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Wings of Earth: 3 - Chains of Dawn: A Smart Space Opera Series Kindle Edition

by Eric Michael Craig (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 out of 5 stars 189 ratings
It was only a four-day safari. On a super-earth, covered with a deadly jungle.

Captain Ethan Walker takes what should be an easy run to Watchtower Station in orbit above the inhabited heavy-world of Dawn. A delay in unloading their cargo forces them to layover for several days, and the station’s science director offers them the chance to visit the surface to observe the indigenous culture firsthand.

When a mistake leaves the human outpost on the surface exposed, a hunting party of superhuman Ut’aran natives capture Walker and his crew and haul them off into the impenetrable jungle.

With the power to their life supporting exosuits dying, they must fight to survive against twice the gravity of earth while the three newest members of his crew attempt an impossible rescue mission.

Unfortunately, to escape they have to take on a cargo that puts them so far outside the law that if the Coalition catches them, the best they can hope for is death by hanging.

Grab the third book of Wings of Earth to discover just how far Captain Walker and the crew of the Olympus Dawn will go to survive.
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    Wings of Earth
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07SSDKMJ3
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rivenstone Press
  • Accessibility ‏ : ‎ Learn more
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 7, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 2.5 MB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 302 pages
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  • Book 3 of 8 ‏ : ‎ Wings of Earth
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Eric Michael Craig is a Science Fiction author living in the Manzano Mountains of New Mexico. It has been said that Eric writes "intelligent science fiction" where the characters and story come first, and a believable science foundation provides the backdrop to the action. Before he retired from the corporate world, Eric was the Director of Research for a private consulting laboratory where he learned how to explain science in ways that could be understood even by those who weren't technically oriented.

When not writing, Eric plays guitar and bass and occasionally dabbles in art of various forms.

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  • Bob2D2
    5.0 out of 5 stars No good turn reveals the truth
    Reviewed in the United States on April 20, 2021
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    You can tell from the beginning voyage that thing's are not as expected. Implants gone rogue! Monitor scientists learning of a new alien race who are not savvy to any technology! What could go wrong.
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  • Steven Woodcock
    4.0 out of 5 stars Third is Excellent
    Reviewed in the United States on February 8, 2023
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    This third book picks up a bit after the events of the second. Captain Walker has had a chance to add a bit of hardware to his ship and then gets chartered for a "quick" run...some basic supplies to a gravity-heavy world that's in a quarantine observation of the natives (think Star Trek's Prime Directive).

    Once they get there though the station personnel are curiously slow in unloading the cargo, and then an accident leaves a crew stranded on the high gravity planet. Then the other shoe falls, and the station personnel blackmail the crew to take on a cargo that could get them hung if caught....

    I liked this book, perhaps not QUITE as much as the first two but it was interesting enough. Certainly there's a whole lot of world building along the way and that's good, and there characters get a bit better fleshed out. Recommended.
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  • Benjamin Wright
    5.0 out of 5 stars Exceeded expectations
    Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2021
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    When I read the description the book seemed to be traveling well worn world's of science fiction. I was pleasantly surprised by the freshness of the story told.
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  • updaze
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent story telling
    Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2019
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    Craig's style harkens back to the sci fi greats. His characters are not 2 dimensional puppets, well drawn actors on the stage of space....truly great reading, and I am looking forward to much more. Thank you.
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  • Kindle Reader
    3.0 out of 5 stars Good but not as good as the first two
    Reviewed in the United States on October 20, 2023
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    A change from space to an alien plant. Good character growth. Enjoyed watching them in the new environment and interacting with the untrustworthy actors. Sadly the end wrapped up too quickly with a bit too much of a wand wave. It's like he got tired of writing the story.
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  • Phil Boyd Studge
    4.0 out of 5 stars Four & one half actually—should be read after ‘Wings of Earth - Scatter the Winds’
    Reviewed in the United States on May 18, 2021
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    This author sheds interesting characters like hairs in the morning.
    Clearly the man has an interest in languages — I suspect that this is his real passion.
    Whimsically spinning off far flung fantasy he is, in general, remarkably consistent within his chosen universe.

