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The Lost Colony Ship: A Wild Military Science Fiction Adventure (Aeon 14: The Orion War Book 1)

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Major Tanis Richards didn't start this war, but she's sure going to finish it.The greatest colony ship ever built has been Tanis's home for over a hundred years. Now she's been ripped from it, captured and tortured by pirates eager to learn the vessel's location. What they don't know—but are soon to find out—is that Tanis hails from humanity’s golden age. She has both the ability and the will to take out anyone that stands between her and reunion with her people. Freed by an unlikely group of smugglers, Tanis joins forces with Sabrina’s crew, traveling to Bollam’s World where she last saw her colony ship. Her mission leads the crew across hundreds of lightyears of space, from bar-room brawls to facing the most powerful fleets in known space in a showdown between lost ancient technology and modern might. What she doesn't know, is that her actions are about light a fire that will spread across all human space. If you love the small-crew dynamics of Firefly, the gritty realism of Battlestar Galactica, combined with the far future, galactic playground world of Star Wars, then The Lost Colony Ship, and the Orion War series is made for you. Formerly Published as Destiny Lost Read more

Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Wooden Pen Press (November 1, 2016)


Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 1, 2016


Language ‏ : ‎ English


File size ‏ : ‎ 3953 KB


Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited


Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled


Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported


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X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled


