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Lockdown Kindle Edition

by Timothy Goyette (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Lockdown by Timothy O. Goyette
A science fiction adventure set in the far future on distant worlds

No good deed goes unpunished, or so the philosophers suggest. Samuel Rochez did a very good deed and therefore is considered a traitor by the whole human race. Throughout the galaxy he is remembered as the Benedict Arnold of his time. Only in Samuel's case the humans lost the war, and he is reviled as the one ultimately responsible.

For a time he manages to live in anonymity. Upon his discovery he is forced to join a mercenary band, basically space pirates, on what is supposed to be a simple in and out mission. Soon he finds himself at odds with the band, running for his life, and striving to save the planet and its unusual life forms from destruction. This is a first contact that can doom an entire planet of hive mind aliens. When the planet is placed in lockdown, making the entire world seem claustrophobic. The military band's only hope for escape is to set off the biggest bomb in the history of the galaxy and destroy all life on the planet.

This is Goyette’s first novel which is probably best described as a science fiction space opera but it also involves elements from military, sociological and physiological sub genres along with a few other twists. As a first contact science fiction this goes much worse for the aliens than for the humans. It turns out that the humans are also the ones who can make it better.

Within the mercenary ban multiple mutinies occur making them appear much more space pirates than military. Stagar Inmen, their weak leader depends upon his second in command enforcer, Michael Lance, to keep the men in line. This falls apart as they both struggle for control. Deceit and back stabbing is the name of the game.

Well worth the read – Dead Trees Reviews
I'm looking forward to reading more by this author. – Deirdre on Goodreads

Science fiction adventure categories
Space pirates
First contact science fiction
Science fiction space opera
Space adventure
space aliens

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00DZCV7RA
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Quantum Muse Books; 1st edition (July 16, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 16, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 643 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 140 pages

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Jeromy Henry

A good, solid book

Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2013

Lockdown stars Samuel Rochez, the most hated man in space. He puts his personal sense of right and wrong above everything, and suffers the consequences.

It's a well-plotted narrative. The author sketches out solid, believable characters with strong personalities. The aliens are well-done. Instead of being humans in funny costumes, they have their own ways of thinking and being. That's exactly what I like to see in an sf novel.

Perhaps it's just the main character's perspective, but humanity comes across looking pretty bad in this book. The downside of the book for me was that it felt depressing at times because of this attitude. I'm a bit more optimistic about humanity's virtues than Sam! That's why I give it four stars instead of five, despite the well-crafted characters and narrative. It might have helped if there were more than just a few likable humans.

It ends as if there is going to be a sequel, so there's hope yet. Maybe at least a few more members of the human race will turn out to be worth saving. I look forward to seeing what happens next.

All in all, it's a solid book and well worth the read.

Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2016

A good solid space sci fi. My favorite character is the bad guy, Lance, a sadistic control freak who makes Darth Vader look like a wuss. A game of cat and mouse on an alien planet ensues amidst power struggles and politics and it all converges to a satisfying end. Good stuff.

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Michael Gallant

Refreshingly alien alines.

Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2013

Samuel Rochez is an empath, skilled in communicating with alien species. An outcast, disgraced and ostracized for disobeying an order repugnant to him, he has no choice but to accept work with a crew of mercenary prospectors seeking valuable minerals on a distant planet.

In his work gaining information from the native species, Samuel forges a bond with the aliens. One which puts him in conflict with his employers, who are probably the last humans to offer him a job, shelter and a paycheck.

But are those things more important than the survival of a species?

"Lockdown" is a far future s/f which deal with a man caught between loyalty and principle. There are some well done characters, including a Machiavellian ship captain, a delightfully sadistic enforcer and some aliens who actually think completely unlike we do.

This book is solid, old school science fiction done right.

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Not your average alien tale

Reviewed in the United States on July 23, 2013

What price personal ethics? Here's a man who does what he thinks is right and pays dearly for it, over and over again. Even the band of mercenary scum he falls in with has issues.

Then there is the mercenary known as Lance, a real tough customer who has it in for our hero. Wounding him only makes him meaner and badder.

Goyette's aliens are truly alien, not just humans in latex masks. They think different, act different, yet are fully realized beings.

For me, the book is how man relates to "the other" both good and bad.

