Antares series by Michael McCollum

[TomMazanec]

Interesting that he used Antares as the supernova progenitor, not Betelgeuse as everybody expects.

 

[psikeyhackr]

It seems they are both 550 light years away so distance doesn't account for it.

He does seem to have a thing for supernovae though. He used the Crab Nebula in his Gibraltar series.

 

[psikeyhackr]

Michael McCollum has started selling his trilogies through Baen. I don't know when that started. He used to just sell via his own site and they were pricey.

There are free samples of the first 6 chapters of each trilogy:

Gibraltar Earth

Gibraltar Trilogy Book 1 It is the 24th Century. Humanity is only just beginning to gain a toehold out among the stars. While exploring the New Eden system, the crew aboard Stellar Survey Starship Magellan encounters a pair of alien spacecraft. A skirmish ensues and both sides exit the battle...

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Antares Dawn

Antares Trilogy Book 1 When the supergiant star Antares exploded in 2512, the human colony on Alta found their pathway to the stars gone, isolating them from the rest of human space for more than a century. When a powerful warship materializes in the system without warning, the commanders of...

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I think Gibraltar Earth is better but they are interesting in their similarities and differences.