War Orphans (The Terra Nova Chronicles)

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by Robert Dean Hall


  He comes from a family chocked full of educators, journalists, medicos and politicos, as well as, the odd attorney here and there. He has worked for a subsidiary of a major oil company, the Department of the Interior and the Department of the Army among mixed groups of civilian and military employees.

  When Robert isn’t writing, he is golfing, playing music, watching his grandson compete in numerous sports, following the various and sundry endeavors of his three beautiful and multi-talented daughters, working his daytime job or LOLing on the Cheezburger Network.

  Robert is now busily at work on multiple projects, including more novels for the Terra Nova Chronicles series, as well as some short stories.

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  The Terra Nova Chronicles: Book One – Chamberlain’s Folly

  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004HB1ARU

  A History teacher’s quest to find the truth about Earth’s first contact with an extraterrestrial human race puts him in the middle of a war between two factions of a splintered shadow government…

  Colonel Herbert Zheng is annoyed at the Central Government’s insistence that its citizens need to be protected from certain ‘inconvenient truths’. Even more disheartening to Zheng is the fact most of his students at the Academy would agree. His biggest challenge to date has been to uncover the full truth about the failed invasion of his home planet, Terra Nova, by humans from Earth that became known as Chamberlain’s Folly.

  One afternoon, a package containing an obsolete computer and some memory cards arrives for Zheng from the shipyards where ancient battleships are sent to be studied by the Bureau of Historical Sciences. The contents give Zheng his first concrete evidence that the official account of Chamberlain’s Folly is at best, a misrepresentation of the facts, or even worse, a fallacy perpetuated by the Central Government for reasons unknown. Before Zheng can get his head around the implications, he finds that the stakes are much higher than he could have imagined.

  The Terra Nova Chronicles: Book One - Chamberlain’s Folly is an engaging and sometimes humorous introduction into a reality that is futuristic but familiar. It is clever character-driven science fiction that looks at government secrecy, conspiracy theories, gunboat diplomacy and veterans’ affairs, among other timely topics, from the perspective of individuals who find themselves intimately involved; often without choice.

  What readers are saying about The Terra Nova Chronicles - Book One: Chamberlain's Folly.

  "I could NOT put this book down. I was engrossed from 'cover to cover'."

  "I loved the concept and the characters."

  "Interesting story with a twist..."

  "Just finished your book and I enjoyed it very much."

  If you enjoyed this novel, you will also enjoy

  Teacher: A Short Story from the Terra Nova Chronicles Universe.

  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CHEVZ1U

  Major Dawn Marie Russo is a diminutive, but headstrong medical officer on board the starship Neil A. Armstrong, currently on station in orbit above an alien planet. On the surface her fellow marines are doing battle with a race of human-feline hybrids created by other humans who came to this planet from Earth fifty years before with dreams of conquest.

  Russo’s morning routine is interrupted by news one of the enemy combatants is being brought aboard from the surface so Russo can treat her injuries. Along with this injured female feline, named Morning Grass, comes another, a male in restraints named Teacher.

  Russo soon bonds with Teacher and finds out only after she has fallen for him that he is hiding something from her.

  This short story is an enjoyable addition to the saga of Russo, Teacher and Morning Grass that began with Chamberlain’s Folly and continues with War Orphans.

  Table of Contents

  Prologue

  Part I—Delta

  Chapter 1

  Chapter 2

  Chapter 3

  Chapter 4

  Chapter 5

  Chapter 6

  Chapter 7

  Part II—Ghost in the Machine

  Chapter 8

  Chapter 9

  Chapter 10

  Chapter 11

  Chapter 12

  Chapter 13

  Chapter 14

  Chapter 15

  Chapter 16

  Chapter 17

  Chapter 18

  Chapter 19

  Chapter 20

  Chapter 21

  Chapter 22

  Part III—The War Council

  Chapter 23

  Chapter 24

  Chapter 25

  Chapter 26

  Chapter 27

  Chapter 28

  Chapter 29

  Part IV—Acclimating

  Chapter 30

  Chapter 31

  Chapter 32

  Chapter 33

  Chapter 34

  Chapter 35

  Chapter 36

  Chapter 37

  Chapter 38

  Chapter 39

  Part V—Necessary Evil

  Chapter 40

  Chapter 41

  Chapter 42

  Chapter 43

  Chapter 44

  Chapter 45

  Chapter 46

  Part VI—Dreams and Nightmares

  Chapter 47

  Chapter 48

  Chapter 49

  Chapter 50

  Chapter 51

  Chapter 52

  Chapter 53

  Chapter 54

  Chapter 55

  Part VII—Conduct, Unbecoming

  Chapter 56

  Chapter 57

  Chapter 58

  Chapter 59

  Chapter 60

  Chapter 61

  Chapter 62

  Chapter 63

  Part VIII—Unintended Consequences

  Chapter 64

  Chapter 65

  Chapter 66

  Chapter 67

  Chapter 68

  Chapter 69

  Chapter 70

  Epilogue

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