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The Jankin Decatur Series (2 book series) Kindle Edition
The Jankin Decatur Series (2 book series)
Kindle Edition
by Philip Nolen (Author) , Tim Schulte (Editor)

Praise for the Jankin Decatur Series:

"New military sf with both the physics and the history meticulously worked out in interesting ways”

--- David Drake
 Award winning author of Baen Publications known for the "Hammer's Slammers" and RCN Series and others

"… a new series by Philip Nolen, an epic tour de force that will draw, hold, and envelope you in a tale of Earth's first star colony; the coming of age of a people."

--"Steve Alten,
NY TImes & international best-selling author of The MEG series.

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The names of Horatio Nelson, Edward Pellew, John Paul Jones, Stephen Decatur, and William Halsey Jr. shine in the lists of great naval captains who met the call of their country and freedom. So too will ever be enshrined the name of Jankin Decatur, first captain of Kraken, a world of the fabled First Colonies.

In those days, Sol System’s unending war continued a conflict whose deprivations were restricted by treaty to off-Earth locations. War is good business and many grew rich. War is also wasteful of materials and, even more importantly, experienced spacers. Veteran spacers had become a valuable and scarce commodity.

A spacer’s training takes years to master and it is costly. Earth’s leaders found a solution in history; they called it ‘impressment’ but, it was little more than a recruitment by force of any colonial starship crew.

Initially, the star colonies were little touched by Sol System’s distant wars. Their merchant fleets possessed an abundance of both scarce materials and veteran spacer talent. Soon the warships of Earth began to intercept, board, and confiscate cargo and crews from any defenseless colonial merchant starship they desired. The colonies found themselves on a path to certain destruction. How could the fledgling military of the colonies hope to stop the might of Earth?

One tiny colony decided to resist but they had a problem. Merchant spacers were not warriors and the tools of war are expensive, complex, and require a commander with an aggressive temperament and high intelligence.
It was then that, seemingly from out of nowhere, Jankin Decatur appeared.

What followed was an age that so tried the soul of humankind as to have nearly brought Homo sapiens to an end.
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Quantum Surge: The Jankin Decatur Series
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Quantum Surge: The Jankin Decatur Series
by Philip Nolen (Author) , Tim Schulte (Editor)
4.8 4.8 out of 5 stars 5
Praise for Quantum Surge
"New military sf with the physics and the history meticulously worked out in interesting ways"
--- David Drake
Best Selling Author of 'Hammer's Slammers' & the RCN Series
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"First book in a new series by Philip Nolen, an epic tour de force that will draw, hold, and envelope you in a tale of Earth's first star colony; the coming of age of a people."
--"Steve Alten,
NY Times & international best-selling author of 'The MEG Series'.

NOTE: This is ‘Version 2’ with expanded scenes and an excerpt from the next release. Be sure to read the Prequel to this series: “Quantum Zero”.

