1,000,000 A.D. SF Series
Starways Derelict Trilogy
The Derelict Trilogy consists of three novels that are a small subset of John T. Cullen's sprawling future history series.
Book 1: Prison World Kion Danos is a prisoner of war on a harsh prison world, deep inside enemy alien Swarm territory. The aliens work their human and humansh prisoners to death, digging for some mysterious artifacts of a lost civilization. Dreams of escape, and hopes of returning home, occupy every prisoner's conscious hours and dreams at night#133;
Book 2: Starways Derelict Escape and freedom take Kion and his fellow escapees into the Temporale, a universe outside all time and space. Travel the fabled Time Trains dating to a lost alien master race at the beginning of the universe…
Book 3: Pioneer World The escapees come to a world just 25 light years from the purported home of humankind. It's a world of wind sighing in ancient ruins, a beautiful blue people, and a fabulous ruined city called Avamish, which might once have been a star port…
Book 1: Prison World Prisoner of War Number 2506678 Danos, Kion, Captain of Infantry, Armed Forces, Treaty Marches Union, Year 12469 MT (ManTime), outwardly looked like any other man among over two million lean ghosts scattered in camps across Manaul 4. The men of Aerag-15 wore rags, and bent over picks and shovels. Many such Aerags or POW camps dotted the harsh red equatorial desert of this remote pinprick in space. Thousands of human and humansh women, as well, were kept far away and well apart in camps across the frozen polar wastelands, where wolvines sang during wintry nights. There were dreams of escaping to a jungle continent, and possibly to the galaxy and freedom…
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Book 1 due Jan/Feb 2012. Books & stories now available listed here—all digital, all retailers, some print. Smashwords 2011 release of collected shorter works, titled Adventures Beyond Time & Space, offers intriguing glimpses of the sprawling 1,000,000 A.D. series.
