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The Missing
Planets
By Hawk
MacKinney
The Cairns of
Sainctuarie, Volume 2
Publisher: Sage Words Publishing
Release
Date: September 2, 2014
Genre:
Science Fiction
Length:
258 Pages
ISBN: 978-0991501458
Buy Links: Amazon | Barnes & Noble
About the
book:
Planet
Terato has become a member of the assembly of the Confederated League of Allied
Star Systems. The Murian Outpost Terato once commanded by His Imperial
Majesty’s Lord High Chamberlain Herklo Korvo XXXIV is now Teratoan staffed and
under the command of Teratoan Eklam a’Qoc.
From
the uncharted reaches between galaxies, attacks of extraordinary weaponry come
against Terato and the Myr worlds of the Murians. Terminus Terato’s expanded link-portals
and converter power modules are virtually useless. Power loss, defenses,
communications and travel are totally disrupted. High Chamberlain Korvo’s
unexpected return to Terminus on a mission for His Imperial Majesty leaves him
stranded on Terato. Attacks grow more massive, more unpredictable; spread
across the worlds of the League, as an isolated Terminus struggles among the
shattered rubble and whispering remains of an ancient Polity of star-walkers.
Family
and friends are lost, empires and civilizations in disarray, Terminus and
Planet Terato almost defenseless. Desperate for answers, their worlds being overwhelmed by this
remorseless aggressor, Eklam and Korvo reach across unexplored space in a
despairing gamble and the last reserves of converter star-substrate, seeking
one insignificant star system of gas giants and rocky inner planets for
possible relics of the elusive Lantaraan Polity.
EXCERPT
Uncle a’Qoc hadn’t been wrong; much had changed. Like the ancient Teratoan proverb… change is part of life, change had come. In ways big and small it had touched all of them. Touched worlds beyond what even Uncle a’Qoc and his determined nephew foreknew, and changed things even the mighty Murian Empire could not know—a tumult of the unexpected. Ek was already a Senior Apprentice the first time he met Herklo Korvo; was one of four honor escorts at the hurried change of command: ruddy-faced Outpost Commander Kartn Gurlo relieved by the steely green-eyed Grand Duke Korvo. Ek sensed Gurlo’s anxiety as Gurlo and the Grand Duke talked with one another. During his apprentice time in Outpost Terato, Ek had started learning the Murian syntax; had studied the complex grammar of the Murian tongue, usually spoken with a soft evenness, and caught only the uttered harsh bleak abrupt Murian idiom.Since then Ek hadn’t heard the expression. The discordant tone of the expression struck a jar to Ek’s ears. In time he learned the expression came from the Malfesian War, when the slaughter of western Feldovat clans destroyed some bloodlines. “… s' bleikovaat... ” Carried an intense meaning for Murians. “… events with unforeseen results... ”None of the others in the honor escort picked up on Gurlo’s disquiet or the cause of it, Ek likely the only one with a grasp of the Murian idiom. And none of the apprentices were aware of its breakpoint implication, of the unexplainable upheavals rushing toward their home-worlds.
AUTHOR INFORMATION:
Hawk
began writing mysteries for his school newspaper. His works of fiction,
historical love stories, science fiction and mystery-thrillers are not
genre-centered, but plot-character driven, and reflect his southwest upbringing
in Arkansas, Texas and Oklahoma. Moccasin Trace, a historical novel nominated
for the prestigious Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction
and the Writers Notes Book Award, details the family bloodlines of his serial
protagonist in the Craige Ingram Mystery Series.
Vault
of Secrets, the first book in the Ingram series, was followed by Nymrod
Resurrection, Blood and Gold, and The Lady of Corpsewood Manor. All have
received national attention. Walking the
Pet is Hawk’s latest release in the Ingram series. The first book in another
mystery-thriller series is scheduled for release in 2015.
The
Bleikovat Event, the first volume in The Cairns of Sainctuarie science fiction
series, was released in 2012. Its sequel, The Missing Planets, has just been
released.
thank you for the excerpt, I enjoyed it :)
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It is a good excerpt - glad U enjoyed it - thank U for stopping by, leaving a comment -
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Queen of All She Reads – thank you for hosting The MissingPlanets, Vol-II of The
ReplyDeleteCairns of Sainctuarie. It’s fun to blur the polyglot of genre(s) and character-driven plots and tales of other worlds & with a touch of romance in rough and ready action. Vol-III is in the works.
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Thanks for hosting!
ReplyDeleteI enjoyed the excerpt, thank you. Sounds like a good read.
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Thank you for sharing this great book! My TBR list has grown a ton thanks to your fantastic reviews!
ReplyDeleteI bet being in Jerusalem was amazing!
Silvia FUGATE – The reviews were fantastic. Being in Eretz Yisrael & working in Yerushalayim nigh onto 2yrs became a whole different world from where I grew up…yet it wasn’t. Layered sagas of cultures speaking from the dusts beyond time. In dawntime moonrises when tourists have fled to the AC hotels, the old city behind Suleiman’s walls whispers across blinks of space-time…from the blistering dunes & mtns of the south & Masada to the lush areas north of Lake Kinnereth/Kinneret/Galilee. I thoroughly enjoyed the whole country…hope you enjoy Missing Planets. Vol-III is in the works.
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I enjoyed the excerpt, thank you.
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I really like that the author's work is plot-character driven. I feel like so many people miss out on so many amazing books because the genre scares them away, but when the focus is on a great plot and good characters people will be able to step out of their literary comfort zone. :-)
ReplyDeletemorwesong - Genres are for bk stores to know where to shelve titles. Plot-character(s)-setting(s)-twists & double-twists are the drivers to the told tale, & lets a reader hook themselves on, “What happens next?”, i.e. the page-turner. Yes, the sci-fi label scares some away. Sad…sci-fi can be fantasy-fun-imagination churners when plot & character(s) develop/are developed OUTSIDE the comfort zone of writer AND reader. Ain’t it fun! And for my characters…thank U for the compliment…they did some churnin’ with me that stopped the write at some points. Luved it! Learned a lot from it too!
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Thanks for the excerpt, i enjoyed read them :)
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I liked the giveaway part best ;)
ReplyDeleteLauren ASH - Thank U for your honesty...spoken like someone who watches their budget. Nothing wrong with that...& thank U for stopping by & leaving the comment -
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