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ROLLING Stone by M. D. Jackson
Marcella thought she was having a nice time on the starliner Interstellar Queen until that man showed up. Steel proves to be more than an unattractive and annoying dinner companion as the bullets begin to fly. Someone wants Marcella dead and only Steel can prevent that. The chase takes them from one end of the ship to the other while anyone could be an assassin!
THE HIDDEN HEART by G. W. Thomas
Sudana knew Old Bill Clanton in his pirating days. She inherits a clue to a great space treasure in the form of an android. Naming him Todd, she allows the Boudicca and her crew to follow the rogue andy to a far planet where terrible secrets lie buried under the planet’s surface. This is Sudana and Zaar’s longest story…so far. Check out their earlier adventures here.
GIDEON’S BURDEN by T. Neil Thomas
JoJo Station is a big, shining ball that sits over Jupiter. Inside her are many levels, each with its own troubles and perks. The Gideons are an organization that tries to appease the needs of the lowest. Gideon Stormcrow is such a servant of the people. When a child from the lower decks goes missing, no cares except for Stormcrow, and his new Earther partner, Gideon James. The search is on and some pretty nasty people seem to be behind several murders and the child’s abduction.
THE PRICE OF REDEMPTION by Jack Mackenzie
Solis DeLacey is an Ensign in the Earth’s Fleet. A mistake in the shuttle docks sends her to an non-human ship, the Kr’tk’tk. There she makes friends with the orangutan-like Guiranam, the ship’s engineers. But something’s not right when the vessel is destroyed, stranding Solis and her friends on the planet, Urwald. Is intergalactic war on the horizon? The answers to everything lie on the planet’s moon. Check out Solis’s later adventures here.
RAGE m a c h i n e Books began a little series called Swords of Fire back in 2010. The idea was to offer longer Sword & Sorcery tales with one illustration a piece. The second volume waited awhile, until 2021, with Swords of Fire 3 in 2024. Fifteen years later and we are getting ready to publish Swords of Fire 4 this Summer. The books have been popular, and even that first volume, despite being fifteen years old, still sells regularly.
We toyed with the idea of applying the SoF format to other genres, thinking a book of Space Operas would work well in the same vein. So….Ships of Steel, hopefully the first of a running series, and no, we won’t wait eleven years for a second book. (The other one is a Weird Westerns book called Devil’s Gulch, cooking now as we speak…)
I suppose I should mention that space-faring captain Sudana and her silvery sidekick, Zaar, from my story, “The Hidden Heart” appeared in four other stories in my collection Whispers of Ice and Sand: Space Westerns. The star of Jack Mackenzie’s “The Price of Redemption”, Solis DeLacey, had an entire novel dedicated to her, The Mask of Eternity. You don’t have to have read these to enjoy this book. These stories stand on their own. But if you find these two space-traveling women interesting you can always check out those other books. We still sell both, of course.
Preliminaries are complete, now the ships of steel can take off..and hopefully, entertain you with some action, adventure and cool ideas. And what better place in a book with this title than with a guy named Steel…
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