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Backyard Starship: Origins
A Science Fiction Short Story by JN Chaney & Terry Maggert
Prequel to the Backyard Starship Series
Subgenres & Tropes:
- Military Science Fiction,
- World War I,
- Short Stories
This book is for you if you're into...
- Alien encounters dropped into the middle of World War 1
- Origin stories that set up epic interstellar sagas
Witness the beginning of the critically acclaimed Backyard Starship series with these two short stories.
When an interstellar thief is pursued across the galaxy for his crimes, he turns to the only planet around for hiding: a tiny backwater world in the middle of nowhere that the natives call Earth.
Unfortunately, he happens to land in the midst of the greatest war the world has ever known.
An American Corporal by the name of Mark Tudor witnesses a special kind of justice that can only come from the stars.
As a Peacemaker descends to wage battle against this invader, Tudor is thrown into the action, and his life is forever changed.
Will he embrace his true destiny? Or will he succumb to the fear of the unknown?
Experience the origins of the Backyard Starship universe with these two riveting short stories about a young Mark Tudor, grandfather to Van Tudor, and find out exactly how a young World War 1 soldier becomes a legendary Peacemaker.
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