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Stormshadow
When John and Liz's children find an SOS message written on a piece of driftwood, the family sets out to rescue the sender. With scant clues about the sender's whereabouts, the search will not be easy.
704 pages, Kindle Edition
Published June 20, 2025
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R. Magnusholm
6 books28 followersRon Magnusholm is a futurist and AI researcher. His interests include Natural Language Processing, artificial emotions, and empathy emulation in software.
He is married with two children and has degrees in medicine and environmental management. In his youth, he spent some time in the military where he specialized in wilderness survival.
He believes that by mid-21 century, robots and AI would far exceed human capacity, leading to radical and unprecedented changes.
Military conflict, medical advances, human enhancement, and artificial intelligence are recurrent themes in his writing.
Magnusholm wrote House of Cain over several years in the late nineties while studying at a London university. It is a dark war novel, inspired by stories heard around the camp-fires as an officer-cadet in his youth and fuelled by an over-active imagination. House of Cain is not suitable for young readers.
Roula is suitable for all ages. The storyline explores a potential way in which a benign Artificial Intelligence can take over the world, despite any prohibitions and barriers put in its way.
His third novel, Galatea, is about Artificial Intelligence taking over the world, but it's also a love story between a geeky programmer and his creation.
His Back to the Stone Age trilogy has sold many thousands of copies worldwide.
His sixth novel, Stormshadow is out now.
He is married with two children and has degrees in medicine and environmental management. In his youth, he spent some time in the military where he specialized in wilderness survival.
He believes that by mid-21 century, robots and AI would far exceed human capacity, leading to radical and unprecedented changes.
Military conflict, medical advances, human enhancement, and artificial intelligence are recurrent themes in his writing.
Magnusholm wrote House of Cain over several years in the late nineties while studying at a London university. It is a dark war novel, inspired by stories heard around the camp-fires as an officer-cadet in his youth and fuelled by an over-active imagination. House of Cain is not suitable for young readers.
Roula is suitable for all ages. The storyline explores a potential way in which a benign Artificial Intelligence can take over the world, despite any prohibitions and barriers put in its way.
His third novel, Galatea, is about Artificial Intelligence taking over the world, but it's also a love story between a geeky programmer and his creation.
His Back to the Stone Age trilogy has sold many thousands of copies worldwide.
His sixth novel, Stormshadow is out now.
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October 18, 2025
4.5 stars. Took me a while to get round to this one, as the second book wasn't great. This one was a couple of years after the last book, so I suspect the author spent more time looking at the pacing and story arc.
Whatever he did, this one worked a lot better than book two, and kept my attention once I started. It's not a fast-moving book, a lot of attention paid to the survival aspects, but if you're in the mood for that it goes pretty well.
One thing that detracted however was the formatting. I have no idea if it was just my Kindle or the file itself, but there were multiple places where it looked like an entire page or more was missing. Nothing absolutely crucial was missed, but it buggered up the continuity. I won't ding it a star for that, but if the author sees this he should fix it ASAP.
Whatever he did, this one worked a lot better than book two, and kept my attention once I started. It's not a fast-moving book, a lot of attention paid to the survival aspects, but if you're in the mood for that it goes pretty well.
One thing that detracted however was the formatting. I have no idea if it was just my Kindle or the file itself, but there were multiple places where it looked like an entire page or more was missing. Nothing absolutely crucial was missed, but it buggered up the continuity. I won't ding it a star for that, but if the author sees this he should fix it ASAP.
October 17, 2025
A Gripping Ride
Stormshadow is a tense, imaginative survival thriller that throws a modern family into a brutal prehistoric world. The writing is sharp and often almost poetic in its world-building, bringing the wilderness vividly to life. Just when you think you’ve got it figured out, a shocking twist flips the story upside down, taking it in a wild, unexpected direction. Gripping, emotional, and beautifully written.
Stormshadow is a tense, imaginative survival thriller that throws a modern family into a brutal prehistoric world. The writing is sharp and often almost poetic in its world-building, bringing the wilderness vividly to life. Just when you think you’ve got it figured out, a shocking twist flips the story upside down, taking it in a wild, unexpected direction. Gripping, emotional, and beautifully written.
August 11, 2025
Alternate Reality….swallows you whole
These 3 books pull you onto a world you just can’t escape from.
The characters become like family. The adventures as thrilling as any story ever told. Just the right amount of spicy sex, just to keep you on your toes…pass the bear and tiger grease, please
Can’t wait for the 4th book!
Ju
These 3 books pull you onto a world you just can’t escape from.
The characters become like family. The adventures as thrilling as any story ever told. Just the right amount of spicy sex, just to keep you on your toes…pass the bear and tiger grease, please
Can’t wait for the 4th book!
Ju
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