The Islands of the Lost Star

The Lost Star Stories # 5

De: C. Litka

Narrado por: Virtual Voice

Please note – A version of this novel was previously published as part of an omnibus edition – The Lost Star Stories Volume Two, The Lost Star’s Sea. If you have read that book – thank you – you have already read this story.

In The Islands of the Lost Star we find Wil Litang and his young dragon Hissi setting out to explore the Pela. But as usual things don’t go as planned, and they are quickly captured by natives who hope to sell Wil as an indentured worker to a slave ship. Little Hissi saves Wil from that fate, but danger is never far away in the Pela. Wil and Hissi must survive pirates, bandits, giant dragons, mutiny, and the hypnotic power of the gems of a mysterious wreck.

The Lost Star Stories take classical space opera motifs – rocket ships, space pirates, sentient robots, strange alien worlds and mysterious dangers, and combines them with richly drawn characters and contemporary sensibilities to create a modern, character-focused space adventure series.

Nestled deep in the darkest nebula of the Nine Star Nebula, the legendary Tenth Star, also known as the Lost Star, is a celestial object like no other. Perhaps it is a vast hollow planet, its surface fractured enough to allow entry through it. Within the shell are layers of gas and debris, like the layers of an onion, the whole lit by some strange nuclear or chemical reaction in its core. One of the outer layers supports a breathable atmosphere with fragments of the shell slowly circulating within it in the currents of this vast layer. These lush floating islands are home to many human and near human people, as well as countless alien fauna, the most impressive beings - the many feathered dragons. Some humans from the Nine Star Nebula have discovered this strange paradise, and the treasures it holds, and are desperate to keep it secret, as Wil Litang and his shipmates discovered. But the humans are not the only intelligent life in this Archipelago, or the “Pela.” And perhaps even the vast distances can keep them from discovering these human invaders.