Starburst: A Seeders Universe Novel

Seeders Universe #8

by Dean Wesley Smith

Exploring the vastness of The mission of the massive Starburst ships.

Chairmen Cole and Echo of the Starburst ship Star Trail get wrapped up in finding lost ancient cultures.

And in the process find far more than they ever could imagine.

Starburst takes the vast Seeders Universe and expands it yet again beyond where humans dare go.

192 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 28, 2017

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

[Charl]

Meh. I've read other Seeder stories, so I know the background. But this felt...dull. Sure, the characters were facing problems on a new scale, even for Seeders, but I just never felt and real threat. Every time they learned something, it eliminated the previous "threat" and offered a new one, which was supplanted in turn by the next level. And the final "resolution" felt far too neat and convenient.

[Garry Whitmore]

Another reasonable entry in this series, but I'm beginning to find the whole concept getting rather overblown in its scale and the repetition of some of the concepts and the continuing weaknesses in the limited range of characterisations.

While I have had my fill of every alien is a bad guy, savage killer type sci-fi that seems to be prevalent at the moment. There does need to be some sort of conflict along the way, and while I appreciated the author's approach of avoiding this literary trope at the start after nine volumes for no conflict of any kind to have occurred does in its own way get a little waring.

On the positive side, it is very much that old-style humungous style of space opera I've always enjoyed so will likely stay with it if any future volumes are published.

[Travis]

Not a bad installment in the series, though I do wonder why they didn't try to stop the new aliens from ruining human worlds, but such is how the story goes I guess. Anyway, decent story, looking forward to the next one.

[Roy DeRousse]

DNF. Didn't care enough about the characters or plot after 50% done.