Gamadin Series

The Fate of the Galaxy Now Rests with a Couple of California Surfers! Sixteen-year-olds Harlowe Pylott and Matt Riverstone ditched school to bodysurf the killer waves at the Wedge when their fun is interrupted by a yacht capsizing off the California coast. After rescuing the famous movie star, Simon Bolt, and the half-alien socialite, Leucadia Mars, from certain death, Fate, unbeknownst to the boys, has sent them on the greatest ride of their lives. Robobs and the undo are only the beginning. Dakadude killers and black beasts have swooped down from the heavens looking for the galaxy's most powerful weapon: an ancient Gamadin spaceship named Millawanda. If the Daks cannot capture Her, they will kill her while she is still weak and unprotected...along with the Earth and anyone else who gets in their way. Not since Star Wars has a sci-fi series caused such excitement. If you think finding an ancient spaceship in the desert is cool, wait until you get a load of what Harlowe and his friends dig up... And She still works!

Homesick and eager to find a date and a few waves, Captain Harlowe Pylott and his new Gamadin crew are minutes from touchdown when their homecoming is interrupted by a distress call that sends them on a perilous journey light-years from home. The Fhaal Empire that crushed Neeja, the planet he made an oath to save, is now on the verge of seizing the entire galactic quadrant. The only thing that stands in their way is the Gamadin, the love of a woman, and a single ship from the distant past.

The Adventure continues. In Book II, Gamadin: Mons Millawanda has parked Harlowe and the boyz on a planet with no life, no breathable atmosphere, and no In-and-Out burgers at the edge of the solar system’s largest extinct volcano. They’re broken, hungry, and lost, with no knowledge or skills as to operating the powerful ancient technology. Survival, then, becomes a minute-to-minute existence. If that were not enough, a military presence conscripts their souls, while back home, their families must contend with a hostile government . . . that wants its property back!

Harlowe was surfing in the South Pacific when Riverstone called in a panic from the Omini Prime quadrant. All life on the planet Gazz was about to be wiped out by a lethal gamma ray burst (GRB) in eleven days. According to Wiz, saving the planet with Millawanda’s forcefield was a “slam dunk.” Millie saves the planet, but at a cost: her power is sucked dry! Unable to maintain orbit, Millawanda plunges into the planet’s ocean. Adding to the tragedy, Riverstone, Lu and Sizzle have vanished and a second GRB will hit the planet in 37 days. But Gazz is a 15th Century planet of wind-powered ships and slithering beasts called “traas.” In a race against time, Harlowe must commandeer a pirate galleon and find the yellow crystals that will power Millawanda back to to life before his girl, his crew, his ship, the planet, and his own life are lost . . .

The Gamadin adventure series continues with Book 5. Millawanda is dying. In saving the planet Gazz, she has burned up the remaining blue crystal she had for power. She can get by on thermo-grym, but for how long? If she doesn’t return to her origin, a place or planet named Orixy somewhere near the Galactic Core, she will not survive. A quest fraught with peril, running on only a fraction of her normal power, the Crew is dogged by ruthless killers known as “Mysterians,” as they embark on a one-way, 35,000 light-year torturous path across the galaxy that no one has traveled for over 17,000 years!

In Book VI, Gamadin: The Wild Strain coming home takes on a whole new meaning. After their harrowing journey to the galactic core, the Gamadin crew are returning to Earth. Millawanda is fixed. She’s even more beautiful, powerful, and cooler than when she was first commissioned 17,000 years ago! Wiz has taken Cheesa and Maa Dev back to Nod. Simon has a new Julian Starr sci-fi script, and Riverstone has a part in it. All Harlowe wants to do is surf, that is, if Lu will let him. But when they drop out of hyperspace, Saturn is out of position, and the Earth is eleven years out of whack. President Delmonte has been impeached, replaced by President for Life, Nootzy Shame, Tinker and Dodger are missing, cash is no longer accepted, economic chaos is everywhere, the world is on the brink of thermonuclear war, and The Church believes the saucer is a Wild Strain of beings who have come to destroy the human race! And they haven’t even landed yet!

Before the Boys were Gamadin, before Fate changed their lives forever, before their discovery of an ancient starship, there was a Southern California city where they grew up. There is nothing particularly unusual or supernatural about the city. They went to school there, ate hamburgers, shakes, and pizza, went to the movies, played baseball, football, and surfed. It was where pretty, sun-tanned girls populated the nearby white sandy beaches, and sliding down the face of a wave was what life was all about. Traveling to distant stars was the farthest thing from their playful imaginations. So what turned these fun-loving boys into future Gamadin? How did they become defenders of the galaxy? Were they born to this future? How did seemly normal boys find the character, the courage, and the sense of right and wrong necessary to serve their ultimate purpose? To find the answers, and others, let us return to this place where their lives began . . . a place called Lakewood . . .