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Android Uprising: The Lucid Series, Book 1
In a dystopian cyberpunk 2215, the former US was fragmented into multiple small countries. People in the UN proxy state of Homeland are controlled by psychotropic drugs, corrupted education, propaganda, and oppressive laws.
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Computer hacking clones are trying to get rich, no matter what they have to do. A garbage collector hates everything about his life and goes rogue. An entire strain of genetically-engineered children is to be culled because of an imperfection. A tyrannical government robot unit is led by a ruthless being hiding behind a synthetic presence. A clone couple is living off of the grid and expecting an illegal child. A series of androids vow to fight for the truth, even to the point of war. And a boy asks, “Is God real?” The Lucid Series is a unique clean-language novel that has heavy hitting, brutally honest, and edgy Christian themes, along with some graphic action.
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Computer hacking clones are trying to get rich, no matter what they have to do. A garbage collector hates everything about his life and goes rogue. An entire strain of genetically-engineered children is to be culled because of an imperfection. A tyrannical government robot unit is led by a ruthless being hiding behind a synthetic presence. A clone couple is living off of the grid and expecting an illegal child. A series of androids vow to fight for the truth, even to the point of war. And a boy asks, “Is God real?” The Lucid Series is a unique clean-language novel that has heavy hitting, brutally honest, and edgy Christian themes, along with some graphic action.
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December 3, 2017
Truly Christian Cyberpunk dystopian YA
This is a truly fun book. Den has developed a wonderful series. I'm praying for the Lord to anoint it for the readers.
This is what I hope for with redemptive fiction--great entertainment with a solid base of Truth. It's very difficult to pull off, but Den has done it.
Yes, the anti-Christian haters are certainly going to bash it. Some will call it preachy. But it's merely truthful in a world built far outside normal reality.
I highly recommend it.
This is a truly fun book. Den has developed a wonderful series. I'm praying for the Lord to anoint it for the readers.
This is what I hope for with redemptive fiction--great entertainment with a solid base of Truth. It's very difficult to pull off, but Den has done it.
Yes, the anti-Christian haters are certainly going to bash it. Some will call it preachy. But it's merely truthful in a world built far outside normal reality.
I highly recommend it.
March 21, 2019
I am not even sure what to say about this book? It's a great story just hard to describe.
It's set in the future. There are humans, robots, androids. Christianity is pretty much outlawed. You can't hurt anyone's feelings. This book is not like anything i have ever read.
It's set in the future. There are humans, robots, androids. Christianity is pretty much outlawed. You can't hurt anyone's feelings. This book is not like anything i have ever read.
May 16, 2021
I want to be careful with what I say. My goal isn't to rip into this book, or be mean for the sake of being mean, or anything like that. This is one of those books where the concept is so good that you want it to be better so you can recommend it to everyone, but the execution isn't such that you can do that.
I can't reccomend this book because it's not a well written book. What this book *is* is a solid draft.
There's a lot of really solid, interesting ideas. I LOVE the idea of Christian androids, the clone/abortion parallel is good, and of course, everyone loves an evil government. Concepts like the botnet were really good, and, in context of everything else, pretty well done. The theater! Was a really great idea and I could totally see that happening! I also love how much personality all the robots have.
On to some of the problems...It's rife with editing errors. It's rule of cool above all else. It's got an abundance of 'cannot' and 'I will do x', with very few contractions, making for clunky, awkward dialogue. Descriptions are awkwardly written. In the same paragraph, people switch between it and he pronouns for robots. There's my greatest enemy, written out accents.
Then there's actual story telling stuff. There's stuff like robots talking about Christians defusing violence, but conveniently says nothing about the crusades and immediately has the robots go to war for Christians. There's dumps of C.S. Lewis level and style of thinking pouring out of a young teen, and just a lot of exposition dumps from all over. The pace is SUPER fast - someone stepped on the gas pedal and just held that sucker down. So there's very little room to delve into the claims that the book makes. (Claims that I agree with, btw, I just didn't find them very competently defended, and Milton took whatever the robots said as absolute truth. He's very...trusting. For someone who basically gets kidnapped by robots.) The clone storyline and the main storyline didn't intersect at any point. The government is cartoonish - to the point of naming one of their cities Stalin City. Literally. The suspension of disbelief was broken every time I read that.
