Part military thriller, part time-travel epic, and all-out action…
Burke melds gallows humor, speculative madness, and cinematic pacing into a pulpy sci-fi adventure where history, aliens, and high-tech warfare collide. Veteran astronaut Marcus Reno dies in a shuttle crash, then wakes up younger, rebuilt by aliens, and handed command of a resurrected army pulled from history. Their mission: stop the Zagan, a brutal alien force allied with Earth’s most powerful man. With a Viking warband and a WWII pilot at his side, Reno must lead a desperate assault on a Zagan base hidden on a dinosaur-infested planet. The odds are impossible, but he’s already died once.
Burke keeps the tone teetering between gallows humor and grim urgency. Reno’s sharp sarcasm and everyman skepticism anchor the novel, while Visser’s messianic delusions and Pi’s gleeful cluelessness provide moments of absurdity. The pacing is relentless. The worldbuilding is bold but occasionally overwhelming. Burke skips through settings with pulp-fiction abandon, from Cold War bunkers and lunar mining bases to Martian illusions and Viking-infested cryo-chambers. Beneath the chaos is a meditation on legacy, sacrifice, and the costs of playing god.
A raucous, blood-soaked, genre-fusing space adventure.
ISBN: 1923165704
PRICE: Paperback $14.95. Kindle $3.99
Severed Press
Length: 94,670 words
Genre: Science Fiction / Military Adventure
