Blog Tour: THE CHRONICLES OF DENEB series by Zanne Raby

 

The Chronicles of Deneb Series

by Zanne Raby

 

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GENRE: Science Fiction/Space Opera

 

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BLURB:

 

The Chronicles of Deneb is a science-fiction/ space opera series set in the near future. The year is 2080 CE. The world is dying. Get ready to travel into the future to a time when nothing is certain.   Where the science behind climate change was ignored, leading to drought and famine plaguing an already overpopulated globe. Massive waves of refugees stream across the planet, seeking sanctuary. Where terrorist groups have joined forces with biohackers to develop a deadly bio-engineered disease that marches across the continents like a conquering army, leaving millions dead in its murderous swathe.

 

Meanwhile, some of the best and brightest minds on the planet are feverishly at work - constructing gigantic Space Arks to shuttle hundreds of thousands of people to a colony on Mars.  And it seems like there’s more good news: world

leaders announce that a vaccine is ready. It’s all good; it’s all returning to normal.

 

But the truth is very different. In THE FLIGHT OF THE MAYFLOWER, the first novel in The Chronicles of Deneb, Dr. Daniel Radu – project manager for NASA’s Space Ark Mayflower – uncovers a global conspiracy of immense proportions. But Daniel cooks up a scheme of  his own.  Joined by a team of global experts, he and his colleagues brace themselves for a journey of a lifetime as they trek across the galaxy in a quest for survival.

 

Mayhem follows the Mayflower in the second book of The Chronicles of Deneb series, DESCENT INTO DARKNESS. Journey along with the crew of the Space Ark Mayflower as they adapt to their new home on the planet Deneb. But along

with their struggle to integrate into an alien culture, a new battle sweeps across the planet with the arrival of the human-transmitted Chimera bactovirus, bringing war and fanning the flames of racial intolerance. With a bloody conflict now raging across the planet, the crew of the Mayflower is split between the two factions and embroiled in the chaos and destruction.

 

FIRES OF FURY is the third installment in The Chronicles of Deneb. Will the survivors of the Space Ark Mayflower find their way when cultures clash and the fires of fury threaten to consume their lives? Now masquerading as citizens of the Collective, the Mayflower crew has a new reason to fear. With the end of the Second Denebian War, Wesselan’s General Pallav Kóbor and his astrophysicist wife, Dr. Tara Kóbor, have high hopes that life will return to normal on Deneb7. Yet nothing can be further from the truth.In a diabolical plot to erase the scars left by the Second Denebian War, warlord turned Wessel Head of State Gomalan unleashes a fiendish scheme to heal his nation’s wounds, while his top soldier, General Ravenna, falls under the spell of a seductive Fyjer agent intent on crushing their ambitions. Dragged into a brutal reality of terror and intrigue, can the Kóbors and warbird ace Fynn Vogel remain unscathed, or will the flames consume them and all that is evil on Deneb-7?

 

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Excerpt One:

 

A willowy brunette with shining brown eyes burst from the shadows, almost scaring Daniel out of his skin. “Tara,” he gasped, trying to quiet his heart. “What the hell? The president’s due here any second.” Dr. Tara Kóbor, the Nobel-prize winning astrophysicist who had discovered the find of the century – an Earth-like planet cuddled up in the Goldilocks zone of its star – was wearing a grin as wide as the Grand Canyon.

 

“You heard the news, right? I mean, the broadcasts are on fire. They’ve developed a vaccine! And whoever’s on the first shuttle flight is top priority. That means…”

 

He could hear heavy footsteps pounding on the hangar floor: time to play show and tell. Taking her by the shoulder, Daniel shepherded his friend to the bulkhead door. “It means you gotta get outta here. We’ll celebrate later,” he promised.

 

Just then, a bevy of bodyguards swooped in, all earpieces and dark glasses, and Daniel stood back as they robotically carried out their duties. No need really, NASA’s Chief of Security had seen to that. Out of the corner of his eye, Daniel spotted Tara’s husband, Lt-Col Pallav Kóbor, dwarfing the president’s team as he walked them through the hangar. He could hear the click click click of the cameras as the president approached with his staff trailing behind like good little shadows.

 

Show time, he mumbled to himself, wiping the sweat from his palms on his cobalt-blue NASA tunic.

 

 

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 GUEST POST 

Topic;  What makes your book series different from other books in the genre?

