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Where is everyone?
Twenty-five years ago, a message from deep space fractured Humanity. The transmission? Only one word: “Hello.” Half of Humanity wanted to explore it, while the other half wanted to hide. Despite the division, a megaship, called the Traveler, followed the signal through space. Its disappearance only solidified the divide and led to the bloodiest civil war across Humanity, the Sapien War. Ten years later, Humanity met aliens, but not the ones who sent the signal.
Today, Kasey Mako, one of the Traveler’s sons, investigates mysterious phenomena plaguing the galaxy. A virus and missing colony are just the tip of the iceberg for Kasey and the Galactic Union. As Kasey’s team of aliens and humans delve into the mystery, they discover these events aren’t random; they’re connected. They discover a more sinister plot that threatens not only the Union, but the entire galaxy.
Missing Among the Stars is a light-science fiction novel, perfect for a first time science fiction reader and it draws inspiration from The Mass Effect series, the Old Man’s War series, the Wayfarers series, and The Final Architecture series. If you enjoyed those, you’ll love Missing Among the Stars. Buy your copy today and dive deeper into the Among the Stars Universe!
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Tropes: Band of Misfits, First Contact, FTL, Galactic Civilization, Reluctant Hero, Space Battles, Space Pilot, Undiscovered Planet
Word Count: 120000
Setting: The Milky Way
Languages Available: English
Series Type: Continuous / Same Characters
Tropes: Band of Misfits, First Contact, FTL, Galactic Civilization, Reluctant Hero, Space Battles, Space Pilot, Undiscovered Planet
Word Count: 120000
Setting: The Milky Way
Languages Available: English
Series Type: Continuous / Same Characters
Classic space opera needs a misfit group of mavericks, lots of space travel, aliens and a galaxy-wide threat. Missing Among the Stars can check all those with big, fat ticks.
Our misfit mavericks are led by Kasey Mako - a traumatised hero still grieving the loss of his beloved, and who has a phobia around space travel. The team includes various aliens and a couple of cyborgs.
Kasey and his team find themselves dealing with a virus which kills cyborgs, a missing colony and an attack by a supposedly extinct alien race out of nowhere. Through their investigations, they solve some old mysteries, right great wrongs and, of course, set out to save the galaxy. If they didn’t, this would not be the wonderful, classic space opera story it is. But there is a lot more in the story than heroism. There is reflection and sadness as well, with romance and friendship, adventure and exploration, nudging shoulders with tragedy, brutality and betrayal.
I loved it.
My only complaint was that the aliens were not alien enough. They were almost entirely based on earth-like creatures so we have cat people, bird people, insect people etc. I crave truly alien aliens in my sci-fi. But I’m not about to mark down a thunderingly good space opera adventure just for that quirk.
If you like space opera you will really enjoy Missing Among the Stars.
