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Book 2 - Interception: Inner Circle plans to deflect a comet threatening Earth faces serious tests. Book 3 - The New Space Race: Plans move forward for a new Space Station.

FROM AMAZON: Book 2 - Interception
The Inner Circle's plans to deflect the comet are in place but Neil Peterson's long journey to intercept Clement faces serious tests...
The president is embattled in a bitter re-election attempt and knows that losing could lead to the comet secret being exposed to the world...
NASSA's plans to build the biggest space station for 'scientific purposes' are put into effect...
Earl Ackerman's paranoia leads him to making rash decisions about the secret that's slowly destroying the little sanity he has left...
The secret can't stay hidden forever...

Book 3 - The New Space Race
Plans continue to move forward on the space station, which draws the ire of the country, but the Inner Circle won't be deterred from preparing for the worst...
Tyler Ainsworth Jr. has learned of the secret and begins to make plans for his own massive shelter, this one to be in the ocean depths instead of the heavens...
The president exchanges information about the comet with Russia for help on the station and Russia plans for their own safe haven deep in the mountains...
A new American leader emerges who does not seem to share the Inner Circle's passion for constructing the space station...
Another country enters the race to build a space station unlike anything humankind has ever seen...… (altro)

They shave a small spot on the back of your head and insert a needle. They sample matter found deep inside you, delicate and evaporative. They run the tests, and with in a short time, Life Inc can tell you the precise time and date you will die. As it turns out, along side the creation of highly pollutive freeways in the sky, leaking gasses and forcing the public into oxygen masks, Life Inc has been able to analyze and validate your life force.

In the opening, the mastermind and genius who built Life Inc is dying. He travels to his lab, knowing his death clock is running. He knows that his life force has dwindled. He has a plan, to capture the final grain of life as it leaves his body, and follow it 'home'. He has proven life force, now he will prove the human soul.

10 short years later, Life Inc airs a commercial that offers the ultimate gift to humanity. At the cost of one year of life energy, you can spend 24 hours alone in open physical contact and communication with a dead loved one.

It is interesting how much of a struggle the fictional world has in this novel, dealing with the existence of a soul. Scientifically proven life force. Can you imagine? Science and religion speaking in like terms of semi-intangible existence.. I could only hope for the marriage of these two factiosn, but predictably, the world of Life Inc still fights this fight, of science being a starved for attention meddlesome god debasing entity and religion being a starved for attention meddlesome fear monger.


This book ranks in the realm of amazing. It has complex characters, interesting science, well written action sequences, and a highly polished writing style. Add in some pulp fictionesque mystery. At $2.99, this book is a steal. Seriously..

Kevin George seems like a fairly prolific self published author. With a mature writing style, 4 series and this single standalone book under his belt, it is nice to see that he has fully resolved all of the complaint generating errors that too commonly plague self pubs. This book was effectively error free and a really great plot line with basically zero plot holes.

Can you ask for more?

IMPORTANT

Do not read comments on amazon. There are some dickbags sharing open spoilers in the small handful of negative critique. I dont know why people have to be like that.

File Size: 1434 KB

Print Length: 530 pages

ASIN: B008ABPD8K
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(A free copy was received for review after nominating this book during its Kindle Scout run)

Genre : Character-driven, door-stopper dystopia with a dark fantasy narrative treatment. Maybe reminiscent of K.J. Parker's Loredan or Engineer trilogies.

Loved : The (probably post-apocalyptic) world, the 'lava-punk' city, the play on cold/heat light/darkness, the different societies that grew within its sections, some of the mysteries that are hinted at. A major one is progressively partly unveiled in this book 1 but others remain (What happened to Section 4 ? Who are the sky people ? Are there other survivors beyond the icy wastes ?). Most of the characters are engaging.

Disliked : This is not quite for me for more or less the same reason the other trilogies named earlier are not. You have to love slow-motion character train wrecks.
At least in this first book there are very few external influences on the plot so most of the momentum comes from King Edmond's waffling between roughly three states of mind. The palette includes self-deluded 'enlightened' autocrat, iron-fisted tyrant, and slave of his very dark urges. And that's about it. Nearly everything stems from there, from how the two other characters closest to him try to cope and come on top (or simply survive), and how in turn it affects everyone else.… (altro)