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Title: Stingray: You Can't Hide Forever
Author: Gary Zeiger
Narrator: Tom Antonellis
Format: Unabridged
Length: 5 hrs and 42 mins
Language: English
Release date: 09-29-17
Publisher: Author's Republic
Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
A decade worth of research and development went into the creation of a new prototype warship. New propulsion system twice an order of magnitude faster than current hyper-drives. New weapons, capable of leveling a planet. New shielding, able to withstand barrage after barrage. Her name: Stingray. And she was gone, in a blink of an eye.
Five years prior, the governments of planet after planet voted in favor of being governed by a dozen of the universe's most powerful corporations. The self-governing Planetary Alliance silently fell, replaced by The Conglomerate. They wanted change. One planet stood alone: Earth had seen her fair share of change and wanted no part of it.
Capt. Reginald Epsilon saw the writing on the wall. Refusing to recognize his new commanders and facing court martial and prison, he disappeared without a trace. When Stingray went missing, an all out manhunt for Epsilon was on. Stopping at nothing, Admiral Roth ruthlessly used Epsilon's XO and protégé, the stunning Lt. Jessie Smythe, and her little sister Maggie as pawns. Can he save Maggie and prevent the most powerful warship in the universe from falling into corrupt hands, hands hell bent on destroying Earth?
Members Reviews:
no Pulitzer, but good lightweight fun
These self-published space operas are the comic books of the 21st century...entertaining, action-packed, with not too deep characters, and good story lines. I read this book in one sitting. It has just about everything the author could think of thrown in: transporter beams, cool aliens, exotic weapons, harrowing rescues..you got it! I don't mind an occasional naked woman thrown in, (but I did mind the super metal called "Zillium", as that's too close to Sillyum on the periodic table). Throw away those literary scruples, buy this one, and have some fun.
Rousing Sci-Fi Adventure
Captain Reginald Epsilon uses his stolen prototype warship Stingray to help his former XO, Jessie, rescue her sister who's been imprisoned by enemy forces. Various obstacles stand in their way, but Eps and his motley crew overcome them and make it to the prison. Here the outcome is unexpected, but our heroes escape and the villain of the story meets justice. If you're a fan of fast-paced action, imaginative world-building, and spaceships with all the bells and whistles, this book will provide satisfaction.
Good Writer, Disappointing Story
Its not my policy to buy an ebook before I finish the sample, but this was one of the rare author's whose story had so engaged me that indeed I bought it before reaching the end of the sample. For three quarters of the book I was intrigued by what was unfolding. The main character, Eps, has just enough mystery to take usual conventions off, yet he filled so many others that at the three quarter point was utterly shocked. He assembled a crew, had a cutting edge tech ship that the bad guys were doing very bad things to get and even had part of an alien government come to his aide near that climax. Then the author disappointed me.
