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Tyche's Flight (Tyche's Journey) Paperback – November 7, 2017

by Richard Parry (Author)
4.5 4.5 out of 5 stars 343 ratings
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A colony world goes dark.

Grace Gushiken is a grifter and a liar. Worse, she’s an esper, an abhorrent creation of the Old Empire. Grace keeps her blade sharp and her wits sharper. She’s on the run from the Republic’s justice.

Nathan Chevell captains the free trader Tyche, an ex-war heavy lifter. He’s no pirate, but he’s no white knight either. An encounter with espers saw him discharged from the Emperor’s Black before the real fighting even started.

When the crew of the Tyche are hired to deliver a new transmitter for a downed Guild Bridge, Grace hitches a ride. They find the Absalom Delta colony deserted, its people turned into slaves by the insect-like Ezeroc. The aliens have descended like locusts on humanity, consuming all in their path. No one is safe. Even the Republic Navy is powerless against them.

Facing an impossible foe, odds are stacked against the Tyche. The ship and her crew need to test their skill and their luck to survive. Will Grace and Nate be able to work together to get away? Or will fears and rivalries from the past destroy humanity’s hopes, ceding victory to the Ezeroc?

Tyche’s Flight is the first book in Richard Parry’s gripping Tyche’s Journey trilogy. If you like page-turning space opera with great dialogue and heart-pumping action, get your copy today!
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  1. Book 1 of 6
    Ezeroc Wars
  2. Print length
    372 pages
  3. Language
    English
  4. Publication date
    November 7, 2017
  5. Dimensions
    6 x 0.93 x 9 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0995104107
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0995104105
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Customers enjoyed the book and found it entertaining. They appreciated the fast-paced plot with twists that kept them guessing until the end. The characters were described as interesting and engaging, with inventive dialogue that immersed them in their internal lives. Readers praised the writing style as great and seamless, with quick dialogue and funny moments between characters. Overall, they found the book an easy read with plenty of action and humor.

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34 customers mention "Entertainment value"34 positive0 negative

Customers find the book entertaining and hard to put down. They describe it as an action-packed space opera with no dull moments. Readers appreciate the great writing style and consider it better than a simple Firefly or Star Wars rehash.

"...characters with clear understandable backgrounds and purpose, fantastical environments and at times, scary as hell. I don’t give out spoilers...." Read more

"...This story stands alone as an enjoyable SF adventure. It also opens up possibilities for the subsequent novels. The characters are interesting...." Read more

"...How they get there is entertaining as heck and well worth the read. Review originally posted at Alternate Realms Magazine." Read more

"...It's a very fun read. (I've read the first 3 books of the series at this point)...." Read more

31 customers mention "Plot twists"31 positive0 negative

Customers enjoy the book's plot twists. They find the story action-packed with no dull moments. The book keeps readers interested and opens up possibilities for future novels. The characters are appealing.

"...Great story, wonderful characters with clear understandable backgrounds and purpose, fantastical environments and at times, scary as hell...." Read more

"...It also opens up possibilities for the subsequent novels. The characters are interesting. The incidents are entertaining, and the action is engaging...." Read more

"...many Space Operas, the technological details in Tyche’s Flight are plausible, if not always possible, and the writing usually flows seamlessly so..." Read more

"...I really enjoyed the characters, pace, and found the world plausible. It's a very fun read...." Read more

21 customers mention "Character development"21 positive0 negative

Customers enjoy the engaging characters and their conversations. The dialogue is inventive, and the story is made interesting through the interplay between the characters. The personalities are intriguing, with diverse outcasts and repulsive characters.

"...Great story, wonderful characters with clear understandable backgrounds and purpose, fantastical environments and at times, scary as hell...." Read more

"...It also opens up possibilities for the subsequent novels. The characters are interesting. The incidents are entertaining, and the action is engaging...." Read more

"...I really enjoyed the characters, pace, and found the world plausible. It's a very fun read...." Read more

"...The plot has plenty of action, bad aliens, bad humans, and an all-around great story line...." Read more

12 customers mention "Writing style"12 positive0 negative

Customers enjoy the writing style. They say it flows smoothly with fast action and snappy dialogue. The book is an easy read with no half-page blocks of dialogue during battles.

