So, it should be published within the next 12-36 hours. Keep an eye on Amazon/B&N for it. I'll try to check and when it does come up I'll post the links here.
This is what you are looking for:
EDIT: it is on Amazon. Thank you Daniel for pointing it out:
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VZH4MKQ/
Here it is on B&N:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/books/1121722448?ean=2940151523318
Description:
Fleet Admiral John Henry Irons mission to the secret Lemnos facility that changed his life was what some would call, a success. But he returned changed, he had lost one of his AI to rampancy after fighting an Xeno AI Wraith, and his greatest AI, his confidant Commander Sprite had chosen to leave him.
He didn't return to civilization alone however. He brought with him over a hundred precious sleepers, officers and enlisted personnel ready to help rebuild the Federation once more, along with petabytes of precious blueprints and data, designed by some of the greatest minds of the Federation.
But before they can begin to forge a new fleet they have to stop the rampaging Horathian Empire in it's tracks. Rear Admiral Amadeus White has been assigned to push the enemy back and keep them back while Admiral Irons and Subert work on building new ships. Admiral Subert has his own problems to deal with in Pyrax. He needs time, time to adjust, time to clean up the mess. Time to build more ships.
But the enemy within and without won't wait. Napoleon said it best, "You can ask me for anything but not time!"
The Battle Lines have been drawn!
Found it!
ReplyDeletehttp://www.amazon.com/dp/B00VZH4MKQ/
So excited Chris you the man!
ReplyDeleteI liked the book, but... even with knowing the book was short, it felt cut off, short. None of the individual viewpoints help satisfy curiosity.
ReplyDeleteAdmiral Subert: I never truly felt he experienced the blowback of his management style. We never really felt the public opinion on the matter. Yes, you saw transfers out, and that it was felt and handled by the navy's PR department. He is an outsider, causing people that are central in Pyrax to leave. Even in militaries today there are ways to respond to unliked figures, especially ones who yell and scream at them. You don't give any details on the screw-ups that happen in a shipyards whose tasking radically change. And for the gambling- you tell us it happens- you don't show or give cut-sceenes of it happening.
Admiral Amadeus: Where are the interpersonal interactions, person on the street views of him, the real responses his stripping of assets cause, (i.e. warships and colliers) as front is no more important then any other until the battlecruisers appear.
Admiral Irons: We don't see much of him from an engineering perspective. Where are his personal thoughts on the yards, the ship designs, He has fleet strategy to set out, and he doesn't seem to be doing so. Where is the goals and strategies to be set forth to the fleet. he seems to be giving the other admirals their freedom to roam rather then doing his job as fleet admiral. His personal life seems to be falling off as well.
It just seems that as much as this is about the federation reborn, it is about it falling apart. Where is the government, the senate? Where is the federal structure? Irons actually seems to be a lot less together in this book. It might be that as he has space, less stress, there is less holding him together, especially with Sprite removed, Defender gone, and April a Guild agent.
Thank you for the input.
DeleteI plan to have a lot of the political and man on the street pov in PR. This book I stuck to mainly Subert and White and yes left Irons alone for the most part.
I may have a bit of a reaction to Amadeus in J4. (brain fart)
I had originally planned a time skip and a completely different book for book 1 of the Federation Reborn. But things evolved from that plan and like Weber I was forced to accelerate my plans. What's that line about asking for anything but time? :P
In other news, sucky day. My BP was through the roof again at the doc this morning, so they stuck me on meds. (I've apparently been internalizing stressors a little too much)
And, to make my day worse, the newest addition to the family Lil Red (Who is in J4) proved positive for Feline Leukemia when we took her in to get her vaccines a few hours ago. In taking her in to the house (she's a feral kitten born in my backyard) I may have exposed the boys to it. I'm not in a happy mood now. Sigh.
Hopefully tomorrow gets better.
Thanks for the input though. I'll copy it and give it a look for J4 and PR. :)
Chris, I love your books and reading them but make sure you take care of your health. Yes, I will obsess until I get to read J4 but make sure your BP is under control. Leaving it run wild will only lead to really bad things!
ReplyDeleteHi cyberforge, I'm here to add my own 2 cents, yeah i'm giving my opinion about your latest book, i do hope this help you for later.
ReplyDeleteThis book feels incomplete, at least for me, i have read several of your books and at least on the federation universe, the books of the wandering engineer and jethro, you always had a main character, and you tend to write around 1/3 of the book about whatever is happening in the universe in general terms and what is happening to the secondary characters, while 2/3 of the book are focused on the main character and how he deal with whatever set of problems he has during the book, also you treat the main character as a first person view for the author, you ussually gives us how he is feeling and how he is dealing with the situation and his own emotional scars and background.
Battle lines doesn't have a main character, you treated everyone as secondary, we go chapter to chapter getting updates on what is happening in the universe and what each character is doing in general terms but we don't have a main character in the whole book to get behind and see what is happening, any of the 3 admirals could have been a good choice for the main character, or you could have chosen all 3, but you never took the time to choose someone and develop them.
Having read all your previous books and now this one i feel i got 1/3 of the book and that you lost or left in the bathroom the other 2/3 of it.
Think about it, in the jethro series is obvious the main character is jethro, in the wandering engineer is obvious is admiral irons and trinity the main characters, yes you give us updates about horatio and the enemies and a lot of other stuff is happening in the universe but most of the story is focused on the main character, this time who is the focus?
Well I will wait for J4 thanks for your time.