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Rift
In an age where reality and science fiction are colliding, Richard Cox’s extraordinary debut thriller takes its place as an all-too-believable novel of white-knuckle adventure. For when an ordinary man makes one great leap for mankind, he triggers a chain of events that endangers his life, fractures his certainty, and plunges everyone he knows into a place where nothing is what it seems.
Cameron Fisher is bored. With his wife, Misty. With his job as an accountant at NeuroStor, the high-tech microchip firm. With everything about his life—until he is offered five million dollars to test a secret new technology that uses a wrinkle in quantum physics to transmit matter from one place to another. His employer’s high-stakes brainchild is ready for its first human test. And Cameron Fisher is all too happy to oblige.
One moment Cameron is sitting naked in a seven-by-seven-foot metal room in Houston; the next second he is in a laboratory in Phoenix—trembling now not with fear but joy. Within hours, Cameron will be free to go home. But first there is a celebratory drink—and a strange and scintillating meeting with a spectacularly beautiful woman. Then he’s being followed by men with guns . . . and suddenly Cameron is running, stumbling, falling into a world that looks like his own, but in which he has become a ragged stranger, accused of murder and pursued by people who want him dead. It appears that NeuroStor’s invention has changed Cameron. Next, it will change the entire world.
With its stunning twists, sensual adventure, and raw, psychological suspense, Rift takes readers on a thrill-a-second ride to one last amazing choice for Cameron Fisher. A gripping and utterly satisfying work of storytelling magic, Rift asks the ultimate question: What if you had to die to find out what it really means to be alive?
From the Hardcover edition.
Cameron Fisher is bored. With his wife, Misty. With his job as an accountant at NeuroStor, the high-tech microchip firm. With everything about his life—until he is offered five million dollars to test a secret new technology that uses a wrinkle in quantum physics to transmit matter from one place to another. His employer’s high-stakes brainchild is ready for its first human test. And Cameron Fisher is all too happy to oblige.
One moment Cameron is sitting naked in a seven-by-seven-foot metal room in Houston; the next second he is in a laboratory in Phoenix—trembling now not with fear but joy. Within hours, Cameron will be free to go home. But first there is a celebratory drink—and a strange and scintillating meeting with a spectacularly beautiful woman. Then he’s being followed by men with guns . . . and suddenly Cameron is running, stumbling, falling into a world that looks like his own, but in which he has become a ragged stranger, accused of murder and pursued by people who want him dead. It appears that NeuroStor’s invention has changed Cameron. Next, it will change the entire world.
With its stunning twists, sensual adventure, and raw, psychological suspense, Rift takes readers on a thrill-a-second ride to one last amazing choice for Cameron Fisher. A gripping and utterly satisfying work of storytelling magic, Rift asks the ultimate question: What if you had to die to find out what it really means to be alive?
From the Hardcover edition.
- GenresScience Fiction
272 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 2004
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About the author
Richard Cox
5 books59 followersRichard Cox was born in Odessa, Texas and now lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. His latest novel, House of the Rising Sun, was published on July 7, 2020. Richard has also published The Boys of Summer, Thomas World, The God Particle, and Rift. Richard has also written for This Land Press, Oklahoma Magazine, and TheNervousBreakdown.com.
When he's not writing or reading, Richard loves spending time with his wife and two girls. And hitting bombs.
He also wrote this bio in third person as if writing about someone else. George likes his chicken spicy!
When he's not writing or reading, Richard loves spending time with his wife and two girls. And hitting bombs.
He also wrote this bio in third person as if writing about someone else. George likes his chicken spicy!
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February 4, 2014
I hate reviewing books that I'm not too impressed with as I don't think I could ever write a book...so who am I to judge? I read a lot though and I appreciate other people reviews.
I could tell that this book was easily one of the first books this author has written...or at least I hope so. I found the narrative of this story so corny...the main characters commentary was cringeworthy at times. I believe the author underestimated his readers intelligence. It could have been such a great story, however there was too much that just didn't read smoothly. I spent most of the time thinking...as if! Not about the whole transmission idea, I was up for that, but how all the characters connected and inter related. However I am not a reader of science fiction and that might be how sci-fi reads.
On a side note I really enjoyed the authors commentary on society. How we idolize movie stars and put our heads in the sand and just accept what we've got.
I could tell that this book was easily one of the first books this author has written...or at least I hope so. I found the narrative of this story so corny...the main characters commentary was cringeworthy at times. I believe the author underestimated his readers intelligence. It could have been such a great story, however there was too much that just didn't read smoothly. I spent most of the time thinking...as if! Not about the whole transmission idea, I was up for that, but how all the characters connected and inter related. However I am not a reader of science fiction and that might be how sci-fi reads.
On a side note I really enjoyed the authors commentary on society. How we idolize movie stars and put our heads in the sand and just accept what we've got.
June 2, 2021
Enjoyed the read!
February 20, 2018
I read this years ago and wanted to see if it still holds up after so long. It did not. I still really enjoyed the premise but my taste must have changed over the last fifteen or so years. The plot was fun and fast paced but the characters were corny and unbelievable. The dialog felt forced and everyone was overacting their parts like a bad daytime soap opera. A good but "guilty pleasure" read. It was fun to see how far technology and the internet has come since this was written.
April 11, 2017
I'm not sure why I bothered to finish this one.
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