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Primal Eclipse (Peregrine Outpost Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Stan C. Smith (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.1 306 ratings

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A new world for Earth’s last survivors. But something deadly waits for darkness to fall.

Ember Steele only wanted to live a full life. That’s why she went into stasis, to wait for a cure for her terminal disease. Now she and five other people awaken in a spacecraft, far from Earth. Hundreds of years have passed. Everyone Ember knew is long dead. And what’s worse—far, far worse—humanity is all but extinct.

Ember and the others aren’t astronauts, scientists, or soldiers, yet they’ve been selected for a monumentally important mission. Why? Because they all have the same terminal condition, making them the only people who can survive in a faster-than-light needle ship.

Their mission: select a suitable terraformed planet for human civilization to start over.

The clock is ticking. With limited air and no food or water, this ragtag team must act fast or fail. They land on Tenoth, a seemingly hospitable world, but soon find themselves in a nightmare of deception and danger. Worst of all are the eclipses, when Tenoth’s moons obstruct its sun. For when the darkness comes, so comes death.

Primal Eclipse is a post-apocalyptic, colonization adventure with memorable, flawed characters and turbo-paced, nerve-shredding thrills. Perfect for fans of Jasper T. Scott, A.G. Riddle, and M.R. Forbes.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0B5SLP817
Publisher ‏ : ‎ (July 21, 2022)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ July 21, 2022
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 4824 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 ‏ : ‎ 310 pages

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Stan C. Smith’s secret formula? Create strange worlds filled with even stranger creatures. Drop in unsuspecting characters. Shake vigorously. The results are always fun—unless you’re a character in his worlds. Stan lives with his wife Trish deep in the Ozark Forest of Missouri, where creatures are more docile than those in his novels. His goal is to stimulate your sense of wonder, get your heart pounding, and keep you reading late into the night. His books are for anyone who loves adventure, discovery, and mind-bending surprises.

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Kindle Customer Barbara Wall

Great world building

Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2023

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Great space exploration saga. This is book one of a four book series. The premise is excellent. Ember wakes up in space, along with 5 other people. They had been put into stasis more than 3000 years ago. Earth is no longer habitable for humans and what’s left of humanity is 12,000 people in stasis. These 6 reawakened humans have been tasked by an AI computer aboard the spaceship with finding a suitable planet for the last humans. Once this is accomplished the 6 will be given a cure to the disease that put them into stasis in the first place. They have a total of five planets to work with and very limited time. This book is about the first planet they go to. The planet has 4 moons and frequent eclipses in which the indigenous species of animals come out to feed. Humans are on the menu. This is a nightmare planet and they only survive with the help of an insane modular AI robot. The interplay between the six humans and the AI computers is entertaining.

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Samantha Suvak

A fun space adventure

Reviewed in the United States on August 6, 2022

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I've really enjoyed the author's other series and this one is great as well. Outer space and different planets are a new setting but we still get exciting and unique creatures and robots with attitudes.

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Engrossing

Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2024

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Very different from any sci fi I have read before. Very enjoyable. I am looking forward to the rest of the series.

Reviewed in the United States on July 11, 2023

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The story moves rapidly along from one adventure to another, somewhat too rapidly for my taste. Every adventure was driven by urgency. (Both of the key AI robots kept saying hurry, hurry, hurry.) That urgency, however seemed to be more of an author construct than inherent in the story. Oh, there were reasons given for the speed, but they seemed artificial when the main characters had waited 1000 years to do this. The plot rolls along without a depth that would draw me in.

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Tammy

Great read

Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2024

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Loved the story and the characters

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Carey Woodings

Six random people struggle to save themselves and the rest of humanity.

Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2022

This is the first taste of another exciting series. Of course, our unsuspecting heroes have much to accomplish and little time to do so. This first volume proves that nothing is assured and what must be done is not easy. I am looking forward to the next adventure!

