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Simon Goodson

An ancient starship with a mind just woke up. A young slave on his way to death just became its captain…

Jess has been a prisoner his entire life. He’s watched his fellow slaves visit boobytrapped ships for weeks. None of them ever came back alive. When Jess gets orders to clear the ship next, he knows he’s about to die a prisoner…

After the mothballed ship comes alive at his touch, Jess discovers the Wanderer has its own consciousness and that he’s the one in control. As he and the ship hightail it out of the imperial stronghold, freedom comes at a cost. Now he’s the most wanted fugitive in the galaxy, and ruthless pirates, desperate miners, and a complicated beauty might not think twice before turning him in…

One wrong move could put Jess and the Wanderer back in shackles, but if they can survive their freedom, they may just have the power to liberate the galaxy…

Wanderer’s Escape is the first installment in a series of rollicking space opera novels. If you like epic space battles, sentient spacecraft, and heartfelt tales of a boy and his ship, then you’ll love Simon Goodson’s coming-of-age tale.

Buy Wanderer’s Escape to blast off into an action-packed adventure today!

Joel Richards

Wanderer's Odyssey

Wanderer's Escape: Wanderer's Odyssey – Book One: Wanderer's Odyssey - Book One

Freedom was only the start. The crew of the Wanderer face ever greater challenges as their journey continues. Knowing the Empire will hunt them down Jess and the others must seek help from another source.

Turning to the criminal underworld seems like their only option, but it soon threatens to end in disaster. Especially when past events return to haunt the present.

Will even the incredible Wanderer be enough to keep Jess, and those he cares about, safe?

Dark Soul Publishing Ltd

Wanderer - Echoes of the Past

Doing the right thing can bring the wrong type of attention. Now the Empire knows the amazing things the Wanderer is capable of, they want the ship for themselves. As powerful as the Wanderer is it is no match for the imperial fleet that seeks to capture it. Jess has only one option – run.

With the imperial fleet dogging his steps Jess continues to head for the Wanderer's homeworld, but in running from the Empire he is running blindly towards a far greater danger.

Wanderer - Tainted Universe

Hunted by a powerful Imperial fleet, his friends infected by the Taint, Jess has only one place to turn — the homeworld of his amazing ship, the Wanderer.

But his journey will reveal the origins of far more than just the Wanderer, and both the Empire and the Taint will be ready to pounce at any moment. Jess expects to learn how things started, but what he learns might also point to how everything will finish… and just how close that end may be.

Wanderer - Origins

Jess and the Wanderer race to save the Universe from extinction… but will saving everything just mean handing it to the Taint?

The destruction of the Universe has started and only Jess and the Wanderer have the slightest chance of stopping it, but that's only the start. Jess must also find a way to stop the all-consuming Taint once and for all. Failing will just swap the extinction of the Universe for the extinction of humanity, and every other free-thinking race.

Join Jess and the Wanderer on their thrilling journey, as they race to save everything and everyone, including the woman Jess loves. Find out whether they succeed in Wanderer – Extinction.

Wanderer - Extinction

Jess saved the entire universe from destruction… wasn’t that enough?

Jess and the Wanderer may have saved the Universe, but a deadly threat still remains. The remains of the Empire continues to turn everyone in its path into Limited, near mindless slaves who show no fear and no mercy.

If someone doesn’t deal with the Empire now then it will become unstoppable… and yet again ‘someone’ means Jess and his incredible ship.

Wanderer - Salvation

Kaira is in the kind of trouble it would take Jess and the Wanderer to fix, but they’ve been gone for a thousand years.

What she gets is Tarkus and the Glimmer, a rundown ship and a taciturn captain who doesn’t even know she’s stowed away. Yet.

If she’s lucky Tarkus will throw her off at the next station if he finds her. If she’s unlucky she’ll be ejected into in cold space without a suit. If there were any other options she’d take them.

There aren’t. All she can do is huddle in the darkened hold and hope the Glimmer gets her where she needs to go before her world caves in… and before Tarkus realises she’s there.

Will she reach her goal? Will she even survive? Read Wanderer - Millennium now to find out!

Wanderer - Millennium

Kaira isn’t dead. Yet.

That’s quite a surprise. She thought she’d given her life to save Tarkus, but somehow he’s kept her from dying… for now. Yet the devices within her are still intent on ripping her body apart, and Tarkus has only managed to slow them down.

She needs a cure, and the only place to find that is the corporation which created the horrific devices. And they’ll help… for a price. They need a job done, one that only a pilot with Tarkus’s skills can possibly pull off.

Will they succeed? If they do, will the corporation honour its side of the deal? Or will it simply leave Kaira to die. She has no idea, and as their mission unfolds she starts to suspect even her life won’t be worth the price they’ll have to pay. She thinks they’d be better off simply walking away.

If only it were that simple.

Wanderer - Deception

Is the Wanderer really hidden aboard the Glimmer or is Kaira losing her mind?

The uncertainty is terrifying. If she is losing her mind, then how much damage did the devices attacking her body cause before they were stopped? And if not, why is Tarkus lying when he knows it makes her question her sanity?

Kaira needs time to process the whirlwind of recent events. Instead, she and Tarkus are dragged into trying to help a group of slaves who’ve managed to free themselves. Between the danger and excitement other thoughts get pushed into the background.

But as events unfold the question of her sanity is forced to the fore once more, with the freedom of thousands depending on one question… is she losing her mind?

Wanderer - Paradox

Tarkus and Kaira, aboard the legendary Wanderer, are on a mission to expose the Pradagash Corporation's dark secrets, but their plans are thrown into chaos when the freighter carrying thousands of freed slaves is sabotaged. They are forced to seek refuge in the rebellious system of Stormharbour… just as an immense Corporation fleet closes in to crush all resistance.

Faced with an impossible decision, Tarkus must confront his deepest fears and Kaira her darkest trauma. With an old enemy hunting them and time running out, the fate of Stormharbour and the freed slaves hangs in the balance. Can Tarkus and Kaira turn the tide and keep the rebellion alive, or will everything be crushed under the Corporation's might?

Prepare for a pulse-pounding adventure where the line between hope and despair blurs, and every choice could mean the difference between freedom and annihilation.

The rebellion starts now!

Wanderer - Rebellion

The Empire will kill him for stealing this ship… but they have to catch it first!

To the Empire the Wanderer was just another booby-trapped ship to claim, and Jess was just another worthless slave who could be sacrificed in the process.

Things didn’t go to plan. Jess survived the dangers, and when he sat in the pilot’s chair the ancient ship came to life for the first time in centuries.

Acting on instinct Jess seized the chance, firing up the engines and fleeing the Imperial forces.
Now Jess and the ancient self-aware ship are on the run, their freedom and their very existence on the line.

The smart thing to do would be to run like hell and never stop, but Jess finds he can’t ignore pleas for help from those in danger. With the powerful Wanderer at his command he can truly make a difference… but at what cost?

Buy this collection of the first three books and see why tens of thousands of people have loved following the Wanderer’s journey, leaving comments including “In the end, I was gripping the arms of my chair as I rooted for the heroes.”, “A fast paced, can't-put-it-down Sci-fi.” and “One of the best books I've read this year.”

Wanderer's Odyssey - The book series

Wanderer's Odyssey - The book series

Wanderer's Odyssey books in order

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