Igor Nikolic

Nikolic, Igor. The Spaceship in the Stone. Spaces Legacy No. 1. Kindle, 2021.
Igor Nikolic is an independent writer of science fiction and urban fantasy. The Spaceship in the Stone is science fantasy. An ancient spacecraft and some shake-your-head nanotechnology operate at the level of magic. Yes, Nikolic does cite Arthur C. Clarke’s observation that sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic. A wounded veteran falls in a hole in the Ozarks, wakes up in a buried spaceship’s autodoc with all his wounds healed and his brain scanned and used as a template for the ship’s damaged AI. The AI tells him he now owns the spaceship. He uses his new technological advantage to rescue some maidens in distress and recruits some Army buddies to help him fight terrorists and figure out what to do with the tech he thinks too dangerous to make public. Think Rambo with body armor and a flying saucer. The dialogue is a little better than average. 3.5 stars.… (altro)