!
December 19, 2014
Genre: Sci-fi
Rating: 3
I listened to/read this book.
OK read. Probably won't read the sequels. It was a bit all over the place. The grammar needs improvement.
Fred Filbrich does an OK job narrating.
Rating: 3
I listened to/read this book.
OK read. Probably won't read the sequels. It was a bit all over the place. The grammar needs improvement.
Fred Filbrich does an OK job narrating.
October 7, 2016
Amidst juvenile fart jokes, threats of butt hickies, and honest-to-god space sasquatch, I couldn't help but laugh out loud at the epic insanity spewing out of Triplett's brain. Halcyon's Wake is clever, entertaining, and a conspiracy theorists wet dream as Major Zack Dalton rides the wake of the world's greatest disaster, giving his life for what's left of his country-and the world.
Halcyon's protagonists are extremely likable, despite Zack's nonchalant humor that had me laughing throughout the book, Beth is my favorite character. And that's saying something when she's up against a semi-purply glowing, mutant, Marine astronaut, samurai...
Yes, there's that much epic in this book.
I am a sucker for a great female lead. Give me a headstrong woman who can hold her booze and out smart a smart-ass and I am one happy reader. I'm convinced Major Beth Hodgson can take on the Drakos single handedly if she's riled up enough to do so. She's not one to let emotions get in her way, she has a duty to perform and she's going to get it done. I am pretty excited to see her let loose and kick some ass in episode II.
This is definitely a series I will be keeping up with. If you're the type of reader who can sit back and allow an author's imagination to just run with it, then you'll really appreciate The Halcyon's Wake Chronicles. Faith is one wild, twisted tale.
I suppose I owe Dale an apology, which he will dutifully receive once I am able to scrub the traumatizing events of Halcyon's Wake from my delicate mind. He is as cruel as he is comical. Bastard...
Death to the Drakos!
Halcyon's protagonists are extremely likable, despite Zack's nonchalant humor that had me laughing throughout the book, Beth is my favorite character. And that's saying something when she's up against a semi-purply glowing, mutant, Marine astronaut, samurai...
Yes, there's that much epic in this book.
I am a sucker for a great female lead. Give me a headstrong woman who can hold her booze and out smart a smart-ass and I am one happy reader. I'm convinced Major Beth Hodgson can take on the Drakos single handedly if she's riled up enough to do so. She's not one to let emotions get in her way, she has a duty to perform and she's going to get it done. I am pretty excited to see her let loose and kick some ass in episode II.
This is definitely a series I will be keeping up with. If you're the type of reader who can sit back and allow an author's imagination to just run with it, then you'll really appreciate The Halcyon's Wake Chronicles. Faith is one wild, twisted tale.
I suppose I owe Dale an apology, which he will dutifully receive once I am able to scrub the traumatizing events of Halcyon's Wake from my delicate mind. He is as cruel as he is comical. Bastard...
Death to the Drakos!
November 18, 2013
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Halcyon's Wake: Faith by A. Dale Triplett
This is a fantastic story if anyone likes aliens and mayhem because the author describes the story in great detail and it was very enjoyable.
Halcyon is a comic heading straight for earth differently causing the end or so all thought countries setting of bombs to one another. The president and a few select men
and women get off the planet and head out to the moon. They have found a group of people from around secretly building a living thriving community. All but
two go to the moon Major Zacharias and Major Elizabeth Hodgson stay on the shuttle and find out aliens are also on the moon helping and that Halcyon is a
race of evil aliens. The shuttle gets hit by small rocks and makes the two escape in the pod and land on a purple earth that has caused some strange good and bad
effects. Zack gets messages in his head and finds himself with clans sharing earth on a different dimension 8 in all different clans. Will they get together and and
save earth or will we be gone forever from earth.
April 1, 2014
What an entertaining yarn. It felt like the author was spinning this tale to me as we chatted next to a warm fire sipping on aged whiskey. I have the feeling that Mr. Triplett will only get better as he lengthens his writer's stride.
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