In this new adventure form Alastair Chisholm, the transport ship Orion is heading to a new Earth colony when non of the parents can be woken, now with a significantyly younger crew, will they make it? Not a mining transport any more then, but a colony ship, taking a group of brave new-worlders off to some distant settlement, and helping them set up. The ship has to make a series of Jumps through space time to shorten their travel time and when these jumps happen everyone is put to Sleep and woken after the Jump.

Reading Orion Lost you get this delicious uneasy sense of malevolent energy on the ship, lies, Time has been manipulated, useful items disappeared.Are they going to get assimilated by the aliens (who NOBODY has ever seen, but they have strange ships and weird technology)? For now let’s sidestep the Orion Nebula, as the sword also contains the wonderful open cluster NGC 1981 at the top. What adjectives and adverbs (describing words) could you use for what you see, hear, smell, taste and touch?

It helps that we have such likeable characters taking the reins and it was intense and entertaining at the same time to watch their stories unfold.

Orion Lost is perfect for people who've never read science-fiction and even more perfect for fans of science-fiction! And how can you make it so that the action gets more and more and more, and the tension gets more and more and more until you reach one point where everything has gone wrong?

Well, there are lots of different approaches to this and I don't think there's really a wrong or a right one. After one such Sleep, Beth is awakened by the Orion's computer hologram, Ship, to the news that she is now the Captain as none of the adults can be woken.A 250mm scope doubles the number of individual stars seen and reveals a granular texture to the mistiness, while a 300mm scope allows you to drill down into the cluster’s core where several tens of stars can be individually resolved. This book has lots of adventure, intrigue and twisty plot turns that middle years' readers will enjoy. It has all the ingredients of a great sci-fi read, a space ship crippled in alien space, a possibly mutinous computer system, mysterious aliens and dangerous space pirates.

I was so hooked onto the story trying to figure out who was sketchy and why, and what the heck was happening to their memories. And if you need more tips from Alastair, there's a link below to a full interview and clips from his Authors Live event. They form a curved line best seen with low-power binoculars, such as a pair of 7x42s, as the distance between the two ends of the shield is 8.When someone else tells you a problem they have, you are more likely to come up with a way of solving it, so try talking yourself through anything difficult to get you (and your character! Way out in the furthest part of the known world, a tiny stronghold exists all on its own, cut off from the rest of human-kin by monsters that lurk beneath the Snow Sea. Here lies the brightest planetary nebula in Orion, NGC 2022, which isn’t saying much as it shines with an integrated magnitude of 12. Beth, aged only 13, suddenly finds herself captain and has to overcome her own self-doubt to lead her small team and ship to safety.