Kraken Colony
& the Coming Rebellion

It was a twin sister of Earth. A second home. Oh, there were minor differences such as a higher oxygen level, uniformly warmer oceans, and a biosphere that made Earth resemble a barren desert. The planet only lacked a native species with true intelligence, and that was a good thing if you were a colonist. The colonists named it Kraken; they came here, prospered, and life was challenging but good.
Meanwhile, Earth grew more civilized. How? Well, they’d found an acceptable solution to war. After all, nobody really wanted to get rid of war, it was simply too profitable. So by treaty all negotiated politics were allowed only upon the homeworld while conflict, the profitable side of politics, was restricted to the off-world remainder of Sol System. This agreement kept Earth both safe and prosperous while the dependent colonies of Sol System were held controlled and powerless to object.
It wasn’t long before the powers of Earth discovered that war was resource-intensive. Energy and other natural resources were not problems for a star-faring society. No, warfare took its toll on highly-trained spacers whose talents were growing scarce. After all, skill sets needed for work and warfare in space could not be created overnight.
History provided a solution called ‘impressment’ by politicians. The lower classes called it ‘kidnapping’.
With impressment, it became profitable to capture rather than eliminate your enemy. Staff level officers were held until exchanged or ransomed. Spacers faced a more sinister fate. They either agreed to join the war fleet or they were incarcerated in gulag-style camps on Earth’s moon and Mars. Civilians remained simple collateral damage although a few were worthy of impressment. Eventually, impressment practices spread from military targeting to include the stopping and abduction of merchant shipping.
Kraken was a colony of the North American Union. The invention of the slipdrive and stasis field allowed Kraken’s merchants to cheaply transport and sell many luxury items to all sides of the conflict. Their profitable neutrality soon came to an end as the merchant fleet found itself targeted by all sides of the conflict. Waylaying and impressment spread from Sol System to the various star colonies with captures brazenly occurring inside Kraken’s orbital sphere.
Kraken was now taking steps to defend itself. They found a good candidate in Captain Jankin Decatur who fled Earth to join Kraken’s merchant fleet years ago. He accepted their offer and set off to provide their merchants with an armed escort that was little more than a converted container ship. Decatur’s escort duty quickly transformed into a rescue mission that would take his little warbird back to a gulag prison on Mars in Sol System. Decatur expected to encounter resistance in a star system where no friends existed. What they exposed in the midst of battle would change everything.

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A Quantum of Uncertainty (The Jankin Decatur Series Book 2)
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A Quantum of Uncertainty (The Jankin Decatur Series Book 2)
by Philip Nolen (Author)
5.0 5.0 out of 5 stars 1

‘First Steps to the Stars’ Series – Homo Sapiens
History of the Kraken Revolution

2180 C.E. Kraken’s efforts to defend themselves from both CTAC forces as well as their motherland, the NAU, are proving ineffective. Their plans to protect their people by converting some of their merchant ships into warbirds appear to be failing. Rather than diminish the raids against Kraken’s citizens and shipping, the aggression of the empires of Earth has increased.

Captain Decatur receives orders to take Commissioner Alexander Hollen to Earth where he will deliver a plea for protection and support to the NAU Senate in New Washington. The trip will not be easy for there are many people on Kraken and Earth who are determined to prevent him from delivering his message.

Decatur soon discovers just how determined and ruthless they can be.

~~ * * * ~~

Admiral Bastian’s words echoed across the huge construction quay, “In this facility you see the latest warship design by Doctor Humphrey. He’s a bit of a military historian and calls that miracle of science sitting there a frigate. I believe it is much more.”

Though it retained the overall energy-conserving shape of a slightly flattened sphere, there was nothing soft or mundane in this warbird’s appearance. Like a great frigate bird, its surface was of long sharp ridges to reduce gravitic wave distortion and therefore detection. Humphrey’s brilliance developed a gravitic wavelength algorithm that precisely calculated the ship’s long-to-short axis diameter ratio, finely adjusting it to optimize linkage to the great gravity waves of deep space. A novel concept allowing the warbird to achieve greater velocities than any other known starship. Even deactivated, the ship was difficult to focus upon because of its electromagnetic adsorbing surface.

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Philip Nolen

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Biography of Philip Nolen

.... pseudonym for author Terrence Zavecz

Good Sci-Fi requires an exciting and forward-looking story about people. Great Sci-Fi is achieved when the tale seems to border on magic but there is enough science in it to make one wonder, if not firmly believe that it is possible.

I’ve been reading science fiction since before I started school and the genre inspired me to pursue a career as engineer and scientist. Fiction carried me through school as an escape from more demanding studies that brought me advanced degrees in Engineering Physics, Metallurgy, and Materials Science.

Since then, I’ve published formally as well as in popular trade magazines for companies around the world. My first ‘science fiction’ publications took the form of research grant proposals, marketing plans, and business plans … all avenues of thought that required extrapolation of scientific concepts into a believable and, if they were to be successful, entertaining adventure.

After working in my own company and with people around the world in research and business for more than fifty years, I retired. Well, sort of.

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