Alien Shores (A Fenris Novel, Book 2) (29 page)

Cyrus stood up, and he went to a port, staring down at Pulsar with its banded colors. For the moment, he was safe. Soon, though, he would have to enter the fray again. It was going to get hairy all right. Cyborgs, Chirr, and Kresh—this was proving to be a deadly, dangerous universe.

Jana came and stood beside him. He put his arm around her. Tomorrow, or the day after tomorrow, he would marry her. He had found his woman, but he had yet to find a peaceful place to live.

I wish we really had discovered New Eden here. Yeah—that would have been a thousand times better than these grim alien shores
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Thank you, David Pomerico, for wanting to see the Doom Star universe continue in a new series. Thanks, Brian Larson, for giving me advice during the writing of the story, and thank you, David VanDyke, for the first round of editing. Thank you, Jennifer Smith-Gaynor, for you excellent editing advice. I’d also like to thank my copy editor Michael Townley for her hard work. A hearty thanks to the entire 47North team. You are an easy and enjoyable group of people to work with. Thank you, Evan Gregory, for your advice on the business end. And I want to give a special thank you to my wife Cyndi Heppner and to Madison and Mackenzie: two of the nicest girls in the world.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

2013 © CYNDI HEPPNER

Vaughn Heppner is the author of many science fiction and fantasy novels, including the Invasion America series and the Doom Star series. He is inspired by venerable sci-fi writers such as Jack Vance and Roger Zelazny, as well as by
The
Nights of the
Long Knives
by Hans Hellmut Kirst. The original
Spartacus
movie and its themes of slave rebellion color much of his work. Among his contemporaries, Heppner counts B. V. Larson’s military science fiction novels as the most akin to the Fenris series. Canadian born, Heppner now lives in Central California. Visit his
Amazon Author Page
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