Author:
Matthew O. Duncan is part of the resurgence of Old School Sci-fi.  His books are a mix of Military Sci-fi, Fantasy, Romance, and Mystery weaved together with non-stop action.  Matt started his writing career as a playwright. He won a number of awards and had his plays produced on local stages.  He put his pen down in the late ’90s but picked it up again in 2011.

O’Hara never wanted to be a hero. He was a combat pilot only because his skills made him the best and Earth needed men like him to fight the enemy amongst the stars. Living a life a service and duty, alone in a cockpit suited him well, but fate had other plans for him. Shot down over an alien planet he was saved by a beautiful and mysterious woman named Katreena. He soon learns that the world is populated by people who seemed to have been lost by time and controlled by stones that the people believe to be divine magic. Wanting only to return to his fleet, he discovers that he has more than a passing connection with the world’s people, a love that resurrects a heart long thought dead and a decisive battle to the war that followed him.

The New Terra Sagas

       Bradley, a junior flight deckhand, also referred to by the pilots as a deck monkey, sat on the floor of the five-story, two hundred foot long empty landing bay located on the top part of the Phoenix.  The stillness was odd, like an abandoned beehive.  24 hours had passed since the last attack and 52 hours since every fighter, troop transport, search and rescue, cargo shuttle and scout ship had left.  Everyone from the flight deck crew was gone, everyone save Bradley.  He was supposed to have left the Phoenix with them, but his transport had engine problems and he, along with 40 other support staff and two pilots, were left behind.  Everyone he worked with, reported to and knew was gone and he didn't know what he was supposed to do with himself.


Chapter 37: Souls in the Dark