Rosetta - Softcover

Patterson, Stephen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0998893811 ISBN 13: 9780998893815

Publisher: Literology Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

The future isn’t what it used to be for Tony Calanis Palermo. He’s a man with a past. It has been a long fall from a member of the most clandestine branch of Lunar Intelligence to a mere able spaceman first class aboard a merchant starship. But after his latest misadventure, it will be an even longer fall to working out a long term indenture on a backwater sugar plantation. In fact, it would be a death sentence. Except that he’s just been offered a single chance at freedom: If he uses his skills to obtain the language key of the mysterious, and dead, alien Galactic race before anyone else can get it. That anyone else may include, but may not strictly be limited to, interplanetary policorps, super soldiers, genetically modified assassins, heavily armed colonial revolutionaries, and the combined military might of the Union of Man. Enough trouble for anyone’s plate, perhaps. But once on the ground, Tony discovers the still functioning personality daemon of a quasi-religious mutant criminal megalomaniac that had once tried to start World War Four just before Tony . . . killed her. Turns out, that’s a problem. Only he also decides to rescue an indentured savant slave girl and her dying pet Angel. Has he finally bitten off more than he can chew? But the real question is: Can he stay alive long enough to succeed?

About this title

About the Author

Stephen Patterson is a lifelong reader. He cut his teeth on Heinlein, Asimov, Le Guin, and Clark. But that’s not all. He also invents imaginary people in his head. They do stuff. He also writes. His first novel, Rosetta, is a dystopian, science fiction tale. Cyberpunk Space Opera, some say. Stranger comes to town, interacts with the locals. He kisses some, kills some, betrays some, and saves some. You know, the usual stuff. Steve is a trained Mathematician and a hardworking industrialist by day. He makes his home in Atlanta and enjoys the many activities of its vibrant science community

Edition details

• Publisher: Literology Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 0998893811
• ISBN 13: 9780998893815
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 362