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Deep Space - Hidden Terror (The Stasis Stories #6) by [Laurence Dahners]

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Book 6 of 7: The Stasis Stories

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This hard Sci-Fi novel is the sixth book in the “Stasis Stories,” a series of optimistic tales of technological innovation in the near future. They follow Kaem Seba, a young man with extraordinary math talents. With his friends, he’s come up with a device that allows time to be stopped within limited volumes of space-time.
In this 6th story, the company Kaem, Arya Vaii, and Gunnar Schmidt founded to commercially develop his time-stopping discovery is working with NASA to move into deep space.
Using the space tower from book 5 they launch large payloads into orbit to start building a rotating wheel space station and launch a successor to the James Webb Space Telescope. Then they put a space-launch tower on the moon that’s aimed at sending craft all over the solar system.
Unbeknownst to them, the Haliq, a race of aliens in the Epsilon Eridani system is launching its own ships to the Sol system with the intent of finding more space for their burgeoning population. When they arrive, they’re alarmed to find intelligent beings in the system they’ve come to populate, but their obvious solution is to exterminate the problematic humans.
The aliens have an advanced technology that lets them jump across interstellar and interplanetary space.
But they don’t have stasis…

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May 21, 2021
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0932LBKN1
Publication date ‏ : ‎ May 21, 2021
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3612 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 308 pages
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Best Sellers Rank: #91,468 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,341 in Space Opera Science Fiction (Kindle Store)
- #1,512 in First Contact Science Fiction (Books)
- #1,581 in First Contact Science Fiction eBooks

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Laury Dahners lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina and enjoys composing and recording music as well as painting. Recently he's become interested in writing novels. For a day job he worked (retired now) as an orthopedic surgeon and taught at the University of North Carolina Medical School, Department of Orthopaedics.

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Nits to pick

Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2021

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First, I always enjoy the hard ‘science’ in these books. This has a bunch of it, between orbital mechanics and nuclear physics. Even meteorology.

The prose is, as usual, clean and clear. Also, quite family friendly.

The problems I had:

Interfering with weather is risky. Natural processes work on a global scale, but impact locally. Hurricanes destroy houses, yes, but they also bring significant rainfall and act to knock down trees that may be then contribute to ongoing processes. I wish there had been discussion on those ecological issues as well.

Aliens capable of manipulating their own genetic structure would have been more than capable of limiting reproduction. While there may still be impetus to expand, there shouldn’t be desperation. Unless there are pressures that were not covered in the novel, but then they should have been.

Finally, it took far too long to reach the conflict portion, but somehow skipped steps along the way in favor of the sun shield subplot…that was irrelevant to any of the central plots. It was an interesting concept, and would have made for a neat short story. But it distracted from the main plot without substantially enriching the narrative.

All that said, huge improvement on the prior novel.

As always, I will buy this author’s work without hesitation.

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Big Ben

A bit different from his usual excellent storytelling

Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2021

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First off, this is in no way a bad book ... I don’t think the author’s capable of telling a bad story and would probably have to work at it to make his grocery list sound boring.
That said, this book is quite different than any of his others in that it covers somewhere around 17 to 20 years - most of his previous books cover a few weeks or months, providing much more detail and immediacy to the overall flow of the tale. This one is well done, but it kinda reads like a synopsis of a lengthy series capped by a space battle royale for the last quarter of the book.
Imagine the entire magnificent 16 novel Ell Donsaii series crammed into one or two books. It’d still be fun and interesting, but so much of the good stuff would be glossed over or cut completely and that’d make it an entirely different kind of tale.

There are two other minor pet peeves that led me to subtract a star (I believe I’ve only ever give Mr. Dahners 5 star ratings before this):
One is that the series MC Kaem Seba barely made a couple of guest appearances. I wouldn’t want to buy a book billed as the newest Ell Donsaii release only to have her pop up on an handful of pages. I was hoping to read about the ongoing adventures of Kaem, Arya and Gunnar, but this book focuses almost entirely on folks who were relatively minor characters in previous books, (or who hadn’t been born yet - it does cover around two decades, after all).
The second has been mentioned by another reviewer and I quite agree - the alien invasion portion of this novel does read a lot like the fourth book in his Vaz series. It’s different enough to be interesting, but I’d liken it to seeing a Lambo parked next to a Ferrari at the supermarket - both exciting and awesome and disappointingly similar, all at once.

All that said, it was well worth the time to enjoy - though I’d not necessarily be disappointed if this was the series wrap and Mr. Dahners pivoted to one of his other excellent series, or offered something brand new. Whatever his imagination comes up with next, I’ll most certainly be buying.

If you’ve enjoyed this author and are looking for something similar, check out Colony One by T.L. Ford, the Rachel Peng series by K.B. Spangler, the Braintrust series by Marc Stiegler, Perilous Waif by E. William Brown and everything by Mackey Chandler.

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jermel purse

Time flies when your .......

Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2021

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Talk about picking up the pace. I won’t spoil anything in this book but as the summary suggests aliens are involved and yes there is a fight. Lots more stuff happens in the book so much stuff that we finally get to see the author take opportunities to skip ahead in time. This was a refreshing approach to this book because I always wondered how are we going to see technology progress if when we read any entire book it appears maybe a year has passed. That’s not a problem in this book trust me. Now it is worth noting we don’t really experience the protagonist perspective in this book we really see the war from two sites the alien perspective and human human perspective not from the traditional main character. This may seem jarring to some who like the main character but I understand he can’t be everyplace everywhere and it simply makes sense. With that being said while these two new perspectives were not bad they simply weren’t as good as the main characters perspective. I think it’s just because of the events that was going on in that the characters themselves. The fighting wasn’t boring but it wasn’t exciting either. We’ve all become excited by the advances in technology hearing how things are progressing. When we have the encounters with the aliens you don’t get all the progress that feeds the story so it’s a different perspective you may like it you may feel more like myself and just be OK with it.

With all that being said I have to give the book 5 stars it’s different from the other ones but not much the author definitely set things up for the future while we also progress into the future with this book. My one criticism might be time itself. Once we start making progress forward we aren’t given exact numbers to determine how many years have progressed. Don’t get me wrong we can figure some things out in a roundabout fashion by examining a particular characters age but I think we need a system where we are given the year a certain event occurs. Especially if it appears we are going to be going at a much faster pace now.

Like I said the book is great dive into it enjoy it said to tell you you’re going to want the next book in the series when you finish.

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Don't worry

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 28, 2021

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Once again the science escapes my tiny mind. I kind of her it but it is difficult to comprehend. The storyline is okay and the fact that we are for once ahead of the alien aggressors makes a change. The premise that aliens would not travel across interstellar space with evil intent has always puzzled me. Look at our own colonial past.

jet11x

Great addition to the series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 23, 2021

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My only disappointment was when there was no more book to read.
Interesting further developments in the use of stasis and an interesting reading space battle using real physics (apart that is, from 'stasis' itself). If you like pure science fiction with a good plot and reasonably developed characters then this is series you shouldn't miss.

NJ

Blown through the whole series

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 2, 2021

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A most enjoyable series. Right from the start the characters were engaging (most important in any book) and each book tool us through a different aspect of the application of the science. Both thought provoking and exciting. Oh yes, there is exciting action too.

Kindle Customer

Brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 22, 2021

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Another banger right out the gate. I just love that great piece of technology that with a bit of ingenuity and innovation can change the world. And aliens!

Amazon Customer

An interesting twist

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 6, 2021

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The Staze team inevitably progress beyond Earth and are heading for a confrontation with aliens ... classic space opera but will be interesting to see how Mr Dahners develops this

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