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  • A Path in the Darkness: An Aeon 14 Novel

    M. D. Cooper

    Paperback (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, Dec. 22, 2014)
    The colony ship Intrepid is falling into a star.The ship’s AI has lost control of the engines and core systems. Battling a saboteur who strives to isolate him, his last act is to wake Colonel Tanis Richards from stasis.Tanis finds herself alone on a dying ship, unable to contact the AI. She must discover what has happened and save the Intrepid from burning up in the star’s angry red light. Even if she is successful, the journey to the colony world of New Eden is just beginning. With decades of travel ahead, she will somehow have to find a path in the darkness.
  • A Path in the Darkness

    M. D. Cooper, Khristine Hvam

    Audio CD (Tantor Audio, March 28, 2017)
    The Intrepid is falling into a star.Bob, the ship's AI, has lost control of the engines and core systems. Battling a saboteur who strives to isolate him, Bob's last act is to wake Colonel Tanis Richards from stasis.When Tanis wakes, she finds herself alone on a dying ship, unable to contact the Bob or anyone else. She must discover what has happened and save the Intrepid from burning up in LHS 1565.Even if she is successful, the journey to the colony world of New Eden is just beginning. With a damaged ship decades of travel ahead, Tanis and the crew of the Intrepid will somehow have to find a path in the darkness.Reading OrderThe Aeon 14 universe is vast and growing quickly. To help you know where to go next, pick up the handy dandy FREE READING GUIDE: amazon.com/dp/B073MY9Z87About M. D. Cooper & Aeon 14M. D. Cooper is a New York Times bestselling author who has envisioned a rich future for humanity, one where planet-sized megastructures house trillions of humans, but traveling between the stars still takes decades, or even centuries.Fans of Ringworld, Honor Harrington, The Expanse, or Elizabeth Moon's Vatta's War will feel right at home in the world of Aeon 14.Over the course of the next few years, M. D. Cooper plans to release an additional twenty-two books in this expanding universe. So get on board the Intrepid with Tanis and see what the stars hold for us.What is Aeon 14?The universe of Aeon 14 is based on the premise that advanced, intelligent, starfaring life takes 14 billion years to evolve. In astronomy an aeon is a billion years. In Aeon 14, humanity is at the leading edge of this evolution in the Milky Way Galaxy.Humanity and the AIs they have created spread out amongst the stars and find that they are alone, though it may not always be that way...