First Encounter (Ascension Wars)
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First Encounter (Ascension Wars)

Paperback – November 30, 2019

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Price
$15.49
Format
Paperback
Pages
359
Publisher
Independently published
Publication Date
ISBN-13
978-1713477358
Dimensions
5 x 0.9 x 8 inches
Weight
13.8 ounces

Description

***Top 100 Bestseller (#60) in All of Kindle Store*** #1 Bestseller in Space Opera #1 Bestseller in First Contact #1 Bestseller in Space Exploration #1 Bestseller in Colonization Sci-Fi #1 Bestseller in Military Sci-Fi #1 Bestseller in Galactic Empire ★★★★★ "Jasper's one of my favorite authors right now. Whether he's writing present day invasion stories or far-future intergalactic books, I'm hooked every time." -Nathan Hystad, Bestselling Author of the Survivors Series. ★★★★★ "I've been a fan of Jasper Scott's books and series for many years. This latest book is just another reason he's in my file as 'Five Star Author.' My only problem with this book is the finish. It ends...and I'm not ready for it to end. I'm hoping this is the start of what looks to be a thrilling First Encounter series." -William Schmidt, Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "I really love all of Jasper's books. He is my favorite sci-fi author by far. This book has a small cast of characters so it is easy to keep up with them. And there will be more to come so stay tuned." -Mary Kastle, Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "This book is a great start to what appears to be a great series. Real good character development, with real emotions and responses. I had a really hard time putting this book down and really look forward to the next one..." -Wade Whitaker, Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "A book I strongly recommend to any fan of Sci-Fi and Space Opera. Once again Jasper T. Scott brings his considerable writing skills to the table... this book has it all." -Bruce Thobois, Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "Once again Jasper T Scott has written a very believable and spellbinding story, this could be the way we finally make contact with an alien species. I can hardly wait for the next book in the series, and I may just read this one again." -Gordon Sears, Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "Fantastic story. I became so involved with the characters and the story that the ending snuck up on me. I am anxiously awaiting the next book." -Frankie, Amazon Reviewer Author's Content Rating: PG-13 Language: Occasional instances of strong language Sexual Content: Mild Violence: Moderate

Features & Highlights

  • FROM MILLION-COPY BESTSELLER JASPER T. SCOTT
  • The
  • Forerunners
  • set out from Earth to colonize neighboring star systems
  • And to search for intelligent life...
  • The United Nations of Earth sent out the
  • Forerunner
  • ships to explore and colonize the four most promising star systems within 50 light-years of Earth.
  • Forerunner One
  • left Earth under the command of Captain Clayton Cross, heading for Trappist-1. After a ninety year journey to reach it, the crew encountered not only a habitable world, but alien life already inhabiting it, and dark secrets lurking beneath the surface.The revelation of who these aliens are and what they want proves more terrifying than promising, and Captain Cross is forced to make tough decisions that will affect not only his crew, but the fate of the entire human race.

Customer Reviews

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Most Helpful Reviews

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Disposal ship for galactic idiots?

I had to recycle this book after reading the first couple chapters and being accosted with so much idiocy that that I can only surmise that this is simply a waste disposal ship for people they didn't send on on the other three "real" missions in some Darwin-award future that is utopian enough that the populace doesn't want to allow them to kill themselves off around the rest of the populace.

I mean....

How would any space program put someone in charge that had recurring hallucinations and actually insistent to the program doctors that they were being contacted by aliens in their sleep. Really?

How would any space program simply sent an interstellar colony ship to a location that they had no clue what the destination would hold.... and simply refuse to send probes of any sort unit a single day before arrival? Really?

How would the single best hope for communication with possible aliens revolve around an _assumption_ that their brains are just like those of terrestrial mammals? Really?

How would the captain be so incompetent as to not even know their arrival time?

How is it possible that after finding a body with alien life for the first time in history, they don't do any study from orbit, but rather just jump in a shuttle and "weeee!!! lets head down to tromp around for a bit!". huh?

