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Hi, Lucas!You've certainly grabbed my attention. I'm always on the lookout for promising dystopian science fiction novels, and yours is sounding pretty damn good right now!
I would happily read it and give you an honest review. c: It may take time since I have a couple of other books to review first, but it shouldn't be too long of a wait.
P.s, my email is [email protected].
Cheers,
Bri
Thank you very much! I am editing to polish right now and will send later this week. Could you please indicate which format (.mobi or .epub or pdf) would you'd prefer?Lucas
Oh, I see. c: Alrighty. My format preference is .mobi.Looking forward to it!
I'd be happy to read and review. My email is [email protected] and I'd prefer PDF, please. Thank you!
Jola wrote: "I'd be happy to read and review. My email is [email protected] and I'd prefer PDF, please. Thank you!"most of my books are available as ebooks; but I have paper back and hard back as well. If you would review one of my books I would appreciate it. 1-913-671-0753
terrywdrake.com
Want to trade novels for review? My novel Copernican Journey, which won 3rd place at the highly competitive 2010 Pacific Northwest Writers Conference, is also about Earth in the future. In this case, the year is 2046 and the two protagonists face assassins, androids and a terrible plague on the way to Mars and on the planet itself. Thanks to an inadvertent blood exchange following an assassin attack, they may be the first humans hardy enough to explore the Cosmos.
Hi Len,Sounds very interesting and well done on your 3rd place! Sadly I'm busy writing the second book in Beyond the Wall so don't have time to review any more books than I'm already doing. Also, I don't think trading books for review gives an unbiased review - readers might well think the author were subconsciously too concerned about their own book's review to be objective. Good luck with your book!
L.
Perhaps, but I'm put off by authors who seem only interest in their own work. in fact, I sometimes think the only people reading books any more or authors. I certainly wonder about Writing conferences because everyone is gray haired and threadbare.Interestingly, my two daughters convinced me to share a table at the Chicago Comicon where the costumes are amazing, the energy is fantastic and the foot traffic on each of the four days borders on phenomenal. The first time I was interviewed by a TV station and I was caught totally by surprise and I didn't know what to say. This year I will be ready. I'm already working on it with a graphic novel artist. Keep in touch. I'll let you know how it went.
I don't see how any author can only be interested in their own work – writing is as much about reading as it is putting words on the page. If you don't read widely, you won't write compellingly. So good authors are very interested in the work of others – it inspires them and stirs the creative juices. I agree that Comicon-type events are superb because the people who attend them are there to have fun, immerse themselves in the genre and engage with each other, rather to simply network. Good luck with your graphic novel – it's the way forward for sci-fi fiction.L.
Reading widely is how things should work, but as one author noted, there is a time when one would rather write than read. The author called it "crossing the Rubicon". And, since writing novels is a lonely art---probably because of the concentration it takes, authors don't mix nearly as much as artists. George Sand seemed to be at every salon in Paris yet she wrote lots of books. Her method, she wrote after midnight when no one was around.Writing groups are distracting. They are either too lax or too demanding. Internet should be a better venue for the exchange of ideas but too often its only a way to vent. Anyway----
If you read the latest National Geographic on the search for life across the Cosmos, I wrote the same thing a decade ago in earlier versions of Copernican Journey and they have almost caught up..
Where they are still behind is in the detection of other civilizations. Dr. Richard Carrigan retired physicist at FermiLab said in the April 17-21 2010 The Economy magazine pp 89-90 that other civilizations can be detected by the uncommon pollutants most likely the product of an industry in the Atmosphere of a planet. Several weeks later, I contacted Carrigan and cautioned him that virtually identical atmospheres in at least three planets would be necessary to convince most critics that a civilization has been detected. And, since it would be unlikely that three such planets would exist in any one solar system, the civilization would be star faring.
I reckoned without multiple star systems. More to the point, I reckoned without Alpha Centaur and it's three stars, A, B and proximal. A is a star somewhat larger than Sol and it has a significant "life zone." B is somewhat smaller than Sol and it too has a decent life zone. Then, there is red dwarf Proxima, a quarter light year removed from the other two. It has a small life zone. As I considered the ramifications, I realized that Alpha Centauri system could have a dozen or more planets within or close to the life zones.
Even more important, since the first planet detected orbiting B is a small rocky planet, past research has shown that such such a beginning always leads to swarms of small rocky plants in the same solar system---or in the case of Alpha Centauri, three swarms of small rocky planets.
When I thought about it, I had a holy (bleep) moment. If we inhabited Alpha Centauri, we would already be star faring, and the first place we would visit beyond Alpha Centauri would be our nearest neighbor, Earth.
Lucas,I love science fiction and would be more than willing to read your book. It sounds very interesting! Since my reading list is slim, I should have it done in a few days.
I will PM you my e-mail, and I would prefer a pdf, please.
Hope Christine
Copernican Journey is free on iTunes and Smashwords. Simply typing in the title should give you the book. If it doesn't, try this url:https://www.smashwords.com/books/view...
You get an immediate great download and I get a credited download.
Len
Hope wrote: "Lucas,I love science fiction and would be more than willing to read your book. It sounds very interesting! Since my reading list is slim, I should have it done in a few days.
I will PM you my e-ma..."
I have it in PDF so let me know your email and I'll send it to you.
L.
My email is [email protected] My iPad Air should open it for reading. I prefer my Air to my MacBook Pro for reading.If you think of it, could you harass Amazon to make my ebooks free as they are on Smashwords and iTunes. If you need to know how, I can send you instructions on how to do it.
Thanks, Len
Earth is gone.
Centuries have passed since the First Cataclysm ended life on the blue planet. Humanity’s survivors are now dispersed among distant colonies, thousands of light years from the barren, frozen rock that was once their home.
A new Republic has formed – one in which freedom no longer exists. In return for the protection of the Consulate Magistratus, citizens must concede their rights. The Magistratus controls interstellar travel, access to technology – even procreation. Organised religion is forbidden. All crime is punished by banishment.
And humanity’s true history survives only in whispers of a secret archive.
Yet there are those who preach a new religion and who want to be free.
A revolution is coming…
The Heretic is the first book in the Beyond the Wall series, an epic story about the future of humanity and the discovery of the truth of its past.
Comment here if you'd like to receive an ARC (an e-reader format) via email in return for a review here when you've finished.
Many thanks.