Publisher Description
The Kree Empire is knocked back on its heels when the Phalanx, a cybernetic race that converts hosts using a techno-organic virus, seizes control of Hala, the Kree homeworld. The person who accidentally brought the Phalanx right to the heart of the Kree Empire? Peter Quill, otherwise known as Star-Lord. The remnants of the Kree are in utter disarray, their massive technologically advanced fleets totally susceptible to Phalanx control. Eager to make up for his genuine mistake (and without much choice), Star-Lord and a rag-tag team (Rocket, Groot, Gamora, Drax, and Mantis) are drafted into service to help turn the tide. Can a small group of poorly equipped mercenaries and misfits defeat the Phalanx before they consume the known universe? Outgunned and outmatched, the Guardians of the Galaxy race to find anything or anyone who could hold the secret to stopping the Phalanx, a quest that will take them to the fringes of intergalactic civilization and to the shocking foe at the heart of the threat.
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About the Authors
Brendan Deneen is the author of the award-winning novel The Ninth Circle as well as The Chrysalis, a 2018 novel that was optioned by Paramount Pictures before it was published. He’s also the author of the four-volume Night Night Groot picture book series for Marvel (almost a million copies in print, over 500 thousand copies sold); the original middle grade graphic novel Green Arrow: Stranded for DC Comics; and the novels Morbius: Blood Ties and Guardians of the Galaxy: Annihilation from Marvel/Titan. His next novel is Alien: Uncivil War for 20th Century Studios/Titan, which comes out in Summer 2024. His other graphic novel work includes multiple volumes of Flash Gordon, an original Island of Misfit Toys book, a Casper the Friendly Ghost reboot, Phoenix(with Jim Krueger), Solarman (a reboot of a Marvel/Stan Lee series), and the original graphic novel Scatterbrain. His short stories and essays have been published by St. Martin’s Press, Reader’s Digest Books, 13Thirty Press, and Necro Publications.
JD Jackson is a theater professor, aspiring stage director, and award-winning audiobook narrator. He is a classically trained actor, and his television and film credits include roles on House, ER, Law & Order, Hack, Sherrybaby, Diary of a City Priest, and Lucky Number Slevin. He is the recipient of more than a dozen Earphones Awards for narration and an Odyssey Honor for G. Neri’s Ghetto Cowboy, and he was also named one of AudioFile magazine’s Best Voices of the Year for 2012 and 2013. An adjunct professor at Los Angeles Southwest College, he has an MFA in theater from Temple University.
About Austin Rising
Caitlin Kelly, an Earphones Award–winning narrator, is a seasoned voice-over artist with experience in Japan and the United States. She has a BFA in drama and studied musical theater at the Collaborative Arts Project 21, an off-Broadway theater company and musical theater training conservatory. She got started in voice-over work in 2009 while living in Japan where she toured with Disney’s World of English and World Family Club as a performer and a puppeteer.