Month: December 2023

Taken to the Stars Book 4: LEGACY OF EMPIRE is out today!

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If you’re going to fight a space war, you have to have spaceships.

Charlie has a headquarters, a purpose, and an army…everything you need to build a resistance.

Except warships.

The Anguilar have plenty, but they also know the resistance will be coming after them, and they’ve set a hardened killer to hunt down Charlie.

The deadly bounty hunter Seraph Nix is on the hunt as the crew of the Revenant travels across the galaxy searching for a legendary lost cache of Kamerian starfighters from the last war.

Braving the deadly wilds of a long forgotten world, the only question is, will the mutant aliens get to them first…or will Seraph Nix?

Researchers build biocomputer out of lab-grown brain cells

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Well, this is interesting. And something I and other SF writers have speculated on before.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03975-7

‘Biocomputer’ combines lab-grown brain tissue with electronic hardware

A system that integrates brain cells into a hybrid machine can recognize voices.

Researchers have built a hybrid biocomputer — combining a laboratory-grown human brain tissue with conventional electronic circuits — that can complete tasks such as voice recognition.

The technology, described on 11 December in Nature Electronics1, could one day be integrated into artificial-intelligence (AI) systems, or form the basis of improved models of the brain in neuroscience research.

Drop Trooper 14 is out today!

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Drop Trooper 14: Collateral Effects is out today!

So close to home…
And yet farther away than ever.

Cam, Vicky and the others follow the jump gate line into the Reconstructor systems, hoping to find the Northwest Passage back to Earth…back home.

Instead, they find death and destruction. And an ancient mystery.

Something has wiped out one world after another, not a fleet of aliens, not a natural disaster, but a single enemy. A remnant of an old war, a doomsday weapon in the form of an insidious contagion that could infect one of their own.

And if it does, it won’t just be the end of Cam and the crew of the Orion…it’ll mean the end of the human race.

Book 14 in the Amazon Bestselling Drop Trooper series by Rick Partlow is here. It’s Military Sci-Fi the way it’s supposed to be!