KIN SHIP: String of Stars

For fans of Firefly’s found family and The Expanse’s factions in conflict, KIN SHIP: String of Stars is a character-driven, hopeful space opera about the crew whom a powerful, ancient ship chose to call kin.

Salvage ship Captain Oren Jandt spent eleven months alone in the dark between the stars, collecting ancient artifacts in a losing race against grief. He finally decides to put a crew together aboard the Lucky Seven and chase a very promising salvage lead.

Then he and his newly recruited crew of outcasts make a life-changing discovery. Sleeping inside an asteroid in pirate-infested border space is a 1.37-kilometer Progenitor ship, ancient beyond reckoning, stirring back to life. She scans the crew to their very bones. And, as a pirate ship closes to attack Lucky Seven, she sends them a single word.

Kin?

Jandt answers “Kin,” and the giant ship destroys the pirate vessel in an instant.

Now every faction in the known galaxy wants Zoh — the authoritarian Corp, the reptilian Tingur, the caniform Xicans. And one of them is willing to kill to get control of Zoh.

And aboard the Lucky Seven a grief-stricken captain, a sensor officer who can detect every lie, a wisecracking pilot who cares deeply about his shipmates, a security officer with NEVER RELENT tattooed on her knuckles, and a robot physician who is about to discover what it means to become truly sentient — must survive long enough to find out why the ancient ship woke up. And what she needs from them.

Because Zoh has been lonely for a very long time. And she did not choose them by accident.

In the tradition of Lois McMaster Bujold and Becky Chambers — a found family space opera with real stakes and no grimdark.

Book One of the four-book KIN SHIP series.

Categories: Fiction, Space Opera

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KIN SHIP: String of Stars debuted on Amazon in ebook, paperback and hardback in August of 2026. This is book one of the four-book KIN SHIP series. Very excited about this one.

Here is one of several five-star reviews:

“This is my third book to read by this author. Once again I have fallen in love with Perez’s characters, and I found myself thinking about them and what’s next for them long after I competed the book. The connections feel alive and the world is lived in. Every new bit of backstory was a sweet treat that I couldn’t get enough of. I am a sci-fi fan and a self-development coach so the premise is a home run for me: a self-aware vessel that is a life-form of ancient origins appearing with amnesia and discovered by good people. I was engaged from the start. But the engine of this novel is the pacing and power of the battle scenes. True page-turners. Hopefully the sequel comes out sooner rather than later. IN the meantime, I will look forward to re-reading this book.” — Rima Bonario

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Author	Dan Perez
Cover Art	Illustration © Tom Edwards, TomEdwardsDesign.com
Publishing house	Dan’s Books
Format	Kindle, paperback and hardback
Language	English
Number of pages	381

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