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Galaxii Series: Book 3 Two ships. Two crews. One wild adventure! Meradinis. ‘Turtle Island’, they called it – ‘Turtle Island of the stars’. The fearsome Corsairs had waged a campaign of terror against the Human colonies for nearly a century, making travel in the outer reaches of the Terran Empire a risky business. For generations,…
Available in eBook, paperback and audiobook formats! Critical Reviews: “Perfect Reads for Spooky Season by Lee Hall, October 11, 2021. I’ve always got time for a little space horror especially when it is this good and chilling. A stranded and down on their luck crew of the I.S.S. Mordrake discover a seemingly abandoned vessel floating…
Galaxii Series: Book 2 Alien Meets Event Horizon: Demonspawn! The I.S.S. Mordrake is in serious trouble – after a skirmish with a Corsair marauder, she’s left stranded in deep space far from regular shipping routes with no means of communication – and death appears certain. But in space, not all things are certain – not…
Available in eBook, paperback and audiobook formats! Critical Reviews: Enjoyable action-packed original space sci-fi… “South African Author Christina Engela was the very first person to reach out to this site for a book review and served as an important turning point for this blog. Since then her work has probably been one of the…
Galaxii Series: Book 1 Action! Adventure! Space Opera! Life hardly ever turns out the way people expect it to, and for Mykl d’Angelo, skipper and owner of the loderunner Pegasus, it had just taken a bad turn for terrible. Due to a minor misunderstanding, his crew had stolen the ‘Short Shit’- the ship’s only shuttle,…
Action! Adventure! Space Opera! Galaxii is an epic futuristic saga that relates the struggles and adventures of diverse characters, each realistically portrayed with their own unique interests, circumstances, and each has their own challenges and obstacles to overcome: career-minded Space Fleet officers, solo adventurers and rogues, and Corsairs – the space pirates who made the…
Christina Engela lurks in Nelson Mandela Bay, a coastal metropolis known interchangeably as “the Detroit of South Africa”, “the Windy City” – or, as it was once famously described by a colorful radio DJ: “the armpit of South Africa”. There, she lives in a part-time haunted Victorian, where her wife Kay and four happy kitties…
Hello, friends and fans! Freedom. Independence. Friendship. Adventure. You could have it all! Or, you might die trying. Or… you might want to know what it is I’m bloody talking about. Stick around – I’ll tell you!
Hello there, friends and fans! Modern prisons have been the setting for movies, books and series too numerous to mention. Some writers and movie makers have speculated about what form futuristic prisons might take – and they range from the ambitiously humanitarian and rehabilitative concepts of “Star Trek” and “Magnus, Robot Fighter“, to the opposite…
Hello friends and fans! Today I’m going to indulge my frustration a bit, and talk about eBook selling platforms (like EBooks2Go) offering buyers refunds and returns on eBooks. How is this fair, and more importantly, how do they get away with it?