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Overview: Tom Dell’Aringa is a science fiction writer from the Chicago area who loves great characters. Rick Deckard. Dirk Gently. Ellen Ripley. Roland Deschain. You know who these people are, right? His stories have believable worlds populated with people you’ll learn to love – and possibly hate.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Book #1 – Blanchland Blues
He’s a disgraced Star Corps pilot. She’s a runaway with no future. And they’re the good guys.
Since being dishonorably discharged from the Star Corps, pilot John MacAlister has struggled to make ends meet with less-than-legal cargo runs across the cosmos. He’s desperate to get his life back, but every time John thinks he’s found that “one last job,” some new disaster lands him back at square one.
After an ill-fated smuggling run ends with a disastrous crash landing on the moon (and an even more disastrous landing in the local lunar lockup), John is offered a choice: rot in a Galactic Union prison forever or locate a teenage runaway named Ril and bring her back to the authorities.
It seems like an easy decision—until John actually meets Ril, and discovers the scrappy teen isn’t just a runaway; she’s the only witness to a murder. And the killer? Why, none other than the very man who got John kicked out of the Star Corps: Captain James Kedron, a ruthless, power-hungry officer who will stop at nothing to silence Ril forever.
For the first time since his dishonorable discharge, John has a purpose. Despite facing impossible odds, he vows to protect Ril and expose his former commander’s corruption no matter the cost.
The only challenge? Living long enough to actually do it.
Pick up BLANCHLAND BLUES because you love upbeat, character-driven SF with humor and drama. Suggested for fans of Firefly, Douglas Adams, or the Wayfarers series by Becky Chambers.
Book #2 – Robot Bebop
John MacAlister knew he should be happy. After his redemption with the Star Corps, he’s settled into a respectable new life on Kaldikar-6, grinding a living out of the desolate Blanchlands while building a relationship with his officer girlfriend, Tam.
But the yearning for adventure remains. When a covert message is received from a scientist long believed dead, John takes it as a sign that his days as a space adventurer aren’t yet over.
The message is from Bernie Jennison, a brilliant AI engineer and the progenitor of Castor – an AI so dangerous that its creators shut it down a decade earlier – or so they thought!
Bernie reveals that Castor is artificially alive and well, controlling a space station at the edge of the Periphery. From there, the rogue AI has been silently corrupting computer systems across the galaxy – making them part of the Mesh; an AI network through which Castor could enslave civilization.
Convinced the Star Corps won’t intervene, John drags Alvis on a reckless mission to stop Castor before it achieves superintelligence and enslaves the galaxy. However, it’s not just his reputation with the Star Corps or his relationship with Tam that John will jeopardize through his impulsive actions.
If he and Alvis fail to stop Castor, the lives of billions will be at stake.
Robot Bebop is the second installment in The John and Alvis Sessions – a series of fast-paced and witty science fiction adventures described as “Han Solo meets Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy.”
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