A Quick Reminder

The Iapetus Federation will go live on Aug 30 -- that's one week and a day! This link is for trade cloth and trade paper printed editions and for Kindle. For everything else, go to The Iapetus Federation (not Amazon) or go to your favorite online bookseller and search for the book.

To help you decide, here is a 5-star review by Dr. John R. Clarke, author of The Jason Parker Series:

To be honest, I was stunned by this science fiction thriller by Robert Williscroft. I had read with great interest and enjoyment Williscroft’s Operation Ivy Bells - A Novel of the Cold War but I had not read the preceding books in The Starchild Trilogy. But thanks to the author’s extensive Foreword, and Glossaries at the beginning and end of this book, I entered the storyline both quickly and painlessly.

Like other science fiction novels, this series presents technological marvels such as faster than light speed travel, and cheap and fast launch systems as the vehicle for moving large numbers of people throughout the solar system and beyond. But in my estimation this novel sits alone among the genre by using technology and space travel as an accepted (but very well described) framework upon which to hang human pathos. Williscroft’s Navy experience firmly establishes his credentials for his world view that as we venture into space, the most fearsome entities we are likely to encounter are the monsters hiding in plain sight, those malignant and unavoidable bestial souls found in our fellow man. And that is a terrifyingly believable viewpoint which is revalidated day after day in the news, and page after page, chapter after chapter in this novel. As I progressed through the story, the more the tension built in this reader: was there any way out of this predicament?

Is this a fine science fiction thriller that you will not want to put down? Absolutely. But a case could also be made for The Iapetus Federation being a futuristic horror story. That mix of genres is rare indeed.