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LUCKY STARMAN

A LEIF THE LUCKY NOVEL

NOW AVAILABLE IN PRINT AND E-BOOK

Is Leif really lucky? Stranded in orbit, viewing a destroyed civilization on Earth through the screens of a starship almost out of fuel and food, he doesn’t feel that way.

It wasn’t supposed to be like that.

As the starship Dauntless returns from a successful mission to the planet called Heaven, Earth holds no attractions for Exoplanetary Scout Leif Grettison. He wants only to complete the mission and leave for another star, along with ace pilot Yang Yong. In fact, he would be happy spending the rest of his life flying the starways with her.

But they and the rest of the ship’s skeleton crew awaken from hibernation to find Earth’s solar system dark and silent—no signals, no responses to their transmissions. When they make orbit, the magnitude of the disaster becomes clear: An apocalyptic war has killed billions and destroyed every last source of power and tech that 22nd-Century humans relied on to survive. Read more…

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Leif the Lucky Novels

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Other Works by Colin Alexander

  • COMPLICATED: The Interstellar Life and Times of Saoirse Kenneally book cover

    The Interstellar Life and Times of Saoirse Kenneally

  • The Girl Who Would Be King

  • A coming of age story in a very different America.

  • My Life by Colin Alexander

    An action-packed, space opera, with a dash of American football.

  • Lady of Ice and Fire by Colin Alexander

    The Soviet Union has fallen. The Cold War is over. Or is it?

  • God's Adamaantine Fate by Colin Alexander

    The intersection of medicine and the real world.

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