Fortune has a secret.
Humanity, in its struggle to escape its own planet’s demise, began sending colony ships from Earth almost 700 years ago in the desperate hope a handful would find someplace habitable for human life and be able to continue our species. Only one ship survived.
It survived only because it found a vast swath of alien planets, all terraformed, all utterly abandoned. Alien megastructures cold and lifeless. Alien vehicles left in panicked lines, sealed from the inside, no corpses within. Empty space stations, with no one to run them but the dust. Resources everywhere, ripe for the taking.
But Fortune is different. Of all the planets colonized by humans after the chaos of Migration, this single jungle-infested colony on the very edge of the known universe holds the key to the alien collapse…and to humanity’s survival. Everywhere else advanced alien ruins mar every surface, every planetoid, every debris ring and asteroid, but of the creatures that made them there is no sign. On Fortune something survives….
Unfortunately for humanity, while time is running out, a rebellion is brewing, one that could save our species – or consign it to dust like the aliens that came before us. Now, 700 years after our first brush with extinction, the fate of the human race once again rests on the shoulders of a few: a seven-year-old sociopath and her combat-gifted big sister, a man who’s dreamed of the future, an infamous smuggler, and a Coalition pilot sworn to destroy the rebel cause.
This time, however, the stakes are higher. For lurking on Fortune is a secret.
An epic postapocalyptic science fiction adventure that will make you hold your breath, cry, curse the powers that be, and in the end question what exactly it means to be human.
Off the charts good! I’m not sure where to start. This book series is an amazing read. From the first, Sara King takes hold of your imagination and puts it on a fast ride. I’m now reading a very good book set since this has been read. I know it is a good book but it is very boring in relation to Sara’s work. I find myself thinking about the characters and the plot of this series even while reading another. Strange, but true! If you are a science fiction reader, I promise you will not find a better read than…
Outside the box, Outer Bounds Like the first book in this series, this wee beastie also held my rapt attention throughout. This book, though part of a series, has some very nice stand alone qualities. You can pick this one up first and not really feel that you have missed something (though you really have), go back to the first book please! I have a real hard time making Sara’s offerings last. I cannot put them down, and they page turn themselves until the very end at a very rapid rate. A good measure of how that works is…
Probably my favorite book series ever. I can’t recommend OB2 enough. Ok, so OB1 was great. But OB2 is way better. I frankly don’t know how Sara King managed to cram so much into this book without making it feel disjointed and confusing. In OB1, we met a lot of awesome characters. In OB2, they’re just crawling out of the woodworks and I just can’t wait to learn more about all of them. In fact, as some of them are introduced, I am just certain that when Sara brings some of them together there are going to be hilarious fireworks.Â