Imperial Sunset, Eric Thomson
Imperial Sunset, Eric Thomson
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Imperial Sunset

Author: Eric Thomson

Narrator: Paul Boehmer

Unabridged: 11 hr 20 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 09/28/2021


Synopsis

Humanity's thousand-year-old interstellar empire has been rotting from the inside for over a century, thanks to venal, corrupt, and power-hungry sovereigns from a dynasty many consider illegitimate. The latest in that lineage, an increasingly psychotic empress, is pushing her realm toward collapse as admirals and generals rebel against her rule. That rebellion quickly drags the once mighty Imperial Fleet into a devastating fratricidal conflict between factions.

One man, Captain Jonas Morane of the cruiser Vanquish, saw the empire's collapse coming years before the first admiral rebelled. When he finds himself the senior surviving officer of a loyalist Navy unit almost entirely annihilated by rebels, Morane puts in motion a plan he developed long ago. However, before his dream can become a reality, Morane must lead the remains of the 197th Imperial Battle Group through an intricate wormhole network and across a shattered empire to the sanctuary he selected, all the while dodging his former colleagues from both sides.

Along the way, he rescues an Imperial Marine Corps Pathfinder battalion and the survivors of a religious order known for its mysticism, and enlists them in his cause. But will Morane's sanctuary survive both the flames of rebellion and the depredations of invading marauders before his rag-tag fleet can reach it?

About Eric Thomson

Eric Thomson is the pen name of a retired Canadian soldier with thirty-one years of service, both in the Regular Army and the Army Reserve. He spent his Regular Army career in the Infantry and his Reserve service in the Armoured Corps. He worked for a number of years as an Information Technology specialist before retiring to become a full-time author.

Eric has been a voracious reader of science-fiction, military fiction and history all his life. He assiduously devoured the recommended Army reading list in his younger days and still occasionally returns to the classics for inspiration. Several years ago, he put fingers to keyboard and started writing his own military sci-fi, with a definite space opera slant, using many of his own experiences as a soldier as an inspiration for his stories and characters.

When he's not writing fiction, Eric indulges in his other passions: photography, hiking and scuba diving, all of which he's shared with his wife, who likes to call herself his number one fan, for more than thirty years.


Reviews

Goodreads review by John on April 28, 2019

Imperial Sunset, by Eric Thomson, puts us in the shoes of Imperial Navy and Marines with a front row seat to the destruction of the Empire they are sworn to serve. The book begins with the destruction of the 197th Task Group in a space battle with a rebel fleet. The survivors barely escape with thei......more

Goodreads review by Robert J. Barr on November 09, 2019

CAUTION Really enjoyed! I was looking forward to volumes to come. Then I checked and found vol. 2 is not covered by Kindle unlimited. I would like a warning when the first volume is free or Kindle unlimited and the rest will be pay as you go. Sometimes I am smart enough to check. I am retired and rea......more

Goodreads review by Howard on July 14, 2019

I didn't finish this book. I like the basic idea of "Ashes of Empire" which had some warships from an interstellar empire that is falling apart, going to an isolated planet to start over, picking up some religious and other refugees on the way. I checked to see if there is a series of books taking p......more

Goodreads review by Logan on October 13, 2024

Foundation meets Dune with a sprinkle of Friefly/Serenity......more

Goodreads review by Don on October 01, 2024

Space Romans heading to a safe harbor to wait out The Empires fall.......more