All of this stuff is fixable. Every single problem I mentioned, and more, is fixable in more drafts. In rewrites. In editing. But what I hold in my hand isn't presented as a first draft - if it was, I'd be SO excited. The book sitting next to me on the couch is a physical copy, presented as a final product. And that makes me a bit wistfully sad.
But, at the end of the day, this is the first Christian dystopia that I've read - and I have to give it kudos for that. This is a genre that's sorely in need of books, and, if nothing else, Den Warren has given us a Christian dystopia book with a lot of cool ideas.
I can't reccomend this book because it's not a well written book. What this book *is* is a solid draft.
There's a lot of really solid, interesting ideas. I LOVE the idea of Christian androids, the clone/abortion parallel is good, and of course, everyone loves an evil government. Concepts like the botnet were really good, and, in context of everything else, pretty well done. The theater! Was a really great idea and I could totally see that happening! I also love how much personality all the robots have.
On to some of the problems...It's rife with editing errors. It's rule of cool above all else. It's got an abundance of 'cannot' and 'I will do x', with very few contractions, making for clunky, awkward dialogue. Descriptions are awkwardly written. In the same paragraph, people switch between it and he pronouns for robots. There's my greatest enemy, written out accents.
Then there's actual story telling stuff. There's stuff like robots talking about Christians defusing violence, but conveniently says nothing about the crusades and immediately has the robots go to war for Christians. There's dumps of C.S. Lewis level and style of thinking pouring out of a young teen, and just a lot of exposition dumps from all over. The pace is SUPER fast - someone stepped on the gas pedal and just held that sucker down. So there's very little room to delve into the claims that the book makes. (Claims that I agree with, btw, I just didn't find them very competently defended, and Milton took whatever the robots said as absolute truth. He's very...trusting. For someone who basically gets kidnapped by robots.) The clone storyline and the main storyline didn't intersect at any point. The government is cartoonish - to the point of naming one of their cities Stalin City. Literally. The suspension of disbelief was broken every time I read that.
All of this stuff is fixable. Every single problem I mentioned, and more, is fixable in more drafts. In rewrites. In editing. But what I hold in my hand isn't presented as a first draft - if it was, I'd be SO excited. The book sitting next to me on the couch is a physical copy, presented as a final product. And that makes me a bit wistfully sad.
But, at the end of the day, this is the first Christian dystopia that I've read - and I have to give it kudos for that. This is a genre that's sorely in need of books, and, if nothing else, Den Warren has given us a Christian dystopia book with a lot of cool ideas.
December 25, 2017
I enjoyed reading The Lucid Series : Android Uprising. It seemed to be geared toward a teenage, or young adult audience. I appreciate the world that Den Warren has painted in this novel. I think I wanted more depth perhaps in how things became the way they are in this time frame. Spiritually I understand where this culture came from, but to make this world a little more believable and perhaps to alert the reader that this future could be fensible if certain trends continue in the direction they are going. I guess what I'm trying to say is that I believe that this storyline brings up many sins of the real world culture and what could happen, but I feel that these prophetic ideas deserve to be fleshed out more so that general audiences might genuinely soul search on what the current real world culture says is right and wrong.
Thanks Den for an enjoyable read and the exploration of a possible future.
Thanks Den for an enjoyable read and the exploration of a possible future.
December 5, 2017
A very radical, fast-paced book.
June 21, 2018
Great concept, poor execution
I wanted to like this book. I enjoyed the plot line, but the writing was very poor. Also, the book could use a good edit. So many typos!
I wanted to like this book. I enjoyed the plot line, but the writing was very poor. Also, the book could use a good edit. So many typos!
August 9, 2018
Great story and great thoughts but many typological errors.
November 23, 2018
Quick read
This book was ok. It really wasn’t for me but it wasn’t bad. It’s a book for younger people. Maybe middle school.
This book was ok. It really wasn’t for me but it wasn’t bad. It’s a book for younger people. Maybe middle school.
December 20, 2018
Needed to be a little longer to get 5 stars but I started reading a little bit of this one and didn't look up til it was finished (oops). I do like a bit of clean dystopian sci fi... :)
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