What a 21st!
Eva's big birthday 'present' was a tired old spaceship lost in space and time, a motley crew of amnesiac patients, 500 colonists in cryo, and a mission that would take a lifetime - assuming she could keep everyone alive till they made planetfall.
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Moraturi is a Lunar Earth Transfer Orbiter - a kind of spider robot designed to construct space stations and ships in and around the Earth-Moon Lagrange points 1 and 2. Now
Moraturi is taking two cryoholds full of colonists to New Eden, an earth-like planet in the Paradisi system, 2.5 million light years from Earth in the Andromeda galaxy.
Eva's problem is that the trip that was to take a month or so is now going to take decades - their emergency supplies were based on 40 days of travel for just 16 crew members with the 500 passengers in cryo - and the cryotechnology can't keep them alive for even a decade at a stretch. Now the success of the mission will be in the hands of a bunch of teenagers.
Casindra Lost and
Moraturi Lost take us on two different ships as they commence their mission, and each is the start of a separate arc, arcs that take several books to resolve. Each volume is designed to be readable on its own, and provide all you need of the backstory without unnecessary spoilers. But the stories and arcs are not independent, and intertwine in a number of ways - still you can read either arc independently, starting either one and picking up the other later.
Casindra Lost won the Gold Medal in Science Fiction in the 2021 Global Book Awards for Self-Publishing, while
Moraturi Lost won Silver in Science Fiction/Adventure, and together with
Moraturi Ring won Silver for Science Fiction Series in the 2021 Global Book Awards.
"It has been a while since I enjoyed a book series this much. Highly recommended." - Piaras, Emerald Book Reviews and Amazon Reviewer
"I liked how the author created and portrayed the characters and the scenes. They are believable and I empathised with some of the characters." - Mia C., Goodreads
"The story has the perfect pace and I read it in just one weekend! It's, without any doubt, a well-written survival thriller." - Carol M., Goodreads
"I have not read the previous books yet but I did find that this book can be read on its own and I am intrigued to get the other books and get the full story!" - Caro Rey, Goodreads
"Science fiction fans will get a kick out of this incredible series. The book is the third in the series but definetely stands out. The main character in intriguing and believable. I really enjoyed watching her strength shine." - Chelsey McQuitty, Amazon Review
"Science fiction written by someone who knows their stuff" - A. Cannady, Amazon Review
Ward, Marti: - "
Marti Ward is an award-winning writer, teacher, scientist and entrepreneur known for his serial startups and his interdisciplinary research.
Marti hasn't been into space yet, but has travelled extensively on this planet, living in half a dozen countries and speaking and reading a variety of languages with varying degrees of fluency. He hasn't yet built an AI as sophisticated as Al or Alice - but is working on it.
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