Cinch up that lap belt ‘cause we’re goin’ for a ride!Harris Gruberg and Tawn Freely, former Biomarines with the Domicile Defense Force, have been out of work since the centuries-old war with New Earth came to an end two years prior. Engineered and trained for war, they lack the skills and experiences necessary for living among a civilian population. Getting involved in the illegal arms trade to … illegal arms trade to the outer colonies offers the promise of working with something they know… weapons. Will their attempt at earning a living mean war for Eden? Find out as the action filled ARMS series gets underway!
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SODIUM Series
A six-book series that takes Man from his first encounter with aliens all the way to a fight for our all-out survival. Do we have what it takes to rule the galaxy?
AMP Series
Cast a thousand years into the future beyond SODIUM. This eight-book series chronicles the struggles of Don Grange, a simple package deliveryman, who is thrust into an unimaginable role in the fight against our enemies. Can we win peace and freedom after a thousand years of war?
OMEGA Series
Cast a thousand years into the future beyond AMP. The Alliance is crumbling. When corruption and politics threaten to throw the allied galaxies into chaos, Knog Beutcher gets caught in the middle. Follow along as our hero is thrust into roles that he never expected or sought. Espionage, intrigue, political assassinations, rebellions and full-on revolutions, they are all coming to Knog Beutcher’s world!
HADRON Series
HADRON is a modern day story unrelated to the SODIUM-AMP-OMEGA trilogy series. After scientists using the Large Hadron Collider discover dark matter, the world is plunged into chaos. Massive waves of electromagnetic interference take out all grid power and forms of communication the world over. Cities go dark, food and water supplies are quickly used up, and marauders rule the highways. One group of citizens takes a stand. Can they make a difference? And the devastating EM waves, where are they coming from? After months of starvation, a benevolent species arrive in their spaceships to rescue the Human race. Only, are they really so benevolent?
ARMS Series
ARMS is set in the future where Earth was nearing an apocalyptic event. Two competing colony ships were built, taking five million inhabitants each through a wormhole to a pair of newly discovered planets. The planets were settled and not long after the colonies looked to the surrounding star systems for ownership and expansion, which led to a centuries long war between them. A truce was declared after the aggressor side began to lose ground.
Tawnish Freely and Harris Gruberg are genetically engineered Biomarines. Their lives have been dedicated to fighting the war. They find themselves struggling to find work among a population that fears them. Work is found only by delving into the delivery of illegal arms to the outer colonies. Things go awry when they discover their illicit dealings may just be the catalyst that brings back the Great War. They are determined to prevent that from happening.
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A hard core military force in outter space. Battling the enemy. I enjoyed this very much.
This is the 1st in the ARMS series, this is just a lot of fun to read. The 1st is mostly about how the main people get involved, and a set-up for the rest of the 8 books. In this developing, and building complication of life for everybody in the series. Lots of action, and conflicts in an ever more complicated ways. This 1st book is a lot of fun, and you will like the characters. So get this 1st book, and plain on getting all of them, they really do build into an overall great story line. Easy reading, kind of has that “Teen Reader” feel, but I enjoyed it as an 61 year old reader of far more complicated books.
It was a very thought out book and first
Really liked this one. The characters were equal to anything from Star Wars, only more irreverent and funny. The situations they get into trying to sell arms across the galaxy are fun to follow.
Interesting premise, entertaining characters.
I just couldn’t get into this book and just quit reading it
Usually I like to finish a book once I start it, but this one I quit less than halfway through.
great book by a great science fiction author.
Typically enjoyable Stephen Arsenault space operetta. I gobble these up like peanut M&M’s, but they are not high literature.
It kept my interest, showed character development, plot line that didn’ t always go the way you expected. It was a good read
Great book.
Fun Science Fiction read, recommended for fans of genre.
The story was pretty good. I liked a lot of the conceptual work and world-building, the story was simple but had substance, and the characters were pretty good.
Two stars are off because the punctuation in this book needs a lot of work. Normally, I’d just roll my eyes and move on, but the big problem and most common punctuation error was a missing lead quotation mark. There were a lot of sentences that had to be parsed to see if they were said by a character or were narrated. That was frustrating.
I may pick up the next book in the series—as I said, I liked the world-building and really think that the series has some potential. I’m not sure I’d reread it, though. I’m too particular about sentence structure, spelling, and grammar. And this book was rough enough in that way that it pulled me out of the story.
Far too limiting this Good reads thing. Now, what I liked about the book. The characters, while not fully 3 dimensional, were dimensional enough that I could, in some minor way, relate to them About 3/4 of the way through, they started to grow feet. At the end, the two main characters, while still cardboard cut outs, were in the tadpole stage of becoming actualized. Yes… that is what I liked about the characters. They showed promise. I suspect that as the books progress, the two of them would become even more. The bad buy… Red… wassername… she was one, single, dimension. Very predictable. Beautiful and evil, as non caring as they come, unless she broke a nail. Hope she dies early next book. Some of the science in the Sci fi… okay… it’s a fantasy, so let’s not pick nits. everything worked the way it was supposed to because science does that. And Rail guns! Who doesn’t love a rail gun the leaves a 1 kilometer crater? For the curious, that is 3,280 feet. That’s a big crater. More than 1/2 a mile deep.
But…suspend your belief, give it a try. It’s better than most out there, and I’ve read some stinkers. At the very least, it’s a darned good space opera, and I hope these characters are as entertaining as they grow and mature in to real frogs.
Hard to stop reading!
Good read. Characters well developed. I had a hard time to put it dow. Good to stay awake with.
Nice new sci-fi title. Original character classes and a good bit of humor.
Great Sci-Fi series!
Started off slow,but kicked in hard after a couple of chapters. Great read in a different approach.
Another book that’s not worth the time it takes to download. I read a couple chapters but just couldn’t force myself to finish it. The characters are cartoonist and the book seems as though it was written by a 6th grader, or maybe it was written for a 6th grader. Either way, don’t bother