Star Blockade

by Rick A. Mullins


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 7/14/2001

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 5x8
Page Count : 392
ISBN : 9780759649620

About the Book

Draco Moon and his cyberhuman family have driven the Baylor from Humanity’s home system, but must now take the battle to their enemy. To keep the Baylor from turning to the immensely powerful Baylorian Empire for help, Draco’s cyberhuman forces must blockade the Renegade Family in the Centauri system.

To do this, they must occupy every Gravity Vortex Gateway around the twin Centauri suns with enough defenses to repel an Imperial Space Fleet. Fast

If they fail in this task of blockading the Renegade Family within the Centauri system, the rest of the Baylor will find out that Humanity has nanotechnology. If that happens, Humanity will face a centuries old Star Empire that will stop at nothing to utterly destroy the bearers of technology they fear.

Compounding their task is the fact that Draco Moon followed through on his promise to grant freedom to the entity that was the Artificial Intelligence program within his implant, as well as the AI’s of all the implants of all other cyberhumans. There is considerable adjusting to be made by both cyberhumans and soon to be freed AI programs as human hosts are trained to take over the operating functions of the implant’s departing artificial mind.

All seems to be going the way of the cyberhumans when the Baylor of the Centauri system begin advancing their technology themselves instead of confiscating it from conquered races. With the Imperial Baylorian Space Fleet probing the blockade around the Centauri system, and the super weapons developed by the Centauri Baylor, the freedom of humanity is the prize that two Baylorian Empires are fighting for.


About the Author

This is a harder task than letting my mind tell me a story. What about the author? Read the A.T.A. for one book and you know just about as much of the dry facts such as birth date, what they’ve done, where they’ve gone, and where they now live, as you care to know. But what if there’s more than one book? Do you want to read the same dry facts over and over again?

I’m having that problem now. There are a few other facts not included in book one’s A.T.A. that I could tell. Such as the fact that I’ve been writing since I was in seventh grade and I’ve never let anybody see my stories till a few years ago. Being mostly self-taught, I’ve made the inevitable mistakes but they’ve remained out of sight of critical eyes. That stopped as soon as I published my first novel. Now my mistakes are sculpted in ink.

For example, in another of my novels published by 1st books, I stated in the A.T.A. section that books have grown large over the years as authors included ‘sociological messages of great importance’. Then I wrote two half-novels that were full of my own versions of major sociological issues. Now, coming full circle, I have the second of a three-part story that I have trouble keeping as short as it is.

In addition to what I said in the A.T.A. of my second novel Universal Magic, when a story reveals itself several different perspectives, and a story can grow so big that the author has to divide it into three parts. I’m only on book two of the cyberhuman trilogy and I’ve cross-referenced till my head hurts, but I bet I’ve still made major goofs. If you ‘the reader’ find any, let me know through 1st Books.

I would like to thank NASA and STScI for most of the images that my nephew, Craig Mullins assembled into the cover. What they didn’t supply, he made during hectic hours of intermittent computer work while taking his turn with the attentions of an almost two-year-old.