From the Author
The Final Solician is only the beginning. I have been working on this series for 12 years. The next Novel in the series to come out is The Telpin man based primarily on Venus. It will be followed by Thena's Boy (Mars), Armageddon (Asteroid belt), Suze (Jupiter), Twin Resolutions (Saturn), The Dark Lord (Uranus), Shako (Neptune), The Ice Palace (Pluto), and finally Evacuation (Earth). The Sol Chronicles will provide an explanation for many mysteries such as where did the dinosaurs go, why there is a missing link, the fabled canals of Mars, and much more. The current plan is to release the next chronicle every six months. I hope to capture a world-wide audience with my stand alone tales of one man's perception of the settlement of our solar system.
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Excerpted from The Final Solician by Donald D. Thompson. Copyright © 2002. Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.
The field of stars flashed past the shuddering ship as she strained for every bit of speed. She flitted back and forth with evasion and flight her only thought as the giant craft on her tail stayed forever close. Inside the fleeing vessel Venussa and his brothers were desperate in their attempt to escape. They had been searching diligently for signs of humankind only to find destruction and annihilation before them every time.
It wa too obvious that mankind had at last driven the Universal Races to the penultimate decision that mankind must be exterminated. Everything that could be wrong or evil was embodied in the makeup of a man and there was nothing that mankind could do about it. It was their very nature - their very essence.
Venussa was the Captain of a Human trading vessel with a full hold but nowhere left to dispose of his goods. His brothers were his trading partners but the ship was his and bore his name so that all would know who they were dealing with.
As always in times of strife, the Control Room crew was simply the brothers.All knew what they were faced with and it was their skill and daring that would save them or destroy them
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