Peacemaker · The Corona Rebellion 2564 AD

Sometimes even a Peacemaker has to slap the bad guys upside the head to get them to listen to reason.

Two hundred years after the first settlers land on the planet Corona, the colonists face a nightmare situation. Natives have been reported, and colonizing an inhabited planet is prohibited.

Threatened with relocation, Coronans rebel to defend‐at all cost—the only home they've ever known. When an explosion leaves a cloud of ions in place of his star ship, stranding Peacemaker, Commander Gus Colt, on the planet, he survives a crash landing and escapes the rebels but is critically injured getting away. Natives deliver him to a loyalist widow's farm for medical treatment, where he falls in love with her and unintentionally draws her into danger.

If Colt is to stop the fighting and bring the bad guys to justice, he must identify the real perpetrator, discover the secret to the natives, and protect the woman he loves. It's a life or death struggle that will take all his wits, audacity, and raw determination.

About Gordon Savage

I began composing science fiction when I was about nine — my daydreams. An Army recruiting poster with a "true" spaceship against a starry backdrop stirred my soul. From then on I told myself stories focused on outer space. Over the years I read every piece of science fiction I could: Heinlein, Asimov, Clarke. Eventually Poul Anderson became my guiding light. I suspect that one of his short stories, "A Live Coward," inspired Peacemaker, in which wits and daring are more important than fighting ability.