THE ROOKIE: Free Space Opera Adventure with Aliens

Scott Sigler

Dec 2010 · Galactic Football League Book 1 · Empty Set Entertainment

About this ebook

Free Science Fiction Space Opera Adventure

Set in a lethal pro football league 700 years in the future, THE ROOKIE is a story that combines the intense gridiron action of "Any Given Sunday" with the space opera style of "Star Wars" and the criminal underworld of "The Godfather." Aliens and humans alike play positions based on physiology, creating receivers that jump 25 feet into the air, linemen that bench-press 1,200 pounds, and linebackers that literally want to eat you. Organized crime runs every franchise, games are fixed and rival players are assassinated. Follow the story of Quentin Barnes, a 19-year-old quarterback prodigy that has been raised all his life to hate, and kill, those aliens. Quentin must deal with his racism and learn to lead, or he'll wind up just another stat in the column marked "killed on the field."

In the Galactic Football League, wars are no longer fought in space, but on the gridiron. If you like aliens and football then I suspect you're unlikely to find a better combination than than THE ROOKIE.

Fans of the following authors are known to enjoy the Galactic Football League Science Fiction Space Opera Series:

Mike Lupica

Tim Green

Buzz Bissinger

Joe Haldeman

Orson Scott Card

David Webber

Richard K Morgan

George Lucas

Robert A. Heinlein

Daniel Arenson

Nathan Lowell

Scott Westerfeld

 

Fans of the following books and series are known to enjoy the Galactic Football League Sci Fi Saga:

Star Wars

Guardians of the Galaxy

Starship Troopers

Altered Carbon

Mech Warrior

Jurassic Park

Star Trek

Hitchhikers Guide

Aliens

Friday Night Lights

Any Given Sunday

Draft Day

 

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Ratings and reviews

At first I thought it was going to be a silly book....space football? However, after reading the first few pages I somehow got hooked and wanted to read more to find out what happened next. Throughout the book you see the development of an young man from an obnoxious, self centered racist to a person who sets his team differences aside and leads the to their goal

Totally thought this book had the most ridiculous setup, but I love football and sci-fi books so I decided I had to give it a chance... it's actually really good, it's the fusion of concepts that no one asked for and now I am thanking the author for creating it!

One of the best writers I have had the pleasure to come across

About the author

New York Times best-selling novelist Scott Sigler is the author of NOCTURNAL, ANCESTOR, INFECTED and CONTAGIOUS, hardcover thrillers from Crown Publishing; and the co-founder of Dark Øverlord Media, which publishes his Galactic Football League space opera series (THE ROOKIE, THE STARTER, THE ALL-PRO and THE MVP).

Before he was published, Scott built a large online following by giving away his self-recorded audiobooks as free, serialized podcasts. His loyal fans, who named themselves "Junkies," have downloaded over eight million individual episodes of his stories and interact daily with Scott and each other in the social media space.

Scott reinvented book publishing when he released EARTHCORE as the world's first "podcast-only" novel. Released in twenty weekly episodes, EARTHCORE harkened back to the days of serialized radio fiction. His innovative use of technology puts him at the forefront of modern-day publishing and has garnered brand-name exposure among hundreds of thousands of fiction fans and technology buffs.

He's been covered in Time Magazine, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, Entertainment Weekly, Publisher's Weekly, The Huffington Post, Business Week and Fangoria. He still records his own audiobooks and gives away every story - for free - to his Junkies at www.ScottSigler.com.

A Michigan native, Scott lives in San Francisco with his wife and dog.