"...’s Flight are plausible, if not always possible, and the writing usually flows seamlessly so that it fades into the background, highlighting the..." Read more

"This book is a great deal of fun with fast action and snappy dialogue...." Read more

"...The dialogue is good, the action is exciting, the universe feels well fleshed-out...." Read more

"...it can't go there in a colourful display of clever set pieces, great dialogue and varied characters...." Read more

8 customers mention "Humor"8 positive0 negative

Customers enjoy the humor in the book. They mention snarky interjections, funny moments between characters, and loveable and dislikeable characters. The storyline is great with an all-around good storyline.

"...The plot has plenty of action, bad aliens, bad humans, and an all-around great story line...." Read more

"...Richard Parry writes with elegance, humour and balanced pace and creates a believable world (universe?) full of extraordinarily deep characters...." Read more

"...If you want action, mystery and some extremely funny moments between characters, this is the book for you...." Read more

"Not half bad with a few interesting phrase turns, but at the end of the day its a bug story. Are all the sequels bug books too?" Read more

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  • Alan McDonald
    5.0 out of 5 stars You gotta hope this never happens for real!
    Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2018
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    I love science fiction and this is a prime example of science fiction at its very best.
    Great story, wonderful characters with clear understandable backgrounds and purpose, fantastical environments and at times, scary as hell.
    I don’t give out spoilers. Why would others purchase the book if I did? So no spoilers here.
    Let me just say that, if like me, you like sci-fi, then this is an awesome read.
    I even got this book for 99 cents. I was very surprised and extremely happy that this story exceeded all my expectations, as it did my daughter also. She has to help me read these days since I’m visually impaired.
    We both liked this story so much that we read it in just three sittings.
    I plan on getting the next book, but since my daughter has to get back to her post holiday busy schedule, then it may take a bit longer to read it.
    But I’ll give it a try and and all sci-fi fans should too.
    Thank you Richard for such a wonderful tale!
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  • Duane P. Spurlock
    4.0 out of 5 stars Exuberant space opera about a ship with an engaging crew
    Reviewed in the United States on February 15, 2021
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    Tyche’s Flight is the first in at least two Space Opera trilogies - part of a larger story cycle, the Ezeroc Wars - about the ship and its crew. It’s Space Opera of the sort for those who like the Firefly TV series. If you like the camaraderie of the Rocinante’s crew in The Expanse novels without the macropolitical and socio-cultural discursions, you’ll like Tyche’s Flight. If you like the action in Jack Campbell’s Lost Fleet novels, you’ll probably enjoy this book.

    Tyche’s Flight explores the dynamics of the Tyche's crew’s relationships—among each other and with the greater universe around them—as they learn a new crewmember's secrets and as she learns theirs. The plot focuses on the Tyche’s mission: the Republic hires the crew to deliver a replacement to a distant star gate that’s stopped working and whose station has gone silent.

    Perfect set up for bad stuff to happen.

    Author Parry creates tension and real thrills—not just when Tyche reaches its destination, but along the way. This story stands alone as an enjoyable SF adventure. It also opens up possibilities for the subsequent novels. The characters are interesting. The incidents are entertaining, and the action is engaging. I’ll be reading the next book in the series.
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  • Alternate Realms Magazine
    5.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining as heck
    Reviewed in the United States on November 14, 2017
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    When someone described Tyche’s Flight to me as a cross between Firefly and Starship Troopers, I wasn’t sure what to expect. A Space Opera, yes, in the grand and campy styles of both story worlds, and of course, I expected familiar characters and story lines.

    Tyche’s Flight delivered a little of both in a fresh and entertaining experience.

