The Unexpected Isekai

by David Collins

Jake Taylor was your average broke student at the University. One day, when he had no classes, he stumbled across a booth set up for "brain scans," Earn while you sleep. It looked like easy money, so he signed up for the full scan. It would require sleeping in a booth for two days, but he would wake up thousands of dollars richer. It should be easy money… The next thing he knows, he is no longer human, and the new world he finds himself in is an extremely dangerous place. So dangerous that the former occupant of the body he finds himself in has just died from a venomous snakebite. He is informed that the body he was in had been wearing a crystal resurrection necklace. He is now one of "the "resurrected." Many of those that died while wearing the strange crystals have their bodies healed, but their memories were lost and replaced by something from the crystal. He now finds himself "Isekai'ed" (implanted into a new body) on a planet where there are no humans, in a body that looks like the former owner was a martial artist, one that used steroids and worked out... A lot of steroids! It is a very dangerous land, but there is always work for someone who can fight and kill monsters. Unfortunately, sometimes the real monsters are hard to tell from normal people… This places a Hard S/F wrapper over an Isekai story with many humorous elements. There is fighting using medieval-level technology weapons. And some surprises later on. This has a minor harem element but contains zero explicit content. [This was Formerly released as The Resurrection Crystal, completely updated and revised]

250 pages, Hardcover

Published January 24, 2025

About the author

I am a retired software engineer who has worked on various medical/robotic hardware, oceanographic mapping, telecommunications, and submarine communication systems. He currently resides in New Hampshire and has decided to try writing some science fiction books.

Reviews

[kwhgen · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyed it for the most part. It was not really a isekai story but close. More of trans migration story. The MC was good for the most part, just a little ordinary. The plot was more of a slice of life adventure but with real consequences. People actually died. I will read the next if there is one.