Galena Chronicles: The Complete Series

Galena Chronicles, Books 1-3

By: Samuel Best

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

Leaving Earth is the easy part. Surviving the trip to a new home 10,000 light-years away is a journey like no other.

Merritt Alder is done with Earth. The planet is polluted and overpopulated, and its people are hungry.

Earth's first colony, Galena, is a pioneer world 10,000 light-years away. It has clean air, unpolluted water, and continents of arable land. Anyone can start a new life…if they can get there.

For Merritt, the journey is only the beginning. Obstacles arise every step of the way, forcing compromise and sacrifice. And not everyone on his ship is pure of heart.

The bonds he forges on the journey will be the key to surviving on another world—a world anyone has yet to fully explore.

A world with secrets of its own.

Galena Chronicles is a bold new trilogy in the realm of planet colonization and pioneer science fiction, an odyssey across our own galaxy to start a new life on Earth's first colony. This box set contains all three books in the complete series: Another World, Third Colony, and Galena.

©2020, 2022 Samuel Best (P)2025 Podium Audio

Much potential

It was good but you have to read the other series to know what it happening. I didn’t realize that there was a previous series of books that are referenced in these books. There were some great sci-fi story lines that were skimmed over that would have made the book 5 stars. It was entertaining but felt rushed or distracted.

Samuel Best is probably one of the best sci-fi space writers of today.

I've really enjoyed this series on Galena Chronicles by Samuel Best. The Nice thing about this series is you can get the complete series of 4 books for just one credit. It gives you hours upon hours of top notch creative sci-fi space travel to listen to. The narrating and creative story telling is superb. The creativity of his writings are so amazing. It's like where does he come up with these ideas, they are truly unique and you just can't stop listening to the stories.

Captivating and intelligent storytelling!

I really enjoyed every book of the series and even every chapter of each book, often repeating chapters to immerse myself in the characters.

Nothing is 100% original; I love this series!

Interesting characters who I cared about, and the stories moved along well without the one-world-saving-bizarre-emergency-just-as-one-ends which can be OTT. The picture of Earth is painfully, but in the good way, dystopian. Seriously—the diet itself made me wonder how people could enjoy life at all. Anyway, I have listened to probably several dozen SF series, and still really enjoyed this shorter one. Haven’t quite finished this, but has to be a winner, and hoping the writer continues to write SF.

World creation

Great world building. Interesting characters. Room for more stories. Mysteries remain. Wonder if there is room for more.