    The Tyche is a privately owned cargo ship chartered by the Republic Navy to carry a transmitter across the galaxy to the Absalom system, ostensibly to repair the Guild Bridge, a fixed wormhole reminiscent of the gateways in Stargate SG1.

    It’s crewed by the typical round of misfit characters: Nate, the captain, a former soldier on the losing side of a large-scale war; El, the pilot, whose gift flying ships is unsurpassed; Hope, a young and often hopelessly naive engineer who can fix any problem, given enough time; and Kohl, a brute of a man with a tendency to shoot first and never ask questions. Throw Grace, a telepath on the run, into the mix and the opening chapters feel very much like a remake of Firefly.

    Parry’s gift is in taking a time-worn plot and characters, and refurbishing them into an engaging read. Unlike many Space Operas, the technological details in Tyche’s Flight are plausible, if not always possible, and the writing usually flows seamlessly so that it fades into the background, highlighting the ongoing turmoil.

    The Tyche‘s crew experiences an escalating series of problems beginning almost immediately after Nate, with Grace’s help, negotiates a contract for the transportation of said transmitter. One by one, each member of the crew steps in to save the day, including Grace, who must earn her place on the crew, even as she uses them for her own purposes.

    All roads lead to the Absalom system. Along the way, the crew discovers a derelict ship, all hands brain dead, carrying the exact same make and model of transmitter the Tyche was commissioned to carry. The situation devolves once they reach Absalom Delta, the colonized world that was cut off by the transmitter malfunction, and encounter another derelict ship, this one a Republic Navy warship with a missing crew. The crew is found planet-side soon enough, along with a body snatching alien species (called, appropriately enough, “bugs”) and a science station that shouldn’t exist, both of which throw the crew into increasingly dangerous situations.

    It’s how the crew reacts that makes the story work. Each crew member is given more than one opportunity to excise another member, with the singular exception of Hope, whose age, personality, and situation cushion her from such machinations. Kohl, who is always up for a fight, is openly antagonistic to everyone, particularly Hope, whose background includes criminal activity that’s never fully explained, and Grace. At one point El, the Helm, brings out an old school, pared down shotgun to hunt down a possible threat on the Tyche, including her fellow crewmates. Nate often must decide between saving individual crew members and the greater good, including saving his own skin, and Grace, as the story’s rogue element, has numerous chances to either throw the Tyche‘s crew to the wolves or kill them, or both.

    Instead, the crew eventually pulls together and becomes what every crew should be: a family. How they get there is entertaining as heck and well worth the read.

    Review originally posted at Alternate Realms Magazine.
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  • Mike
    5.0 out of 5 stars Fun space opera romp
    Reviewed in the United States on May 12, 2019
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    After finishing (and loving) Richard Parry's "Chromed" series, I decided to give the Tyche series a try. I'm really enjoying it! As others have noted, it's got a very "Firefly" feel at times, with the misfit crew on the old tramp freighter. I could easily see Capt' Nate and Capt' Mal hooking up their crews for a joint caper.

