Deep Flight

Deep Fight #1

by Joe Johnson

Standing in the cold morning blackness in the thin air atop a mountain, in Colorado, Hillary first saw the thing which would change her world forever. Like all the others of her kind, she studied the mysteries which were the points of light against the dark blackness of space. Astronomy was like that, just one mystery followed by another. But this discovery left her blood to run coldly through her veins.Through the crystal clear light pulled in by the powerful telescope her nice, safe world ended. What she saw that night could not be. Someone, or perhaps more ominously something, seemed to be calling for help. How could something, neither she or her colleagues knew who, know to use an old, obsolete Morse Code signal of distress, and how could something as frozen in position as a star wink it's light to them in call of 'SOS'.How would they answer the old call of, Save Our Ship, which winked at them across the vastness of space. Earth had never before built a ship which could reach this winking enigma. It would take the most powerful ship ever built to reach this thing which, the few who knew of it called; Stranger One.Would the trip tell of mysterious visitors from another system, would they be able to answer the call of distress? Or just perhaps was the SOS a warning? The only way to know was to build Deep Flight then answer the siren call of distress.

173 pages, Kindle Edition

First published March 21, 2011

About the author

I grew up in small town America. My first exposure to flying was on an old DC-3 in the late 50's. Being fascinated by electronics and later computers eventually led to work in an avionics shop which led back to flying. Fate and medical problems eventually led back to computers, but aviation will always be my first passion. I hope you enjoy some of my memories of those years.

Reviews

[pdarnold]

I am not sure I can rate this book. I did finish it. I really enjoyed the concept and story line... up to a point. Approximately 2/3 the way in a detailed scene is added of a brother getting younger 14 yr old sister drunk and raping her. Now, there are several areas of the book where a more detailed description could have been given of mutually consenting adults. But was not. WHY, WHY, WHY do authors feel the need to rape/sexually abuse a child in detail (when suggesting it in the story would have been more than enough) - just to prove how bad a character is? It's beyond my comprehension and acceptance! For this alone I leave the book unrated.

Now, for the story itself - intriguing and had me curious as to what would happen in the end, but it is left at a cliff hanger. Problem for me is, do I really want to chance the second book? Considering the offensive subject matter I ran into within this book? I don't know. There are many strong women characters brought into this story, for me they didn't scream "women's right fanatics", which was a good thing. I think the man/woman relationships were quite balanced. Many things are dealt with here, relationships, decisions, rape, fanaticism, when to go against command, the list goes on. This all brought several layers to the story. For the rest of the book outside my opinion of some subject matter, I would give this a 3 - 3.5 stars.

Now for the editing - horrible. Several words are used incorrectly, almost as if auto correct was totally relied upon but not checked in a final edit. At times this was so bad I had to reread several sections, because I was scratching my head thinking "what the heck?". So, if your a stickler about proper editing then stay clear. In my mind, punctuation was pretty good. For this I would have to give it 2 stars. Thus, rounding it out to about the low side of a 3 star total.