The Clone Empire

After a blistering defeat by alien forces, clone soldier Lt. Wayson Harris and his brethren have been exiled to the far reaches of the galaxy where the Unified Authority intends to use them as targets for live-fire training exercises. But the clones they created and trained to fight have founded their own empire. Now, Harris will unleash his rage against the might of the U.A. Fleet, leading an army with everything to fight for, and one thing to die for-revenge.

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Harris has survived. Despite the fact that the Unified Authority handed him a fleet of ships, manned by thousands of clones, with the sole purpose to use them as target practice for their new natural born navy. Surviving even when his enemies had far superior technology, and much better mobility. Even being shot, poisoned, and having the combat reflex that so defined him on the fritz, Harris has survived and so has his determination to have clone independence from their UA creators.

Still on Terraneau, with only a few thousand marines under his command. Harris knows that the wreckage in the sky above him doesn't account for nearly all of his missing fleet. Caught up playing politics with a man who wants to make himself king, General / Right Reverend Doctorow wants nothing more than for Harris and his marines to get off Terraneau so he can run the show unimpeded. Harris is recovering, though he's doubting himself in ways he's never doubted himself before; his courage,...Read more

"Marines don't speculate. They always speck you right on time." --Wayson Harris

Steven L. Kent's 6th novel in the Wayson Harris Clone series, The Clone Empire, is an action-packed thrill ride. Marooned after nearly dying on Terraneau, all Harris wants is to get back into action and carry out vengeance against the UA now that the Avatari have apparently left their galaxy alone. Ellery Doctorow is making Harris's life on Terraneau difficult enough as it is, but Ava Gardner, his stunning clone girlfriend, just wants to settle down.

Harris is tested as he attempts his escape from the planet and discovers an energized, enlarged, and infiltrated Enlisted Man's Empire. Adding insult to injury, the Avatari return and bring incomprehensible destruction with them. Harris is tired and his drive to survive clashes with his desire to die. Teaming up yet again with Ray Freeman brings its own challenges while each mystery "solved" seems to bring more questions than...Read more

Our hero Wayson Harris is less of a protagonist in this Clone saga continuation than an observer of great and unpredictable forces at work. There is virtually no marine combat, for example, and Harris finds himself kicked around by superior officers. The plot lurches from one crisis to another in the manner of E. E. Doc Smith and ends on a sort of humans-in-desperate-peril cliff hanger. Gotta read the next one when it comes out.