Dimensional Shift: Millenarians

Dimensional Shift #3

by Michelle Stone

A secret breed of humans has banded together to revive the Earth from a post-apocalyptic viral plant infection. They have superior intellect and unrivaled life expectancy. However, they do not know who they are. As they become known as the world's greatest arbitrators, their secrets unfold. A curious ancient artifact reveals its true nature. Survivors from a destroyed world clash. The founder of their species is revealed.

Dimensional Shift Trilogy:

First Step
Waters of Babylon
Millenarians

Genres: Science Fiction

369 pages, Kindle Edition

First published February 23, 2012

About the author

I've been mulling the science of my stories over in my mind for years before I ever turned to the keyboard. If you mostly love the military aspects of a science fiction series, you'll probably find my books strenuous. I'm not a military writer. As a fan of music, history, and science, I've included some of it in my books. I use common terms from the sciences. I also attempt to clarify in two or three levels of explanation for those unacquainted with the terminology. I understand that not everyone will be familiar with biology or how a telescope works. Additionally, I've also written these volumes knowing that some of the technology development is not that important to many readers. I've therefore made a concerted attempt to write these works so that even those who glaze over those sections still have a fulfilling story to read. Finally, I've made a strenuous attempt to keep the books focused on my subject material. I'd really like a teenager to pick one up and learn something from it someday. As a result, the violence and intimacy in my stories lack the visceral nature we've come to expect as a society. Yes, there are some military expletives, but they've been toned down considerably and certainly nothing worse than what you'd see on television.

The two first novels of the Dimensional Shift saga are self-contained. You won't be left hanging on for the next book. I've left clues and fragments of ideas on which I shall build in the future.

I enjoy feedback from my readers. I enjoy getting good ideas and scifi concepts from friends and others. Send them to me! My email address is available at the end of each of my books.

Reviews

[Jay Batson · Rating 2 out of 5]

Well, as I said about the first two books in this series, the concepts & story are fine. They're well-set into the mainstream of SciFi concepts. As in the first two, the author spends more words than typical SciFi books explaining the technology or SciFi concepts. In this final book of the series, the author comes full-circle to explains the background causes behind the concepts introduced in the first two books.

There's real potential in the series. BUT, as I indicated before, the writing level is not as high as the concepts / story. It feels almost like it's written for a young age bracket (e.g. teens), with fairly obvious, or unnecessary explanations or dialog. As I write this, I realize this is just another aspect of the author's style - the same aspect that gives rise to the lengthy explanations of the technology / SciFi concepts.

And, as in the first two, the editing, grammatical and punctuation errors are aggravating.

While I can't say for sure, since I'm not a writer, this series is probably a good case study of the value of having a large publisher (vs. self-publishing). This series of 3 books should probably have really been only one book, much more tightly written & edited. A mainstream publisher might have seen the potential in these books & this author, and assigned a really sharp editor to get the author to cut about 60% of the text, accelerate the pace of the story, discover more effective techniques to carry the story other than "quoted text as mental thought", and only go into detail when REALLY needed, e.g. the explanation of how the dimensional shift technology came to be, and works.

Sufficiently coached & edited, this author - and these books - could have turned into a 4 star review.

[Michelle Stone]

I wrote this book. This is the book's description:

A secret breed of humans has banded together to revive the Earth from a post-apocalyptic viral plant infection. They have superior intellect and unrivaled life expectancy. However, they do not know who they are. As they become known as the world's greatest arbitrators, their secrets unfold. A curious ancient artifact reveals its true nature. Survivors from a destroyed world clash. The founder of their species is revealed.

[Doreen Dalesandro]

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