The Lost Starship

Lost Starship Series, Book 1

Ten thousand years ago, a single alien super-ship survived a desperate battle. The vessel's dying crew set the AI on automatic to defend the smashed rubble of their planet. Legend has it the faithful ship continues to patrol the empty battlefield, obeying its last order throughout the lonely centuries.

In the here and now, Earth needs a miracle. Out of the Beyond invade the New Men, stronger, faster and smarter than the old. Their superior warships and advanced technology destroy every fleet sent to stop them. Their spies have infiltrated the government and traitors plague Earth’s military.

Captain Maddox of Star Watch Intelligence wonders if the ancient legend could be true. Would such an old starship be able to face the technology of the New Men?

On the run from killers, Maddox searches for a group of talented misfits. He seeks Keith Maker, a drunken ex-strikefighter ace, Doctor Dana Rich the clone thief stuck on a prison planet and Lieutenant Valerie Noonan, the only person to have faced the New Men in battle and survived to tell about it.

Maddox has to find a place hidden in the Beyond and bring back a ship no one can enter. If he fails, the New Men will replace the old. If he succeeds, humanity might just have a fighting chance…

©2014 Vaughn Heppner (P)2026 Vaughn Heppner

I’ve been waiting for years

Mark Boyett is a fantastic narrator and for years I have been disappointed that he wasn’t used on the first book in the lost starship series. The previous narrator David Stiffel was so bad and really messed with how enjoyable the book could’ve been but the story was new and unique enough that I moved onto book two in the series and really started to enjoy the series on another level. This book has a great story and an enjoyable amount of characters that continue to grow in each successive book. So using Boyett was a no brainer and a month or so ago the lost starship was unavailable on audible so I waited hoping the reason was because they were re-recording with the better narrator. Good job audible. Hooray for good narrators! One of the best series