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Paul Lappen

A strong, well-done piece of storytelling

Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2014

This novel is about a man who did a considerate thing, and is paying for it, big time.

The good thing that Samuel Rochez did was to keep a bomb from exploding, that would have killed many aliens called the Loscar. Unfortunately, humanity was at war with the Loscar at the time, a war that humanity eventually lost. Rochez is universally reviled as the person who was responsible for humanity's defeat. His attempts to live in anonymity don't last very long.

Rochez is forced to join a band of mercenaries traveling to another planet looking for Carlinium, the rarest mineral in the galaxy. It is supposed to be a very simple operation, paving the way for the industrial mining equipment that will come later.

Rochez discovers that the planet is inhabited by very friendly flying creatures that communicate by telepathy. There is little, or no, fear of strangers. Rochez undertakes a long-distance journey with Jawell, one of the natives, to attempt to convince them that the rest of the humans mean to do them, and their planet, a great deal of harm. Along the way, the natives have a more urgent problem. Imagine a herd of stampeding buffalo heading right for your village. What, if anything, can be done about it?

Meantime, back at the ship, a major complication occurs when the Loscar visit the planet, and put it under lock and key. There is no leaving the planet without the Loscar knowing about it. A mutiny is staged because the Captain is supposedly too moderate with the natives. Rochez is re-captured, and a plan is put together to create a way to leave the planet secretly, a plan which involves a nuclear warhead which may destroy part of the planet. Can Rochez keep the home world of the natives from being destroyed?

This is a strong, well-done piece of storytelling. Parts of it might seem preachy or predictable, but it is still well worth reading.

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Mark211

A novel of high adventure set in the dark heart of the universe

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on November 15, 2013

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Lockdown
by Timothy O. Goyette

Set in a far distant future in which the essential qualities which make us human (the bad and the good) have changed little, but in which the scramble for the colonization of the stars has developed exponentially, Goyette's Lockdown is a novel of high adventure that evokes something of that great tradition of fiction that, from the 19th century onwards, focused on the physical and moral challenges that come with the discovery and exploration of the uncharted.

The novel opens to find a humanity that had been exhausted by a brutal and protracted intergalactic conflict with an alien civilization, the Loscar, to whom the descendants of Earth have been forced to concede total defeat.

It soon becomes clear that not only has humanity been defeated militarily and financially, but also morally - and all to no purpose. It is in this bleak context that we find a veteran of this war, Samuel Rochez, huddled in among a mass of colonists on a bitterly freezing colonial outpost.

Rochez, as we soon discover, is a man of considerable physical and intellectual resources, but he is also someone who has achieved notoriety for an act of moral courage that many refuse to accept as anything but treason. Cold and alone, hunted and fast running out of options, Rochez is forced to reluctantly accept a post with a crew of 'Independent forces ... the euphemism for Mercenaries' and it is from this point on that the story proper begins.

Rochez finds himself in the employ of a paramilitary band of privateers who are prospecting beyond the fringes of the known galaxy for Carlinium, a precious crystalline substance that is the primary energy source in the universe.

Their search leads them to a previously unknown planet, which is rich in deposits of Carlinium but also, it transpires, the home world of a superintelligent and telepathic life-form who call themselves the 'Home-kind'. It is not long before Rochez finds his moral courage tested once more by the rapaciousness of the 'Independent forces' he has now found himself amongst ... .

While it is clearly possible from this plot to draw parallels between Lockdown and recent events in our own life and times, especially with respect to the politics surrounding the exploration for and exploitation of oil, this novel successfully pits the fiercely moral and independent will of the hero, Rochez, against a series of increasingly complex challenges and it is these ethical conflicts that provide much of the tension in the story.

That is not to say that the novel does not also imaginatively realise alien worlds in a far off future. The biology, life and culture of the Homekind, and indeed their home planet, have been thought out in no small amount of detail as have a number of the technological innovations and inventions that the interstellar privateers have at their disposal and it is worth reading the novel for these alone.

As a member of the peer-review fiction website, Quantum Muse, I have previously had the pleasure of reading a number of Goyette's short fiction but this (as far as I know) is his first novel. For me, this was a good, fun read, rich in action and with a clear moral view.

I hope you enjoy it too.

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