{"id":1896,"date":"2018-02-05T10:56:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-05T17:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/?p=1896"},"modified":"2018-02-05T10:56:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T17:56:51","slug":"advance-praise-for-outpost-coming-on-february-20th","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/advance-praise-for-outpost-coming-on-february-20th\/","title":{"rendered":"Advance praise for OUTPOST, coming on February 20th!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Hi Everyone!<\/p>\n

We are delighted by the advance reviews for Mike’s upcoming science fiction novel, OUTPOST! Here are just a few…<\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat a ride! Excitement, adventure, and intrigue, all told in W. Michael Gear’s vivid, compulsively readable prose. A terrific new science-fiction series; Gear hits a home run right out of the park and all the way to Capella.\u201d \u2014Robert J. Sawyer, Hugo Award-winning author of Quantum Night<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cA marginal colony on a living world—where human life and human will are tested to the limits. An intriguing and inventive new work from Michael Gear, first of a trilogy. Recommended!\u201d–C. J. Cherryh, Hugo Award-winning author of Downbelow Station<\/em><\/p>\n

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Nerd Much \u2013 13 Best New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books: February 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.nerdmuch.com\/books\/153882\/best-new-sci-fi-fantasy-books-february-2018\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Dread Central<\/strong><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.dreadcentral.com\/news\/262721\/head-w-michael-gears-outpost-dangerous-sci-fi-horror-adventure\/<\/a><\/p>\n

While W. Michael Gear\u2019s new novel Outpost<\/em> is mainly sci-fi, there are enough monstrous creatures and terrifying moments in it that fans of Alien<\/em> and the like should enjoy it, which is why we\u2019re advising you to mark your calendars for February 20, 2018. That\u2019s the book\u2019s release date via publisher DAW (a Penguin Random House imprint).<\/p>\n

A thrilling tale of high stakes survival on an alien planet, Outpost<\/em> is the first installment in Gear\u2019s new The Donovan series. The second book, Abandoned<\/em>, is scheduled to arrive in November 2018, so if you like the first one, you won\u2019t have to wait too long for a sequel.<\/p>\n

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On the distant planet Donovan, the realities of colonization meet the cold, hard demands of corporate overlords. In the years since Donovan was settled, many original colonists have died and several supply ships have completely vanished, leaving the planet nearly feral. Corporation Supervisor Kalico arrives to discover disarray, and demands answers from community leaders. Competing interests from Corporation employees create tension, as Donovan\u2019s loose organization offers opportunity for deception and deceit. However, Kalico must first deal with one of the missing ships that reappears bearing horrific cargo and a seemingly impossible paradox. Gear (Moon Hunt<\/em>, 2017, with Kathleen O\u2019Neal Gear) kicks off a new sf series by weaving a number of compelling characters into the narrative, including bold heroine Talina Perez and Donovan itself, a planet teeming with danger and delights in turn. The mix of stolen identities, rapacious greed, and treacherous landscape propels the reader forward, hurtling toward the possibility that nobody is destined to escape Donovan alive. Fans of epic space opera, like Rachel Bach\u2019s Fortune\u2019s Pawn <\/em>(2013), will happily lose themselves in Donovan\u2019s orbit.<\/p>\n

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Hi Everyone! We are delighted by the advance reviews for Mike’s upcoming science fiction novel, OUTPOST! Here are just a few…   \u201cWhat a ride! Excitement, adventure, and intrigue, all told in W. Michael Gear’s vivid, compulsively readable prose. A terrific new science-fiction series; Gear hits a home run right out of the park and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[345,338,337,344,336,340,123],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1896"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1903,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1896\/revisions\/1903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1896"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1896"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gear-gear.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1896"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}