Reader’s Favorite Gold Medal winner 2019B.R.A.G. Medallion Honoree 2019Chill With A Book Premier Award 2019 An alien starship appears in the Solar System! Humanity faces a glorious future, or total extinction, and only Joe Falcon can make the choice. When an unidentified vessel appears beyond Jupiter, both Earth and Mars begin a frantic race to claim it, aware that whichever world succeeds … appears beyond Jupiter, both Earth and Mars begin a frantic race to claim it, aware that whichever world succeeds might in so doing gain an advantage over the other. But who should they send?
When the Martian surveyor Butterball rendezvous with the visitor, Captain Joe Falcon discovers a ship so immense, exploring its thousands of square kilometers of decks is impossible. As the alien vessel responds to his presence in wondrous yet frightening ways, not a trace of its inhabitants can be found. Virtually everything Joe and his team see defies explanation, and little is what it appears to be. Joe soon realizes he and his crew are expendable and cannot take anything or anyone at face value, including his own employers. And all the time, the crew is being watched and studied. Then humanity learns that this wondrous spacecraft is not their real problem.
Never would Joe have dreamed it would fall to him to make the decision that will alter the destiny of two worlds, launching humanity towards a glorious future, or to extinction.
Falcon’s Call is an action packed plunge into the unknown, written in the style of the great, classic, science-fiction stories. If you like surprising plot twists, compelling characters and a hero who actually cares, read this new novel by Mike Waller.
Pick up your copy of Falcon’s Call today, and let your imagination carry you on Joe Falcon’s journey.
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The Butterball is an old hauler space ship and while looking for salvage they come across a ship unlike anything any of them have ever seen before. This ship is the Minerat and it is so huge that it is like comparing a mosquito to a human. As they explore the ship they can not find any door or entrance and the ship seems to be seamless. When they find how to get in then the fun starts. This ship seems to be alive and produces what humans need to breath and eat.
There is one space battle that dwarfs anything I have read about. There are thousands and thousands of smaller fighter ship that also appear seamless. Needless to say, the people of the Butterball eventually gain entrance. The technology of this ship is just off the scales. Earth and Mars both want this ship but the earth has found it first. There are some great twist all through this book and it is a joy to read. Mike Waller does a great job of telling the story and he keeps you wanting to find out what else happens. Mike’s writing skills are really excellent as he paints a picture in your mind with his words. I have not enjoyed a book in a long time that is as good as Falcon’s Call.
There is just so many twist that you have no idea what is coming. The Earth, Mars and the planet that the planet that built the ship plus another ship that just wants to take it by force. They all want it and it’s technology. The twist towards the end of the book are super and unexpected. Be sure to read the epilogue very closely. This is simply one of the best written books I have read..
This reminds me a lot of David Weber’s “Dahak” series, particularly “Mutineer’s Moon”. There is the examination of an apparently abandoned space craft (this one with occupants, not an AI) by an unexpected explorer (whom the powers that be prefer not to be involved for various reasons) who ends up as a byproduct of the contact changing human society in extreme and profound ways. At least Joe was able to escape the politics at the end.
I received this review copy from Hidden Gems and I am voluntarily leaving a review.
I loved this book! Falcon’s Call is a great science fiction adventure with thought provoking questions about society and honor. The story of Captain Joe Falcon and his freighter crew intercepting a visiting ship from outer space, attempting first contact, becoming involved in an alien war, and working to save humanity is exciting with personal interactions that are realistic yet clean. I couldn’t put it down! Mike Waller is an author to watch!
Please also note that this novel is clean; i.e., no explicit sex scenes. In addition, I am absolutely thrilled that this was a complete story! While there is room for a sequel, the reader is allowed the satisfaction of a true beginning, middle, and end. Nowadays, most other sci-fi authors seem to think they can’t sell books unless they write obvious series – many with the hated cliffhangers or hooks. THANK YOU!!
