Derelict: Marines

Derelict Saga, Book 1

By: Paul E. Cooley

Narrated by: Paul E. Cooley

Fifty years ago, Mira, humanity's last hope to find new resources, exited the solar system bound for Proxima Centauri B. Seven years into her mission, all transmissions ceased without warning. Mira and her crew were presumed lost. Humanity, unified during her construction, splintered into insurgency and rebellion.

Now, an outpost orbiting Pluto has detected a distress call from an unpowered object entering Sol space: Mira has returned. When all attempts at communications fail, a search and rescue vessel is dispatched from Trident Station to intercept, investigate, and tow the beleaguered Mira to Neptune.

As the marines prepare for the journey, uncertainty and conspiracy fomented by Trident Station's governing AIs, begin to take their toll. Upon reaching Mira, they discover they've been sent on a mission that will almost certainly end in catastrophe.

The Derelict saga is a suspenseful mashup of hard military sci-fi, space opera, and mystery.

Some mysteries shouldn't be solved.

©2017 Paul E Cooley (P)2017 Paul E Cooley

Weird annoying voice effects.

There are weird voice effects like echo applied to the narration. Annoying and distracting. Gave it an hour, couldn't stand it.

Good story so far

I liked it. Interesting universe and vision of the future. I found that the book went by rather fast.

Fun book!

The right level of character development, space Marines and geek for a great story! And of course a cliffhanger on the way to the next book.

Slow

this part of the story is slow and a little boring. I love his books so I am sure the second part will be more interesting.

Entertaining

The book started off slow but ended up catching my attention. Going to listen to the second book now.