Downfall Tide by Alexis Latner is the sequel to Hurricane Moon, that I reviewed a couple weeks ago. If you liked the first book, you’re going to love this one. The characters you love are back, along with a profound new threat.
In the first novel in this series, colonists from Earth aboard the ship Aeon crossed a thousand years of space and time in stasis, searching for a new home. But the universe did not stand still while they slept. Now, as they struggle to establish a colony on a new world, danger rushes in from a direction no one expected.
This book has the same weaknesses as its predecessor — a bit of language and non-standard theology — and the same strengths as well. The author very deliberately intends her stories to ask questions about religion, and she treats her religious characters with respect. There is none of the typical entertainment industry caricature of Christians here. What’s more, she even manages to inject some wilder elements into the science of the story, while still keeping her hard sci-fi edge.
My novel Death of Secrets is free on Kindle today! If you’ve never read it, here’s a brief summary of the plot:
My new novel, Fire and Thunder, is finished! It was e-mailed to the editor last night. Now, get a first look at the cover to the sequel to Sons of Thunder.
