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Book III Knowledge of Gods is available. The final act of the Trilogy, which is in part only the opening act of the trilogy of trilogies that is The Descendant Saga.
Knowledge of Gods Book III of The Descendant Saga is available now, as E-book or Paperback.
Here at Nerd Smith Consolidated, We humbly apologize for the roughly two month delay in the release of this book. We’re more confident in our product, art can not be rushed and we would rather be slow and right, than fast and wrong. We greatly appreciate everyone’s patience and support. We’re also doing some re branding. With the amount of AI content and slop that is on the internet these day’s, we’re introducing a new, simpler, more to the point logo, and will be re branding all book covers and existing posts with it too. Speaking of the other books, if you haven’t got either or both of the previous books, you can get those here too. And if you do get a book, any book, above all else, we ask that you leave us a review.
Here is the original, unedited cover art as a special bonus to the newsletter readers here.
The stranded crew of the battle cruiser Tsaritsyn having narrowly survived a first contact encounter with unknown aliens have become political hostages on the interstellar stage to the very people who came to rescue the them. They’ve become pawns as the European Federation and the Asian Australian Collective Republic struggle for power among the stars, just as they have for the preceding four centuries of cold war that has tinted humanity’s interstellar expansion and colonization with paranoia.
Among these prisoners is someone whose life is even more precarious and historically significant than that of the crew of the Tsaritsyn. A survivor from the colony of Langok, which was lost from all of mankind’s star charts for over two hundred years before the cripples Tsaristyn crash landed on them. This time capsule of a man named ZostaMax, this impossible survivor finds himself in one corner, of a square problem, with the Federation on one side, the Collective Republic on another, and powerful, dangerous, aliens whose spacecraft behave as if physics is a suggestion, oozing out of the blackness of space.
ZostaMax begins to wonder whether if, despite all its technological advancements, that the rest of humanity might not actually be more civilized then the cargo cult they just rescued him from. He can tell the Federation wants him for reasons beyond simply because he would make a good citizen. While he tries to hide his skepticism before someone notices that he noticed, can ZostaMax become a citizen? Can the Federation and the Collective Republic set aside their cold war long enough to survive the hot war set on their door step by these uncommunicative aliens?
What will his citizenship mean to him? What will his citizenship mean to the rest of the galaxy?
There is no Chapter of Pending Receipt, or Back Scatter in this post, due to the importance of the new release, and how hard we worked last minute to get it put together, with formatting and color matching for the cover art and such. But rest assured both of those segments will return in full force in the next issue of Tight Beam. Here’s the usual links to the other pages and content we have for you. If this is your first time here, or you haven’t been reading our serial Sci-fi novel Pending Receipt, we’ll include a link back to Chapter 1 and you can start from the beginning so you don’t miss anything.
Author’s note: I’m glad for all the help getting this project done and published. My writing ability has improved and changed much since I wrote the first draft of this book, and there was a lot of editing, many versions, many revisions, entire new sections written to replace scenes. That was part of what delayed this release so long. We wanted it to be as good as possible. But I would like to remind everyone, there’s several books in the series of The Descendant Saga already written. Book IV School in the Trees, is already in the hands of a beta reader, under review now. NSC and I do not plan on slowing down or slacking off now that this milestone has been reached, that the first trilogy has been completed, because this is only the opening act, in a trilogy of trilogies. The Descendant Saga will be nine books, not counting spin offs, backstory, prequels and whatever else we cook up. So stay tuned, more is coming, and it’ll be here as soon as we can, without sacrificing our quality, our standards, or our morals. The all out effort does not stop, we’re just shifting gears.
