Ascendance (book)

Ascendance is a Kindle Worlds novel set in the Legacy Fleet universe, written by Saul Tanpepper. From the author of the acclaimed thriller series GAMELAND, BUNKER 12, and THE FLENSE, comes a space opera unlike any you've read before: THE INTERSTELLAR LIFE OF PIGEON.

For centuries, Humanity expanded into the galaxy. We thought we were alone. Then came the alien Swarm. They destroyed our colonies and decimated Earth cities. They took from us our sense of sovereignty.

It wasn't all they stole.

There were thirty-six of us to start. This is the story of our abduction and our fight to survive among the stars. It is the tale of an unlikely hero who will one day bring us all back home.

Part Lord of the Flies, part Ender's Game, Ascendance chronicles the beginning of a lifelong journey by a group of young social outcasts, including a troubled teenager on the brink of manhood. It is the inaugural title in THE INTERSTELLAR LIFE OF PIGEON, a planned trilogy based in the world of best-selling author Nick Webb's popular space opera, LEGACY FLEET.

Book One: Ascendance 

It's the height of summer in the year 2575, when the attack commences in the remote reaches of the solar system. The massive battleships of the Integrated Defense Force with their fleets of swift and agile fighters are put immediately to the test. But there is little they can do in the face of the invaders' superior firepower. The aliens penetrate our defenses and soon reach Earth.

Cities begin to fall.

The war strands a hundred young campers in the Utah high country, raining death and destruction from the heavens above and shattering all hope of rescue. Abandoned, lost, and isolated, the survivors must put aside past animosities and band together to survive the attack and hopefully make it back home again... if there is even a home to go back to.

But as darkness falls and the sounds of war fade away, only then does their ordeal truly begin.

Saul is a former combat medic with civilian trauma medicine experience. He earned his PhD in biochemistry and cell biology. He is the best-selling author of GAMELAND, a post-apocalyptic thriller series.