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

       "You wanted to see me Jones?" the captain said as he approached the tactical station on the bridge.


"Yes Sir," Jones answered as he looked up from the half circle of a dozen computer monitors that made up his station.  "I've been reviewing the data on those ships we saw yesterday."


"What did you find out?" Roche asked with a tinge of urgency as he had been waiting for the information.


"I still haven't learned anything more about the first three, but the other two, well, they shouldn't exist."


"The propulsion and weapons were proto-matter based.  It took the computer a while to figure that out because refined proto-matter hasn't been used for over 500 years and our only reference to that use was our limited record of the Sa'larie and Serkin wars.  So I compared the design of the Sa'larie ships to what we saw, and well, they look like what a modern version of Sa'larie ships might look like."


Chapter 55: A New Foe