USS Battlestrike

USS Hamilton, Book 15

By: Mark Wayne McGinnis

Narrated by: Jimmy Moreland

Captain Galvin Quintos commands humanity's most advanced battle group in a desperate mission to the galaxy's edge, where the Techno-Mycoids have returned with unprecedented force. This fungal-mechanical species, previously encountered in smaller numbers, now fields massive fleets systematically consuming the peaceful Zephyrian civilization. With thirty-six billion souls already assimilated into their grotesque bio-mechanical war machine, time is running out for both the Zephyrians and potentially all organic life in the galaxy.

Armed with cutting-edge omninought-class warships and thousands of DreadBots equipped with experimental sesquiterpene weapons, the fleet faces impossible mathematical odds. The enemy's hive-mind intelligence seems to anticipate every tactical move, suggesting they possess foreknowledge that shouldn't be possible.

As infected creatures spread chaos throughout the fleet, temporal anomalies caused by the enigmatic time-traveler General Resnick create critical blind spots in the enemy's perfect coordination. In a final confrontation spanning multiple realities, an accidental biological weapon becomes humanity's unexpected salvation against seemingly invincible foes, proving that sometimes victory emerges from the most catastrophic failures.

©2025 Mark Wayne McGinnis (P)2025 Mark Wayne McGinnis

Bad Zombie story!

I am such a huge fan of the characters of this series. The action and storytelling is so good and satisfying.
And then this book came along. It is so disappointing I’m guessing someone went on vacation and they let someone else write this book that never read anything about the previous books. It’s even bad for a zombie story.
Don’t waste your credit on this garbage. I’m definitely going to ask for my credit back.

Worst in the series.

More of the same -malfunctioning AI, rec-deck problems... but the progression of the character's has gone backwards. There are confusing timelines, and repetitions. The story could have been so much better without the Nazi-zombie's, and opening a new chapter in to the temporal war. It read like a first draft that just had ideas thrown together.