Revamped book covers – U-SAM Series
I have revamped book covers for each of the five novellas in the U-SAM space adventure series. It was long overdue and the existing covers were too generic and didn’t really reflect the storyline of each volume.
The new covers I hope you will agree are much better visually and are taken from scenes within the storyline of each of the five books in the series.
Here are the five new covers and the outline for each book:
Apollo Explorer – Book 1
Survival in deep space comes with a price. Freedom may cost even more.
U-SAM was never supposed to survive the destruction of the SS Michelangelo.
Stranded in deep space after a devastating pirate attack, the mechanically enhanced explorer is left drifting through the Heridion Galaxy with only her damaged android companion, Max, still functioning at her side. Rescue arrives in the form of Marin Dice, the feared pirate queen whose name is whispered across entire star systems.
But Marin Dice does not rescue people out of kindness.
Dragged aboard a pirate vessel and fitted with a slave collar, U-SAM is thrust into a brutal underworld of smugglers, raiders, bounty hunters, and interstellar slave markets where loyalty can be bought, sold, or destroyed in an instant. Surrounded by dangerous criminals and alien species from across the galaxy, she quickly learns that survival depends on far more than strength alone.
As U-SAM struggles to regain her freedom, she forms uneasy alliances with fellow captives, including fugitive inventor Brennon Smith and the quietly formidable Koko. With Max secretly working in the shadows to help her, U-SAM begins to uncover secrets reaching far beyond the pirate clans and trade routes of the Heridion Galaxy.
What first appears to be a desperate fight for survival slowly reveals something far more dangerous hidden within the growing unrest across known space.
Packed with action, mystery, humour, alien worlds, and fast-moving adventure, APOLLO EXPLORER combines the scale of classic space opera with a strong female lead and an unforgettable cast of characters. From deadly slave auctions to pirate battles and dangerous new worlds, the story throws U-SAM into a universe where every decision carries consequences and every alliance comes with risk.
APOLLO EXPLORER is the first book in the U-SAM series and is perfect for readers who enjoy character-driven science fiction, wit, energy, and adventurous space opera storytelling.
If you are looking for hard science fiction – this is not for you!
In the Heridion Galaxy, nobody survives alone.
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The Voke Empire – Book 2
A new world was meant to be humanity’s fresh start. Instead, it becomes a fight for survival.
After escaping the chaos left behind by the pirate war, Commander U-SAM and the crew of Apollo Explorer arrive on Devona, a breathtaking alien planet gifted to them by the mysterious Voke Empire. With vast oceans, towering forests, and untouched wilderness, the world appears to offer everything they need to build a peaceful future far from conflict.
But Devona is far from uninhabited.
Within hours of landing, Apollo Explorer is attacked, the ship crippled, and the crew stranded on a hostile world filled with deadly predators, hidden pirate factions, and dangerous secrets buried beneath the planet’s beauty. As tensions rise between rival clans abandoned by the Voke, U-SAM begins to uncover disturbing evidence that their powerful benefactors may not be the saviors they claim to be.
When Koko is kidnapped by the ruthless Cheng pirates and used as leverage to seize Apollo Explorer, the crew are forced into a desperate rescue mission across jungles, caves, and hostile territory. Yet the greater danger may lie beyond the pirates themselves. Rumors of vanished settlers, hidden agendas, and strange manipulation by the Voke Empire point toward a conspiracy stretching far beyond Devona.
As trust collapses and survival becomes increasingly uncertain, U-SAM must decide whether the Voke truly offered sanctuary… or whether her crew have been delivered into the center of a far more dangerous experiment.
THE VOKE EMPIRE is the second novel in the U-SAM series, blending cinematic space opera with fast-paced adventure, deep-space exploration, alien worlds, and suspense-driven science fiction. Combining survival, conflict, mystery, and evolving interstellar politics, the story expands the U-SAM universe while pushing its crew toward discoveries that could reshape their understanding of the galaxy itself.
Perfect for readers who enjoy character-driven scifi adventure, dangerous alien environments, futuristic technology, and large-scale space opera with mystery and escalating stakes.
Some planets welcome visitors. Others trap them forever.
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The Enemy Within – Book 3
A mysterious signal. A stolen ship. An enemy already among them.
Still recovering from their deadly encounter with the Voke Empire, Commander U-SAM and the crew of Apollo Explorer search for a safe haven on the edge of explored space. But when a distress beacon leads them to a doomed vessel hidden beneath the oceans of a remote world, they uncover the first clues to something far more dangerous than pirates or alien predators.
Someone is tracking them.
After recovering a strange ancient satellite drifting through deep space, Apollo Explorer is suddenly hijacked from within, leaving parts of the crew stranded on an alien planet while the ship vanishes under outside control. As paranoia spreads and loyalties are tested, U-SAM begins to suspect that an unknown intelligence has infiltrated their mission and may already be manipulating events from inside the ship itself.
Their search for answers pulls the crew into a growing conspiracy involving abandoned research stations, lost exploration teams, forgotten technology, and evidence of experiments linked to advanced time travel and hidden extraterrestrial influence. Every discovery reveals another layer of deception, while the ruthless pirate queen Marin Dice closes in for revenge.
As the boundaries between memory, illusion, and reality begin to blur, U-SAM must uncover who can still be trusted before Apollo Explorer — and everyone aboard her — is destroyed from within.
THE ENEMY WITHIN expands the U-SAM space opera into darker and more unpredictable territory, where exploration and discovery become inseparable from suspicion and fear. What begins as a deep-space rescue mission gradually evolves into a dangerous science fiction mystery involving hidden manipulation, advanced alien technology, and forces capable of influencing entire civilizations from the shadows. While the story delivers the scale, danger, and excitement expected from a cinematic space opera, it also focuses on the growing psychological strain placed upon the crew as they struggle to separate truth from illusion.
