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

It took just over three weeks for the T.S.S. Mary Anning to reach New Terra.  The research ship was one of the newest in the post-war fleet.  Everything was state of the art, from its two dozen sensor arrays that could tell practically everything about a planet from orbit to every kind of science lab imaginable.  Timothy was one of 30 experts on the mission.  He was also the youngest by far and the only one without a Ph.D.  Yet everyone wanted to have lunch or a cup of coffee with him and get his insights on the planet.  From the types of animals that were once there, the chemical makeup of the soil, the social dynamics of the common man and the hierarchy of the government.  He tried to be polite to all, but he couldn't tell them much of what they wanted to know.  After all, he was only a ten-year-old farm boy when he left.  By the end of the first week most left Timothy alone.


Chapter 120: Journey Home