Steven Gordon

Back from Imperial space, Steven and Komoru set on a quest to discover what had happened to those expeditions sent out from Imperial space to the Sol system. Instead of finding the wreckage of alien ships. they come across a mysterious beacon. On powering it up, they discover what happened to the explorers and go on a hunt to see if any survived. I was born in the cottage hospital of Fyvie in Aberdeenshire in 1961. I grew up on various farms in Aberdeenshire until I was eleven and then our family moved to Morayshire. I did not enjoy High School there. I was frequently belted for not being able to do my homework or producing illegible work most teachers couldn't read or couldn't be bothered trying to read. As a result of this, I was often shoved into special needs classes where the teacher taught nothing but religion. At the age of fifteen, a month before my sixteenth birthday I joined the British Army. I remember the recruiting sergeant coming out laughing with my test results in his hands and telling me I could not get a trade in the army as my test results were too low. I didn't care, I wanted to run up and down hills with a gun and blow shit up. Thankfully I was bright enough for that and I joined the infantry. I served a total of seven years under the colours, from the jungles of Central America to the streets of Northern Ireland. My home and family were the men of the 1st Battalion The Gordon Highlanders.When I left the Army I found getting a job extremely difficult at first. My first job was driving a chippy van and my first full-time job was at ICI Powfoot where I made gunpowder. From there I have had many jobs. I have worked in building sites and on the roads. In peat bogs and kitchens washing dishes. I have waited tables and driven furniture removal vans. Picked fruit and vegetables in season and driven Taxis. In essence, I could and would turn my hand to whatever put food on the table and kept a roof over my head.At the age of twenty-five and having been a year unemployed I reached one of the major milestones in my life. Disillusioned and getting desperate I was persuaded to try a part-time course at the college. Of course, I had to pick the one thing that scared me the most, computers. It was to my great surprise that not only was I able to complete the course but I enjoyed it as well. So I signed up for a full year. For the first time in my life, I found that I could communicate with people on the same level. It was a revelation. It was then I began to suspect for the first time that I wasn't as stupid as I had been led to believe throughout my life to that point. However, the winds of fate picked me up and blew me away before I could take it any farther and it was another twenty-five years before I would return to pick up where I had left off.Thi... The Steven Gordon series is a classic space opera series, written in an older style, that isn't too heavy on the science, and concentrates more on the people. In this adventure, Steven Gordon, a child protégé, was severely hurt before he could accomplish the things he was destined to. Years later, while working for a friend as a night security guard, he is almost squashed flat by an alien craft, as he patrols the civilian space centre he works at. Thus the adventure begins. In the first book, the brain damage Steven acquired from his accident years before, is repaired by the alien craft. Conflict ensues with President of the USA as he wants to keep the ships, who were unmanned, and their technology for himself and his people. When a Japanese beauty becomes captain of a second ship, the race is on to avoid a global conflict.Steven and the crews of both ships battle to prevent this global conflict. As the adventure continues, in the following novels, they are drawn farther from Earth. War with an unknown species, that wish to eradicate all life on Earth. New and formidable allies. A heavily populated galaxy that man has to now find a place within.