There is a lot about this book I really like. It is written like you would talk, so it is easier to understand. There is not a lot of technical talk. It has the people as a family despite not knowing one another very well. It is exciting well written and the plot is unbelievable. I would like to see more from this. I would like to know how the father Joe comes back and how him and Jake disturb the information to the world. To me there is a lot more books in the making. I received a complimentary review copy of the book and I am voluntarily leaving a honest review.
Allan Pierce was an astronomer looking for changes In the Near Earth Orbit of astronomical bodies he had discovered object NE372BJ4 it had appeared 15 days before and it did not jail as an asteroid or comet. He had discovered it by bright blue flayer but the phenomena never reoccurred it was slightly elongated book well beyond the orbit of Jupiter and much too far from the sudden for there to be a tale. The light curve was wrong it was uniform and invariably bright the Outer System Exploration Laboratory agreed to a formal request for the probe Cox 24 to take a picture as it passed by the object. The object was an alien spacecraft on its way towards the sun. Joe Falcon owned the starship named Butterball after a golden retriever he had as a boy it was either that or Peaches for the cat. He and his crew were in asteroid belt checking out asteroids for a company named AMC he was tossed out of his bed to know gravity and when he called to find out what was going on Sarah Cole his first officer told him it was a meteor shower and they had been hit. There were three on the reactor module four on fusion drive two three more on the tanks and six on the spine there was no damage to the crew area the accommodation wills were turning which is why there is no gravity and they had lost the feed from the reactor had two guys out on the rock and Sarah was going out after them the guys were Carl Geddes and Peter Stanley they were taking core samples and soundings to analyze in the lab it was generally not worth the effort the Carl wanted more time so Joe gave it to. He asked Terry Calwell if there were any hull breaches, Terry told him the engine module, tanks and upper work bay, one engine was out. The reactor was okay but one of the bigger meteors tour straight to the casing of the primary power London Marius Pine and Sam Bright were getting ready to go fix that. Earth and Mars were both trying to figure out how they could beat the other one to the ship earth would make it first because Mars didn’t have any naval vessels close enough to be the earth Navy the ship then they discovered that the Butterball was returning to Kepler station to get everything checked out and fixed that they couldn’t fix themselves. The Mars government and the person Adam Pelfrey discovered that OSEL had gone public with the discovery of an alien ship. Adam contacts AMC who holds the contract on Butterball they have a clause in the contract that allows them to investigate targets outside of his normal field of operation if he refuses he would have to forfeit the contract. This is how Joseph Barnes falcon 58 retired from the earth space fleet and now a citizen of Mars got picked to be earth to the alien ship. They had planned on removing him and his crew and inserting their own crew onto his ship which didn’t happen he knew his rights and the ship was his and they couldn’t confiscated except during wartime and there was no war. His crew included Huang Chan he was called Harry by the crew, he was the second officer, Maeve Pedder was the ship’s trauma officer, he stated that they all had the choice to come with him are to step off that Kepler station where when they got back he would pick them back up. Joe also told them that they could contact their families and discuss it with them but they could not give the reason Nor could they send anything about the ship to anyone he told Chloe the artificial intelligence to edit out unacceptable content in front of the crew and told him he was sorry. He got back to his cabin Sarah was close behind him Maeve popped in and said she was going. To find out the rest of what happens who goes what the alien ship is all about you have to read the book. And it’s a pretty good book…
Joe Falcon and the crew of the Butterball may have been a bit bored, but they bit off far more than any normal person can chew when they decide to explore the Visitor, which is much more than “merely” the cast alien vessel it appears to be. We readers are the beneficiaries, as their tale in Mike Waller’s Falcon’s Call is a totally exciting pleasure to read. But for the fact that I’m literally dictating this review to my husband from my hospital bed I could go on and on with praises. The book definitely deserves it. Since I can’t do that I will simply note that the book is most definitely one to read, and it is easy to highly recommend.