Star Rain

Seeders Universe #6

by Dean Wesley Smith

The fight with the genetically engineered aliens seems impossible. Benny and Gina, both Seeders, stand on the bridge of their massive mother ship knowing they needed miracles to win. They both know that if they work long enough and hard enough, miracles might happen. Centuries worth of work. A massive-scale Seeders Universe story that started in the novel Star Mist.

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First published March 21, 2016

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

[Garry Whitmore]

First off this is the second part of a so far 4 volume epic tale. So if you are interested you need to start with the prior book "Star Mist" or ideally right from the series start although the first four books are not essential but give a lot of background.

That said, this were we go full-blown intergalactic crazy, with multiple galaxies, millions of ships, crazy advanced technologies. I felt I was back in the sci-fi of the 1920s-1940s. This is full-on Space Opera folks. For me, that is generally an enjoyable experience, but others may find the style overblown and immature.

Negatives for me, it's all very white, middle class, straight characters. No non-white characters of note, in fact, more aliens feature than people of colour. Also, all relationships are very heterosexual, there are even underlying suggestions that some of the advanced technology is only operable by male/female pairs. As noted this is a very 1930s style sci-fi novel, I could just do without the 1930s social attitudes.

On the positive side, this is not a blame aliens for all the crap happening scenario. The threat here is of human origin and out of a very human desire to play god. The author doesn't linger over mass space and planet born slaughter as I've found some authors do, if anything it's all a bit clinical.

Although I enjoyed the read, it was the subsequent realisation of its weaknesses which stopped me from giving it a full 4-star rating.

[Travis]

Not sure why the list of books show this book as coming after star fall, it really should be before that one, as far as storyline goes. Also, in the beginning of star fall, they claim it took them 300 years to eliminate the alien menace, but at the end of this one, it said it'd take closer to 400
Anyway, this is the story I was expecting with the previous book in the series, so good to see it does exist.