Perilous choices, p.46
Perilous Choices, page 46
part #11 of Gate Ghosts Series
Sylian – Alliance race, often referred to as the cats
Tefreese – Tekstria communicator
Tekstria – Collective inhabitants aboard massive fleet facing the conclave
Toralian – Members of Talusian system, marked by their vestigial wings
Planets, Stars, Systems, and Wormholes
Axis Crossing – Intersection of four known wormholes
Basyat – System hosting the Queller home world
Darmian – Home world of the Radags
Devona – Queller home planet
Juno – Anomaly connects Helgart space to the Imperium-Queller frontier boundary
Méridien – Original home world of the SADEs
Naiad – Name of colony planet in the Gelus system
New Terra – Home world of the colonists
Outpost Thirteen: Union – New outpost at Helgart
Paltur – Imperium system
Radagul – Radag system
Sathus – Krackus home world
Trevonian – Queller world
Ships
Alexander – Cremsylon’s Quadrant
Destiny – Axis Crossing colony ship
Freedom – Julien’s Quadrant
Fortuna – Luxury liner, sister ship to the Liberation
Liberation – Luxury liner, Helgart residents’ ship
Nyslara – Admiral Cordelia’s quadrant
Peacekeeper – Krackus battleship
Quadrant – Style of ship designed by Z and Miranda, example, the Alexander
Storyteller – HS Transport carrier
Traveler – SADE/sister shuttle
Trident – Omnian tri-hulled warship
Withern – Woot sisters’ mini-Quadrant
My Books
Perilous Choices is the eleventh novel in the Gate Ghosts series, which relates the stories of the descendants of Earth’s fourth colony ship.
The novel is available in e-book, softcover, and audiobook versions. Please visit my website, http://scottjucha.com, for publication dates and purchase locations. You may register at my website to receive email updates on the progress of my upcoming novels.
The Silver Ships Series
The Silver Ships
Libre
Méridien
Haraken
Sol
Espero
Allora
Celus-5
Omnia
Vinium
Nua’ll
Artifice
Sojourn
Alliance
SADEs
Earthers
Talus
Elvians
Q-Gates
Conclave
Pyreans Series
Empaths
Messinants
Jatouche
Veklocks
Gate Ghosts Series
Axis Crossing
Clone Crisis
Race Rivalry
Vortex Incursion
Dual Domains
Alien Intrigue
Deadly Gambits
Allied Enemies
Chaotic Futures
Empire Turmoil
Perilous Choices
Dubious Risks (forthcoming)
The Author
From my early years to the present, books have been a refuge. They’ve fueled my imagination. I’ve traveled to faraway places and met aliens with Asimov, Heinlein, Clarke, Herbert, and Le Guin. I’ve explored historical events with Michener and Clavell, and I played spy with Ludlum and Fleming.
There’s no doubt that the early sci-fi writers influenced my series, The Silver Ships, Pyreans, and Gate Ghosts. I crafted my stories to give readers intimate views of my characters, who wrestle with the challenges of living in space and inhabiting alien worlds.
Life is rarely easy for these characters, who encounter aliens and calamities, but they persist and flourish. I revel in examining humankind’s will to survive. Not everyone plays fair or exhibits concern for other beings, but that’s another aspect of humans and aliens that I investigate.
My stories offer hope for humans today about what they might accomplish tomorrow far from our home world. Throughout my books, humans exhibit a will to persevere, without detriment to the vast majority of others.
Readers have been generous with their comments, which they’ve left on Amazon and Goodreads for others to review. I truly enjoy what I do, and I’m pleased to read how my stories have positively affected many readers’ lives.
If you’ve read my books, please consider posting a review on Amazon and Goodreads for every book, even a short one. Reviews attract other readers and are a great help to indie authors, such as me.
These novels have reached Amazon’s coveted #1 and #2 Best-Selling Sci-Fi book, multiple times, in the science fiction categories of first contact, alien invasion, and space flight.
S. H. Jucha, Perilous Choices
