Invisible Soft Return:\

by Roberta Degnore

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What if you are forced to be more than you ever dreamed? And there's a cosmic gun pointed at your head to make sure you'll do it. Murderer or creator? That's Evet's choice in the 23rd Century...
Evet is a boundary-testing writer in the future who is attacked from the past. Accused of murder, she races to escape an alluring police torturer and her own crisscrossing identities that everyone seems to know better than she does. In a lonely cosmos with the latest drugs, she rebels in the oldest way: she fights against getting caught.
But when she's forced to know other lives, the wind of eternity stops her. She learns the terror that an ultimate power may be hers: control over life and death.
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We don't live only once. Like tuning an old radio, if we listen we catch bizarre whispers of lives that shouldn't be real.
I know this place; but I've never been here.
Yes you have, time and again.
We step into the same streams. Maybe sometimes with hooves, or with a scaly body. Or sometimes we're the supplicant greenness of a drowning leaf... Murderers, creators?

Genres: LGBT

420 pages, Paperback

First published October 6, 2013

About the author

Roberta Degnore is the author of twelve published novels (all with pseudonyms but about to be re-issued under her name). She is also an award winning screenwriter (Jack Nicholson prize), filmmaker (F*STOP) and psychologist. She has always appreciated the wonders of a public education and haunts various universities, both teaching and learning, for any excuse at all.
Lucky accident of time, she has sought out pursuits that would have been deemed worthy of burning at the stake before instead of being simple quests for fun.
Unfortunately, she has gone beyond Blondie's suggestion to die young and stay pretty.

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Reviews

[Stephen Poltz · Rating 1 out of 5]

This book was painful to read. It felt like an overblown rumination on reality and existence. It hardly had a plot. The point of view often changed between first and third person without warning. It was also difficult to tell who the main character was talking to at any point, and it was hard to tell who was speaking at any given time. Every character sounded the same, using the same haughty philosophical language as they pondered reality versus virtual reality. There was a second story within the story which was somewhat coherent, but I never figured out its relationship to the main story. I got within fifty pages of the end and simply could not bring myself to finish it. So if there was any sort of reconciliation between the main story and the secondary story, I didn’t get to it. For some reason, this book was nominated for a Lambda Literary award for SF/Fantasy/Horror in 2014. It must have been a slow year, being nominated just because it had some lesbian content.

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[Elisa Rolle · Rating 5 out of 5]

2014 Rainbow Awards Honorable Mention (5* from at least 1 judge)