The Family Affair (Jack of Harts Short Story 5) / Jack of Harts (ePub)
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In 2205, we learned the answer to one of the oldest questions of all time. Are we alone? They brought medicines with them that nearly wiped out diseases, and extended the human lifespan into the centuries. They helped us study advanced technologies, and expand our colonies hundreds of lightyears from Earth. It was a golden age that many thought would never end.
Jack grew up in that world at peace, his only interests, partying and girls. But then a sneak attack killed millions of Americans, and his family. He signed up with the Marines to get some payback against the alien scum who'd started it all.
Now Captain Jack Hart of the Republic of Texas Marine Corps has returned to Alpha Centauri after a long and painful mission that left him bruised, broken, and nearly beaten. His new mission is to sit back, relax, and spend a few days healing up so he can go back to kicking alien asses back to the other side of the galaxy.
Jack is happy with the healing and relaxing parts, but he cannot simply sit back. What's left of his family is on Alpha Centauri, and he has to get back together with them. No harm can come from a little family reunion. Right?
Jack of Harts is a place I hope you like. It's a place where we did things right, where we built a world we would be happy for our children to grow up in. It's not perfect. There is conflict. But by and large, we made the hard decisions, and we did what needed doing. We made a good world. I know today that stories tend to go much more dark than that, dystopian futures where we have destroyed our world or enslaved our populations. Places where even the Good Guys are more dirty and hairy than they are clean-shaven and happy. Jack of Harts is not like that. It's not a world where somebody takes a step forward to fix something and gets knocked two steps back. I don't like those worlds. I don't want to spend a lot of time imagining them.
Jack of Harts is based in many ways on what I grew up wanting. I was raised in a Christian home, told to do onto others as you'd have them do onto you. I watched Bonanza, where the Cartwrights helped anybody who came along needing it. On Superman, I watched the Big Blue Boy Scout (even if he was in black and white) fighting the Bad Guys each week for Truth, Justice, and the American Way. On Quantum Leap, a man lost in time always found a way to make the world he dropped into each week a little bit better. On Star Trek, a bunch of people I liked traveled through the stars to go places that no man had been to before...because it was there. In Battlestar Galactica, Buck Rogers, and Star Wars, the plucky outnumbered heroes came back swinging with a smile, a joke, and a hearty laugh, and they never gave up hope that they could find or build a better world to live in. These are the stories I grew up with. These are what I enjoy, and these live on in my optimism.
In Jack of Harts, I try to capture that. The characters of Jack, Charles, and Aneerin, just to name a few, are all people who lived in a world before The War came. When that happened, they aren't the people
- Autor: Medron Pryde
- 2020, Englisch
- Verlag: Medron Pryde
- ISBN-10: 1005907528
- ISBN-13: 9781005907525
- Erscheinungsdatum: 01.11.2020
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