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Galactic Knight #1
Rebel Sword
Private Lucas Walker never thought he'd be a hero. As a grunt in United Federation of Sol's peacekeeper force deployed to Pluto's tiny moon Nyx, the furthest barren hellhole in the solar system, he thought his career was all but over even before it began. He day-dreams of lightsabers, vampires, battlecats, wizards, and all things sci-fi and fantasy while he repairs sand-clogged equipment and mops floors.
Then everything changes.
A spatial-temporal vortex opens on Pluto, and out pours an army. A deadly force intent on capturing Earth and enslaving humanity in its quest for universal domination. All universes, all galaxies, all planets--all will kneel and submit to The Dominion.
The crap has hit the fan. UFS marines are overwhelmed. The odds look grim. Humanity teeters on the edge. The future of civilization now depends on Private Walker and his ragtag band of misfit UFS peacekeepers, armed only with weapons stolen from the enemy. He needs to figure this hero thing out fast, or all is lost.
Rebel Sword is a LitRPG Space Opera Fantasy novel, by bestselling science fiction author Nick Webb and Jacob Rennaker, who have teamed up to write the Galactic Knight series.
Then everything changes.
A spatial-temporal vortex opens on Pluto, and out pours an army. A deadly force intent on capturing Earth and enslaving humanity in its quest for universal domination. All universes, all galaxies, all planets--all will kneel and submit to The Dominion.
The crap has hit the fan. UFS marines are overwhelmed. The odds look grim. Humanity teeters on the edge. The future of civilization now depends on Private Walker and his ragtag band of misfit UFS peacekeepers, armed only with weapons stolen from the enemy. He needs to figure this hero thing out fast, or all is lost.
Rebel Sword is a LitRPG Space Opera Fantasy novel, by bestselling science fiction author Nick Webb and Jacob Rennaker, who have teamed up to write the Galactic Knight series.
261 pages, Paperback
First published March 16, 2020
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About the author
Peter Bostrom
12 books56 followersPeter Bostrom is the pen name of Nick Webb as he co-writes Science Fiction with other authors.
Nick lives in Seattle, and someday wants to be the first man to die on Mars. Not like a heroic, failed-Nasa-mission style death where he plummets through the thin atmosphere and crashes into Olympus Mons, but a calm one in a hospital with plenty of fantasy books to ease his passing.
Nick lives in Seattle, and someday wants to be the first man to die on Mars. Not like a heroic, failed-Nasa-mission style death where he plummets through the thin atmosphere and crashes into Olympus Mons, but a calm one in a hospital with plenty of fantasy books to ease his passing.
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September 17, 2021
I was really, really ready to finish reading this book. I’m kind of surprised I did finish it, but Peter Bostrom has written other very good books so I gave him the benefit of the doubt. I shouldn’t have. This would make a better comic book than a science fiction book. It almost reads like a comic book and well, that’s where the main character is getting all his lines and actions.
This is about a maintenance guy turned semi-hero although I don’t know if anybody cares. He’s on one of the moons of Pluto called Nix and he’s a crew of a part of a crew of five or six people that are responsible for whatever is on this tiny moon. For some reason, an unknown enemy decides to open a worm-hole or portal to this tiny moon and start sending troops through. And again, for some reason, there are soldiers patrolling around this maintenance facility. They get attacked and killed rather easily by the invading soldiers which causes Col Hiller and Private Walker to investigate their failure to report in. Col. Hiller is a war hero and some what of an idol of Private Walker. Why a Colonel and a Private went to investigate a possible perimeter breach is beyond me.
Anyway, they find the enemy and Col Hiller and Private Walker attack. The attack doesn’t go too well initially until Private Walker finds some gem stones that were attached to the enemy weapons and clothes. When picking up these stones, he notices that they start glowing and he finds he has some kind of magical power which he can now project like using an invisible weapon.
So from that point on, Private Walker, not Colonel Hiller becomes a comic book super hero fighting hundreds, if not thousands of bad guys all over this moon and on Pluto. There is some humor added to all of this as if the story was supposed to be told with “tongue-in-cheek”, but it didn’t seem to come across too well. Most of it was pretty juvenile and not my kind of reading.
I won’t be reading the next book in this series!
This is about a maintenance guy turned semi-hero although I don’t know if anybody cares. He’s on one of the moons of Pluto called Nix and he’s a crew of a part of a crew of five or six people that are responsible for whatever is on this tiny moon. For some reason, an unknown enemy decides to open a worm-hole or portal to this tiny moon and start sending troops through. And again, for some reason, there are soldiers patrolling around this maintenance facility. They get attacked and killed rather easily by the invading soldiers which causes Col Hiller and Private Walker to investigate their failure to report in. Col. Hiller is a war hero and some what of an idol of Private Walker. Why a Colonel and a Private went to investigate a possible perimeter breach is beyond me.