 

My space-opera series, The Chronicles of Deneb, begins six decades in the future in the year 2080, with a cast of engineers and scientists working at NASA, the European Space Agency, and the fictitious Sino-Russian ROSCOMOS developing three large space arks which were designed to ferry tens of thousands of people from Earth to a colony on Mars. In the first novel, The Flight of the Mayflower, the readers is introduced to a set of seemingly insurmountable problems that our planet is facing: the world leaders have taken no action to resolve our current climate emergency with the result that the polar ice caps melted and flooded coastal cities. The world’s population continued to expand while famine and drought lead to global suffering. Massive waves of migrants seek refuge, though the wealthy countries remain unwilling to accept the climate refugees. Into this mix, throw a group of rogue scientists who unleash a deadly genetically engineered disease, and a cast of corrupt politicians who are only out to save themselves, but they didn’t count on Dr. Daniel Radu unveiling the conspiracy and taking action to keep his family and his team safe.

 

The second novel in the series, Descent into Darkness, deals with the fallout of human colonization on a distant planet that hosts advanced humanoid life. When the crew of the space arks land on Deneb-7, they are originally met with a mixture of hostility but also understanding by the natives. Wary of intergalactic travellers, the three nation states of Deneb finally agree to allow the newcomers to take refuge on their planet, with catastrophic results. The arrival of the human colonizers fan the flames of hatred and plunge the planet into conflict. Only after understanding the tumult caused by the new arrivals do the Denebians realize their mistake and Daniel and the crew of the Mayflower must flee for their lives.

 

A fragile peace has now been established after the Denebian War in Fires of Fury, the third novel of the series. But peace comes with a price. The bloody conflict decimated the Denebian economy, and the cunning and sinister High Commander Gomalan exacts a terrible price on the vanquished. After all, to the victor go the spoils! From the ashes rises a group of rebels, ready to overturn the despotic government and win the freedom for their people. While hatred continues to simmer, one man searches his conscience for his part in this evil, while another cannot release the battle that still consumes his soul.

 

There are so many series that deal with a dystopian future, although in The Chronicles of Deneb, the future is what we, as a whole, are currently crafting for our children and grandchildren. If humanity cannot address the multitude of problems, such as climate change, overpopulation, social inequity, then we are on a collision course for the same set of issues that are addressed in my series. In the near future, interplanetary travel will become a reality, and we must ask ourselves if we will simply transplant our current way of life onto any potential habitable exoplanets, or can we learn from the mistakes we have made and treat a new planet with respect. And if a future world is already inhabited, what should first contact look like? These are all aspects that I write about in my series, and I believe this is makes my novels different from other books in my genre.

 

 

AUTHOR Bio and Links:

 

SHORT VERSION

Zanne Raby is a military veteran, having served for over three decades across North America, Europe and the Middle East.  Passionate about all things space, her novels weave fast-paced, team-oriented environments into character-based science fiction.  Currently residing in a small town on the shores of Georgian Bay, Ontario, Zanne enjoys hiking, gardening and Sudoku.

 

LONG VERSION

 

Since the days of the Napoleonic War, there has always been a member of Zanne’s family in uniform.  Choosing to follow in the footsteps of her ancestors, Zanne joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 1980, and was selected to attend the Royal Military College of Canada – the first year that women were accepted into that prestigious academy of learning.  After graduation, she studied to become a Transportation and Movements Officer in the Royal Canadian Air Force.

 

During a career spanning 38 years, some of the most memorable experiences involved command of 8 Mission Support Squadron as part of Joint Task Force Afghanistan, leading a study on support to the Canadian Arctic involving several trips to Northern Canada, including Canadian Forces Station Alert (the most northern settlement in the world), a three-year tour with NATO at Joint Force Command Brunssum, a deployment as the NATO Liaison Officer to United States Central Command, and finally a nomination as the Deputy Commander for the Canadian Forces Recruiting Group.

 

After hanging up the uniform and putting away the combat boots, Zanne bought a small acreage in Central Ontario and designed her own house.  With a cozy office overlooking the shores of Georgian Bay, she decided to pursue her life-long ambition:  to become an author.  Enough of the reports and returns that littered her desk over her career, now she could turn her attention to unleashing the creativity that had taken a back seat.  The time had come to shake the dust off begin a new career.  The winds of change had called.

 

Zanne is currently crafting The Chronicles of Deneb, a sci-fi space opera series that will take the reader from a dystopian earth on a voyage across the universe in search of a safe haven.  But trouble is in store for them when the planet they land on is anything but the sanctuary they sought.

 

When not behind the keyboard, Zanne enjoys travel, photography, hiking, and gardening.  And always, a good story to pass the time.

LINKS

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WEBSITE:  https://www.zanneraby.com/

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