See all our recent Future Treasures here. The cover was designed by Shasti O’Leary Soudant. I kind of mashed it up a bit so that there’s a set of circumstances where it was a war of aggression, and they definitely are the bad guys, but also make the war logically understandable and consistent - a war for resources.”īooklist called Aftershocks a “fast-moving combination of corporate machinations, police procedural, and interstellar naval combat.” The second volume Ballistic arrives from 47North on May 26, 2020, priced at $24.95 in hardcover, $14.95 in trade paperback, and $4.99 in digital formats. It’s kind of like this cross between the end of World War I and the end of World War II. “The aggressors here are basically space Germany. “I totally cribbed from history,” he says. Kloos’s own German roots figure into the larger geopolitics of the series.
Kloos explains that he wanted to deal with a character who had to come to terms with the collapse of a system he supported for two decades, and “how you find your identity after that.”
One of the story’s central characters, Aden Robertson, was on the losing side, and he’s just been released from a POW camp where he’s had to contend with the atrocities that he witnessed during the war. In a far-ranging interview at The Verge, Kloos laid out the intriguing backdrop.Īftershocks is set in the aftermath of that massive, system-wide conflict over resources - namely palladium - that saw its instigator, the planet Gretia, endure a major defeat and occupation by its enemies. His newest series is The Palladium Wars, a space opera trilogy which kicked off with Aftershocks last summer. Marko Kloos is the author of six books in the Frontlinesmilitary SF series, starting with Terms of Enlistment (2013) and Lines of Departure (2014). Aftershocks and Ballistic, the first books in The Palladium Wars (47North).
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