Anyway, they find the enemy and Col Hiller and Private Walker attack. The attack doesn’t go too well initially until Private Walker finds some gem stones that were attached to the enemy weapons and clothes. When picking up these stones, he notices that they start glowing and he finds he has some kind of magical power which he can now project like using an invisible weapon.
So from that point on, Private Walker, not Colonel Hiller becomes a comic book super hero fighting hundreds, if not thousands of bad guys all over this moon and on Pluto. There is some humor added to all of this as if the story was supposed to be told with “tongue-in-cheek”, but it didn’t seem to come across too well. Most of it was pretty juvenile and not my kind of reading.
I won’t be reading the next book in this series!
June 29, 2020
I've enjoyed a few of this author's works in the past, and I was really looking forward to reading this one. I'm a fan of LitRPG, and this seemed like a fun book that would borrow popular tropes from a number of influential sci-fi properties. It did do that, but unfortunately, that's about all it did. Rather than feeling like a creative, authentic story, it felt like is was more just an amalgamation of those tropes. It worked in some places and really fell flat in others.
What I really struggled with in this book, though, was the humor. There were so many moments where the humor felt forced and/or really fell flat. I think the humor in this book would have been more effective if there had been a concentrated effort to pull of a couple of big key moments of humor here and there, rather than trying to force a bunch of smaller, hit-or-miss moments throughout the book.
Overall, I like this author's work and will probably continue to check out future books, but this particular one was a miss for me and I'm not sure I'll continue on in this particular series.
What I really struggled with in this book, though, was the humor. There were so many moments where the humor felt forced and/or really fell flat. I think the humor in this book would have been more effective if there had been a concentrated effort to pull of a couple of big key moments of humor here and there, rather than trying to force a bunch of smaller, hit-or-miss moments throughout the book.
Overall, I like this author's work and will probably continue to check out future books, but this particular one was a miss for me and I'm not sure I'll continue on in this particular series.
April 16, 2021
Just plain fun.
There will certainly be complaints about what this is not.
It is not thoughtful high brow science fiction.
It is not your typical kind of space opera either.
What it is is campy low brow chuckles and a few laughs and fills with the kind of heroic and impossible clashes from Saturday morning cartoons like GI Joe along with all the cheesy gags combined with a dose of Super Friends and the goofiness of Thundar the Barbarian. It has the hidden appeal of late night TV on the old UHF independent stations and the kind of B movies played at the drive-in in the 60s.
When all said and done what it is is a guilty pleasure type of good clean fun.
There will certainly be complaints about what this is not.
It is not thoughtful high brow science fiction.
It is not your typical kind of space opera either.
What it is is campy low brow chuckles and a few laughs and fills with the kind of heroic and impossible clashes from Saturday morning cartoons like GI Joe along with all the cheesy gags combined with a dose of Super Friends and the goofiness of Thundar the Barbarian. It has the hidden appeal of late night TV on the old UHF independent stations and the kind of B movies played at the drive-in in the 60s.
When all said and done what it is is a guilty pleasure type of good clean fun.
September 20, 2021
Didn't know this was litrpg, and have never read one before. The premise read like a mil sci-fi that I would really enjoy. However this is probably the last litrpg book I will ever read as I found it truly weird. Others may like it a lot, don't know, just not for me. Also I found Lopez to be a *itch of the first order.
March 11, 2021
Very entertaining. Corny humor as young Private Walker in a space military learns what it takes to be a real hero while also figuring out how to embrace his love of fantasy without shame.
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader copy of this book.
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader copy of this book.
March 20, 2021
Fun read!
Imagination, fantasy, science fiction. Space monsters and medieval soldiers on Pluto. And just an afterthought crew of maintenance workers to save the day.
Clever and fun!
Imagination, fantasy, science fiction. Space monsters and medieval soldiers on Pluto. And just an afterthought crew of maintenance workers to save the day.
Clever and fun!
June 18, 2021
Unbelievably terrible book. Juvenile, in a bad way.
March 11, 2021
Very entertaining. Corny humor as young Private Walker in a space military learns what it takes to be a real hero while also figuring out how to embrace his love of fantasy without shame.
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader copy of this book.
I voluntarily reviewed an Advance Reader copy of this book.
April 14, 2021
Not complicated, but an enjoyable relaxing read. Almost like a comic bood for older adults, but better. Very glad I read it and am going to read the next book in series.
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