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Seeders Universe #5
Star Mist: A Seeders Universe Novel
A dead alien ship appears close to human space. But in millions of years, no alien race managed to leave its own galaxy.
The alien ship originated in a galaxy over two hundred thousand years of travel away. But the Seeders need to know about the alien race, in case they are a threat.
Star Mist takes on the vast scale of the Seeders Universe and expands it even more.
Galaxy-spanning science fiction at its very best.
The alien ship originated in a galaxy over two hundred thousand years of travel away. But the Seeders need to know about the alien race, in case they are a threat.
Star Mist takes on the vast scale of the Seeders Universe and expands it even more.
Galaxy-spanning science fiction at its very best.
226 pages, Kindle Edition
First published February 22, 2016
About the author
Dean Wesley Smith
841 books181 followersPen 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.
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.
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August 13, 2017
De cinco estrellas, le quito una porque el libro, aunque técnicamente hablando termina, realmente no lo hace y creo que la historia completa debe ser, por lo menos, dos más, por lo tanto el autor miente cuando dice que son novelas auto conclusivas.
Le quito otra porque la historia es "asín". Por muchos motivos. El primero de todo porque el autor se saca de la manga muchas cosas, sobre todo casi al final, como si hubiera llegado un punto en el que no sabía cómo continuar y hubiera pensado: me saco esto de la manga y así no solo continuo, sino que encima me da para más de un libro.
Es lo que tiene escribir una novela al mes, que no da mucho tiempo para pensar los argumentos, y si te das cuenta que la has cagado casi al final, no hay vuelta atrás: o ese mes no publicas nada o tiras adelante como puedas.
Otra estrella menos por el "universo" en el que está. Es la primera novela que leo de este autor (he leído algunos de sus libros sobre cómo escribir), situada en el universo de los "seeders" (semilleros), un universo bastante mal parido y con bastantes incongruencias. Además, el escenario de la novela podría situarse en cualquier lado. Los protagonistas podrían pertenecer a un grupo de personas en la tierra rodeados de enemigos, o en el sistema solar, o en la vía láctea. La escala no importa, y en este caso Dean come y caga galaxias como si fueran piedras en un riachuelo.
Todo es demasiado fácil, todo demasiado bonito y demasiado políticamente correcto, y eso sin contar las relaciones interpersonales, que brillan por su ausencia. No hay conflicto, no hay nada. Los dos protagonistas se encuentran, se enamoran al momento y son la pareja perfecta. Exactamente igual que con los demás integrantes de la novela... No le quito otra estrella porque considero que a fin de cuentas la novela sirve para un propósito: entretener y poco más.
Le quito otra porque la historia es "asín". Por muchos motivos. El primero de todo porque el autor se saca de la manga muchas cosas, sobre todo casi al final, como si hubiera llegado un punto en el que no sabía cómo continuar y hubiera pensado: me saco esto de la manga y así no solo continuo, sino que encima me da para más de un libro.
Es lo que tiene escribir una novela al mes, que no da mucho tiempo para pensar los argumentos, y si te das cuenta que la has cagado casi al final, no hay vuelta atrás: o ese mes no publicas nada o tiras adelante como puedas.
Otra estrella menos por el "universo" en el que está. Es la primera novela que leo de este autor (he leído algunos de sus libros sobre cómo escribir), situada en el universo de los "seeders" (semilleros), un universo bastante mal parido y con bastantes incongruencias. Además, el escenario de la novela podría situarse en cualquier lado. Los protagonistas podrían pertenecer a un grupo de personas en la tierra rodeados de enemigos, o en el sistema solar, o en la vía láctea. La escala no importa, y en este caso Dean come y caga galaxias como si fueran piedras en un riachuelo.
Todo es demasiado fácil, todo demasiado bonito y demasiado políticamente correcto, y eso sin contar las relaciones interpersonales, que brillan por su ausencia. No hay conflicto, no hay nada. Los dos protagonistas se encuentran, se enamoran al momento y son la pareja perfecta. Exactamente igual que con los demás integrantes de la novela... No le quito otra estrella porque considero que a fin de cuentas la novela sirve para un propósito: entretener y poco más.
