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: Dead Soul    by Michael R. Hicks
Price: $4.99 USD. 93650 words. Published on October 4, 2011. Fiction.

With the Confederation barely holding together, Roland Mills, Valentina Sikorsky, and other characters from IN HER NAME: FIRST CONTACT and LEGEND OF THE SWORD lead an attack to free a human colony invaded by the alien Kreelan Empire. Standing against them are legions of Kreelan warriors and a deadly warrior priestess feared by her own people, who call her the Dead Soul...
In Her Name: Legend Of The Sword    by Michael R. Hicks
Price: $4.99 USD. 113290 words. Published on May 31, 2010. Fiction.

(3.00 from 1 review)
Six months have passed since the Kreelan Empire attacked the human sphere in "First Contact." Earth and many other human worlds have banded together in a new interstellar government. The planet of Saint Petersburg, however, would rather see the Confederation destroyed. With a secretly built navy, they have lured the Confederation fleet into a trap, even as the Kreelans prepare another attack.
In Her Name: Final Battle    by Michael R. Hicks
Price: $4.99 USD. 93620 words. Published on May 31, 2010. Fiction.

(5.00 from 1 review)
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    by Michael R. Hicks
Price: $4.99 USD. 122880 words. Published on May 31, 2010. Fiction.

(5.00 from 1 review)
Taking up the story after Empire, Reza Gard is once again a stranger in a strange land 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    by Michael R. Hicks
Price: Free! 127910 words. Published on September 4, 2009. Fiction.

0.5 star(4.60 from 5 reviews)
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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