A grim, military sci-fi adventure with an apocalyptic twist.
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One starship commander’s decision will decide the fate of the human race.
Colonel Pierce Oswald has given the last twenty years of his life to the war with the Proximans. It's a war Earth is losing. It's a war that has taken everything from him. Returning from a secret mission to recover an alien artifact, he finds the Sol system ominously silent. Realizing the enemy won the war while he was away, Oswald decides his crew’s final mission—vengeance at any cost.
He must lead the divided crew of the starship Roland on their deadliest mission yet. Can Oswald achieve victory against a superior foe, mutiny, and his own overwhelming grief?
With Our Dying Breath is a dark, military sci-fi adventure with an apocalyptic twist that explores the choices a desperate ace commander makes when he has nothing left to lose.
If you like tales of starship warfare that explore the darkness of space, then you'll enjoy A.R. Kavli's grim sci-fi novel.
Buy With Our Dying Breath today to fight alongside Pierce Oswald and the crew of the starship Roland on their final, deadly mission.
With Our Dying Breath started off as a scribble almost twenty years ago in my text editor. The story as it stands now is a grim tale about a crew facing a devastating realization and an uncertain future, but written in a hard-ish sci-fi style. Though it originally had a similar story arc, WODB was conceived as a pulp science fiction tale, casting a Buck Rogers like captain into the grim challenges of the war. In fact, I had to remove some pulpy terms based on reader feedback, like war-rocket. I liked war-rocket. Too many readers didn’t, and they were right.
A funny story about the writing of this book. I wrote it with the language it has in it now. But after the first draft, my young son found out it had cursing and was disappointed that he wouldn’t be able to read it. So I rewrote it, removing the cursing. Thinking I had been super-dad, I told he’d be able to read it when it was finished. Well, while discussing the book one night over the dinner table, he head me talk about the ending. He disliked the ending so much that he refused to read it. And he still hasn’t read it. I don’t know if he ever will. It was an object lesson in making sure you know who you’re writing for. He was never my target audience yet I changed it for him. Maybe someday he will read it and realize how awesome it is.
