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Aeon's Legacy #4
Helldive
Hidden inside the Starcross Nebula is a place of interstellar shipwreck. It’s like a Bermuda Triangle half as old as time. It harbors malicious monsters and dangerous mysteries.
It's a hell of a place to attempt a rescue mission.
Captain Zilka Devreze and her crew on the starship Guardian Angel must race against time to find shipwreck survivors in mortal danger. They’ll use Zilka's genius grasp of the intricacies of fast starflight to get in and back out again.
Mission specialist Jack Mistry was an accident investigator in the Solar System in his previous life. Abruptly revived from stasis in the starship Aeon, he agrees to join the unprecedented mission. When he fled from Earth on Aeon, what he expected to find on the other side of the stars wasn't an interstellar accident scene like this. Or a woman like Zilka.
Always as singularly alone as she was brilliant, Zilka discovers that this can change. But first she has to learn how to lead a very assorted crew. And Jack has to learn to follow his heart. They will all learn how death and life, hell and hope, and danger and love intersect in the Starcross Nebula.
It's a hell of a place to attempt a rescue mission.
Captain Zilka Devreze and her crew on the starship Guardian Angel must race against time to find shipwreck survivors in mortal danger. They’ll use Zilka's genius grasp of the intricacies of fast starflight to get in and back out again.
Mission specialist Jack Mistry was an accident investigator in the Solar System in his previous life. Abruptly revived from stasis in the starship Aeon, he agrees to join the unprecedented mission. When he fled from Earth on Aeon, what he expected to find on the other side of the stars wasn't an interstellar accident scene like this. Or a woman like Zilka.
Always as singularly alone as she was brilliant, Zilka discovers that this can change. But first she has to learn how to lead a very assorted crew. And Jack has to learn to follow his heart. They will all learn how death and life, hell and hope, and danger and love intersect in the Starcross Nebula.
282 pages, Paperback
Published December 1, 2018
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About the author
Alexis Glynn Latner
46 books23 followersAlexis Glynn Latner writes romantic speculative fiction that touches readers’ hearts as well as their minds. Her science fiction and fantasy stories have appeared in many print and online magazines and anthologies, including the USA Today best-selling Pets in Space®. Her science fiction novel Hurricane Moon was published by Pyr in 2007 and again by Avendis Press in 2014 with three sequels in the Aeon's Legacy series. A new romantic science fiction series called Starways began with Witherspin. The fourth novel in that series will be Revenant in 2025.
She also has three collections of previously published stories: Ascendance (science fiction), Tomorrow's Mascots (romantic science fiction), and Sixth Sense of Wonder in late 2025 (science fantasy.)
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July 12, 2018
Math is not my friend but, that said, I really enjoyed how higher math was used in "fast starflight" as described in Helldive (Aeon's Legacy, bk 4). You have to be a mathematician at the genius level to calculate "fast starflight" on the fly but, fortunately, our heroine Zilka is described as having inherited her father's genius.
I also appreciated how one of the main characters fainted when the ship went into "fast starflight", a rare reaction but, rare or not, this reaction still happens!
I do enjoy hard science fiction when the stardrive is strictly hand-waving (that is, it works and nobody even thinks of trying to explain HOW to the reader).
But I also enjoy very much hard sf when the author has made an effort to come up with a stardrive that does not break the speed limit (speed of light), even if the starship is going almost, almost that fast. (The stardrives in this book are in the latter category.)
I also especially enjoyed how the three groups of humans from three different colonies/ships interacted (four actually since our hero Jack was straight from old Earth). These groups had been separated long enough to grow apart and develop their own unique cultures. Plus, the humans have met aliens and I totally enjoy first contact stories, even if now is a follow-up contact!
So, I recommend Helldive for people who enjoy character-driven stories, space opera which includes a love story, and how a peaceful people cope when suddenly forced to defend themselves and their loved ones!
I also appreciated how one of the main characters fainted when the ship went into "fast starflight", a rare reaction but, rare or not, this reaction still happens!
I do enjoy hard science fiction when the stardrive is strictly hand-waving (that is, it works and nobody even thinks of trying to explain HOW to the reader).
But I also enjoy very much hard sf when the author has made an effort to come up with a stardrive that does not break the speed limit (speed of light), even if the starship is going almost, almost that fast. (The stardrives in this book are in the latter category.)
I also especially enjoyed how the three groups of humans from three different colonies/ships interacted (four actually since our hero Jack was straight from old Earth). These groups had been separated long enough to grow apart and develop their own unique cultures. Plus, the humans have met aliens and I totally enjoy first contact stories, even if now is a follow-up contact!
So, I recommend Helldive for people who enjoy character-driven stories, space opera which includes a love story, and how a peaceful people cope when suddenly forced to defend themselves and their loved ones!
June 1, 2021
The starship Guardian Angel carrying the gunboats Scorpio, Hawk, Helldiver, and the scout starship Ranger “constellate” into what some of the crew call Starpitfall, others call it the Eye of Fate, others know it simply as Hell. Starpitfall is an interstellar Bermuda triangle, a collection of debris and crippled space vessels erratically orbiting the dim orange dwarf star Grimm. It’s a place known to have no exit populated with giant tentacled monsters who feed on the crew of the ships they crack open. The crew of this mission is composed of humans from the planet Gotayel, the space habitat Avendis, and the generation ship Aeon, is on a search and rescue mission: find a missing science vessel, and if there are any survivors, rescue them! Captain Zilka Devreze is challenged with leading a group composed of people of three different cultures, customs, and values, in addition to the existing dangers of Starpitfall.
This is truly inventive science fiction filled with fast star travel that doesn’t break the light barrier, intelligent aliens that range from avian to electrically mischievous to mystically prophetic, and human characters that come in the four flavors of courageous, refined, rowdy, or imperious immortal Nazis. There’s plenty of action and adventure and even a bit of romance. It’s an all-around stellar performance by the author.
This is truly inventive science fiction filled with fast star travel that doesn’t break the light barrier, intelligent aliens that range from avian to electrically mischievous to mystically prophetic, and human characters that come in the four flavors of courageous, refined, rowdy, or imperious immortal Nazis. There’s plenty of action and adventure and even a bit of romance. It’s an all-around stellar performance by the author.
May 7, 2020
Another great read
One of the best sci-fi series, it's puts the science into science fiction.
My only gripe is that they don't return to Green even though they could.
One of the best sci-fi series, it's puts the science into science fiction.
My only gripe is that they don't return to Green even though they could.
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