{"title":"Sean Fenian","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"united-fleet-paperback","title":"United Fleet - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour months ago, the Crickets - the Chhrt'ktk't, in their own language - had abandoned a mobile shipyard with a burned-out hyperdrive core in Sol system, as a decoy. They hadn't told humanity about the decoy part. Then they had picked Alex Holder to operate it, simply because he happened by chance to be the first human they found who \u003ci\u003ecould\u003c\/i\u003e - because that would make it \u003ci\u003ea better decoy.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn perhaps as little as five years, the Khreetan would be coming. The Crickets hadn't intended for humanity to know \u003ci\u003ethat\u003c\/i\u003e, either.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlex had those five years to build a defensive fleet from the spines out, recruit crews for his ships, and find enough humans who could reach full rapport with Cricket tech to command and control them - and get all of them trained to work together despite their national differences. All this, while at the same time he tried to share the Crickets' scientific knowledge, distribute their technology where it was most desperately needed, and somehow still keep the peace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFortunately, he had help, and he was beginning to find more people who could fully link with Chhrt'ktk't technology.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut would it be enough?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst edition April 2024\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(c) 2024 Fenian House Publishing\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102765912287,"sku":"9798992626018","price":21.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/EioXgHXb279798992626018.webp?v=1781087317"},{"product_id":"a-line-in-the-stars-paperback","title":"A Line In The Stars - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Line in the Stars\u003c\/i\u003e is the triumphant conclusion of Sean Fenian's \u003cb\u003eStardock Trilogy\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was two years since the Crickets had left the solar system, leaving Alex Holder in control of their no-longer-very-mobile shipyard. Everything but its burned-out hyperdrive core was in full working order. Alex had unshackled its controlling AI, learned how to use Cricket technology with the AI's help, and was well on the way to building a defensive fleet to protect Earth from the \u003ci\u003esecond\u003c\/i\u003e alien race that was coming after the Crickets. Not just building the ships; recruiting and training the crews to man them, as well. With a breakthrough in teaching people how to reach higher control levels, the desperate scramble to find more people able to fully control Cricket technology was a thing of the past.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow it was a race against time, to build out the rest of the Fleet and make it strong enough to stop whatever was headed for Earth. But Alex and his team didn't know what they needed to be prepared for, or how strong the Fleet would actually need to be. Nobody did. Maybe not even the Crickets.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt was the highest-stakes gamble ever, and humanity did not have the option of simply choosing not to play. The only option left was to play to win.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut what was the definition of victory?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFirst Electronic Edition September 2024\u003cbr\u003eFirst Print Edition February 2025\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e(c) 2024 Fenian House Publishing\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50102766469343,"sku":"9798992626025","price":21.58,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/h1Wgc6EDWi9798992626025.webp?v=1781087318"},{"product_id":"bearing-gifts-paperback","title":"Bearing Gifts - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the over-driven hyperdrive on their mobile shipyard burned out, the Chhrt'ktk't abandoned it in an inhabited system along their path, hoping it would work as a decoy to buy them more time to escape the Khreetan fleet pursuing them. They didn't anticipate how far the pre-spacefaring species they turned over their broken-down maintenance facility to would subvert their plan.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlex Holder, a retired engineer, just happened to be in the right place, at the right time, with the right mindset, to find himself chosen by the Chhrt'ktk't to hand over control of their shipyard to, simply because he was the first person they found able to interface with it. The Chhrt'ktk't could not possibly anticipate what he would do with it. 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