An epic hard-SF adventure of interstellar travel, escape, survival, and first contact.
Flight of the Medusa blends the meticulous realism of The Martian with the sweeping scope of Dunean epic hard-SF adventure aboard a starship with no faster-than-light drive, no hibernation pods, and no generations to wait.
When the Kremkellic shoot thirteen-year-old Thristle and she dies in Marsie's arms, Marsie vows to protect the refugee children at any cost. Now captain of a near-light-speed starship fleeing genocide, she must cross forty-two light-years to a human colony whose transmissions have fallen silent—with a saboteur aboard, a pursuing fleet behind, and a secret that could destroy her daughter.
At Sarpedon, Rebel, a two-inch, donut-shaped alien, searches the ashes of her home for her surviving child. Her people communicate in sparkling pictures danced across thousands of limbs, think a hundred times faster than humans, and have made a catastrophic mistake: they don't realize the enormous, nearly motionless structures that descended from the sky are living creatures.
When Medusa reaches Sarpedon, refugees, colonists, and aliens separated by decades of silence, deception, and dangerous misunderstandings must find one another and discover the truth.
"Epic in scale but detailed in the individual perspectives, it’s a story about how family, love, and bravery matter in a big, frightening universe."
- Clarion Reviews
"an immersive, ambitious and rewarding read that will appeal to fans of character-driven, expansive science fiction."
- BlueInk Review
