The Celaran Ruins

Michael McCloskey

Oct 2014 · Parker Interstellar Travels Book 6 · Squidlord LLC

About this ebook

The Celaran Ruins is the sixth book in the PIT series.

Telisa Relachik studied to be a xenoarchaeologist at a time when humans had found alien artifacts but hadn't encountered live aliens. She joins a group of artifact smugglers and ends up with a life more amazing than she could have imagined.

Forced into service by an alien she once befriended, Telisa, along with Cilreth, Siobhan, Caden, Jason and Imanol are sent to a distant world to investigate a mysterious alien race for their new master.

Ratings and reviews

If you treat the Parker Interstellar Travels books like an adventure serial rather than standalone novels, this is a respectable "season opener" episode. It provides some engaging novelties in the exploration of a new alien world, and enough character bits and action to balance the freight of table-setting exposition-dumps. However, it closes painfully abruptly, settling for kicking cans down the road to the sequels. It also suffers from some editing oversights (e.g, transposed character names) that are even more embarassing than those seen in previous titles in the series. I am hooked enough to keep reading, but I am chafing against the variable quality.

I've liked every McCloskey book I have read. They may be relatively short, but they're interesting. He's good at imagining and describing alien technology, and exceptional at describing alien thought processes that are believable yet far more alien than any I've read about elsewhere.

About the author

Michael McCloskey is a software engineer in Silicon Valley who dreams of otherworldly creatures, mysterious alien planets, and fantastic adventures.