July 20, 2017
I love the concept of the Seeders' Universe, but the stories tend to leave me "meh". The concepts are grand, literally universe-spanning, but everything seems too easy. In this one (spoilers will be avoided), there's a huge problem, stemming from long-past events, one that threatens literally all life in the universe. And Smith describes the characters as stunned, overwhelmed, stressed, all the other reactions you'd expect from learning the scale of this problem, but I just don't *feel* it.
Solving this problem is going to take hundreds, maybe even thousands of years, and the involvement of all the Seeder galaxies, but the reaction of the people figuring this out is "Okay, we need this, this and this. It's going to take a long time, so let's get to it." I'm just not really feeling any threat here. It's like finding a spilled glass of water in your living room versus discovering a volcano forming under your neighborhood. This should be a volcano-level problem, but everyone's so calm it feels like a glass-of-water one.
Again, the author describes the characters as all kinds of upset, but it just doesn't really come through. Overall I'm simply not thrilled with these stories.
Solving this problem is going to take hundreds, maybe even thousands of years, and the involvement of all the Seeder galaxies, but the reaction of the people figuring this out is "Okay, we need this, this and this. It's going to take a long time, so let's get to it." I'm just not really feeling any threat here. It's like finding a spilled glass of water in your living room versus discovering a volcano forming under your neighborhood. This should be a volcano-level problem, but everyone's so calm it feels like a glass-of-water one.
Again, the author describes the characters as all kinds of upset, but it just doesn't really come through. Overall I'm simply not thrilled with these stories.
July 11, 2017
An entertaining short story set in the seeders universe.
Once again I read a seeders novel out of order! One day I'll learn a lesson and start from the beginning. There were lots of interesting plot points here, and it seemed like there were lots of long arc stories that were developed in a very short space of time. Maybe these are spoilers from earlier books, but it didn't matter - I still enjoyed the read, and I don't think that I'll be too disappointed when I eventually do go back and read the prior stories.
My one criticism with this story is that a lot of the text was spent describing just how much the main characters loved each other and how often they were having sex. I didn't feel that this moved the story forward.
Once again I read a seeders novel out of order! One day I'll learn a lesson and start from the beginning. There were lots of interesting plot points here, and it seemed like there were lots of long arc stories that were developed in a very short space of time. Maybe these are spoilers from earlier books, but it didn't matter - I still enjoyed the read, and I don't think that I'll be too disappointed when I eventually do go back and read the prior stories.
My one criticism with this story is that a lot of the text was spent describing just how much the main characters loved each other and how often they were having sex. I didn't feel that this moved the story forward.
March 27, 2022
This book starts with a mystery that without giving spoilers away is not what it seems. We get to dig a bit deeper into the history of the Seeder universe as a mission to seek an answer to the mystery is set up, goes forth and find all is not what it seems, and the history they have been told isn't exactly what they thought it was.
This volume very much takes us away from Earth-based tales, or even interstellar ones, into full-blown over the top intergalactic space opera more akin to what was popular in the golden age of science fiction in the 1930s to 1950s than the 21st century. that suits me fine as that's the sort of sci-fi I grew up with, for many today it will seem a bit out there. Be warned this tale continues in the next three volumes getting bigger and wilder along the way.
This volume very much takes us away from Earth-based tales, or even interstellar ones, into full-blown over the top intergalactic space opera more akin to what was popular in the golden age of science fiction in the 1930s to 1950s than the 21st century. that suits me fine as that's the sort of sci-fi I grew up with, for many today it will seem a bit out there. Be warned this tale continues in the next three volumes getting bigger and wilder along the way.
May 3, 2022
Well, I guess a star spanning race needs some kind of conflict to keep the story moving along. Can't say I agree with how this one carries on the story, but it's a reasonable premise, so I guess I'll continue reading the series.
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