FEATURED AUTHOR - Joan Hetzler has been a freelance writer and editor for over twenty-five years. She has worked as a communications writer, newspaper journalist, and a technical writer for software companies. Her creative writing experience includes plays, poems, short stories, humor, memoir, and classic mystery novels. Her stage plays have won awards as well as her memoir writings. For eight years, she produced and hosted The Writers Show, a radio program devoted to writers and their readers at a local college…
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An old man communicates with an alien race, disappears, and is replaced by his younger "nephew", which is alluded to as a younger version of the man himself.
A space ship mysteriously disappears, and some space cops are sent to investigate. They magically deduce what happened to the ship, then hatch a plan to recover the ship from some of Earth's old enemies.
You won't miss much by skipping this story, but you may not hate yourself for finishing it.
The Terran Empire faces a rebellion from its newest member planet. Only a citizen of the new planet holds the key to preventing the rebellion's success.
The whole world is suffering from a Love Bug, while an infected doctor and his assistant are chasing the cure.
Criticism aside, there is enough elements of a story that I read through to the end. Well, I did skip quite a few paragraphs here and there when the details became too boring. But, I wanted to find out what happens in the end, and that is the ultimate mark of a good book. The ending itself was rather anti-climatic and trivial.
So, this is more like a 2.5 star story, but I gave it the benefit of the doubt.