Michael R. Hicks


Biography:

Born in 1963, Michael Hicks grew up in the age of the Apollo program and spent his youth glued to the television watching the original Star Trek series and other science fiction movies, which continues to be a source of entertainment and inspiration. Having spent the majority of his life as a voracious reader, he has been heavily influenced by writers ranging from Robert Heinlein to Jerry Pournelle and Larry Niven, and David Weber to S.M. Stirling. Living in Maryland with his beautiful wife, two wonderful stepsons and two mischievous Siberian cats, he continues to work full-time while dreaming and writing.

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In Her Name: First Contact
Ebook Price: $3.99 USD. 161680 words. Fiction by Michael R. Hicks on May 31, 2010
The TNS Aurora is embarked on an extended survey mission, searching for new worlds that could support human life. Drawn to potentially habitable planets in an uncharted system, the Aurora is attacked by warships of the Kreelan Empire, and all but one of its crew is killed in bloody close combat. The lone survivor is returned home, a Messenger to warn Humanity of a coming interstellar war.
In Her Name: Omnibus Edition
Ebook Price: $7.99 USD. 333130 words. Fiction by Michael R. Hicks on May 31, 2010
Comprising the novels In Her Name: Empire, Confederation, and Final Battle, this book contains the complete story of Reza Gard, a human boy captured by the Kreelan Empire during its century-long war with Humanity. The enemy raises him as a warrior in an experiment to see if humans have souls, and if Reza can redeem their race from an ages-old curse and save humanity from certain destruction.
In Her Name: Final Battle
Ebook Price: $2.99 USD. 93610 words. Fiction by Michael R. Hicks on May 31, 2010
Following Confederation, Final Battle is the last book in the saga of Reza Gard. Reza is caught up in a daring plot to assassinate the Confederation President, even as something goes terribly wrong in the Empire and its warriors lose their will to fight. Reunited with Tesh-Dar, Reza and his friends fight to save the woman he loves, with the fate of the Empire and Humanity hanging in the balance.
In Her Name: Confederation
Ebook Price: $2.99 USD. 122860 words. Fiction by Michael R. Hicks on May 31, 2010
Taking up the story after Empire, Reza Gard is once again a stranger in a strange land as he finds back in the Confederation. He is brought to Earth, where he is reunited with Nicole Carré. But there are dark forces at work in the Confederation, and Reza is a pawn in a power struggle that leads him to Erlang. A heartbreaking reunion awaits in a battle where he must choose between love and honor.
In Her Name: Empire
Ebook Price: $2.99 USD. 127890 words. Fiction by Michael R. Hicks on September 4, 2009
In the first book of an epic futuristic fantasy trilogy, this is the coming-of-age story of Reza Gard, a young boy of the Human Confederation who is swept up in the century-long war with the alien Kreelan Empire. Captured and enslaved, Reza must live like his enemies in a grand experiment to see if humans have souls, and if one may be the key to unlocking an ages old curse upon the Kreelan race.

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