Release date: July 16, 2016
Subgenre: Space opera, military science fiction
About Brother's Pride:
"While the wrecked alien ship on Ghayth provides some interesting new
technology, Admiral Scott has nothing on his mind but his upcoming
wedding to the Lady St. August. In only a couple of months, he’ll have
vows to pledge and a ring to don as he becomes a Royal himself to take
the new title of Lord Scott. And the only thing in his way—even though
he doesn’t know it, is his sister Gia who has pledged revenge upon him
for the death of their sister, Nora.
With the upcoming release of the Ikarian longevity vaccine, the RIM Confederacy realms are all wanting more and more of the vaccines to double their lifetimes, while the Baroness is purposely chocking off the supply. Added to that is the fact that the Master Adept knows what will happen at the wedding and she is hurriedly training her own replacement and the wedding will be where the assassination attempt is made.
But the Master is not the only wedding party member to die at the altar as the admirals sister takes careful aim and screams out her revenge and Tanner falls as do others—all to pay penance for his crime of decades ago…”
With the upcoming release of the Ikarian longevity vaccine, the RIM Confederacy realms are all wanting more and more of the vaccines to double their lifetimes, while the Baroness is purposely chocking off the supply. Added to that is the fact that the Master Adept knows what will happen at the wedding and she is hurriedly training her own replacement and the wedding will be where the assassination attempt is made.
But the Master is not the only wedding party member to die at the altar as the admirals sister takes careful aim and screams out her revenge and Tanner falls as do others—all to pay penance for his crime of decades ago…”
Excerpt:
The admiral turned to his left, as he was sitting in the Adept’s chair on the bridge of the BN Exeter and stared at the captain, who spoke up to answer him
quickly.
“About thirteen hundred
lights inwards, and this star, holds the admiral’s—well, your home planet,
Branton, Sir. That’s her below and off to the starboard side. Helm, enlarge the
view please, but do filter out the ice glare please.”
As the Exeter had just
jumped, using the Barony Drive, from Neres to Branton in less than half a
minute by the view screen sidebar over on the left and there had been no issues
at all.
Thirteen hundred lights—in say thirty seconds.
Impressive, Tanner said to himself and yet he wasn’t here to test the Barony Drive at all…
He was here to visit his home planet after being away for twenty-two
years.
He looked down at Branton and noted that as they came up on the back
side—the side that forever faced outwards towards space rather than ever
towards the sun. It got cold there he well knew—well below zero and as one left
the edge of the backside of the planet to more than a hundred below in a zone
that stretched from north to south.
On the other side, the side that faced the sun—it was much more
un-hospitable. Down the center of the sun-side, temperatures ran more than 180+
degrees on most days and in full summer, when Branton got closer to it’s sun, they hit 220+ degrees most days.
Where there was life, of course, was on the areas on either side of
the sun-side—where zones running north to south, held the millions of Branton
citizens.
“Captain Magnusson, would
you please take her down on the starboard side—that’s what citizens call the
right hand side of the sun-side, captain,” he said quietly and left it to the
captain to work out the details of the move to the starboard side. He nodded
when he was asked if he wanted to go to the capital city, Astillon and again,
let the captain and the crew work out the details. He watched on the view
screen as the frigate came up to the sun side of the planet, and turned into
the sunlight. Filters snapped up on the view screen and they could see again as
the Exeter slowly yawed to the right and moved down to enter the Branton
atmosphere.
They were challenged then by whomever was watching incoming ships and
they passed with a quick—10/4 from the landing officer down in Astillon. The
lieutenant on the helm, made the needed offerings and was told that the Exeter would be allowed to land, and to
take landing pad #43. No other pad, was repeated back to the helm twice and he
confirmed that both times. He raised an eyebrow and looked at his captain over
his shoulder…glee in his eyes…
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About The Rim Confederacy series:
- Book 1: Pirates
- Book 2: Sleeper Ship
- Book 3: Prison Planet
- Book 4: Ancient Relics
- Book 5: Hospital Ship
- Book 6: Desert Planet
- Book 7: Ruined Memories
- Book 8: Eons Semester
- Book 9: Trade Wars
- Book 10: Brother's Pride
About Jim Rudnick:
Being
a youngster in the 1950's meant that I was a voracious reader in what
has been called the Golden Age of Science Fiction. That meant that for
me, my heroes were not on the hockey rink or gridiron - but instead in
my local Library where at 12 I had a full Adult card (thanks Dad!) and
took out more than 5 books a week.
Everyone from Heinlein, Norton, Leiber, Pohl, Anderson, Simak, Asimov, Brackett, Van Vogt and more....I fell in love with and eventually owned Ace Doubles of my own. While I never knew who wrote the Tom Corbett - Space Cadet series, I fell in love with them and they had a place of honor on my own bookcase too!
With that kind of an introduction to Science Fiction, it's no wonder that when got my writing work done, I turned my own fictional side of my brain to writing same. It's one thing I know to write - and a totally different matter to release same to the world - something that I've just started to work on....suffice it to say my own works are rooted in that Golden Age and it's that era that I'd like to one day be known as a teensy contributor to in some small way…
Everyone from Heinlein, Norton, Leiber, Pohl, Anderson, Simak, Asimov, Brackett, Van Vogt and more....I fell in love with and eventually owned Ace Doubles of my own. While I never knew who wrote the Tom Corbett - Space Cadet series, I fell in love with them and they had a place of honor on my own bookcase too!
With that kind of an introduction to Science Fiction, it's no wonder that when got my writing work done, I turned my own fictional side of my brain to writing same. It's one thing I know to write - and a totally different matter to release same to the world - something that I've just started to work on....suffice it to say my own works are rooted in that Golden Age and it's that era that I'd like to one day be known as a teensy contributor to in some small way…
