A Genetic-Engineering Military Alien Invasion War Saga
They stole his memories. Controlled his dreams.
Because he was government property.
They gave him a year to live. At an alien war front.
To save a world he'll never see.
Programmed to fight and kill, he's not like other recombinants.
He just wants to live.
Private Peter Mitchell, one of thousands of cloned soldiers, trains for the front lines of a deep space war. To save a world he's never seen before. But Peter isn't like the other recombinants. He doesn't want to fight or kill, endangering his entire unit.
As Antaran forces push closer to Earth, a combat hardware reclamation specialist discovers a catastrophic failure in the recombinant tech. When the specialist learns that the hardware malfunction affects entire batches of recombinants, she is forced to make a brutal decision:
Report the defect and destroy hundreds of recombinants?including Private Mitchell, who changed her life by defying his programming.
Or say nothing...and risk losing the war and destroying her home world.
Recombinant is the first novel in the Experiencing True Purple series, a genetic-engineering military alien invasion war saga set in a fictional future Earth and its neighboring galaxy of Taus. The United Countries of Earth battle a nearly unstoppable alien attack force that has exhausted most of its advanced technologies and forced them into deploying cloned soldiers, recombinants, by the thousands to stop the Antaran advance toward Earth.
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LISA SILVERTHORNE has published five novels, two short story collections, and over 100 short stories in the fantasy, science fiction, romance, and mystery genres. With many more to follow. Her stories have appeared in publications from: DAW Books, Roc Books, Pulphouse Magazine, Fiction River, and Prime Books. For more information on Lisa's novels and short fiction, please visit Lisa's website at: LisaSilverthorne.com.
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A Genetic-Engineering Military First Contact War Saga
What if you discover your life doesn't belong to you?
Forced to give up your dreams and live a life you never chose.
Because you and your DNA belong to the government.
What if the government stole your memories?
Parsed out your family and friends?
How would it feel to live life in the third person?
Private Peter Mitchell is one of thousands of recycled, cloned soldiers, holding the front lines of a deep space war. To save a world he's never seen before. His survival mechanism is a memory replacement chip (MRC) that parses out the horrors of war and anything hindering him from killing the enemy.
Peter isn't like the other recombinants.
He doesn't want to fight or kill. He wants to live. Marred by deep sensitivity and self-awareness, he is failing his training sims and endangering his entire unit.
One recombinant and a training sergeant try to keep him from washing out, including the sergeant's shuttle pilot kid sister who falls for Mitchell.
But the Antarans are pushing closer to home system. Because something is horribly wrong with Earth's combat tech-and its recombinant soldiers.
Hardware Reclamation Specialist, Dr. Jeannette Kingston discovers a catastrophic failure in the MRCs affecting entire batches of recombinants. She's faced with a life-or-death decision: report the defect that will destroy hundreds of recombinants, including Private Mitchell, or say nothing and risk losing the war.
Now, Dr. Kingston must choose between a life worth saving and the fate of her home world.