Olympus

by Ben Winston

Overview

Over four-thousand years ago, a starship crashed on the dark side of the moon. Acting on its final orders, the AI began repairs, and then searched for a new crew. Finding Ian Williams, a virtual clone for its original commander, the AI contacts him and convinces him to undertake the challenge of getting the big ship back in space and protecting the Earth from the enemy that originally caused it to crash. Can Ian do what needs to be done without any of the governments of the planet finding out about it? Will one star ship be enough to protect the planet? Will the damn thing even be able to fly again?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781512280210
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	05/20/2015
Series:	Talosian Chronicles , #1
Pages:	306
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.64(d)

About the Author

Ben Winston (1965 - ?) was born in Iowa and grew up in Minnesota on the family dairy farm. Upon reaching adulthood, he joined the United States Army as a communications technician. Before getting out of the military, he decided to go to school for computer electronics.

Shortly after getting out of the military, and after getting a new job with an over-seas company, he was diagnosed with Crohn's Disease. A month after beginning the new job, he was laid off due to budget over-runs on the project he was hired for. Upon returning to the United States, he had difficulty maintaining employment because of the chronic illness.

He began writing as a form of stress release, from being home bound and not being able to work, and found he liked writing erotica. Ben wrote a trilogy called the Talosian Chronicles (Currently in rewrite to remove the graphic sex and finalized his vision of the story). The first book, Star Dancer, won awards and was nominated for many others by the online communities where it was posted.

Ben Winston returned to school for literature, after completion, he began writing professionally. Being an avid fan of science fiction he focused on this genre. He was, and still is, influenced and inspired by Gene Roddenberry, Anne McCaffery, David Weber, Isaac Asimov, and Ray Bradbury. Some of his favorite movies and TV shows are; Battlestar Galactica (both versions), Andromeda, Star Trek, Firefly, Star Wars, and many of the B-rated movies that were actually box-office bombs.