A settler-scientist hires a bounty hunter to help find her sister - feared murdered by intelligent, insect-like creatures. Clues lead then to the boomtown of Ashridge, where a senior researcher has disappeared. As it emerges that all as not right, a deep conspiracy is discovered. One that those involved will stop at nothing to protect.
Hunted by the authorities, plagued by the “bugs,” and even airship pirates, they must uncover the conspiracy. Will that bring the main perpetrator to justice, or start a bidding war for her research – and with it, the fate of the planet?
“The Man from the Sky” is a 34,000 word Novella, and the first book of the “Providence 71” series.
Providence 71 is a 2019, Kindle hard science fiction western. In this action adventure series you will find:
- corrupt lawmen
- nuclear-powered creatures
- out-of-town drifters
- airship combat
- a woman on a quest for vengeance
- edge-of-space stations
- harassed federal marshals
- lost, colony-founding era tech
- a president struggling against the speaker of the house
- nuclear bombs
- Hives of huge, intelligent, hyper-aggressive bugs
- hard science
- a desert super-Earth of volcanic ash and ice
- good, home-cooked food
Navin Weeraratne writes hard science fiction and science fiction action adventure. This is his first science fiction western.
Pages
161
Format
Kindle Edition
The Man from the Sky: Book 1 of the Hard Science Fiction Western Series, “Providence 71”
A settler-scientist hires a bounty hunter to help find her sister - feared murdered by intelligent, insect-like creatures. Clues lead then to the boomtown of Ashridge, where a senior researcher has disappeared. As it emerges that all as not right, a deep conspiracy is discovered. One that those involved will stop at nothing to protect.
Hunted by the authorities, plagued by the “bugs,” and even airship pirates, they must uncover the conspiracy. Will that bring the main perpetrator to justice, or start a bidding war for her research – and with it, the fate of the planet?
“The Man from the Sky” is a 34,000 word Novella, and the first book of the “Providence 71” series.
Providence 71 is a 2019, Kindle hard science fiction western. In this action adventure series you will find:
- corrupt lawmen
- nuclear-powered creatures
- out-of-town drifters
- airship combat
- a woman on a quest for vengeance
- edge-of-space stations
- harassed federal marshals
- lost, colony-founding era tech
- a president struggling against the speaker of the house
- nuclear bombs
- Hives of huge, intelligent, hyper-aggressive bugs
- hard science
- a desert super-Earth of volcanic ash and ice
- good, home-cooked food
Navin Weeraratne writes hard science fiction and science fiction action adventure. This is his first science fiction western.