Free the North! (Free Trader Series Book 5) (30 page)
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Authors: Craig Martelle
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Braden and Micah’s adventures will continue throughout 2016. Free Trader 6 will take you to the ocean where Braden and Micah try to find the source of strange emanations that Holly found. What about the villagers from White Beach who were taken to the Western Ocean Research Facility? Braden, Micah, and the companions head to sea on a research ship built by the ancients.
In the continuing saga of the Free Trader universe, Cygnus Rising finds Braden and Micah’s descendants returning to space on the ships designed by the survivors from Cygnus VI. Not only does their new engine work, it works beyond any of their wildest expectations. The Free Trader series evolves into galactic proportions as humanity looks for settlers from Earth in other parts of the galaxy and beyond.
About the Author
Craig is a successful author, publishing in both the Science Fiction and Thriller genres. He’s taken his more than twenty years of experience in the Marine Corps, his legal education, and his business consulting career to write believable characters living in realistic worlds.
Although Craig has written in multiple genres, what he believes most compelling are in-depth characters dealing with real-world issues. The backdrop is less important than the depth of the characters, who they are and how they interact. Life lessons of a great story can be applied now or fifty years in the future. Some things are universal.
Craig believes that evil exists. Some people are driven differently and cannot be allowed access to our world. Good people will rise to the occasion. Good will always challenge evil, sometimes before a crisis, many times after, but will good triumph?
Some writers who’ve influenced Craig? Robert E. Howard (the original Conan), JRR Tolkien, Andre Norton, Robert Heinlein, Lin Carter, Brian Aldiss, Margaret Weis, Tracy Hickman, Anne McCaffrey, and of late, James Axler, Raymond Weil, Jonathan Brazee, Mark E. Cooper, and David Weber. Craig learned something from each of these authors, story line, compelling issue, characters that you can relate to, the beauty of the prose, unique tendrils weaving through the book’s theme. Craig’s writing has been compared to that of Andre Norton and Craig’s Free Trader characters to those of McCaffrey’s Dragonriders, the Rick Banik Thrillers to the works of Robert Ludlum.
Craig finds the comparisons humbling. All he wants is for his readers to relate to the characters, put themselves into those situations described in Craig’s books and ask themselves, what would they do if they were there instead?
Through a bizarre series of events, Craig ended up in Fairbanks, Alaska. He never expected to retire to a place where golf courses are only open for four months out of the year. But he loves it there. It is off the beaten path. He and his wife watch the northern lights from their driveway. Their dog has lots of room to run. And temperatures reach forty below zero. They have from three and a half hours of daylight in the winter to twenty-four hours in the summer.
It’s all part of the give and take of life. If they didn’t have those extremes, then everyone would live there.
Table of Contents
Construction of Something Incredible
Everything’s Different, but the Same
“There Will Be No Provincial Government”
Cygnus Rising Humanity Returns to Space
Chapter 1 - Fire!