
Faith
Kindle Edition
Night Shade Books · Ebook · January 1, 2012
Moby Dick meets Duel in John Love's debut novel of Space Opera and Military Science Fiction!
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- Who it’s for
- Space opera that treats belief as a live question, not wallpaper.
- Genres
- Space Opera, Military Sci-Fi, Alien Contact
- Published
- Night Shade Books, January 1, 2012
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Moby Dick meets Duel in John Love's debut novel of Space Opera and Military Science Fiction! Faith is the name humanity has given to the unknown, seemingly invincible alien ship that has begun to harass the newly emergent Commonwealth. 300 years earlier, the same ship destroyed the Sakhran Empire, allowing the Commonwealth to expand its sphere of influence. But now Faith has returned!
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The ship is as devastating as before, and its attacks leave some Commonwealth solar systems in chaos. Eventually it reaches Sakhra, now an important Commonwealth possession, and it seems like history is about to repeat itself. But this time, something is waiting: an Outsider, one of the Commonwealth's ultimate warships. Slender silver ships, full of functionality and crewed by people of unusual abilities, often sociopaths or psychopaths, Outsiders were conceived in back alleys, built and launched in secret, and commissioned without ceremony. One system away from earth, the Outsider ship Charles Manson makes a stand. Commander Foord waits with his crew of miscreants and sociopath, hoping to accomplish what no other human has been able to do — to destroy Faith!
Why this clicks
Come here for
- faith-forward science fiction framing
- spacefaring scale with an exploratory, reflective edge
Expect
- science fiction with devotional resonance
- big-arc reading, not quick-hit thrills
Where it sits
| Alien Contact | 80% |
|---|---|
| Military Sci-Fi | 79% |
| Space Opera | 55% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Hard Sci-Fi
- Space Opera
- Military Sci-Fi
- Authors
- John Love
- Publisher
- Night Shade Books
- Published
- January 1, 2012
- Format
- Ebook
- Reading lane
- Hard Sci-Fi