Pimping a book!!!

Marty joins the ranks of published authors!!!

Click the book for the link to Amazon

Still falling cover

Barcus is a senior contract maintenance engineer on the doomed deep space survey ship Ventura. He’s a working stiff looking for a good paycheck. When the Ventura and its crew enter orbit for a scheduled planet survey, it activates an automated defense system protecting the planet. Although the Ventura is destroyed in the attack, Barcus alone survives the harrowing fall to the remote planet surface. He struggles to remain alive, sane, and to discover why everyone he knew and loved on the Ventura was deliberately murdered.

Swinging between despair and fury he discovers that for every answer he obtains there are more questions raised. Barcus is assisted by the Emergency Module, Em, his most useful tool. It is an Artificial Intelligence system contained in an all-terrain vehicle specifically designed to help him survive. Barcus soon finds himself in the middle of a planetary genocide of the local native population. He is unable to stand passively by as more people die. Even if they are long lost colonists who fear “The Man From Earth” like children fear the monster under their bed.

Will he ever find his way home? Will he find out who is responsible? Will his rage just burn this world down? Or will he find his soul in the eyes a starving, frightened woman?

Perfect timing, as I needed something to read on the flight!  Congratulations!

He’s a good guy, and knowing the way he thinks and shoots, it’ll be a great read! His blog is HERE.

I read it on the way out, and it’s a great read! A unique approach to a SF novel, he blends advanced technology and and a regressive world very well, contrasting the two and maintaining the two story lines and their interactions in an interesting way through the use of the characters. Well worth the read! Looking forward to the continuation of the story!

Comments

Pimping a book!!! — 8 Comments

  1. Hey Old NFO;

    I will look at amazon for that book, and I bookmarked his website per your recommendations. Enjoy the flight…and remember…Don’t drink the coffee…unless the water comes from bottles….

  2. Dang you all to heck. Was up til 2:30 finishing it.

    Where’s the next one? 🙂

  3. Murgy- You’ll have to take that up with Marty, but I know book two is in the works…