Today’s the day: CENTERS OF GRAVITY, book 8 in the Frontlines series, is out and available for purchase today.
If you pre-ordered the book, you should find it in your mailbox, Audible library, or on your Kindle (or maybe all three, in which case GO YOU.)
This is (for now) the final of the Andrew Grayson books. Note that I am not saying it’s the final Frontlines book. There are more stories to be told in that universe, and you will find out more about that very soon. It’s almost certainly not the last time you get to come across Andrew and Halley.
Thank you for sticking with me and Andrew through nine years and eight books, and I hope you’ll stick around for what comes next. I promise to make it worth your while.
I’ve enjoyed the journey, but there are a lot of mysteries to be explained.
Really enjoyed it. Thought it was gonna go a different route. I now have that empty feeling when you know the series is (kinda) over.
Hello Marko, just finished this one and I’m still sitting here with streams of tears over my face. It’s been a great book with such an emotional ending, that feels really rewarding after all these years with FRONTLINES. I will miss Andrew and Halley, but are curious of what you are up to next in this universe as the lankies are still out there. Hope you are fine in this still taxing times and thank you for this series =)
I just finished this book. Wow, what a wild ride it has been, and to have it end the way it did was fitting and (in my opinion) beautiful.
Thank you for writing these books. I am so excited to see what the Frontlines universe has in store! I will definitely miss Andrew Grayson, but I am glad you ended his story the way you did.
2/3 of the way through. I thought I was done with the Andrew Grayson story (I have been really into the other series) but you pulled me back in. Looking forward to the rest of this book.
Thank you, thank you for Centers of Gravity. I think this is one of the best sci fi books I have read. I like the Frontline Series and this last book in it so much that I ask you Marko to please consider continuing the series. I think you can “expand” the Frontlines “universe” in several possible ways. One would be to introduce another star faring species or a confederation of them. The confederation would have knowledge of the lankies and their origins that would answer some of the questions you left so artfully dangling before us readers as to how the lakes be ahead of humans with a wormhole drive and have sophisticated communications painted on the walls of a giant cave , and yet act like they have no curiosity or intellect. The question then becomes how do humans and the confederation make contact? Perhaps due to human expansion? What is the attitude of members of the confederation toward lances, humans and species that less or more technologically advanced? Is the universe a “dark forest” as Cixin Liu portrays or are some species so curious or hungry for information that they team top with other species? Might there be some underlying values to the confederation similar to those who founded the United States of America where they wanted to create a 2nd light unto the nations. Personally I an not aware of a science fiction book or series that appeals to a deep desire to uphold not just survival of one’s species but of an ethical framework as outlined in the US Constitution and its sources of inspiration such as John Locke, Thomas Hobbes and the Hebrew Bible. Different species might have different philosophical views that influenced the rules explicit or implicit governing members of the confederation.
Anyway I hope you consider continuing the series, and thank you!
I just finished this one, not realizing it was the end of Andrew’s story, and was panicked to find out whether there was going to be more! There’s still so many unanswered questions! I’m glad to hear the series will continue, and I look forward to hearing what will come next.
@David-2 if I don’t miss my guess, Dr. Vandenburg will be the new protagonist in the series and will, to borrow a phrase, “Science the Sh*t out of this.” to take the fight to the lanky homeworld.
Just finished with Centers of Gravity.
All I can do, as an NCO in training, is to give a salute to Andrew.
Mr Kloos,
When I started your series, honestly, I had no idea what to expect, it was just a download that I put on my Kindle to help keep the monotony of TDYs and deployments at bay. The introspective and interpersonal struggles you created with Grayson rivaled, if not surpassed, the kinetic struggles of the series. It really captured the competing interests military members must go through separating and combining their professional and personal interests. It wasn’t until the end of the last book until I realized how attached I was to the world you created, having to google if that was the end of the road or if the questions that remain in my head might try be answered. I look forward to seeing if they do but I have no doubt, regardless if they are or not, we will be blessed with yet another inspirational novel from the world you have expertly created.
Clear skies and god speed.
Hello and greetings from good old germany.
I just download the book and just wanted to say -> thank you
All the time and work you put in there, you made me happy
So I have to say… it was worth it.
Thank you so much. Its been a great journey
Excellent series. Just one queestion: No “goodbye” scene with Dr Vandenberg? He dropped her in a hurry, huh?
It’s been a hell of a ride. Some of the best sci-fi and military fiction I’ve ever read. The fact that there were only a couple of occasions when you can recognise the original event that inspires plot threads puts the series head and shoulders above most others.
Much as I’d love to see closure on the Lanky war, this is definitely a good moment for Andrew to enjoy his hard earned happy ending. That one call in the closing chapters gave him possibly the best ending that he could ever hope for.
Well done Marko, well told.
Thank you, Marko. It’s been one hell of a ride 🙂
that cliff hanger and it being so anticlimactic.. will there be another one in the perspective of the Major?
SPOILER
Been gobbling up your books since ‘Terms of Enlistment’. It is not that often that a book gets my goosebumps to go active. I’ve had a few occasions with this series. Without giving too much away – your description of coming home hits hard. I did three pumps overseas and no matter how long you are gone, it feels like an eternity when you return. Life stops. Then it starts again. I was an assault support guy, so part of me wished you’d followed Halley’s career instead of Andrew’s, but I also know that I was just the bus driver. The action is on the ground, as it always will be. Anyway – I’m a long time fan and there are things that time won’t ever change. Your roots are your roots. You nailed it. Thank you.
Just finished “Centers of gravity”, and it was a great book … but the lack of closure of the Lanky conflict – highly unsatisfactory!
It was a very good read. The only sad part is the lack of conclusion to the Lanky conflict…I really thought the “Going to the void” part would have them encountering the Lanky leadership/brain/queen/whatever.
Centers of Gravity arrived early hours Aug 30 and even allowing for having to earn a living here in Ireland have just finished it, superb.
Thank you for Frontlines and Andrew Grayson . The stories were superb and Andrew’s development personally and professionally really got me invested and engaged with several series re reads over the course of the series.
I really really hope this isn’t the end of Frontlines and Andrew (medical Innovation , delayed promotions and his place as a veteran of the entirety of the Lanky war offer numerous continuations) but if it is, it’s a great way to finish.
Thank you.