Starship Invasion by Darcy Troy Paulin

 

Starship Invasion by Darcy Troy Paulin
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Long lost answers to questions that have plagued the humans of Grailliyn begin to be answered but the price is high as an alien intelligence strikes quickly and ruthlessly. The Great Evil (GE) has found a people that have ignored the warning in the message the propagates the Darkwave and dared to us the FTL capabilities it allows, well by ignored we mean pressed buttons they were not sure did what. Regardless the people of Grailliyn and the inhabitants of the generation ship will have to work together to fight the genocidal invasion and buy time to find someplace safe for what could be the only humans left in the galaxy.
The second novel in the Lost Colony Uprising series introduced a how new group of central characters and the youngsters fight for survival is inspiring amongst the carnage of the invasion. Snow and Max continue their exploration and have their own almost insurmountable tasks to achieve and the two main areas of interest (Grailliyn and Mega) weave around eachother in a well paced and entertaining way. Roll on the third novel "Starship Overlords".

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Starship Relic by Darcy Troy Paulin

 

Starship Relic by Darcy Troy Paulin
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

The planet Grailliyn is the home of a human society who know they did not evolve there but have no real answers to where they come from or how they came to be on this demanding world. They do have all manner of media which tells of Earth and movies that survived whatever happened are still very popular even if the experiences on film have no direct relation to the people that live on Graillyn. A tradition arose where young people as their last act before adulthood take a survey, this was intended to be a journey to seek out answers from across the globe to who and how the people came to be, this however is often not now the case, a few weeks on a warm beach qualifies.
However a young man named Max has travelled to the Far North and trained his own "crab" sled and ventures into wilderness armed with his long lost (assumed dead) patents journals and a clue that they found something wonderous. It's safe to say that what Max found changed the path of his life forever and set in motion a domino effect which will change how everyone looks at themselves, this world and their future.
Starship Relic was a fun and entertaining read, I like the scifi elements which merged into a well designed world which housed this portion of humanity and I've gone straight into reading the second novel, says it all really.



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