Book Title: Inanna Phantom, Volume III - The Cairns of Sainctuarie Science Fiction Series by Hawk MacKinney
Category: Adult Fiction (18 +), 270 pages
Genre: Science Fiction
Publisher: Sage Words Publishing
Release date: Sep 2019
Tour dates: Jan 27, 2020 to Feb 14, 2020
Content Rating: PG-13: Some of the war scenes are graphic.
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The threat of rift invasions seem long passed. Plentiful harvests abound. The Marian first-contact Terato Outpost has grown into the sprawling Terato-Murian Terminus Terato with a hub of relay portals reaching across the vast uncharted galactic expanses and connecting with its eon-extinct Lantaraan prehistory. An exploratory Terato-Murian Jupiterr outpost is established on the gas giant seventh planet, and its quantum and gravitational energies are used to power outpost portals for an archeological survey of the fourth planet, Eorthe. The Lanterman database aboard Terato’s ancient Downday moon shows that one or more planets of the Solaris planets have apparently been lost. Expanded archeological records on other Lantaraan orbital bodies in the Solaris system show the fourth planet from the star—Eorthe—to be a sterile wasteland. Except it is not. Eorthe’s civilization is not to the level of the Murian Empire, but it is far advanced to those of a pastoral Terato. Terato and Eorthe form the confederated United Terran League under the nominal figurehead leader of League High Judikarr Eklam a’Qoc. Jupiterr outpost expands into a major League stronghold, Jupiterr Base, when civil unrest erupts in the League, the unexpected return of rift intrusions threatens, and the Murian Emperor Klarvko Celo is assassinated. As they prepare for confrontations with an unknown ancient enemy, the internal tensions on Myr and Eorthe push Murians and Teratoans to dangerous discords.
My Review
Inanna Phantom Continues the Intellectual Science Fiction of the Series. As with the other books of the series, MacKinney doesn't give readers an easy read. I found this novel to be less technical than the second--but, just as loaded with detail as it introduced some new things to the story while building upon the history and the previous storylines. I found this novel to be the easiest to read of the three--and the storyline returning more in some ways to the families and characters developed so fully through the first novels. The author is very organized in his story development and pacing. While readers cannot fully appreciate this novel without devoting some time and focus--it is well worth the effort.
Would I recommend Inanna Phantom by Hawk MacKinney? I think I enjoyed this book more than the other two because I had read the entire series and understood the history, the fictional world and the character dynamics from "the ground up". This series is a strong science fiction series with a focus on science and world-building--but, for those of us who enjoy watching characters and storylines grow and develop over time--this series, and Inanna Phantom, give that as well. This was my favorite book of the series. While the author does force me to set aside distractions and focus on his writing--I enjoy his writing style and always look forward to reading more from him.
Book Title: The Cairns of Sainctuarie: The Missing Planet (Volume II) by Hawk MacKinney
Category: Adult Fiction (18 +), 258 pages
Genre: Science Fiction
Publisher: Sage Words Publishing
Release date: April 2015
Format available for review: ebook (gifted kindle), pdf
Tour dates: Jan 27, 2020 to Feb 14, 2020
Content Rating: PG-13: Some of the war scenes are graphic.
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Generations after the great Murian upheaval of the Malfesian War against the Bleikovats, the Accords between planets Terato and Myr are signed. Provisional Outpost Terato is under construction near a farm where Teratoan orphan Eklam a’Qoc lives with his uncle and cousin.
Inquisitive strong-minded Eklam, Ek to everyone in the village, is captivated by the off-worlders technology, and becomes an apprentice to the Outpost Terato’s Murian commander, Grand Duke Korvo. Uncle a’Qoc disapproves; wants nothing to do with these outlanders, wants their shimmering doorway portals-of-travel banned from Terato. As Outpost Terato becomes operational it seems to become a harbinger stirring ageless secrets of The Old Ones and their frightful weapons, of ancient Teratoan ruins, mysterious glowing lights, unexplained killings, a sacred book in a language no Teratoan can read, a moon that doesn’t behave like a moon in its wobbly orbit.
From cosmic reaches beyond space and time the ominous secrets of Terato’s ancient ruins become more threatening. Ek and Korvo realize both their worlds face extinction with any hope buried somewhere in unknown galaxies far beyond a pastoral Terato or the sophisticated star-empire of the Murians; of missing planets in a star system with its single star in a galaxy far-removed unknown to Terato or Myr. They travel across the universe to a place long forgotten to fight this unknown foe with weapons only dreamed of. Together they face the beast that wishes to consume the entire universe.
Book Title: The Cairns of Sainctuarie: The Bleikovat Event (Volume 1) by Hawk MacKinney
Category: Adult Fiction (18 +), 228 pages
Genre: Science Fiction
Publisher: Sage Words Publishing
Release date: Oct 2012
Tour dates: Jan 27, 2020 to Feb 14, 2020
Content Rating: PG-13: Some of the war scenes are graphic.
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From a rocky outcrop, a battle-widowed Etkaa gazed down at the death and upheaval. Rancid green Murian blood stenched the dusk lit breezes from the haze-dimmed river marshlands. Nothing has been spared by the Green Dragon forces of Bleikovia. In skirmishes along the Feldon River, Etkaa’s mate is fatally wounded with deadly selvon poison. Through a gruesome mountain trek of icy blizzards, they elude the Green Dragon. The battered starving Feldovats reach the coast at Eedov City only to be confronted by their implacable enemy determined to destroy the remaining Klarvkon rabble. Taking passage on crowded Maalon freighters, the refugees escape toward a new life among their Maalon hosts. Enraged Bleikovats move against the Klarvkons, bringing indiscriminate bloodshed. War once again surfaces, as it did in the muddy filth along the Feldon River of Malfesov, and becomes a different kind of war.
Meet the Author
Hawk has authored several works of fiction including a historical romance Moccasin Trace which was nominated for both the prestigious Michael Shaara Award for Excellence in Civil War Fiction and the Writers Notes Book Award. His Cairns of Sainctuarie Science Fiction Series and his Moccasin Hollow Mystery Series have received national and international attention.
With postgraduate degrees and faculty positions in several medical universities, Hawk MacKinney has taught graduate courses in both The United States and Jerusalem. His professional writing includes articles on chordate neuroembryology, and aerospace research on muscle metabolic behavior in multi-orbital environments.
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ReplyDeleteBook Corner News & reviews/Angela THOMPSON – Thank you for hosting the IRead Tour of Inanna Phantom, Volume III in The Cairns of Sainctuarie Sci-Fi Series. I thoroughly enjoyed reading your reviews/reader-perspectives that built from action in Volume I through the technologies AND twisted adventures in Volumes II & III...teasing & twisting & turning interplays/interest(s) of sci-fi action-readers & we techies. Me, myself & I tussled with over-weighty glossaries & detailed outlines that were undeniably necessary in spinning the knotty plots and brought a reader – you – along the ride/events of world(s) being reshaped. It was a fun write/rewrites/edits…& again…thank U -
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