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Starshine: Aurora Rising Book One

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by G. S. Jennsen


  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.

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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

  __________________

  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

  ___________________

  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

  ____________________

  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

  ______________________

  Vertigo: Aurora Rising Book Two

  Author’s Note

  Aurora Rhapsody Timeline

  About the Author

  Starshine Blurb

 

 

 


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