Quantum Zero: Prequel: The Jankin Decatur Series

by Philip Nolen, Terrence Zavecz (Editor)

Praise for Quantum Zero"New military sf with both the physics and the history meticulously worked out in interesting ways” --- David Drake____________"… a new series by Philip Nolen, an epic tour de force that will draw, hold, and envelope you in a tale of Earth's first star colony; the coming of age of a people."--"Steve Alten, NY TImes & international best-selling author of The MEG series._______________________Sol System’s unending war continue conflict whose depravations are restricted by treaty to off-Earth locations. War is good business but wasteful of materials and experienced spacers. Spacers, whose training takes years to develop and is costly, are growing scarce. Earth’s leaders found a solution in their history; impressment. The distant star colonies were little touched by war’s ravages with merchant fleets possessing an abundance of both material and spacer talent. Warring empires need but take what they want and discard the rest.Until one tiny colony decides to resist.

114 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 23, 2020

Reviews

[Jim · Rating 5 out of 5]

Well, I don’t usually read short stories, but the author asked so I though I’d give it a shot. It’s certainly not a very long book, but it gives a good background explanation of what took place before the first book in the series.

Kraken is a colony planet of Earth. Earth has settled the solar system and expanded beyond in to an Empire. Yet, the home squabbles still exist on Earth. The North American Union (NAU) is fighting a war against the China Trans-Asia Coalition (CTAC) and both are doing badly. So bad that they are taking personnel and material from the colonies without asking.

This story shows how bad that action is against relatively unarmed transports doing their normal trade business. It’s kind of shocking that what they (NAU) do is pretty brutal. You just know that the colony can’t stand for this much longer, but they are forbidden from developing their own technology so they can field their own high tech starships.

So, that’s it. This is why the first book came to be and it’s a very good series. Some very good writing and editing. I think you’ll enjoy this short book and the rest of the series.