Cohesion Lost

Avar-Tek Event #3

by Justin Tyme

Avar-Tek #3: For Alexander Sevik, providing for his family is hard enough without losing grip on reality. His dreams are real. One night, he lives the entire life of a deckhand on a Spanish galleon. The next night, it’s life as an ancient Roman senator. Next, he is a cyborg on a space cruiser. When he wakes, he sometimes forgets who he is. His hands tingle for no reason, and the strange man who is following him talks about aliens. When he discovers the key to his dreams, he uncovers a national threat. And he has to choose between his own sanity or saving lives.


Cohesion Lost is a is a long short story at 14,000 words. It is the third short story in the Avar-Tek Series.

ebook

First published May 24, 2012

About the author

Born in Simi Valley, California, Darrell attended 12 different schools until he finally got it right and was graduated from a high school in Cyprus. No, not Cypress, California, but Cyprus the island in the Mediterranean.

The Cypriots soon realized it was in their national interest to ship Darrell back to the US. He meandered through college until the administration bribed him to leave with two apparently contradictory degrees: Theology and Electrical Engineering. He is currently working as an electrical engineer, robotics programmer, landlord, and father of seven. Sometimes he even writes a thing or two.

Darrell Newton is the author of Avar-Tek Events, speculative science fiction short stories based on current research in science and engineering. The Avar-Tek Events provide technical background for Historical Science Fiction novels.

Reviews

[Derek Newton · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is the third short story from this author, and I have enjoyed each one: A Taste of Earth, Death Has No Shadow, and this one. Each story involves a new point of view on possible new technology. In this one, Alexander Sevik is struggling to make ends meet for his family. He is a brilliant man with a promising new program, but he is haunted by dreams that are to real, memory loss, and loss of feeling in his fingers. I really enjoyed the mystery of what was happening to Alex and how it all folds out. Wish I could say more, but it would spoil the major plot twist.