As Apollo Explorer travels further across hostile regions of the galaxy, the crew encounter abandoned worlds, strange artifacts, deadly environments, and enemies who cannot always be identified until it is too late. The novel blends fast-moving scifi storytelling with large-scale interstellar conflict, survival, mystery, and high-stakes adventure, while continuing to expand the wider science fiction universe surrounding U-SAM and her crew.
Some enemies attack from the darkness. The deadliest ones are already beside you.
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Mind Sight – Book 4
One assassination could ignite a conspiracy across the galaxy.
Fresh from her victories aboard Apollo Explorer, U-SAM is summoned back to Earth for what should have been a routine Federation assignment. Instead, a quiet meeting in New York’s Central Park ends in horror when Admiral Kennedy is assassinated in front of her.
Within hours, U-SAM becomes the prime suspect.
Kidnapped by members of the very organization she serves, interrogated in secret beneath Federation Tower, and hunted by powerful figures determined to silence her, she quickly realizes the murder is part of something far larger than political rivalry. Someone inside the Federation is manipulating events from the shadows, and the conspiracy reaches far beyond Earth itself.
While Apollo Explorer’s crew risk everything to rescue their commander, an even stranger mystery unfolds in deep space.
Drifting invisibly through the void inside an ancient stasis capsule, a young girl named Esteller is discovered alive after almost a thousand years. Her arrival brings warnings of a forgotten interstellar war, vanished civilizations, and terrifying psychic abilities capable of influencing minds across entire star systems.
As Esteller’s hidden past slowly emerges, U-SAM and her crew find themselves pulled into a dangerous struggle involving alien technology, political corruption, and forces that may have been shaping events within the Federation for centuries.
What begins as a desperate fight to clear U-SAM’s name soon becomes a far greater journey into the unknown. Ancient secrets buried in deep space are awakening, and the line between loyalty and manipulation is becoming dangerously blurred.
MIND SIGHT is the fourth novel in the U-SAM series, combining cinematic space opera with suspense-driven science fiction, deep-space adventure, and growing interstellar mystery. As Apollo Explorer ventures further beyond Federation control, the crew face threats that cannot always be defeated with weapons alone. Hidden enemies, psychic influence, and the fear of losing control of one’s own mind create a darker and more dangerous mission than anything they have faced before.
Blending large-scale scifi adventure with conspiracy, exploration, and evolving alien civilizations, MIND SIGHT expands the U-SAM universe while pushing its crew toward discoveries that could permanently alter their understanding of humanity’s place in the galaxy.
The space opera continues – Where some enemies do not attack your body. They invade your mind.
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Vortex – Book 5
A mysterious alien structure drifting in deep space was never part of the mission.
Apollo Explorer is en route to recover abandoned scientific equipment when U-SAM and her crew encounter an object unlike anything recorded in Federation history. The vast cylindrical structure stretches for a thousand miles through the darkness, its surface covered in glittering crystalline spikes that reflect the light of twin suns like a living thing. At its center lies a perfectly formed tunnel large enough to swallow entire spacecraft.
Curiosity wins.
Against Jiyan’s growing sense of dread, Apollo Explorer enters the structure to investigate. Inside, the tunnel appears impossibly smooth, unnaturally warm, and completely lifeless. But once they emerge from the far side, reality itself begins to unravel.
Navigation systems fail. Long-established star charts no longer match reality. Earth broadcasts come from another century. And when U-SAM returns to a location that should contain a Federation outpost, she finds only empty space.
The truth is impossible to accept.
Apollo Explorer has been displaced in time.
While Theo struggles to prove the phenomenon scientifically, Jiyan becomes increasingly convinced the Vortex — an ancient alien construct linked to vanished spacecraft and impossible distortions in time — was not an accident of engineering. Something inside it is aware of them. Something intelligent. Something that wanted them to enter.
As the crew searches for answers, events grow even more dangerous across the galaxy. Pirate queen Marin Dice has acquired stolen O’rien crystal technology capable of pushing her warships to terrifying new levels of power. With old enemies closing in and the timeline itself becoming unstable, Apollo Explorer is pulled toward a conflict that reaches far beyond a simple mission gone wrong.
What begins as a journey of exploration soon becomes a fight to understand an ancient force capable of manipulating space, time, and possibly the future of civilization itself.
VORTEX is the fifth novel in the U-SAM series and expands the story into far darker and more dangerous territory. Blending fast-moving space opera with mystery and large-scale adventure, the novel explores the consequences of time travel, alien manipulation, and humanity’s place within a universe filled with forces far older than the Federation itself. While Apollo Explorer faces threats scattered across deep space, the crew must also confront dangers within their own timeline as shifting loyalties, hidden agendas, and powerful new technology threaten to reshape the balance of power across the galaxy.
At its heart, VORTEX is a science fiction story driven as much by discovery and suspense as action. Ancient structures, unexplained phenomena, and the growing fear that history itself can be altered create an atmosphere of constant uncertainty as U-SAM and her crew struggle to uncover the purpose behind the mysterious teleporter before its unseen creator makes the next move.
Some doors in the universe were never meant to be opened.
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Revamped Book Covers – Verdict
I am happy with the new revamped book covers that I designed and hopefully you will too! My favourite is the last book in the series ‘Vortex’ – book 5, which depicts Apollo Explorer approaching the mysterious sparkling giant tube and is not far off how I imagined it to look like when I write Vortex.
It’s a big gamble sometimes to revamp book covers but I felt the last set of covers looked too similar (books 1-3 and there was a distinct disconnect with the designs for the covers of the last two books in the series. I wanted to do this quite some time ago but my Moreton Scientific Investigation Series has taken priority.
