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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Captain Tansky leaned up against the edge of the conference table in the meeting room aboard Station D-102.  Her arms were crossed in front of her as she listened to the incomprehensible sounds being uttered by the Chacona ambassador on the large view screen from the wall before her.  She had turned off the audio translation as their syntax was so alien the computer couldn’t compose a coherent verbal sentence.  Yet the computer could build a reasonable text translation after the alien finished a paragraph or more.  


The Chacona were as alien as they come.  Big as a horse, with yellow scaly skin, they had eight limbs that they walked on and used like hands.  But it was their heads that would give a person nightmare.Twice the size as a typical human head on an extended neck and a mouth that was more like a snake with short jagged teeth.


Chapter 26: The Drums of War