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Henry Vogel
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Scout's Honor - a planetary romance - available on Amazon
My first novel, Scout's Honor was released by Bruce Bethke's Rampant Loon Press on April 25. Currently, it's only available from Amazon for the Kindle, though there are plans for a print version, also. You can buy it here for $1.99. A free sample is available for download. If you enjoy the sample, it's a safe bet you'll enjoy the rest of the novel.
In writing this novel, I tried to recapture the novel the pulpy fun of the planetary romance sub genre. I'm a long-time fan of planetary romances and set out to write a fun, escapist science fiction adventure story. I'm pleased with the result and hope you'll give it a look. Synopsis: When Terran Scout David Rice climbs from the wreckage of his starship’s escape pod, he finds himself transported from the space age to the steam age in the blink of an eye. Drawn to the sounds of fighting, David immediately throws himself into a desperate battle against overwhelming odds to save the life of a beautiful young princess. Now, marooned without hope of rescue, David is swept into a world of steam-powered airships, treacherous pirates, brutal savages, bloodthirsty monsters, royal machinations, and plots within plots, where matters of strength and honor are most often settled with the clash of swords. As he struggles to learn the strange ways of this new world and who he can trust, one thing becomes clear to him: he must put aside his growing feelings for Her Highness and do everything in his power to return her to her family, even though this means giving her up to the prince she’s pledged to marry. Told in a relentlessly fast-paced and breathless style, SCOUT’S HONOR is an exciting modern homage to the classic tales of planetary romance made famous by writers such as Edgar Rice Burroughs and Leigh Brackett, as well as the cliffhanger-driven energy of the early science fiction movie serials. If you like your heroes unabashedly heroic, your heroines feisty and true, and your plots filled with dangers, twists, turns, and double-crosses upon triple-crosses, you’ll enjoy SCOUT’S HONOR. |
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Grand Sorcerer
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Sounds like a good read. Thanks.
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I just finished reading it, I enjoyed it. I reminds me of the the old planetary romance novels, like the Barsoom books, it was a fun read.
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