Derelict: Halcyone Space, Book 1

by Lj Cohen, Chris Howard (Illustrator)

Overview

When Rosalen Maldonado tinkers with the derelict freighter, she's just hoping to prove she deserves a scholarship to University. She certainly doesn't count on waking the ship's damaged AI or having three stowaways, Micah Rotherwood and brothers Jem and Barre Durbin, along for the ride. They all have their private reasons for hiding aboard and lives they are seeking to escape, but if the accidental crew can't work together and learn to trust each other, they'll die together, victims of a computer that doesn't realize the war ended decades before any of them were even born.

DERELICT is book 1 of the Halcyone Space series of science fiction space opera adventures. ITHAKA RISING, book 2, and DREADNOUGHT AND SHUTTLE, book 3 are available now. PARALLAX, book 4, will be out June 2017.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780984787081
Publisher:	Interrobang Books
Publication date:	01/15/2017
Series:	Halcyone Space , #1
Pages:	404
Product dimensions:	5.25(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

LJ Cohen is a Boston area novelist, poet, blogger, ceramics artist, and relentless optimist. After almost twenty-five years as a physical therapist, LJ now uses her anatomical knowledge and myriad clinical skills to injure characters in her science fiction and fantasy novels. Her most recent book, Dreadnought and Shuttle, (book 3 of the SF/Space Opera series Halcyone Space) represents her sixth published novel. Derelict, the first novel in the series, was chosen as a Library Journal Self-e Select title and book of the year in 2016. LJ is active in IPNE (The Independent Publishers of New England), SFWA (The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America), and Broad Universe and blogs about publishing, general geekery, and other ephemera at http://www.ljcbluemuse.blogspot.com. Contact LJ at [e-mail] and http://www.ljcohen.net

Editorial Reviews

"Cohen has real talent with character development and interaction, andprickly, defensive Ro is a sympathetic and interesting heroine."
--Publishers Weekly

"Get on board Derelict, and you'll take an edgy, nonstop flight into an audacious SF future with unremitting danger as your pilot -- and thrilling adventure your destination."
--Lynn Viehl, NYT best selling author of the Stardoc and Darkyn series

"There's something special about watching an author reach her stride. LJ Cohen has done just that in Derelict. Intricate plotting melded seamlessly with delightful characterizations kept me turning pages as fast as I could go in an attempt to keep up with the unfolding story. A cracking yarn set in a lush future I'm hoping we'll hear more of."
-- Nathan Lowell, Creator of the Golden Age of the Solar Clipper and the Tanyth Fairport Adventures.

"LJ Cohen deftly weaves together realistic teenage characters, futuristic technology, and big stakes for a real page turner."
--Wen Spencer, Award winning SF&F novelist, author of the Ukiah Oregon and Elfhome series

". . .not the usual YA. Nor is it the usual space opera. While some of the characters are military, they're not the heroes. In the second book, in fact, it becomes pretty clear that the Commonwealth, the interplanetary government, is no benign Federation, that there are serious cracks within society, and history has been... sanitised.

A diverse cast, real consequences to physical injury, no easy fixes, realistic character arcs. . . . "
--Mike Reeves-McMillan, reviewer, author, blogger

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