Commander Henry Gallant
by H. Peter Alesso
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GENRE: Sci-fi
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BLURB:
He
thought Alaina loved him, but now she’s found someone else. A tidal wave of
loss and grief swept over Henry Gallant, leaving him undecided about what to do
next, or how to move forward.
Despite his sorrow,
he goes on a dangerous mission to an invading aliens’ home world in the
Gliese-581 star system. There he uses a neural interface to penetrate their
communication network and steal a high ranking alien’s identity. Through this
artifice he learns about their history and society, and discovers a way to
hinder and possibly defeat them.
A side-effect of
linking into the alien network—which was created for autistic savants—is that
Gallant’s mind was stimulated and enhanced to the point where he begins to
experience superintelligence abilities.
Upon returning from
his mission, there is concern that Gallant might pose an even more serious
threat than the aliens. While he struggles to fend off those who doubt his
loyalty, he fights to win back Alaina.
This is the fourth
book of The Henry Gallant Saga, but it can be read as a standalone story.
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Excerpt
One:
Alaina told him to leave.
Gallant thought they were in love, but now she’s found
someone else.
He’s racked his brain—sifting through the wreckage of their
relationship—trying to piece together what went wrong.
A tidal wave of loss and grief has swept over him, leaving
him undecided about what to do next, or how to move forward—which is ironic
because he’s always prided himself on his ability to reach difficult decisions
during a crisis. Is this a crisis? Maybe it’s worse because his brain is numb
and won’t process facts or ideas—it just kept replaying the breakup over and
over again.
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TWO MONTHS EARLIER . . .
The Warrior was Henry Gallant’s first command. It was the
culmination of everything he’d worked for since entering the academy. Her
rocket-shaped hull was over a hundred meters long, equipped with stealth
technology, an antimatter sub-light engine, and a dark matter FTL drive.
The ship was on course for Elysium, a warm-water planet with
oceans coving ninety per cent of its surface and dotted with numerous islands
supporting abundant life including birds, mammals, reptiles, and a multitude of
plant life. Home to a displaced United Planets’ colony, it was the second of
five planets orbiting Tau Ceti, a mustard-yellow dwarf star about 11.5
light-years from Earth.
Sitting in the command chair, Gallant noticed that the
bridge was unusually quiet despite the background hum of machinery and the
chatter of the bridge crew. There were no alarms, or sirens, or exclamations of
concern, all of which was a good thing, but in his heighten state of
anticipation he was left with an eerie sense of emptiness.
He could barely contain his excitement at the prospect of
seeing Alaina for the first time in nearly a year. His mind was alive with
memories—many of which included Alaina’s alluring figure—quickening his pulse.
There was nothing auspicious or dramatic about the images—it was just their
sheer untimeliness and incongruity that was troubling.
Standing up abruptly, he shook my head to cast off my
distracting torpor.
All eyes on the bridge turned toward him.
Chagrinned, he drew a breath and sat back down.
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AUTHOR Bio and Links:
As a
scientist and author specializing in technology innovation, H. Peter Alesso has
over twenty years research experience at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
(LLNL). As Engineering Group Leader at LLNL he led a team of scientists and
engineers in innovative applications across a wide range of supercomputers,
workstations, and networks. He graduated from the United States Naval Academy
with a B.S. and served in the U.S. Navy on nuclear submarines before completing
an M.S. and an advanced Engineering Degree at M.I.T. He has published several
software titles and numerous scientific journal and conference articles, and he
is the author/co-author of seven books.
You can visit
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