Stargazer The Early Days Thomas E. Chase Stargazer Price: $17.99 Thomas E. Chase ISBN: 978-09846348-6-6 2,000 years ago the computer on a starship of unknown origin witnessed an inexplicable event sweeping across a planet. The event is of such an unprecedented magnitude that the computer, which is an Artificial Brain for Breeding Intelligence, experiences a major malfunction. The holographic image of a female it creates on occasion to walk the corridors of the massive ship becomes human, and refers to herself as ABBI. Afterwards, the faltering computer divides its secret destination into two scout ships and sends them to opposite ends of the galaxy. 1,000 years ago, the surviving race of Kymions from a world-wide plague packed into thirty two ships discover the two scout ships. The second ship containing the final information is on the planet Arret, which has two suns that are lethal to the Kymions. After some searching, they discover that earthlings can survive on the surface-abductions begin. Present day-Chip Rose is the latest earthling taken by the Kymions. When he awakens on Arret, he discovers he has the spirit of an eighteen year old Arret girl residing in his mind. Tarella slowly learns how to manipulate certain tendrils in his mind that enhances his strength, speed, eyesight, and hearing. Chip, dubbed Stargazer by his mind-meld due to a case of amnesia he experiences when first arriving, hopes Tarella's ability to enhance will increase his survivability rate more than twenty four hours. The present day Kymion watcher, Darok, assigned to abduct humans with the Earth/Arret wormhole transporter, is the one that inserts a small device into their brain that transmits a subliminal message to search for the scout ship. Darok decides to insert a second device that is a locator, which Stargazer's mind-meld discovers and shorts out, causing him temporarily to return to Darok's ship and interact with him. Meanwhile, on the hidden star ship, human ABBI struggles with all the sentient emotions the computer collected through the millennia that she now possesses. The pragmatic side of the computer that survives the major melt down deems ABBI as a nuisance and locks her inside the arboretum on the star ship. Back on Arret, Stargazer encounters a few indigenous life forms, and with Tarella's knack to enhance his strength and speed, he is victorious. Soon afterwards he is approached by four Tree Wardens of the Tarook forest that witness the battle with the targogs and ask him to help rid the forest of the beast called a Scog. At the end of book one, Stargazer decides that with Tarella's knack to enhance, he has the ability to help the Tree Wardens, which was something he always avoided while he was Chip Rose. He feels he is now two forever in one. By not turning his back he can walk away with a clear conscience and search for a way off Arret, knowing that he did all he could with the aid of his mind-meld, which he believes is a gift for a higher purpose. About The Author Thomas Chase was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and graduated from Melvindale High School in 1968. He moved to Grand Rapids, Minnesota, after serving a term in the Air Force. He worked thirty years in the paper business, creating short stories in his spare time, and then retired to concentrate his efforts full time on his true love, the novel. Chase began by creating numerous short stories in assorted genres, which he is now in the process of compiling into a collection for book form. It was through this effort that he discovered his flair for science fiction. Stargazer The Early Days is his debut novel in the Stargazer series. Others will follow; edits and rewrites are in process. In this genre, he draws inspiration from such influential authors as, Isaac Asimov, J.R.R. Tolkien, Terry Brooks, and Robert Jordon. His expertise is further enhanced by his first-hand experience with UFOs while in the Air Force where he was a Weapons Director Tech, a position that required him on more than one occasion to scrambled F-4 interceptors in an attempt to search out and to identify unknowns appearing in our friendly skies. Those incidences taught him to explore the probability that we are indeed not alone and sparked an ever growing curiosity His hope for his work is simple-that his writing gives you pleasure, and perhaps, inspires his two sons, Ryan and Joel, to follow their dreams as he has.