{"product_id":"homecoming-the-spiral-wars-book-9-9798329634396","title":"Homecoming: (The Spiral Wars Book 9)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eUFS Phoenix\u003c\/i\u003e is finally homeward bound. On the way is Tuki Station, in barabo space, hit just now by a force of sard ships, working in concert with a larger invasion from alo space. An alo and deepynine fleet has attacked, and humanity's forces are in turmoil despite all of \u003ci\u003ePhoenix\u003c\/i\u003e's efforts over the past three years to prepare them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNia leads the assault, Styx's old AI queen nemesis from the Drysine\/Deepynine War, the greatest armed conflict in Spiral history, twenty-five thousand years ago. But what does Nia seek? Is she after the drysine data-core, which \u003ci\u003ePhoenix\u003c\/i\u003e recovered nearly three years ago? Does she pursue members of the Debogande family visiting Hoffen Station, as a way to get at \u003ci\u003ePhoenix\u003c\/i\u003e's captain personally? And if she's making a full-scale attempt to remove humanity as a strategic threat, why do her battle plans look so odd?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNia is the greatest synthetic military mind in history, save for Styx. Human Fleet desperately needs Styx's help, yet Supreme Commander Mazungu is terrified of ceding her, and \u003ci\u003ePhoenix\u003c\/i\u003e, too much power. And now Styx herself has competition, as \u003ci\u003ePhoenix\u003c\/i\u003e's shipboard AI Shali has just acquired a massive analysis program from reeh space, designed specifically to map Nia's mind, and beat her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut can Nia be predicted, before it's all too late? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eReviews for Renegade: (Spiral Wars Book #1)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eI thought this was going to be yet another cookie-cutter space opera, boy was I wrong! This was fantastic.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e...it hits the sweet spot between hard-science and imaginary scifi science. The hard science is very hard, from the perils of centrifugal spin-gravity in combat spacecraft to the destructive potential of ultra-fast kinetic energy weapons. The scifi science is made-up, but it has the key properties which all-too-often are missing: Internal Self-Consistency and Attention To Unintended Consequences. This makes the scifi science semi-hard as well...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e...The characters are memorable and engaging...\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e...I have read this series out to book #6. It just keeps getting better and better. Buy these books.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinchell D Chung\u003cbr\u003eFounder, Atomic Rockets Website\u003cbr\u003ehttp: \/\/projectrho.com\/public_html\/rocket\/\u003cbr\u003eAmazon Review, September 25, 2019. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Joel Shepherd is one of the most dynamic science fiction writers working in the field today. Each of his books blends pulse-pounding action with mind-blowng concepts and a deep understanding of the complications of the human heart. He is one of our very best.\" \u003cb\u003eLou Anders, author of Frostborn and Hugo-award winning editor.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Independently Published","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51254065496338,"sku":"9798329634396","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_456aacbf-bcaf-4bfd-a237-d825f87c0938.jpg?v=1746305510","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/homecoming-the-spiral-wars-book-9-9798329634396","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}