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Earth, 2180
Genetically engineered with partly alien DNA, Lieutenant Selene Genji is different from ordinary humans. And they hate her for it. Still, she’s spent her life trying to overcome society’s prejudice by serving in the Unified Fleet while Earth’s international order collapses into war.
Genji is stationed on a ship in orbit when humanity’s factional extremism on the planet reaches a boiling point, and she witnesses the utter annihilation of Earth. When the massive forces unleashed by Earth’s death warp space and time to hurl her forty years into the past, Genji is given a chance to try to change the future and save Earth—starting with the alien first contact only she knows will soon occur.
Earth, 2140
Lieutenant Kayl Owen’s ship is on a routine patrol when a piece of spacecraft wreckage appears out of nowhere. To his shock, there is a survivor on board: Selene Genji. Once her strange heritage is discovered, though, it becomes clear that Genji is a problem Earth Guard command wants to dispose of—quietly. After learning the horrifying truth, Owen helps her escape and joins her mission.
Together, they have a chance to change the fate of an Earth doomed to die in 2180. But altering history could put Genji’s very existence in danger, and Owen wonders if a world without her is one worth saving. . . .
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- ISBN: 9780593640654
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December 1, 2023
Best-selling author of the "Lost Fleet" series, Campbell writes a new military SF duology featuring Lieutenant Selene Genji, who has been genetically engineered with alien DNA. When humanity manages to annihilate Earth, Genji is hurled back in time and has a chance to change the future, starting with Earth's first alien contact. Prepub Alert.
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March 11, 2024
Campbell (the Outlands novels) launches a new series with this energetic human-alien romance wrapped in an inter-planetary thriller. When a mysterious blip appears on the space cruiser Vigilant’s radar, Lt. Kayl Owen is assigned to investigate. The year is 2140, Mars has been colonized, and Kayl, a hot-rod helmsman with an axe to grind, discovers a single survivor in the wreckage of a highly advanced spaceship: Lt. Selene Genji. After Kayl learns that Selene’s DNA is partly extraterrestrial, she reveals that she’s from the future. She witnessed the destruction of Earth by a bomb so powerful it shot her back in time—and now she hopes to prevent this fate from happening. The two join forces to alter the future, which leads to numerous hair-raising chase scenes and crash-landings, as well as some cozy downtime aboard a luxury space liner. All the while, Kayl is falling in love with the beautiful and super-strong Selene, who worries that, because of the time loop, at any moment she might cease to exist. Campbell juggles a lot here, with military cover-ups, alien first encounters, and ruminations on what it means to be human studding the sprawling plot. Though the romance gets gooey, the high-orbit tech is nifty, and there are some fun secondary characters (including Owen’s mother and aunt, who clash over him having an alien girlfriend). This series is off to a good start. -
April 1, 2024
In 2180, Lieutenant Selene Genji watches as Earth is destroyed by a xenophobic cult who are so certain that their home world must be purged of alien influences--particularly genetically modified human-alien alloys like Genji--that they have nuked the planet in order to "save" it. The Earth's death warps space and time to send Genji back to 2140, just before First Contact. Now she has a chance to save her world from utter destruction, if she can convince one good officer to believe her and not the epic cover-up perpetrated by his superiors, who are hell-bent on getting both of them killed before the novel is through. Readers looking for a way into the oeuvre of the popular Campbell (Implacable) get a terrific entry point with this series launch, while his fans will find many familiar themes, as will SF readers familiar with the Star Trek universe. VERDICT Campbell asks powerful questions about the way social structures collapse and how the loudest voices take advantage, all in a pulse-pounding adventure about saving the world and staying one step ahead of the forces that would destroy it.--Marlene Harris
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