Beyond the Horizon (Beyond Saga) - Softcover

Spry, Greg

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0990822435 ISBN 13: 9780990822431

Publisher: Greg Spry, 2016

Synopsis

Ensign Maya Davis has dreamed of captaining a starship since she launched her first toy rocket into Earth orbit at age four. But not long after she departs the solar system aboard humankind's first interstellar vessel, New Horizons, sabotage cripples the ship, killing a third of the crew and stranding the expedition light years from home under the siege of hostile forces. Without knowing who she can trust, Maya must risk her life to get the crew home and prevent the genocide of the very exospecies Horizons set out to contact.

Full Synopsis:

After four years of study, twenty-two year-old Maya Davis, graduate of the new Interstellar Expeditionary Force (IEF) academy, achieves her lifelong dream of exploring the stars. She earns a commission aboard humanity's first deep space exploration vessel, New Horizons. With the entire Sol system watching, and with a group of emigrants aboard, the starship launches into the unknown.

New Horizons has three mission objectives: make contact with a benevolent race of extraterrestrials discovered by SETI known as the Penphins; locate a habitable, Earth-like exoplanet ripe for settlement; and search for traces of the antagonistic alien race whose invasion mankind thwarted seventeen years earlier. But when Horizons exits hyperspace far beyond the sanctity of the solar system, sabotage cripples the ship, leaving only junior officers in command. Maya must make a series of difficult choices in order to resolve the turmoil aboard, defend Horizons from alien attack, and bring the stranded starship home.

Back in the Sol system, forty-two year-old civilian flight instructor Brooke Davis, Maya's aunt and former UN Aerospace Defense pilot, receives a disturbing visit from a covert operative. The visit prompts Brooke to head to the Martian south polar ocean, where she learns how the secret society known as The Vril manipulated the current political and social climate into being. She also uncovers the society's nefarious agenda regarding Horizons' voyage. With time running out, Brooke races to save her niece light years away.

About this title

From the Author:

While starting with Beyond Cloud Nine (Beyond Saga Book 1) is the preferred approach for most readers, quite a few people have enjoyed Beyond the Horizon (Beyond Saga Book 2) without reading the first novel in the series. I write all my books such that each can be read as a standalone.

From the Inside Flap:

Everything I grew up learning was a lie.
The woman who raised me murdered my mother.
Both friend and foe have tried to kill me.
But I won't give up.

Twisting around, Maya toggled her wave gun to sonic levitation mode, pointed it down, and shrieked as the stone floor flew up to greet her. She depressed the trigger a second before slamming into the ground.

The cushion of air produced by the gun slowed her descent. As she landed, her forehead banged against the floor, shooting needle-like pain through her brain. The gun jabbed her in the abdomen.

She lay there, fading in and out, woozy and retching.

A gut feeling compelled her to roll toward and beneath what remained of the terrace. Each time she flipped over, her shoulder throbbed, her neck ached, and she almost passed out.

Stones big and small thudded against the floor space she had vacated. Particle beams rained down, blasting the stones into thousands of tiny pieces.

Too terrified to scream, Maya flung her arms up as debris buried her.

About this edition

• Publisher: Greg Spry
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0990822435
• ISBN 13: 9780990822431
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 386
• Editor: Moraine Sunny, Logan Sophie
• Illustrator: Roetsch Tobias, Page Aaron