The planet Utopia is everything its name suggests - a world of incomparable beauty and leisure. An adult playground on a planetary scale. What the travel brochures do not tell of is that there is a very dark side to paradise. Utopia is a world of shattered dreams with a tragic past, and its owner will do anything necessary to keep that past hidden. Arigh Boke is not a man to be crossed, and will not tolerate upstarts. But Arigh Boke has never met the crew of the Starhawk. Jesse Forster and his team have arrived on Utopia for some much needed rest, but a ghost from Jesse's past is about to help sow the seeds of revolution among Utopia's downtrodden, pitching the crew of the Starhawk into full-scale rebellion. They are about to teach Arigh Boke the meaning of the word "wreck-reation."
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Born and raised in Queens, New York, Joseph J. Madden now resides somewhere in the wilds of SE Wisconsin with his wife and a wide assortment of fur-covered critters.
In March of 1978, then-seven-year-old Joseph saw the original Star Wars in the theaters for the first time, an event that stirred within him a lifelong love of science fiction and fantasy. By the age of twelve, he began writing his own science fiction epics, a passion that continues to this day.
Along with his first two novels The Starhawk Chronicles and Rest and Wreck-reation: The Starhawk Chronicles, Book II, he has contributed to the David Bowie anthology 47-16 (Penny Dreadful Publishing), Crossroads in the Dark Volumes III & V (Burning Willow Press) and has released his own collection of short fiction, Other Worlds: A Collection of Science Fiction and Fantasy.