Walking in the footsteps of giants, Daniel Hayward, is brought back into a conflict that threatens the whole of the Charted Systems, one that he had long since abandoned. When a simple job on the barren mining colony of Jotunhiem quickly becomes complicated, Daniel and the crew of the Mazu are forced to deliver the goods to Neo-Shanxi, once the home of The Family.
The origins of the war between the Loyalists and Separatists, that would consume the Charted Systems, begins with a single man Dr Charles Jung, an optimistic scientific genius who made terraforming and colonisation possible. Old prejudices and paranoia cause a rift between the CERE and the Chinese colony of Delta Nine, leading the head of the Neo-Shanxi Assembly, Chairman Zhang, to seek independence from the CERE and to ensure the future of his people is left in the hands of his grandchildren, Alistair, Oscar and Wesley Jung.
POST-TERRA FIRMA is a series exploring humanity’s future in the first era of colonising the stars. The series blends retro-futurism, space western and military science fiction as the backdrop to the domestic relationships brought under strain by the tribulations of conflict and living beyond Earth.
THE FAMILY: POST-TERRA FIRMA is a collection of books 1-5 in the POST-TERRA FIRMA series.