Starship Conquest (First Conquest): Stellar Conquest Book 1

David VanDyke

Apr 2015 · Stellar Conquest Book 1 · Reaper Press

About this ebook

STARSHIP CONQUEST is Book 1 of the Stellar Conquest series and formerly called First Conquest.  

From Hugo Award finalist and bestselling author David VanDyke.

"VanDyke...did another great story, it really kick starts a brand new series. I didn't realize it was actually a follow on series to another one he wrote. It was so good." - J. Wachter

"If you like reading EXTREMELY POWERFUL books, you'll like this one." - A. Customer

"VanDyke does a great job of keeping the reader glued to their eReader, throughout the entire series. His knowledge of military terms helps make the story a little more believable." - D. Justice

When the crew of EarthFleet's most powerful dreadnought Conquest is sent on a mission forty light years from Earth, none of them expect to return. But to find a home and keep humanity safe from hostile aliens, they must fight to seize a new world, initiating EarthFleet's first conquest of another star system.

Starship Conquest carries the Plague Wars series forward a century into the future when humanity turns to the stars to find its destiny. It tells of a bitter battle as EarthFleet smashes into an alien star system in a desperate first strike to save humanity. Follow the starship Conquest as its captain and crew take the fight to Earth's enemies, finding allies and making heroic sacrifices in order to secure the future of Earth's solar system against a hostile universe.

Plague Wars: Decade One
- The Eden Plague
- Reaper's Run
- Skull's Shadows
- Eden's Exodus
- Apocalypse Austin
- Nearest Night

Plague Wars: Alien Invasion
- The Demon Plagues
- The Reaper Plague
- The Orion Plague
- Cyborg Strike
- Comes the Destroyer
- Forge and Steel

Plague Wars: Stellar Conquest
- Starship Conquest
- Desolator: Conquest
- Tactics of Conquest
- Conquest of Earth
- Conquest and Empire

Keywords:  space fleet science fiction, English, first contact series, galactic empire series, time travel, alien invasion, space marine books, military science fiction series, space travel, alien species, space battles, space wars, space marine battles, survival of humanity, survival of earth

Ratings and reviews

The premise of this novel is really good, but the execution wasn't as good. I read previous novels from this author and was really happy with the character development and a fresh story. The previous novels focused on the people and how they were affected by the Eden plague, and it made them quite enthralling. I read them whenever I had time. This novel however, seemed to focus on the spectacle of the situations and paid little attention to the characters. Not bad, but could be more interesting.

This is the fist book by this author I have read. Very good detail and story line. Obviously not his first attempt at writing. I will be going back and reading from the first book.

First I've read and was a great story. Think I need to start closer to the beginning to get into the series but well worth a read.