Imagine yourself home on a typical week day. Maybe you're home sick or waiting for the plumber or skipping school or... Your nice home is in an upscale neighborhood.. Near your subdivision is a company who is conducting some tests that go horribly wrong. Anyone at home in your neighborhood at that moment is affected. You learn you have about six months to live. Luckily for you, the offending company has a type of suspended animation they can put you into until they discover how to reverse the damage. You will not age. Your body will not continue to deteriorate. They will awaken you when treatment is available. You go to sleep, annoyed by the time you assume will be wasted.

You awaken, having to tear yourself out of the protective layer of insulation encasing your body. You groggily wonder why the attendants are making you do this for yourself. After you and five others are awake and aware you learn there are no attendants. You have been “sleeping” for hundreds of years. You six are the only humans awake on earth. There has been a great cataclysm. You are no longer able to breathe the air. Most of humanity died but a few survived. Their subhuman progeny now roam the earth. You would only be recognized as food. Before the end, earth sent out ships with robots and terraforming equipment. When the planet could support life, they would plant the seeds from earth and awaken the embrionic human and animal life. These robots would then raise the children to live on their new world.

The few AI left on earth have been going quiet. The one who awakened you is on the ship where you were awakened. This AI expects you six to take this ship and go see if any of these worlds are capable of sustaining normal human life. It explains the facility your bodies were stored in houses another 15,000 bodies in the same state you have awakened from. These are last verifiable humans left. You six random people who just happened to be home on the wrong day are the only chance humanity has. You weren't specially chosen for this mission. You are the only possibility. The damage to your bodies will allow you to use the type of ships available. Humans without this specific damage could not survive. Oh and when you get these other bodies to safety, the AI will cure your damage. Six random survivors aged 17 to 60. Their only qualification is the ability to survive traveling by ship. Can they do it?

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The Lazy Reader

Very good

Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2024

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Good world building

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Kivel

exciting and enjoyable

Reviewed in the United States on May 13, 2023

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Smith's imagination never fails to entertain and engage the reader. The characters and situations feel believable, as much as a novel taking place in the far future, with independently thinking robots and the last of the human race can be believable. (And how do we know otherwise?) I look forward to reading the next volume.

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Amazon Customer kathryn rhodenizer

Interesting read

Reviewed in Canada on April 26, 2024

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New concept, I liked very much. Great writing, realistic characters. Yep I’m on to the second one in the series

Dan

Definitely different, in a good way

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on January 20, 2024

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A very entertaining take on a post apocalyptic earth scenario. Follow a group of six humans, lucky? To be alive in a not so nice scenario. Due to miraculous breakthroughs by AI over centuries they are to find a new home for humanity from a few choice planets. They have rogue AI, dangerous fauna and planetary conditions as well as their differing temperaments and a lot more to battle and overcome.
A quite unique series that blends a lot of positives into a great sci Fi read

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Meenaz Lodhi

Another OUTSTANDING Series by Stan C. Smith!!

Reviewed in Spain on August 22, 2022

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“But you’re alive now. Plus, we have the chance to try to save the last humans on Earth. Don’t you think that makes us kind of lucky?”

A 5 ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ new SciFi thriller worth a read!
Looking forward to reading Stan’s new series, as always a thrilling, exciting, intriguing and nerve wracking action filled read! I just can’t get enough of his books!

John Valade

Very interesting ideas

Reviewed in Canada on April 13, 2024

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A unique approach to the extraterrestrial colonization idea set in a post-apocalyptic setting. I enjoyed the take on the eclipse monsters (a la Pitch Black). The heroes were no Riddick, but it was fun to see how they survived. Thoroughly enjoyed.

Dean62

Excellent start to a new series from Stan C. Smith

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 24, 2023

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Excellent start to a new series from Stan C. Smith. I have read most of Stan's earlier books and really enjoyed them. This is his first book set off Earth and Stan again shows his skill at world building, without overdoing the details.

If you enjoy this I can heartily recommend joining his distribution list to get interesting insights into his life and also get a new short story every few weeks. These are very varied and always enjoyable

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