Charon Ark Charon Ark Trilogy Book 1 eBook Rick Gauger
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A planeload of high-school students, their teacher, and the airliner’s crew are hijacked in midair by an alien spacecraft. The aliens take them to their crazily-malfunctioning starship Ark, which we know as the planet Pluto and its moon Charon.
Sixty-five million years ago, the Ark came to Earth to collect plants and animals. It was ship-wrecked and stranded in our solar system. Now its alien crew intends to force the teenagers to learn to operate the Ark, so it can continue on its multi-billion year mission of sowing life among the stars.
The humans are flabbergasted of course, but life-change is not unwelcome to two of them. One is copilot Froward, whose drinking, womanizing, and general fecklessness are about to cost him his career.
The other is misfit student Charlie Freeman, a ‘casualty on the battlefield of puberty.’ He’s with the group only by the whim of his teacher, Mrs. Robinelli.
Aboard the plane are two other women who are about to be important in Froward’s life Gershner, the stewardess, who is Froward’s lover, and sharp-thinking sixteen-year-old Chela Suarez.
Charlie is intrigued and puzzled by the aliens’ ineptitude. He is contacted by a sinister new entity the Proctor. The Proctor offers Charlie knowledge, power, and prom queen Eva Wilcox, in return for helping the aliens obtain the students’ cooperation. Charlie, intending to subvert everything and return to Earth a hero, grabs the opportunity.
Can the hijacked students and adults overcome the dinosaur-infested wilderness of Charon, evade the murderous blundering aliens, and exploit the vast inexplicable Ark technology? Can they do it in time to save Earth from destruction by the monomaniacal Proctor?
Charon’s Ark was first published in 1987 by Del Rey Books. It is the first volume of the Charon’s Ark Trilogy. Its two sequels, Charon’s Children and Charon Is Coming, will soon appear on .
The author's illustrations for the novels may be seen at www.rickgauger.com. If you go to the site, beware of spoilers!
Charon Ark Charon Ark Trilogy Book 1 eBook Rick Gauger
This is one of my all time favorite books. I have read it many times. Glad to have it on Kindle. Rich characters, great character development, amazing story telling, and fantastic science fiction. Gauger has a keen sense of personalities, particularly teenage personalities. The Science Fiction is imaginative and never predictable. The book grabs hold of you pretty much in the first few pages and never lets up after that. I have enjoyed this book for many years but I was unaware it was a trilogy. What a joy it is to start reading the second book, which picks right up where this first book left off.Product details
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Charon Ark Charon Ark Trilogy Book 1 eBook Rick Gauger Reviews
I would like my readers to know that the three volumes of the Charon's Ark Trilogy will soon be published on . Charon's Ark, the first volume, was published in paperback in 1987, but its two sequels, Charon's Children (Vol. 2) and Charon Is Coming (Vol. 3) have never been seen in print. They contain the story of how Charlie Freeman, Chela, Froward, and Mrs. Robinelli encounter the dinosaurian Bigbirds, fight a war with them for control of Charon, and bring a five-ton tarbosaurus to Seattle, in addition to other chaos. My own illustrations for the books will eventually be on the versions, as well as on my website, rickgauger.com. If you love spaceships, robots, dinosaurs, aliens, and high-school kids running amok in defiance of the FBI and their teacher, you'll love the Charon's Ark Trilogy!
This is a creative and fast moving book, written 10 years ago, but still fun and worth reading. A planeload of mostly gifted high school students are alien jacked and sent off to crew the Ark of Charon, which has an admirable mission of preserving life forms. But, alas, there are flies in the ointment, from the Proctor, an evil computer program, to the existing crew, who are getting old and unreliable. What I particularly enjoyed were the characters, who so took me back to the old high school days. There was Eva, a narcissic empty minded teen who cared only about her nails and hair die. I knew people like that, and didn't like them then and didn't like Eva, either (interesting when a book is well written enough to make you dislike weak characters; this did). Charlie was my hero, saving mankind and himself in the process. Well written and fun, and worth reading even now. Funny, though how perceptions of computer use can so dramatically change in 10 years. See for yourself.
What do you get when you cross Michael Crichton with the Neal Simon? Rick Gauger, with better writing than Crichton! Now if Gauger just had the production capacity of Crichton, I could get a more regular fix. I have been reading the work of Rick Gauger for almost 25 years. He makes a wonderful blend of hard science fiction, great writing style, and silly situations ( plus sex, you gotta have some sex, right?). Charon's Ark has as its intriguing premise that Pluto and its moon Charon are not what they seem. They are in fact alien constructions not of this solar system. From this initial premise of an ecological ark built to last millions of years, Gauger spins out a boatload of ideas like I haven't enjoyed since I read Larry Niven's "Ringworld". And you know the writing has to be good if you end up rooting for the fat kid with acne ( the annoyer turned hero, Charlie) to get the girl. This is the book that would have been made into a dinosaur movie if Robert Zemeckis (Back To the Future) was directing instead of Steven Speilberg. I give the book 4 stars because the remaining 2 in the series may be even better, so I have to leave room for improvement. Plus he has been so darned slow in getting the other 2 out that I have to make my displeasure known somehow! But I hear the other two are almost done!
Charon's Ark is a fun sci fi adventure. It has wild characters, and neat concepts. I read it back in the 1980s and enjoyed it then, and when I recently reread it liked it even better.
It is not hard sci fi, but is a thrilling story with unusual twists and a unique and original spin on things. Well worth reading.
Solid A- book.
Often, the cover illustrations for science fiction and fantasy books are just *off* in some way. Some friends and I were recently yapping about this in conjunction with a new release for which the cover art does not match the characters in any way, shape or form wrong skin colors, wrong sizes, wrong hair colors. It makes you wonder whether anybody talks to anybody else. So I was happy to see Rick's using his own artwork for Charon's Children. They look just like the Charlie and Bigbird I imagined. Since he certainly has plenty of Charon art lying around, I hope he's put pictures in the book (there weren't any in the manuscript)!
I am very excited to see Charon's Ark is going digital. Finally we will be able to read the full Trilogy. But get started now with the first installment. This book deserves the full Hollywood treatment, but for now you can use your imagination to bring the characters and scenes to life. This is a great book in the tradition of hard Sci-Fi from the likes of Niven, Heinlein, Asimov and Crichton. A fantastic idea, much bigger than you first realize, is hidden in the people centered story that Rick Gauger spins for you. A story any mature teenager, or teenager at heart, will remember for a long time.
Thank you.
This is one of my all time favorite books. I have read it many times. Glad to have it on . Rich characters, great character development, amazing story telling, and fantastic science fiction. Gauger has a keen sense of personalities, particularly teenage personalities. The Science Fiction is imaginative and never predictable. The book grabs hold of you pretty much in the first few pages and never lets up after that. I have enjoyed this book for many years but I was unaware it was a trilogy. What a joy it is to start reading the second book, which picks right up where this first book left off.
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