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Centers of Gravity

Frontlines, Book 8

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Centers of Gravity

By: Marko Kloos
Narrated by: Eric G. Dove
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Stranded light-years from home, Major Andrew Grayson and his crew are on a desperate mission to discover the Lankies’ secrets. They can’t let what they’ve found die with them.

Nine hundred light-years from home, Major Andrew Grayson and the crew of NACS Washington are marooned in a sunless system with limited water, reactor fuel, and food. The last hope for survival is to go where nothing human has gone before.

After embarking on a scouting mission to the only moon with surface signs of life, Andrew and his Special Tactics Team make two startling discoveries. One is a dream: a form of protein and plant life that could save the starving humans in the rogue system. The second is a nightmare: this harvested rock is infested with Lankies. Far from the seemingly mindless aggressors Andrew has battled for years, these show a terrifying awareness, and they have surprising secrets of their own hidden away in the darkness.

When the Lankies sense an uninvited presence in their world, Andrew’s operation becomes an expedition to hell. The odds against his small crew are stacked high. Of all the mysteries of space, how to escape with their lives is the greatest unknown of all.

©2022 Marko Kloos (P)2022 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Fiction First Contact Military Science Fiction Space Opera Space

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Critic reviews

“…flawlessly performed by the narrative talents of Eric G. Dove who brings this science fiction adventure come to life in a true 'theatre of the mind' experience. …strongly recommended.” (Midwest Book Review)
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Another great installment in the series with great tension, emotions and growth in Andrew Grayson.

Cant wait for the next one!

Another great installment in the series! I

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One of the earliest Audible book I read was Marko Kloos's first Frontlines book, Rules of Enlistment, narrated by the excellent Luke Daniels. I instantly became an avid fan, travelling with Andrew Grayson from his escape from the ghettos into the armed forces, through military training and the first, and later, confrontations with the Lankies.
Now the narrator has changed to Eric G. Dove, who also read the previous book, and who has the same ability to transform my room into hostile battlegrounds. Not quite the same Grayson, but almost, he also gets inside the personality of the, now Major, soldier with his hopes, fears and life as he once again battles the near impossible.
Splendid storyline, with terrifying battle action, perfectly paced and with just the right amount of fight versus living, and not too heavy on the technical. This series has always been the measure against which I text all of the military science fiction which I now read.

This has been a really fine, ongoing series, though this could be the last, with visual descriptions which are not forced, or repetitious in any way, an excellent main character who relates in the first person so revealing inner thought as well as outer action, and a fine cast of other protagonists including the terrifying alien ememy, all narrated with skill and involvement.
If you enjoy science fiction, especially military or to follow an individual through life, love (but not a romance, let se) terror and groeth, this could just be the series for you.

The eighth in the Frontlines series and every one (with a slight downturn for volume seven) superb.
Highly recommended. Could be read as a stand alone but better to read the whole series in order.

Did I mention that I loved it.

"The Galaxy's cockroaches."

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My only complaint is I won't get to hear more about the Graysons in their new world.

Great story that was well read

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Whilst it’s sad that this is the end of the current story arc, it closes off a number of threads whilst still leaving numerous intriguing points that will, hopefully, be picked up in future stories.

Good ending to the current story arc

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Great book loved the story and the book narration it is a great book series I highly recommend it ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️😀👍😀

Great book 📖👍😀

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Well written story will lots of suspense and believe-able characters just what you would expect from the this author

The Military off worldwide

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Well,

I cried.

I’ve no idea if this is the last book in the series, and I’m sure that if it is, many fans will be deeply disappointed - but I’m sure that others will find it to be an excellent novel.

The main character is once again cast into the unknown and brought back again (I really don’t think that’s a spoiler) after having given up even more of himself, and to discover a world unrecognisable to him, with only a few points of his old life with which to bond with.

We as readers are left as blind as he is - maybe a little less - to the motivations, technology and overall shape of the interstellar war which has driven humanity to the brink of extinction. He has once again made and broken solid bonds with scientists and military personnel on his deployment who he will likely never see again.

I used to feel that was a point of criticism - the lack of plot progression and the continuous shifting of characters. I suspect that many will agree with this point of view, particularly as the character has no reason to continue with military service as of the end of this novel, except perhaps in an academic or flag officer role which seem to be unlikely stories for Andrew Grayson, particularly given how they would separate him from the long term characters in the series.

But then, this series is a decade old, and perhaps the character has aged as much as the author, certainly, as a reader I have done so.

As a story of a conventional military career - where in the end your life changes completely and yet not at all, and where despite your being present as the very first molecules on the tip of the spear, your role in shaping humanities future is not acknowledged - this would be a superb novel and series.

But I hope this goes on, I hope somehow that Admiral Grayson has a role to play in the final defeat of the First Lanky War. Simply because *he* deserves that acknowledgment as a character.

And he deserves more of a reward than he’s been given on camera, despite the immense off-camera value Phoebe no doubt provides to him.

The End?

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I do like the books but it felt a bit unfinished
the plot could be summed up very easy
far away from home a big fight makes it home , just. then a slight plot twist.
it feels like it's in the middle of the series not the end.
I do love the style of the books

good book and series

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Well I didn't realise it was the ending until the last hour of the book. I have to say as an ending it was good. Other endings I have read have been terrible but this is one of the best.

Ending

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The story is a good idea
The way it was written was just so over explained and the performance was read like a science book with no emotion

This is not worth it

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