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Critical Praise for The Hiveborn

from Heartland Reviews

At last, science fiction that would be competitive with that written by the masters of 30 to 40 years ago. Hiveborn, the third and last book in the Earthborn Wars series. There is a little of Star Wars mixed with the Night of the Living Dead and the Body Snatchers in this book about a time in our future where survivors of an earthly holocaust, a cultic spaceborn group, and people taken over by alien parasites vie to win over the others and create a new day and a new way for planet earth’s human population. The key is which one will gain ascendancy? The action and pace are relentless, the characters unique and believable, and the technologies are predictable. We rated this excellent novel by its award-winning Australian author five hearts.

Bob Spear
Reviewer

from Midwest Book Review

The third installment of Australian author Paul Collins' "The Earthborn Wars" series, The Hiveborn is an exciting science-fiction adventure. In a post-nuclear disaster Earth, human factions hunt one another. One survivor of two worlds - raised as a Skyborn, befriended by an Earthborn militia, only to later discover that his Skyborn existence was saturated in lies and deceit, an outcast Welkin Quinn and his confederates, called "the family", are caught in the midst of a new threat from the stars. The Hiveborn, an alien race controlled by the unifying force of the Hivemind, seeks to crush not only human autonomy but that of all life in the universe. A terrible war for survival threatens "the family" as surely as the human factions that have tried to exterminate it, in this exciting and fast-paced saga of conflict. Also highly recommended are the previous two volumes of "The Earthborn Wars" series, The Earthborn and The Skyborn.

Paul T. Vogel
Reviewer

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They come with separate missions and secret motives, yet all their paths are inexorably drawn to the gateway that is the Wistrix Donn. Beyond the gateway lies the greatest mystery of all—a mystery that may consume them all.

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Prologue
The Verge
A Revelation