SWORD & PLANET ADVENTURE
IN THE GRAND TRADITION
Canis-9. Devoora. The Ocean Planet.
Devoora is a vast, waterworld in a far distant galaxy inhabited by two indigenous populations.
The Tulavi are a maritime culture inhabiting the islands west of the Great Aetherian Reef, living in harmony with their environment and the great oceans where the leviathans known as the kaizsu dwell. The Malvarians are an industrial nation running out of resources, living on the mainland east of the Reef. Led by the madman, Trivus Harn, an armada of warships roams the seas, hunting the kaizsu and subjecting them to ghastly experiments, unaware that these intelligent creatures are the key to their survival, as well as the fate of their entire world.
While on a covert operation to find a long-lost secret weapon, Sergeants O’Hara, Akira, Cortez, and a platoon of Marines are stranded on Devoora. Rescued by the peace-loving Tulavi, they find themselves caught up in a war against the Malvarians. An adventure unlike anything the Marines of Company E have ever experienced, Sergeant Cortez finds romance and Sergeant Akira finds an answer to her troubled marriage. But at the heart of this story is a little Tulavi girl named Zherisa, who tends to a wounded Sergeant O’Hara and helps him overcome the grief he’s carried in his heart for the past eighteen years. And then there’s the stranger, Solis Lachus — the Man from Outside, who holds the answer to what the Marines have come searching for . . . The MechMen of Canis-9.
Rousing action, a wondrous and dangerous planet, and memorable characters, this Sword and Planet science fiction is in the tradition of Edgar Rice Burroughs and Leigh Brackett, with a touch of Frank Herbert, Rudyard Kipling and Herman Melville. Available worldwide in paperback and Kindle editions from Amazon. Paperback edition is also available from Barnes & Noble.
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