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Durga System Boxed Set One: Starfall - Negative Return - Deviant Flux
Jail breaks, heists, and hostile takeovers — they’re ready for it all.
Join this crew of motley, unforgettable characters in the Durga System, a world where every adventure requires quick wits and quicker draws.
This boxed set contains three standalone (but interconnected) novellas.
STARFALL: Starla Dusai is fifteen, deaf — and being held as an enemy combatant by the Indiran Alliance. Willem Jaantzen is a notorious crime lord about to end a fearsome vendetta — and most probably his life. When he learns his goddaughter has been captured by the Alliance, he understands he's her only hope. But saving a girl he barely knows means letting his wife's murderer walk free, and making compromises he’s not sure he can make.
NEGATIVE RETURN: Manu Juric's quick wit and knack for creating unexpected explosions has taken him a long way in the hit man business. At least, until he signs on to a job that might just be out of his league: taking out one of Bulari’s most notorious crime lords, Willem Jaantzen. After the first attempt is horribly botched, Manu realizes he’s in over his head. And the one man he needs to trust the most is the one he’s been contracted to kill.
DEVIANT FLUX: When Starla Dusai receives a tip that her beloved cousin Mona is alive and well on an astroid station out in Durga’s Belt, she drops everything to find her. Thrust into an unfamiliar world of crime cartels and union politics, Starla soon realizes Mona is caught up in a dangerous plot — and that saving her might just mean giving up the new family she’s come to love. If it doesn’t get them both killed first.
Welcome to Jessie Kwak’s Durga System series, a fast-paced series of gangster sci-fi stories set in a far-future world where humans may have left their home planet to populate the stars, but they haven’t managed to leave behind their vices. And that’s very good for business.
You’ll find captivating characters and heart-pounding adventures, all with Kwak’s customary sprinkling of wry humor.
Buy this book and immerse yourself in the gloriously seedy underbelly of the Durga System today.
Join this crew of motley, unforgettable characters in the Durga System, a world where every adventure requires quick wits and quicker draws.
This boxed set contains three standalone (but interconnected) novellas.
STARFALL: Starla Dusai is fifteen, deaf — and being held as an enemy combatant by the Indiran Alliance. Willem Jaantzen is a notorious crime lord about to end a fearsome vendetta — and most probably his life. When he learns his goddaughter has been captured by the Alliance, he understands he's her only hope. But saving a girl he barely knows means letting his wife's murderer walk free, and making compromises he’s not sure he can make.
NEGATIVE RETURN: Manu Juric's quick wit and knack for creating unexpected explosions has taken him a long way in the hit man business. At least, until he signs on to a job that might just be out of his league: taking out one of Bulari’s most notorious crime lords, Willem Jaantzen. After the first attempt is horribly botched, Manu realizes he’s in over his head. And the one man he needs to trust the most is the one he’s been contracted to kill.
DEVIANT FLUX: When Starla Dusai receives a tip that her beloved cousin Mona is alive and well on an astroid station out in Durga’s Belt, she drops everything to find her. Thrust into an unfamiliar world of crime cartels and union politics, Starla soon realizes Mona is caught up in a dangerous plot — and that saving her might just mean giving up the new family she’s come to love. If it doesn’t get them both killed first.
Welcome to Jessie Kwak’s Durga System series, a fast-paced series of gangster sci-fi stories set in a far-future world where humans may have left their home planet to populate the stars, but they haven’t managed to leave behind their vices. And that’s very good for business.
You’ll find captivating characters and heart-pounding adventures, all with Kwak’s customary sprinkling of wry humor.
Buy this book and immerse yourself in the gloriously seedy underbelly of the Durga System today.
370 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 23, 2019
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About the author
Jessie Kwak
55 books130 followersJessie Kwak has always lived in imaginary lands, from Arrakis and Ankh-Morpork to Earthsea, Tatooine, and now Portland, Oregon. As a writer, she sends readers on their own journeys to immersive worlds filled with fascinating characters, gunfights, explosions, and dinner parties. When she’s not raving about her latest favorite sci-fi series to her friends, she can be found sewing, mountain biking, or out exploring new worlds both at home and abroad.
She is the author of supernatural thriller From Earth and Bone, the Bulari Saga series of gangster sci-fi novels, and productivity guide From Chaos to Creativity. You can learn more about her at www.jessiekwak.com, or follow her on Twitter (@jkwak).
She is the author of supernatural thriller From Earth and Bone, the Bulari Saga series of gangster sci-fi novels, and productivity guide From Chaos to Creativity. You can learn more about her at www.jessiekwak.com, or follow her on Twitter (@jkwak).
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September 2, 2023
This set contains the following works, arranged as per ideal reading order~
1. Negative Return: An action and suspense-filled heist which introduces us to a bunch of extremely interesting grey-shaded characters. They include Manu, Gia, Toshio, Oriol, and obviously Willem Jaantzen.
2. Starfall: Through terrible fate and trials, Starla— apparently sole survivor of Alliance's attack on Silk Station— is rescued and becomes a part of Jaantzen's family.
3. Negative Return: Following a devastating civil war in New Sarjun, Starla & Gia come to Maribi Station. Gia is representing Jaantzen in a tough negotiation while Starla is looking for her cousin Mona— who might have also survived and have been noticed in this place. But there is a war brewing within the base. Would they survive it?
The characters are absolutely believable. Action in the first two novellas are clean, mean and effective so that it supports the characters perfectly. The last one was slightly inferior. Nevertheless, I would rate this collection very highly overall, and would love to lap up the remaining books of the Bulari Saga.
Highly recommended.
1. Negative Return: An action and suspense-filled heist which introduces us to a bunch of extremely interesting grey-shaded characters. They include Manu, Gia, Toshio, Oriol, and obviously Willem Jaantzen.
2. Starfall: Through terrible fate and trials, Starla— apparently sole survivor of Alliance's attack on Silk Station— is rescued and becomes a part of Jaantzen's family.
3. Negative Return: Following a devastating civil war in New Sarjun, Starla & Gia come to Maribi Station. Gia is representing Jaantzen in a tough negotiation while Starla is looking for her cousin Mona— who might have also survived and have been noticed in this place. But there is a war brewing within the base. Would they survive it?
The characters are absolutely believable. Action in the first two novellas are clean, mean and effective so that it supports the characters perfectly. The last one was slightly inferior. Nevertheless, I would rate this collection very highly overall, and would love to lap up the remaining books of the Bulari Saga.
Highly recommended.
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