    I really enjoyed the characters, pace, and found the world plausible. It's a very fun read. (I've read the first 3 books of the series at this point). There are some good twists and turns, and the Ezeroc make a great alien protagonist.
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  • William Gaskill
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Plot, Great Character Development, Great One-Liners that Would Make Spenser Proud
    Reviewed in the United States on January 1, 2019
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    I read a lot of SciFi kindle book samples daily. About98% of them disappoint.
    The one, however, exceeded expectations.
    Sure, the author got his inspiration from Firefly, but so what? It has everyone one could want in a great, not just good, space opera.
    The plot has plenty of action, bad aliens, bad humans, and an all-around great story line.
    The humor and back-and forth between and among the characters reminded me of the late-great mystery writer Robert Parker's Spencer novels. It was that crisp, clear and clever.
    Can't say enough good about the book. I am breaking my oath of never spending more than 99 cents for a kindle book and buying the next in the series at full price.
    Enjoy!
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  • Walter Scott
    5.0 out of 5 stars Firefly meets Starship Troopers meets Alien meets The Expanse
    Reviewed in Canada on February 3, 2018
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    With respect to Firefly, on the surface, the captain, Nate is a bit like Malcolm Reynolds. Grace is somewhat a mix of River Tam and Zoe Allyne. Hope resembles Kaylee Frye. Elspeth Roussel (El / Helm) like Wash, is a great pilot. October Kohl is Jayne Cobb (only a lot bigger). Tyche’s Republic and The Alliance of Firefly are almost fraternal twins. Missing in the action are Derrial Book (Shepherd Book), Simon Tan (Tyche’s crew gets pretty bashed up), and Inara Serra (for a bunch of reasons).
    That said, this is not Firefly. Tyche’s Journey is a creative, fast-paced space-opera thriller with aliens. All characters are as real as you can find in any novel. The dialog is, by times, hysterically funny. I have Tyche’s Deceit and Tyche’s Crown on my Kindle and have started Deceit and will read Crown as soon as I finish and review the former. There are five titles in the Tyche’s Origins spinoff, all available for pre-order, and I just placed the five pre-orders. Previously I read Parry’s three Night’s Champion novels, and Upgrade.
    Best I can tell, Richard Parry is a sure thing if one wants a very good, interesting, and well-told story.
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  • Meenaz Lodhi
    5.0 out of 5 stars A stormy epic new series!
    Reviewed in Spain on November 14, 2018
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    My first read of Parry’s books and I’m already loving his work!
    This is a first in an epic series and I was snagged and immersed from the beginning! A retired empire soldier, now captain of an old haul cargo ship, with a misfit crew, add a most wanted kickass heroine with mental abilities and, voila! you get a great space opera. Chased by the republic and the Ezeroc, vile aliens, political entanglement..A superb story with awesome characters! A fun, sarcastic humouristic dialogue. A must read, I sure am going to follow and read all of Richard Parry’s work! I’m absolutely convinced I’ve made a great discovery!
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  • Sidebar
    5.0 out of 5 stars A Book you will not want to miss
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 3, 2017
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    A good space opera epic, think along the lines on a good fusion of Firefly, Starship Troopers and the Expanse book series by James S.A. Corey starting with Leviathan Wakes: Book 1 of the Expanse (now a major TV series on Netflix).

    A ragtag crew on a beat up ship takes on a new member who is an esper and also takes on a new shipping contract which should have been a milk run, which luckily for us turns out to be anything but a milk run.

    Deliver and install a new beacon to an out of contact colony which at first glance seems to be a deserted planet orbited by a deserted huge Empire Warship and a gigantic asteroid. This soon turns into a battle for survival not just for the crew but for all humanity.

    Good character building that has you rooting for this band of misfits, good story building pace that allows you time to digest the story and not skim the details of the science involved.

    This series has enough of Firefly to have you chanting "I am a leaf on the wind; watch how I soar," and enough of a bug war to have you shouting "Come on you apes, you wanna live forever?!"

    Do yourself a favour and buy this book and sign up to the newsletter for details on existing and future books by this author.
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  • Kindle Customer
    5.0 out of 5 stars Western sci-fi with mandibles
    Reviewed in Australia on January 20, 2018
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    This book has the lot - believable characters, mind-control bug aliens, dubious government organisations, exotic planets...

    A romp, with promise of more to come.
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  • Terry Stead
    5.0 out of 5 stars If you liked Firefly, you'll love this.
    Reviewed in Canada on April 19, 2021
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    Good hard Sci-fi, lots of action, memorable characters, this book has it all. Reminded me of my favorite Josh Whedon TV series, Firefly. This is the first book in what looks to be a multi book series but, it stands on it's own quite well. I like it when an author wraps up a book rather than leaving you hanging. Gonna have to add this Parry guy to my watch list.
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