    In this novel his juggling falters ever so slightly a bit over half way into the tale — yet he recovers, fancifully. Hard science fiction it is not. Fun science fiction it is.
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  • Geoff Habiger
    5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Sci-Fi Adventure
    Reviewed in the United States on February 29, 2020
    Format: Kindle
    In Chains of Dawn, Captain Ethan Walker and the rest of the crew of the Olympus Dawn seem to be catching a break. After discovering an entire missing colony in Echoes of Starlight and fighting off a pirate in Dust of the Deep, Walker is happy to have a simple delivery of passengers and cargo to a science station orbiting over a super earth with its own near-human native population. But what should be a simple milk run, and maybe even a bit of R&R on the planet to observe the natives, quickly turns into a desperate life and death situation for Walker and the crew. While Walker, Rene, Angel, and Nuko are stranded on the planet, Kaycee, Ammo, and Quinn must make some hard decisions that will either save the day, or get them all implicated in the only crime that could see them swinging at the end of a rope.

    As I mentioned in my review of Echoes of Starlight, this book could have been subtitled: Captain Walker and (Another) Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. In fact, I am starting to think that if given the opportunity to sign onto the crew of the Olympus Dawn I’d have to walk away, very, very fast (in the same way that one shouldn’t walk into a New England town where an elderly mystery writer lives or a quiet county in England called Midsomer, unless you want to become the next murder victim). Captain Walked seems to be having a string of bad luck wherever he goes, and I am really starting to feel sorry for the man. But honestly, this makes for fantastic reading. Craig doesn’t hold back on the action or the drama. And this time, it’s not just Walker who is forced into making the tough decisions. In fact, a lot of the time Walker is basically along for the ride as a lot of the drama is happening in space where Kaycee, Ammo, and Quinn are faced with the hard choices. I really enjoyed that the storyline opened up in this book (books 1 and 2 primarily focused on Walker and his decisions and actions) and allowed us to see events from different character perspectives. We are given a good look at how these characters interact and react to a very tough situation.

    Another thing that I liked about Chains of Dawn was the setting. A lot of the action takes place on the planet Dawn. Dawn is a super earth, with twice our normal gravity, and Craig does a wonderful job of making the setting just as much an antagonist as any of the characters. I loved the fact that such a world was included at all. If you are a fan of sci-fi television shows (like me) try to think of an episode of Star Trek (OS or NG or DS9 or Voyager or Enterprise), Farscape, Stargate SG-1, or Firefly where the crew went to a world that WASN’T at normal Earth gravity. (I’ll wait.) I can’t think of one. (Doesn’t mean there’s not, but if such episodes happened, they were few and forgettable.) To survive on the planet the crew must wear a Pressure Support Exosuit (PSE) or be slowly crushed under the higher gravity. Not only does this add a dose of realism to the story (of all of the exoplanets found so far many are super earths with a much higher gravity) it also adds in wonderful opportunities for drama and tension.

    My one quibble is that the ending felt a bit Start Trek: NG (not that that is necessarily a bad thing), in the sense that the conclusion and resolution sort of just happened in the last minute of the episode after all of the drama and seemed to come from left field. It wasn’t a bad ending; in fact, I liked the resolution and the set up for future books. It just felt rushed to me and I would have preferred a bit more from the characters that would have pointed (a little) at the ending.

    Chains of Dawn is a fast-paced sci-fi adventure that ratchets up the tension and drama for Captain Walker and the rest of the crew of the Olympus Dawn. If you love sci-fi, especially in the vein of Star Trek and Firefly, then I highly recommend Chains of Dawn.
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  • Amazon Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Exciting!
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 5, 2022
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    Eric pulls it off again! How he produces these storylines book after book, is amazing. The depth of characters deepens with each story making them highly relatable
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