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Scorpio

Frontlines: Evolution, Book 1

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Scorpio

By: Marko Kloos
Narrated by: Arielle DeLisle
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On a distant Earth colony, an orphaned survivor of an alien invasion discovers that the greatest world-ending dangers aren’t behind her.

It’s been eight years since an alien invasion drove a small surviving group of settlers to seek refuge in an underground shelter. Cut off from the rest of humanity, the ragtag band has maintained a narrowly functioning colony due to communal effort and salvage runs. Alex Archer has her own duties as a dog handler. While this off-world colony may be harsh, Ash, Alex’s black shepherd raised to sense threats, makes living in it a little nicer.

But the tenuous hide-and-seek with the monstrous species known as the Lankies is about to come to an end for Alex and her close-knit crew of soldiers, techs, and friends. When a salvage operation goes catastrophically wrong, the Lankies home in on the humans.

With hopes of a rescue long faded, all Alex has left is will—and the fear that there’s so much more to lose.

©2023 Marko Kloos (P)2023 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Adventure First Contact Science Fiction Space Exploration Fiction Interstellar Survival

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Critic reviews

"Kloos has created a believable universe and a fast-moving story of resilience, rescue, and reintegration that reads like a combination of John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War (2004) and Andy Weir’s The Martian (2014).”—Booklist

“Kloos is well on his way to becoming one of the genre’s best assets.”—io9

“There is nobody who does [military science fiction] better than Marko Kloos.”—George R. R. Martin
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It was an interesting book and I enjoyed it. The narrator did a great job! The story is told from a third-person, present tense perspective, which felt a little weird at all times throughout the book. I would much prefer the book to be third-person, past-tense. I enjoyed the story and had fun being trapped on Scorpio.

Interesting

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Alex and Ash make a great intro to the life of survivors on Lanky occupied worlds. The story is a great start for a new series.

Great start to a new series

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A rather nice start to this new saga in the Frontlines Universe, was expecting more from the last saga instead of just a few mentions but overall a very good listen.

A good start

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Brilliant book and it starts as it goes on.
We’re straight in on the action with brief but detailed sketches of the characters and the scene.
The action is believable with real injuries and losing characters you’ve grown to love with the brief interactions you’ve experienced between them.

I was immediately invested.

I look forward to following this series of books and some of the characters that survived as they go forward.

Drops in on the action from the beginning

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A new Frontlines series, this time with a young woman, Alex, as central character. When still a child, Alex had travelled to a small planet in the Scorpio system only for her parents to be killed when the Lankies invaded. The few survivors had subsequently lived underground, just trying to stay alive. Until they were found.
. I have been a huge fan of Marko Kloos since first reading Terms of Enlistment almost a decade ago. Action filled, his stories are far more than just shoot-em-up confrontations: they are innovative, excitingly visual, placing the reader right at their heart whilst always maintaining the prime importance of the protagonists involved, characters so real the become friends.

This first book in the war against st the Lankies suggests that the new Frontlines series will be every bit as thrilling as the original. My only sadness is that the book was read by a woman, Arielle DeLisk, who, despite giving a very good performance, had a voice I found difficult to listen to and nearly gave up on. Fortunately, I still had the ebook.
Now, I suppose, the long wait for book two

"All we have to do is keep breathing.."

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