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    • Awesome Adventure
Fast-paced and action-packed,this book is full of intrigue. The characters are awesome, both well developed and easy to follow. I really like this book and I highly recommend it.
Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2023 by Larry B Gray
    • An Excellent Sci-fi space opera
M.D. Cooper is no stranger to writing or Sci Fi. His library is absurdly long and contains some of the best modern sci fi in terms of technological writings you can find. Often times Sci-fi can be criticized for aspects of society they leave out, like sexual fluidity or gender fluidity, but not Cooper, he seems to be absolutely unabashed in his willingness to stare these things in the face. Whatever comforts he has he doesn't let it stop him from imagining a future that seem to follow expected trends, while coming up with other expected changes. For this long running series, Destiny Lost is actually a starting point, where as you can ignore the previous books and jump right in here. That's what I did and so that is how this review will focus. Despite the at times campy nature of Cooper's work, especially in the Rika series of books, the amount of effort gone into making his technological parts fit is incredible. Destiny Lost opens with a very clever monologue about how certain technologies cause societies to change, where as efficiency is lost, for example, when readily available resources come into play. It takes very little effort on the part of the reader to follow and though there is a lot of material, it doesn't at any time feel too hard to follow. Easily the technology is one of the most exciting aspects of this book. Building off of the excellent expositions on tech, the book manages to make the mundane work performed for galaxy shipping really fascinating. Cooper could have written this entire book on just the shipping and it would have been excellent. The military parts later on get an equal amount of love and attention and the details in logistics are never left out. Instead of being mundane and boring these details become a clever little hook that stays for the entire book. One might not realize how much they wanted to enjoy just reading about the daily operations of a starship until reading Cooper's work. As mentioned earlier, Sci Fi has a diversity problem. A lot of modern sci fi leaves out concepts like sexuality, where as the flip side to it ends up being the exception. This is no doubt due to authors themselves being uncomfortable or openly hostile to the topic. Unfortunately revising history really isn't the point of sci fi and the inability of many authors to accept clear changes in societal thinking happening now, and extrapolating them to the future is a great failing on their part. Cooper doesn't fall into this at all, in fact his approach to LGBT is quite refreshing. Rather than tokenizing a character or a relationship, he injects fluidity into his world in many small subtle ways. You can tell that this or that isn't considered a problem or a big deal or a deal at all by how Cooper works with it and this is without having relegated any one character to playing a role. The two things preventing this book from being a masterpiece are minor issues, but should be mentioned anyway. The first problem is the tech tends to act often as a hand of god creating and solving problems through techno babble and wand waving. This is a problem because it means the suspense of the book is lost before you reach the halfway point. The second issue is more with Cooper himself and can be found in just about all of his works. His phrasing can get vulgar at times and while that isn't the issue itself, that he's apparently incapable of seeing how some people are not like that is. His use of the A-word for example seems to be even across all of his characters, but not everyone is comfortable with that language. The issue isn't that he uses it or his characters do, but that all of his characters do and it never seems to occur to him that not everyone would. Minor issues, not worth passing this excellent book up over. In conclusion M.D. Cooper has a long history of writing excellent science fiction. The covers look trashy and some of his work can be rather campy action at times, especially Rika, but make no mistake this is excellent Science Fiction. If you're considering this book and bothered reading this whole review then you should really give it a try. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 29, 2019 by Supified
    • The Orion War begins
Author M.D. Cooper brings us the opens chapter to the Orion War. Sara and the crew of Sabrina are hired to bring what they think is a small dog in cryo freeze to one of the Mark Pirates who control the underworld of the galaxy. On their way out of that system several AST ships come in and raid the system looking for said dog. But Sara and the crew of Sabrina are smart and they double time it to the jump point. As soon as they're in the Dark Layer (hyperspace) they open the crate to find out that its a woman. Tanis Richards to be exact. Tanis's nano and AI Angela tell Sara and her Bio not to worry that they'll take care of the repairs to Tains' body and her baby which is in stasis. Later they make contact with the Mark Pirate that Sara was supposed to turn Tanis over to but what happens is that the leader of that group of pirates is killed by his own first officer and she takes Sara captive. Tanis and the crew then head for a station that Tanis then barges for upgrades to Sabrina as they mount a rescue mission to get Sara back. This is a great book and I'm looking forward to reading the rest of the Orion War series. I highly recommend this book to all science fiction fans. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on December 21, 2021 by Kindle Customer
    • Excellent page turning space opera
This is the first M.D. Cooper I have read. There seems to be a lot out there and that is good. I have been starting a lot of Science Fiction lately that I start and have to put down because the dialog is adolescent claptrap and the there are too many holes in the plot at the start. This is NOT the case with this book. It is nicely written. The dialog, while sometimes a bit superficial, is directed at actually moving the plot along rather than just filling pages. I find myself reading his stuff late into the evening, not being able to stop because the plot has twists and turns that fascinate me and the characters are interesting and one becomes enamored with their progress. While these are available for free on Amazon Prime, I have bought the next book. I am about a third of the way through the next book in the series (and I won’t be a spoiler), the plot takes a twist I didn’t foresee and the writing seems better in this book than the first. I think I will be reading his books for a while..... ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2020 by Stephen L. Mcconnell
    • Sassy women to follow
This is the first book of Michael Cooper I've read. Fortunately it is also the first in the new Orion War series. I am so relieved! Now I can keep up with further details as new books in the series get released. What a riveting start this was! Action and more action all the way! And the heroes are two women, Sera and Tanis. Both are sassy leaders. Both hide secrets to boggle the mind. The story is fast paced, the chosen universe believable and the characters well drawn. I cannot wait to see what happens in the next installment. Great military type action Sci-fi! ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2017 by Manie Kilian
    • Tanis rocks - Great start to a series
I first read a short story about Tanis Richards in Bob's Bar. I liked the writing and the character and so I bought the first three books of Orion War collection. It was published in November 2016. Destiny Lost is the first book in the Orion War series. It isn't really about the Orion War but sets up the story for the rest of the series. We are introduced to the major characters and most of major story arcs for the forthcoming series. The writing is compact and fast paced. The characters are well drawn out and the story is exciting. There are some good hand-to-hand and space combat scenes. The chapters are kept short which allows M. D. Cooper to keep up the manic energy but still allow some character development. I do like a bit of space opera and this hits all the high notes, it has a well developed universe, the right mix of plot and action and fun characters whose journey you want to join. This was such a lot of fun that I hope the rest of the series can keep up. ... show more
Reviewed in the United States on January 21, 2019 by albionphoto

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