Review: The Pandoran Age Chronicles
“The Transhuman Overlords cloned me, brought my consciousness from virtual storage.”
Of course they did, that’s what transhuman overlords do.
The Pandoran Age Chronicles are a somewhat cheesy hard SF series with transhumanist elements H+ readers may enjoy!
The books combine genres including hard technology based SF space opera with robots, space ships, etc. transhumanism and mind bending Lovecraftian extradimensional horrors. The books also include computer generated imagery and a movie project is under development as well. Possibly not the greatest literary work of all time, however some interesting themes and transhumanist elements are explored. Check out the trailer and recently produced video below.
Eras of long wars invariably redefine societies. The question here was not the redefinition, that would come as sure as the galaxy turns, but whether Humanity could survive at all. From somewhere he must find a way to keep joy alive inside his soul regardless of Hell-rides and smoking disasters. Without it he would surely fail. Whether a form of magic or madness, he would cling to joy. He knew from experience that the song of joy could sing from a sword as well as a harp.
For that morning, he chose to hear it in the sunlight on his face, the company of a beautiful woman, and flight. It would be fleeting, but he would find it and hold it wherever it might be in the storms of fury and confusion common to war.
“Penny for your thoughts?” Lisa asked with a smile.
Vince returned the smile, “Guitars, Cadillacs, and Hillbilly music.”
The Galaxy then is in the midst of a strange Dark Age. A young Outworlder smuggler chances upon a derelict starship. A psychic Historian empath sees visions in the ruins of a spaceport. A fleet General finds inexplicable deletions from deep space logs. An upscale Art Dealer wakes from a cyberspace sentence to find her sentience inserted into a clone of herself-a thousand years after convicted for spying- the authorities this time want her services on a mission, offering full pardon. Star Trade Guildsmen, Wildcat pilots, Transhuman Imperial Overlords ruling a hive mind, Syndicate Warlords-the usual suspects of Spacers and Art Deco androids. Hauling heavy-metal Star yachts through mysterious nebula, and dark Herculean stations-none of them expect to be pulled by fate into the center of an impending intergalalactic conflict seventy million years old, least of all with each other. Yet the haunting evidence of extradimensional beings has been mounting for centuries. Now they are arriving in force, and a divided humanity is ill prepared…
Tales from the Pandoran Age:
Rise of the Taloned Sire
The Pandoran War
4217 and a Galactic Dark Age hangs over humanity. A collection of rogues is our species only hope as extradimensional psychic vampires swarm the galaxy. Smugglers and psychics, spies and soldiers; pirates and madmen. Each finding their destiny lies in the thick of a war to save humanity from extinction.
In the air car, the sunlight was beaming down on them. The landscape, like an artist’s canvas, spread far and wide detailing unfamiliar world. Vince sensed a bright joy-a lovely woman, a new adventure-and realized he was, in all reality, feeling a sense of life that was passing irrevocably into another era. Long ago, when he had been much younger, and had taken his first crew member-Roland Danski- onto the Sire, Roland had warned of dark days to come, that they were in a new era- an Age of Pandora. Here then, he thought, were the first scattered skirmishes of the Pandoran War.
For that morning, he chose to hear it in the sunlight on his face, the company of a beautiful woman, and flight. It would be fleeting, but he would find it and hold it wherever it might be in the storms of fury and confusion common to war.
11 centuries from the present day Earth and Deneb 4 engage in a nuclear first strike, a holocaust, against the Arcturian Colonials, creating a dark age. Mankinds galactic civilizations falter for a millennium. But the worst has only begun. Psychic, parasitic entities of dark matter, galvanized by humanity’s horrific war, begin to reveal themselves-soul eating, macabre, and legion. It has taken them the long centuries to cross the intergalactic void in number since the holocausts. They are hungry.
4217. The Dark Galactic Age of Pandora:
4217 and a Galactic Dark Age hangs over humanity. A collection of rogues is our species only hope as extradimensional psychic vampires swarm the galaxy. Smugglers and psychics, spies and soldiers; pirates and madmen. Each finding their destiny lies in the thick of a war to save humanity from extinction.
THE GENERAL: Answering to a madman as they fate of the galaxy hangs in the balance.
THE SPY: Restored to a clone body after 1000 years, deep in a dark age she had fought to prevent.
THE PSYCHIC: Tormented with visions hinting at horrors to come.
THE SMUGGLERS: Thrown into the midst of a conflict beyond their ordinary means, a ragtag crew of misfits on whom the fate of the galaxy depends…
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