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.

Jack Reilly’s luck ran out just before the war did. Released on a medical discharge shortly after the end of the war with the Serkins, he went out into the galaxy looking for a job. Signing onto the Glacier Runner 17, an old and rundown cargo ship, Rielly finds himself working for a clueless Captain, mixed up in an intergalactic conspiracy, on the run from assassins and involved with two women in relationships that he could only call ‘complicated.’

Fan’s of Matthew O. Duncan will recognize the universe as the same as from the New Terra Sagas, but this is not a sequel. This is a stand-alone, spin-off with new characters, new worlds and in a different format. Told in the first person from Reilly’s perspective, this is a fast moving, non-stop sci-fi adventure.

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I opened my eyes to see indirect light on a white ceiling.  I had been in enough sick-bays in my life to know that was where I was, I just didn’t know where.  Rolling my head to the left didn’t help as the bed I was in was up against a wall with nothing on it.  Turning to the right, I saw Mitchell in the next bed over in the recovery room that held at least 20.  She was hooked up to a ventilator and heart monitor.  I tried to get up, but my head just spun, and I fell back.  Seeing my movement, the nurse on duty, an older woman with mostly grey hair pulled back in a bun, walked over to me.


“Stay put, Lieutenant,” she said with a rather heavy southern accent as she took a quick review of my medical status listed on the panel over my bed.  “You’re going to be with us for a while.  That low level of oxygen that you had your suit set on didn’t do you any good.  You were just moved out of the rehab chamber less than an hour ago.”


Chapter 22: You Again