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PRESENT FUTURE: It Begins: A healing of a planet and a journey of the heart and soul.
This futuristic action adventure has twists and turns to keep you guessing until the very end.
Launched from the warm morning glow of Cape Canaveral into infinite frozen space, Commander Char Crawford’s first command for Universal Technologies’ manned mission to Mars faces a crisis they could never conceived.
Absorbed by a wormhole and deposited on a different planet three hundred years in the future. Crawford is the only crew member her new hosts, an ecologically advanced egalitarian society are able to reanimate from her cryogenic sleep. They promise to do everything they can to return Crawford and her crew to their own time and planet. Except they’re a society without time travel. Their only example is Commander Crawford and her ship.
Commander Crawford experiences sights and adventures on a level she never knew possible, and at times, challenges her sense of reality and her deepest fears. Ultimately, can Commander Crawford trust these seemingly benevolent advanced humanoids to get her and her crew home, or are there demons lurking beneath the shadows of this utopia?
Launched from the warm morning glow of Cape Canaveral into infinite frozen space, Commander Char Crawford’s first command for Universal Technologies’ manned mission to Mars faces a crisis they could never conceived.
Absorbed by a wormhole and deposited on a different planet three hundred years in the future. Crawford is the only crew member her new hosts, an ecologically advanced egalitarian society are able to reanimate from her cryogenic sleep. They promise to do everything they can to return Crawford and her crew to their own time and planet. Except they’re a society without time travel. Their only example is Commander Crawford and her ship.
Commander Crawford experiences sights and adventures on a level she never knew possible, and at times, challenges her sense of reality and her deepest fears. Ultimately, can Commander Crawford trust these seemingly benevolent advanced humanoids to get her and her crew home, or are there demons lurking beneath the shadows of this utopia?
296 pages, Paperback
Published March 21, 2024
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November 3, 2024
This is an interesting, if somewhat muddled SF novel where a commander and her crew are accidentally sucked into a wormhole and end up 300 years into the future. The humanoid beings there wake her up, but are unable to wake her crew safely. She spends some time on their beautiful planet as they try to work out what went wrong, and to find a way back for her and the crew, and she learns their ways: how they love in harmony with the ecosphere, the use of meditation and energy for various things, and so on. She even manages to fall in love.
There are many interesting ideas here—and particularly vivid descriptions of a gorgeous-sounding world—and I found all of that quite engaging. There are however several plot lines that go nowhere, and a deus ex machina resolution of the central problem, which is additionally rushed. There were long passages of telling, mostly about meditation and about these future beings’ philosophy, but also the actions and thoughts of the characters, which I didn't enjoy. The dialogue could also be repetitive and rather staccato sometimes.
In summary: an interesting novel of ideas with a fun idea of what an evolved and healthier Earth might be like, but it suffered a bit from being overwritten and needing to be tightened up.
Thanks to BooksGoSocial, Blanc Ursa Publishing and NetGalley for access!
There are many interesting ideas here—and particularly vivid descriptions of a gorgeous-sounding world—and I found all of that quite engaging. There are however several plot lines that go nowhere, and a deus ex machina resolution of the central problem, which is additionally rushed. There were long passages of telling, mostly about meditation and about these future beings’ philosophy, but also the actions and thoughts of the characters, which I didn't enjoy. The dialogue could also be repetitive and rather staccato sometimes.
In summary: an interesting novel of ideas with a fun idea of what an evolved and healthier Earth might be like, but it suffered a bit from being overwritten and needing to be tightened up.
Thanks to BooksGoSocial, Blanc Ursa Publishing and NetGalley for access!
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