A moment later the haze coating the sky evaporated away.
“When you can, you’re going to want to look up….”
He steadied himself by resting one palm on her thigh and the other on the armrest, and rose to his knees. “I’ll be damned.”
“Possibly. But not today, I think.”
They flew high above savanna grassland. The sky was the deep cornflower blue of a sunny late afternoon on Earth…exactly the color of a sunny late afternoon on Earth.
Only there was no sun. Whatever was lighting this planet, it wasn’t a star.
VERTIGO
AURORA RISING BOOK TWO
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AUTHOR'S NOTE
I published STARSHINE in March of 2014. In the original version of this Author's Note, I asked readers to consider leaving a review or talking about the book with their friends. Since that time I’ve had the unmitigated pleasure of watching my readers do exactly that, and there has never been a more wonderful and humbling experience in my life. There’s no way to properly thank you for that support, but know you changed my life and made my dreams a reality.
I’ll make the same request now. If you loved Starshine, tell someone. If you bought the book on Amazon, consider leaving a review. If you downloaded the book off a website with Russian text in the margins and pictures of cartoon video game characters in the sidebar, consider recommending it to others.
As I’ve said before, reviews are the lifeblood of a book’s success, and there is no single thing that will sell a book better than word-of-mouth. My part of this deal is to write a book worth talking about—your part of the deal is to do the talking. If you all keep doing your bit, I get to write a lot more books for you.
Speaking of books - a complete list of my novels and short stories and where to find them (including Vertigo and Transcendence, Books Two and Three of the Aurora Rising trilogy, and the sequel trilogies, Aurora Renegades and Aurora Resonant) can be found at www.gsjennsen.com/books.
Lastly, I love hearing from my readers. Seriously. Just like I don’t have a publisher or an agent, I don’t have “fans.” I have readers who buy and read my books, and friends who do that then reach out to me through email or social media. If you loved the book—or if you didn’t—let me know. The beauty of independent publishing is its simplicity: there’s the writer and the readers. Without any overhead, I can find out what I’m doing right and wrong directly from you, which is invaluable in making the next book better than this one. And the one after that. And the twenty after that.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
G. S. JENNSEN lives in Colorado with her husband and two dogs. She has written nine novels as well as multiple short stories and collections, all published by her imprint, Hypernova Publishing. She has become an internationally bestselling author since her first novel, Starshine, was published in March 2014. She has chosen to continue writing under an independent publishing model to ensure the integrity of the Aurora Rhapsody series and her ability to execute on the vision she’s had for it since its genesis.
While she has been a lawyer, a software engineer and an editor, she’s found the life of a full-time author preferable by several orders of magnitude. When she isn’t writing, she’s gaming or working out or getting lost in the Colorado mountains that loom large outside the windows in her home. Or she’s dealing with a flooded basement, or standing in a line at Walmart reading the tabloid headlines and wondering who all of those people are. Or sitting on her back porch with a glass of wine, looking up at the stars, trying to figure out what could be up there.
Title Page
Dedication & Acknowledgements
Aurora Rhapsody Overview
Map of Colonized Worlds
Dramatis Personae
Contents Overview
STARSHINE: AURORA RISING BOOK ONE
PROLOGUE
PART I: DOMINOES
1: Earth
2: Seneca
3: Erisen
-- Siyane
4: Earth
-- Deucali
5: Seneca
6: Earth
7: Scythia
-- Seneca
8: New Babel
-- Atlantis
9: Siyane
10: Atlantis
11: Space, NE Quadrant
12: Atlantis
-- Metis Nebula
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PART II: CAUSALITY
13: Earth
14: Siyane
15: Seneca
16: Siyane
17: Pandora
18: Siyane
19: Deucali
-- Cosenti
20: Siyane
21: Krysk
22: Siyane
23: Erisen
24: Siyane
25: Seneca
26: Palluda
-- New Babel
27: Siyane
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PART III: RECURSION
28: Seneca
-- Earth
29: Siyane
30: Arcadia
31: Siyane
32: Seneca
33: Siyane
34: Earth
-- Pandora
35: Siyane
36: Deucali
37: Siyane
38: Metis Nebula
39: Siyane
40: New Babel
41: Earth
42: Earth
43: Space, NC Quadrant
44: Earth
45: Earth
46: Pandora
47: Earth
48: Earth
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PART IV: ACCELERANDO
49: Romane
50: Seneca
51: Earth
52: Siyane
53: Earth
54: Romane
55: New Babel
56: Space, NC Quadrant
-- Seneca
57: Earth
58: Seneca
59: Earth
60: Seneca
61: Erisen
62: Space, NW Quadrant
63: Space, NC Quadrant
64: Romane
-- Pandora
65: Space, NC Quadrant
66: Earth
67: Earth
68: Space, NC Quadrant
69: Romane
70: Earth
71: Romane
72: Earth
73: Gaiae
74: Siyane
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Vertigo: Aurora Rising Book Two
Author’s Note
Aurora Rhapsody Timeline
About the Author
Starshine Blurb
Starshine: Aurora Rising Book One Page 50