Morning Song

Seeders Universe #3

by Dean Wesley Smith

USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith returns to his fan-favorite Seeders Universe series with a third novel, Morning Song.

A massive ship powers toward the Milky Way Galaxy, threatening to destroy entire worlds. The rogue ship, the size of a moon, seems to have no entrance.

With little time before millions die, Maria Boone and Roscoe Mundy must somehow take a small team into the massive ship to stop it.
A galaxy-spanning tale of adventure and suspense and the humanity that can exist in a vast culture.

Genres: Science Fiction

ebook

First published August 27, 2014

About the author

Pen Names
Edward Taft
Dee W. Schofield
Sandy Schofield
Kathryn Wesley

Dean Wesley Smith is the bestselling author of over ninety novels under many names and well over 100 published short stories. He has over eight million copies of his books in print and has books published in nine different countries. He has written many original novels in science fiction, fantasy, mystery, thriller, and romance as well as books for television, movies, games, and comics. He is also known for writing quality work very quickly and has written a large number of novels as a ghost writer or under house names.

With Kristine Kathryn Rusch, he is the coauthor of The Tenth Planet trilogy and The 10th Kingdom. The following is a list of novels under the Dean Wesley Smith name, plus a number of pen names that are open knowledge. Many ghost and pen name books are not on this list because he is under contractual obligations not to disclose that he wrote them. Many of Dean’s original novels are also under hidden pen names for marketing reasons.

Dean has also written books and comics for all three major comic book companies, Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse, and has done scripts for Hollywood. One movie was actually made.

Over his career he has also been an editor and publisher, first at Pulphouse Publishing, then for VB Tech Journal, then for Pocket Books.

Currently, he is writing thrillers and mystery novels under another name.

Reviews

[Paul Hancock]

There are three parts to this book, each of which I enjoyed to a different degree.

The long arc story of the seeders was very interesting and the aspect that I enjoyed the most. I want more of this history and development of the seeder folk. I can see that there could be a lot of super interesting stories to tell in this vein. This was the best part. The other two parts are the characters and the shorter story which was explored within the book itself. Sadly I found these two parts to be lacking.

I didn't care much for the characters as they didn't have much personality. I was disappointed that Mary's role went from being super important to being completely neglected at the expense of Roscoe's role. She sort of just faded as a character of interest throughout the book for no real reason.

The story that was explored within the book didn't have any conflict or intrigue or difficulty that needed to be overcome. This meant that it felt a bit easy and boring. All the potential conflicts and difficulties were resolved without any interaction by the main characters. This made it hard for me to really engage with the book.

[Garry Whitmore]

I really liked this book, and think it is the best so far in the "Seeder Universe" series. this is very much a tale of the Seeders themselves, and their history, a lot more background is filled in, their technology explored and more. This time the author also turns down the romance to focus more on other aspects of the tale. This is much more a cosmic tale than those previous and reminded me a lot of old-style epic science fiction for the golden age of the 1930s-1950s. The level of conflict is lower than I expected and it's nice to see an author not going down the path of a vicious space battle every chapter.

not a great work of literature fair enough, but the sort of sci-fi I really enjoy.

[Frank Hofer]

Once again, a book from the Seeder Universe needs editing. Happily, not as much as the last piece of unreadable crap Sector Justice. Is everyone in the universe the most attractive person anyone has ever seen? Do we constantly need to read about how much in love they are? Eliminate a bunch of that and get a much tighter book.

If you’re looking for hard SF, this isn’t it. The seeder Universe is a space fantasy with a bunch of hand waving, deus ex machina, and cardboard characters. It can be a quick, mindless, and entertaining read. But damn does it need some editing.

[Travis]

Now the series is taking on a more complete picture of what's happening. Really enjoyed this part of the series. Definitely going to read more in this series, really enjoying the series at this point.

[Torfinn Ingolfsen]

I really liked it.

[Dutch]

This book had a lot of potential. I can't say I was too terribly interested in the characters (more on that later), but I liked the overall story. I got lost trying to figure out whether these Seeders actually seeded earth. Just when I thought I had a handle on the timeline it increased exponentially. Are seeders humans' ancestors. Who knows?

What was lacking in this book - conflict. Nowhere in this entire book was there any conflict. There were no arguments, no disagreements, no taking works out of context, no jealousy, nothing of that sort. Every character was congenial with every other character. Everyone was polite, skilled and competent. No mistakes were made. It was just one harmonious adventure on a ship the size of a planet. Everything was so intuitive and just moved forward without any bumps along the way. In a word, this book was uninspiring at best and disappointing at worst.