Synopsis: Time travel extremists attempt to destroy Utopia by
crashing an orbital city of 500,000 onto a Muslim planet. Only four
officers from a detachment of Federal Marshals survive. How they
recover from the devastation is the gist of the story, but they're
not fictional characters. The four are real historical heroes
extracted from the 1800s for their valor as the most famous Texas
Rangers of all time. Long Description: Attack on Orbital 454 is a
science fiction novella based on the eventful chapter by the same
title in Mark Clay Grove's first novel, The Serapis Fraktur: The
Conglomerate Series (2013). New characters are added to the
original cast; otherwise every aspect of the original Utopian
novel's mid-25th century timeline remains intact. Attack on Orbital
454 is brief moment in the history of the planet Medina in a far
quadrant of The Milky Way in a fast-paced colonial period when
souls from the past are recycled to the future. Medina is an
Earth-like red planet with a constitutional monarchy ruled by a
benevolent ruler extracted from the past and settled into the far
future with a devout following. Her Majesty, Queen Katy, previously
known as Khadijah bint Khuwaylid (a real person ca.555-620) was in
fact The Prophet Muhammad's first and most favored wife. In this
story she is monarch of an Imperial Conglomerate Colony settled by
The Founder, Charles Dawes (a fictional character in Serapis). Her
palace is located in the capital city, Mecca. The new society that
she establishes is largely secular. Most everyone addresses her as
Queen Katy. The narrative is first person and the protagonist is
Chief Superintendent of Special Operations, a Dawes Conglomerate
Marshal, John "Jack" Coffee Hays (real person 1817-1883). Marshal
Hays is the most famous Texas Ranger of all time and nephew to
American President Andrew Jackson (real person 1767-1845). The
Medina Star System is his jurisdiction.
General
Imprint: |
Spitfire Publishing
|
Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
The Conglomerate, 2 |
Release date: |
November 2013 |
First published: |
November 2013 |
Authors: |
Mark Clay Grove
|
Dimensions: |
229 x 152 x 4mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
|
Pages: |
80 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-9887926-4-7 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Science fiction
|
LSN: |
0-9887926-4-8 |
Barcode: |
9780988792647 |
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