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Galactic Alliance (Book 1) - Translight! [Kindle Edition]

Doug Farren (Author)

3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews) |

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Length: 402 pages (estimated)
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Earth has developed a stardrive. The stars are now ours. Others, however, have gotten there before us and they have rules we must follow. Facing isolation within our own star system Earth bites the bullet, forms a united government, and joins the Consortium. Humans, however, have a knack for getting into trouble and it doesn't take long before things start to unravel both on Earth and in deep space.

This is the amazing story of Jay Kauffman (the creator of the stardrive), CAIN (his machine partner), and the human race as technology drives us farther than our cultural development has prepared us for. But, it's not just about humans. In the end, it seems as if we have something of our own to teach the more advanced cultures.

Translight! is the first book of the Galactic Alliance series.

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Format: Kindle Edition
File Size: 680 KB
Print Length: 402 pages
Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.� r.l.
Language English
ASIN: B0028AEAG0
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (14 customer reviews)

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Impressive 16 Aug 2011

By aao

Format:Kindle Edition

Well structured, engrossing read. It becomes a little too mired in technical details in parts, but the general storyline is good and it is an enjoyable read.
If as much depth was put into the Characters as was put into the technical side it would be very good indeed.

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Enjoyable read 30 Nov 2011

By MrStone

Format:Kindle Edition

Don't be put off by a strange looking cover and low price - I found this book to be very enjoyable to read. Deserves higher price in my view

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Space Opera 25 Jan 2012

By IanMelb

Format:Kindle Edition

As many have noted, the spelling is somewhat detracting - I used the Kindle's note and highlight facilities to try and identify as many as I could, wondering if I could somehow upload them so that they could be merged in to the download.

Apart from that I enjoyed the story - I was most minded of E E 'Doc' Smith and his Lensman and Skylark series - Humanity romps through the stars due to the breakthroughs of a genius scientist/engineer.

Enjoyable story, good Space Opera if not quite the 'hard' SciFi of Reynolds et al.

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Excellent book

This was a really good read for the price and i've just bought the next two in anticipation. Fans of the Lost Fleet series and Ian M Banks should find these books good reads... Read more

Published 1 month ago by Oscar

A very good book!

I really did enjoy this book, it has a good plot, goes into a lot of detail when explaining about the scientific stuff, which baffled me at times, but it was also intriguing to... Read more

Published 1 month ago by Callum

Wow! A wonderfully exciting read!!!

Wonderful! The Alliance series of books are superb. I enjoyed the structure of the writing, which also showed fantastic imagination pertaining to space, science, technology and... Read more

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weak, thin and 2D

Well I finished it, so I wondered about 2 stars; but it's a book with 2D characters, either thin-pencil drawn outline plot, or broad-brush childish wobbly storyline, and frankly... Read more

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very enjoyable easy read

a very enjoyable read, good story of the discovery a mans first stardrive and then the contact with the consortium, a group of advanced alien races that welcome the humans as long... Read more

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Great read, so I bought all 3.

I am very particular about the sci fi I read and this book had all the elements I love.

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Remember me old Asimov

Spelling errors and a quite stereotyped characters (Beautiful incredibly rich girl fall in love for Genius Engineer) shouldn't keep you away from this small gem. Read more

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Published 4 months ago by Slayer

The makings of a fine story-teller

I am reviewing these three short novels - Translight, Chroniech, and Honor Thy Enemy - together as one, because they tell one story in three parts. Read more

Published 4 months ago by D. R. Cantrell

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