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Devon Eriksen’s Theft of Fire was published on 2023-11-10 in both paperback (linked above) and Kindle editions (not on Kindle Unlimited). The author describes the book, first in a planned series called “Orbital Space”, as in the tradition of hard science space opera of the Golden Age of science fiction. It has been receiving extremely positive reviews from beta readers and hard science fiction authors (many of the libertarian and anarcho-capitalist bent) who have read pre-publication copies. The book, which is 546 pages, around 150,000 words) has, in just two days after release, vaulted to #54 in Hard Science Fiction and #116 in Space Opera Science Fiction on the Amazon Kindle store. Here is Amazon’s description:
At the frozen edge of the solar system lies a hidden treasure which could spell their fortune or their destruction—but only if they survive each other first.
Marcus Warnoc has a little problem. His asteroid mining ship—his inheritance, his livelihood, and his home—has been hijacked by a pint-sized corporate heiress with enough blackmail material to sink him for good, a secret mission she won’t tell him about, and enough courage to get them both killed. She may have him dead to rights, but if he doesn’t turn the tables on this spoiled Martian snob, he’ll be dead, period. He’s not giving up without a fight.
He has a plan.
Miranda Foxgrove has the opportunity of a lifetime almost within her grasp if she can reach it. Her stolen spacecraft came with a stubborn, resourceful captain who refuses to cooperate—but he’s one of the few men alive who can snatch an unimaginable treasure from beneath the muzzles of countless railguns. And if this foulmouthed Belter thug doesn’t want to cooperate, she’ll find a way to force him. She’s come too far to give up now.
She has a plan.
They’re about to find out that a plan is a list of things that won’t happen.
I’ve already bought the Kindle edition, but have a few things to finish before I get to it.