Star Fall

Seeders Universe #7

by Dean Wesley Smith

Seeders never do anything in a small way, including their sports. Matt and Carey, the chairmen of the Starburst ship Star Fall started a yearly relay race from the very front of their ship to the tail and back again. An extreme relay of over nine thousand kilometers run by ten-member teams.

But before the race could start, a scout ship vanishes inside a shielded galaxy. Who could put a shield around an entire galaxy? And why?

A galaxy-spanning tale of adventure, suspense, and the vast possibilities of space.

154 pages, ebook

First published September 13, 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

[Travis]

Kind of surprised this book starts after the storyline in the previous one was resolved (out of sight so to speak), I was looking forward to some stories during all that dust up, but no such luck.
In any case, I liked this book anyway, and now I'm off to read the next one in the series.

[Charl]

Fortunately, I'd read another Seeders novel before this, or I'd've been totally lost. Even so, I just couldn't get into this book. It just seemed too fantastic to believe.

I mean, they can scan entire galaxies in enough detail to spot even pre-tech species from outside the galaxy? In just a few hours? Eeeeeehhhh...I find that hard to accept.

And Seeders can teleport thousands of lightyears? And to places they haven't even seen? How do they avoid teleporting into something? Or each other when hundreds, even thousands, are teleporting into the same area? (This bothered me in the other book, too.)

And they're this virtually immortal race, colonizing the entire universe, but when they send out scoutships in "all" directions, they only send them ahead and to the "left" and "right". What happened to "up" and "down"? And everything in between? (That's actually just poor writing, but it still adds to my discontent.)

And their ships can communicate over literally billions of lightyears instantaneously? Maybe that's explained in one of the other books, but it left me very annoyed here. Even a throwaway line like "Joe contacted the ship through the quantum link chairmen shared with their ships and asked it to . . . . He still didn't really understand how the link worked, but it allowed him to talk with his ship even across millions of lightyears, and he wasn't going to complain about that."

And they find billions of galaxies being "harvested" for their energy, and a structure several times larger than an entire galaxy, that a previous generation of Seeders simply abandoned because they got tired of "seeding"?

Oh, but wait, we have a month-long marathon race every year on our ship! Which is fine in and of itself, but when that seems more interesting to them than anything they're finding about the construct and the sphere of drained galaxies, well, I can only shake my head.

This book was just barely interesting enough to keep my reading, but overall, it left me going "Eh, I just don't think anyone could be that blase about all this!"

Very dissatisfied.

[Garry Whitmore]

Another enjoyable volume in the series with all the usual components. Couple at the core of the story, surprisingly non-violent for the subject matter. The scale of the story increases with every volume.

I enjoyed it at the time but, in retrospect has faded somewhat from my memory.

[Rachel]

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