Space Opera Fans discussion

Greetings Space Opera Fans!

What happens when you narrowly avoid conviction for a time you didn't commit, only to be dropped down into a black hole and trapped in cryo-sleep for, oh, a few hundred years? That's the premise behind Pursue the Past.



Tamara Samair, a decorated Republic Naval officer, narrowly avoids a wrongful conviction at the hands of a jealous subordinate. Dropped in the void and left for dead, lost in survival sleep for centuries, she awakes to find her world has changed and hitches a ride on a decrepit freighter. Tamara and the crew work together to fix the dying ship, try to fight off pirates with a Republic Naval warship captain ruthlessly pursuing them, all while trying to turn a profit. The Argos Cluster is a dangerous place, but some of the worst threats are those left behind.

ARE YOU READING PURSUE THE PAST? Shout it out in the discussion thread below, find a book buddy, discuss your impressions and post links to your book reviews. Just remember to BE KIND and use the spoiler .html so you don't ruin the fun for somebody who isn't quite so far along.

Be epic!

Anna Erishkigal
SOF Borg Queen

*flails* It feels like a wonderful mix of Harrington, Babylon 5, and Firefly.

Don't forget Andromeda :-) They -did- pull him out of the event horizon of a black hole :-)

Oh yeaaa.....basically I hope other people enjoy this hefty tome. I totally love all the characters on the 'stella.

Oh awesome. I have had this a while, he is an author in one of my Facebook Groups. I bought his book during a week long monthly sale. It always sounded good to me.

I am finishing up another book and I will start this one right away!

Looks fun. Is this Kindle only?

Steph wrote: "Looks fun. Is this Kindle only?"

I believe that it is. I looked for other formats, but didn't find any others.

By the way having a good read of it. I am only about 20% through, but I was reading another book at the same time. Now it'll have all my attention!

That was my reaction also. Something about this series just sucked me in really quick. Like Babylon 5 or BSG quick.

Sidenote: I wish it was in more formats. Is there a way to convert the mobi file after you get it from Amazon? To use on a different reader ect?

Fiannawolf wrote: "Sidenote: I wish it was in more formats. Is there a way to convert the mobi file after you get it from Amazon? To use on a different reader ect? ..."

I just checked and it appears it comes bogged down with DRM, so no :-( If it said 'simultaneous device usage' then you could use the free Calibre ebook management software to convert it into any format you wanted.

Dangit! Because it is a fun series.

This is where I sprout my evil devil-horns and urge readers to contact the author and say 'Dude! DRM is a royal pain-in-the-@$$!!!"

You can probably send him a Facebook message, he is Mike Kotcher there. Haven't seen him post in some of the groups I am in for a little bit though.

I am finally almost done with this book. Taking me a bit as I went from one longer book to another, sometimes I try to feed my brain something less robust.

In any case this has been a fantastic story and glad that it was this months winner. I had it in my Kindle list, but just hadn't gotten to it. I've also found out that I have the second book. Lol. Someday I will actually look at all the books I've bought and hadn't read yet.

Anna wrote: "This is where I sprout my evil devil-horns and urge readers to contact the author and say 'Dude! DRM is a royal pain-in-the-@$$!!!""

Seconded! I have always refused to have anything of mine DRMed, because having readable copies of my older stuff floating around advertises what I'm trying to sell now.

This was a short story I published in '08 http://www.concatenation.org/futures/... http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/...

Because it was freely available after a while it attracted the attention of an editor and I was commissioned to write this: http://ec.europa.eu/research/innovati...

for which I was paid a very good royalty.

The moral of the story is that by rejecting DRM I calculate that I have roughly doubled my lifetime royalties.

Has anyone got any update on this series ? There hasn't been an update as far as i can tell after book 8. Will this series continue or is it done ? Is the author still alive ??