Enjoy the first eleven chapters of Escher Book I

Marine Raiders, Captain Alison Haavik and Gunnery Sergeant Jace Riken have spent a grueling decade bouncing between Earth conflicts.  They have forged an inseparable bond in sweat and blood. Their new mission promises to be more peaceful: assist in terraforming the desolate planet Tykhe—four light years away. After spending nearly 200 years in cryostasis, the Raiders awake to find themselves as women out-of-time.  Both technology and civilization have advanced faster than their elongated journey across galaxies.  Break the guns out of storage and dish out the ammo, Tykhe is alive and hostile!   Alison and Jace are immediately pitted against a world of hungry beasts and guerilla warfare.

Escher comes from a planet of engineered giants.   He finds lucrative employment with mining magnates, serving as a security contractor in the remote jungles of Tykhe.  His job: make sure nothing interferes with the company’s efforts to extract precious fuel for mankind’s latest achievement, the space-bending Einstein-Rosen relays.  Except Tykhe and the local populations are not going to make this easy for him or the other off-worlders.  Separated from his team, and left for dead, Escher must rely on the marooned Earthers if he has any chance of making it out alive.