Shackleton's Burden
A novelette.
SHACKLETON'S BURDEN is a science fiction novelette that starts the stalking of the adventurous Alec Shackleton through the Eleven Wonders of the Universe with a ragtag team, his side-kick Dancer, a cocky android. Their quest: to find technology left behind by the fallen Empire of the First Ones in the far reaches of the galaxy.
Alec Shackleton spent his youth bouncing from one planetary system to another with his father on expeditions. Alec had likened it to searching for the real Charon, the actual ferryman at the river Styx. He couldn't keep his father’s dream anymore, so he left and broke out on his own to make a life for himself.
Alec wanted so much more than chasing across the galaxy after a myth, a legendary story. It was just too bad that the rest of the galaxy caught up to him, propelling him into the greatest adventure ever told. Alec is the guy who the steps up because there isn’t anyone else who can.
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Todd Yunker
Todd Yunker is Oregonian and is Salem, Oregon. Todd is an award-winning author of the epic science fiction The Lost Wonder Series, book one Shackleton’s Folly. Growing up, Sci-Fi permeated Todd’s youth and adolescence. He was an avid reader. He devoured all the books he could find in the library. Todd relished classic Sci-Fi feature films and Japanese monster movies. He indulged his fancy and watched swashbuckler movies of the ‘30s and ‘40s influenced his vision of adventure. The raw cynical attitudes and sexual motivations of Film noir influenced his grasp of story over fluff. Todd’s study of storytelling brought him to Joseph Cambell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces and Christopher Vogler’s The Writers Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers. This profound understanding of storytelling has advanced the quality of his work. He would like to know the why don’t we have our flying cars?
The Lost Wonder
The Lost Wonder consists of one primary book, and includes one additional book that complement the series but is not considered mandatory reads. The current recommended reading order for the series is provided below.
