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Scott Gier was born on January 13, 1948 in Aiea, Hawaii, United States.
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Scott G. Gier earned a Master of Business Administration at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California.
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Genellan: Planetfall
(Genellan - beautiful, Earthlike world where intelligent c...)
Genellan - beautiful, Earthlike world where intelligent cliff-dwellers waited in fear for the day the warlike bear people would return... Genellan - the only refuge for a ship's crew and a detachment of spacer marines, abandoned by a fleet fleeing from alien attackers. Stranded on Genellan, the humans struggled to make a home for themselves until - they hoped against hope - the fleet could rescue them. Lt. Sharl Buccari tried desperately to hold on to the threads of command over both the civilians and the marines - to keep her people together. Winter was coming. No one knew if the winged natives would be friend or foe. And now the bear people were returning, bent on destroying every human - but not before stealing the secret of hyper light drive, the key to interstellar flight...
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1995
Genellan: In the Shadow of the Moon
(Science Fiction Book Club Selection Heart of Genellan Hot...)
Science Fiction Book Club Selection Heart of Genellan Hotshot pilot Sharl Buccari was a living legend. She and her crew of Survivors had established a foothold on Genellan—a beautiful new world, raw and unforgiving—becoming allies with the native cliff dwellers. Now the challenge was to engineer peace with the other advanced race inhabiting the same planetary system—the kones—and to build a colony for the children of humanity, including her own infant son. But konish politics and xenophobia threatened to tear apart the fragile truce for which she had fought so hard. Worse, another mysterious race of aliens who twenty-five years earlier had massacred a human star fleet was back—and on the warpath.
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1996
Genellan: First Victory
(Invasion! Fleet Admiral Runacres has taken the Tellurian ...)
Invasion! Fleet Admiral Runacres has taken the Tellurian fleet deep into the Red Zone trying desperately to make diplomatic contact, and now the Ulaggi mean to punish the humans for approaching too closely to the heart of their empire. The murderous aliens have come to kill. Ulaggi battle cruisers, human motherships, and konish dreadnaughts converge on the planet Genellan, just as a convoy of Tellurian transports arrives to eject their vulnerable cargo of human settlers into the rugged planet’s atmosphere. Hotshot squadron commander Sharl Buccari and her corvette pilots are all that stand between the enemy and the helpless settlers. Buccari is a living legend, but the Ulaggi have never been defeated. Can she stop them from invading Genellan? If not, Earth is next.
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1997
Genellan: Earth Siege
(Ancient were the Ulaggi before the ancestors of man walke...)
Ancient were the Ulaggi before the ancestors of man walked upright. The Ulaggi - a race of mind readers - terrorize the galaxy, destroying the weak. Genellan, humanity's first colony in space, is attacked. Thousands die. The colonial capital is destroyed, but the aliens are repulsed. The cost is dear in lives and ships, but worse - the Ulaggi learn the location of Earth. Admiral Runacres, the Tellurian Legion Fleet commander, orders all ships back to Sol-Sys.
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2005
Daystar
(Two super alliances compete for the galaxy: the Federatio...)
Two super alliances compete for the galaxy: the Federation, a constellation of systems centered on Earth, struggles against the Galactic Independence/New Confederacy (GINC) as mankind spreads like a bloody stain, consuming entire planets in a rapacious competition for resources. Some colonies will live, but most will die to fulfill the needs of the core alliances. A rebel organization, the Planetary Independence Movement (PIM), strives to obstruct the devastation. Its messianic leader, Daniel Enos Callihan, has not been seen for decades, but his sedition continues to hamper the alliances. Each alliance seeks to use Callihan against the other…or else to kill him. His location becomes available—Daystar System.
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2007
Scott G. Gier
Edit ProfileEducation
Scott G. Gier graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, where he received a Bachelor of Science. After that he earned a Master of Business Administration at Santa Clara University in Santa Clara, California.
Career
Scott G. Gier served 6 years in the United States Navy as a pilot and intelligence analyst. After getting out of the Navy in 1975, he worked in the San Francisco Bay Area in laser (Spectra-Physics) and start-up computer manufacturing (GRiD Systems and Silicon Solutions) before switching to web-based and enterprise software support and training. He started writing his series of science fiction novels about Lieutenant Shari Buscari, the tough-as-nails female pilot of a Corvette Space Cruiser, in 1989 during a layoff.
The first novel of the series, "Genellan: Planetfall" (1995), opens with a scene of hostile aliens attacking a human exploration fleet in a foreign planetary system.
Buscari’s ship is damaged and the pilot and her crew are forced to land on Genellan, an Earth-like planet that is home to the nearly humansized, bat-like cliff dwellers who have organized into a hunter-gatherer society.
In "Genellan: In the Shadow of the Moon" (1996), the second book of the series, an older Buscari leads the human colonization of Genellan.
In Gier’s third book, "Genellan: First Victory" (1997), the hostile aliens arrive in vast numbers and with seemingly superior weapons technology. The fourth book of the series, Genellan: Earth Siege, appeared in 2005. Two years later, Daystar was published.
Achievements
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Scott Gier is highly famous as the author of Genellan series. In 1996, Scott Gier was a nominee for the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer. "Genellan: Planetfall" was selected the Del Rey Books Discovery of the Year in 1996 as well as finishing in ninth place for Locus Magazine's Best First Novel award. "Genellan: Planetfall" and "Genellan: In the Shadow of the Moon" were also both selected as Science Fiction Book Club selections.
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Daystar
(Two super alliances compete for the galaxy: the Federatio...)
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Genellan: First Victory
(Invasion! Fleet Admiral Runacres has taken the Tellurian ...)
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Genellan: Planetfall
(Genellan - beautiful, Earthlike world where intelligent c...)
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Genellan: In the Shadow of the Moon
(Science Fiction Book Club Selection Heart of Genellan Hot...)
1996 -
Genellan: Earth Siege
(Ancient were the Ulaggi before the ancestors of man walke...)
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Daystar
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Quotations:
"I am a lucky man. Born and pretty much raised in Hawaii, I graduated from the US Naval Academy and became a Naval Aviator. There are no smarter, more genuine, more professional people than those that you will find in the American armed services. I am honored to be a veteran. There are also no better toys than Navy jets, and there are few adrenaline-pumping routines on this planet that can match landing on or taking off from an aircraft carrier. I was also privileged to be a regular watch-standing officer-of-the-deck, underway, on board the USS Hancock, a WWII vintage attack carrier."
"I have always enjoyed hiking and the outdoors and have come to believe that humanity's most important asset (after our respective families) is the Earth beneath our feet. That love of nature and my experiences in the military and high-technology companies define my novels."