Setting aside all the physics problems not even touched upon, my only conclusion is that this ship is full of all the rejects. They didn't want them on the real missions, and the people of earth didn't want them. So they just loaded them up with enough escape velocity that it would be a one way trip somewhere, and just pleased to be done with them. May they'll all be eaten by giant space tarantulas or whatever the author has dreamt up.
19 people found this helpful
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Poor SciFi!

Have just read the first 67 pages and it's so bad I can't continue. This is terrible! Had to check to see if I hadn't bought a kids book by mistake. It would be a terrible book for young kids, would set a bad example of how adults should interact. Basically, if the characters don't agree with each other they just won't talk to each other. No discourse. Not well thought out and poorly written. Not a single character that I like and all not very bright. At the level of the old 'Lost in Space'. I feel ripped off, the book was a waste of money.
5 people found this helpful
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Read the manual to your refrigerator instead

Sub par character development, and an underwhelming plot combine to make a book that is as easy to put down as it is forgettable. That’s several hours of my life I’ll never get back.
3 people found this helpful
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Ripoff of Avatar and Alien

Poorly written with unoriginal themes of a woman being impregnated with an alien plus human destruction of a beautiful alien planet, the book is a just a hodgepodge of leftist woke memes. Not worth reading, and seemingly intended for teenage girls.
3 people found this helpful
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Disappointing

The character development is lacking in every aspect. They all seemed the same, with different names.
Was hoping for a sci-fi book, but I got a weird Rosemary's Baby-esque c-grade horror book instead.
The situations are totally unbelievable, as are the reactions of the characters.
The dialogue is written at about a 10th grade level. Author's clumsy attempts at interesting adjectives is like being smacked in the face with a baseball bat after the ump-teenth time.
The idea that the protagonists would willy-nilly go down to an unknown and potentially hostile planet, with only 2 hours of oxygen, and the entire command crew would go down at once is laughable. Later, the invisible aliens with superior technology and the ability to cloak themselves are nearly defeated by one guy in a little space fighter. Why does this happen? Because after their surprisingly plausible plan to create a diversion and simply disappear with cloaking technology in the aftermath, the super-intelligent aliens, for some unfathomable reason, decide to abandon that escape plan, and return to shoot at the little fighter again, for some reason that can provide them with exactly zero benefit.

I won't be reading the follow up books. Won't be trying any other books from this author.
2 people found this helpful
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You have got to be kidding and I was fooled!!!

Spacers in a pseudo military command structure on a space ship travel centuries in cryogenics. They arrive at their destination. Captain et al, form a landing party, proceed to the planet surface are chased by 'sentient' creatures 'Birds' who capture the doctor and hook him up to tubes with liquids. Landing party searches finds him brings him back to spaceship 'in quarantine'. Put him in cryo and fly to mars. Another doctor is pregnant to the ambassador and is infected like the other doctor. Has monster baby...kills everybody and infects earth...yawn!!! I left this book on a picnic table by the Veteran's Monument in New Jersey. Maybe the alien monsters would like to read it?
2 people found this helpful
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Interstellar Dud..

An alien baby and most of the book spent with bad action and characters. I'm 40% done and dumping it in the trash. Waste of money and time..
2 people found this helpful
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Meh.. it was a good start to a series.

This book has man's first encounter with intelligent life. I won't spoil it but this book is the beginning of a series and totally reads like a set up for a sequel. Not quite my cup of tea. Good story but I wanted more finality
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Bad writing.

Cardboard characters. Characters doing stupid things, like sending the top three people in the chain of command down to land on a new planet first. Lose them and see how things go.
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First Encounter with Jasper T. Scott

Solid writing. Doesn't pretend to any literary quality but moves quickly and transparently enough to tell the story. An original winning premise for a sci fi series. Characters and situations all set up to launch a narrative of galactic scope and interest. I quite frankly, could not put it down. It's all credible Neither forced nor strained. The fact that it's undergird with hard technology futuristic or otherwise gives it all I need for a good hard sci fi read. I bought the second volume already.

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