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Sleeping Gods
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First published June 1, 2015
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About the author
Matt Eaton
8 books64 followersI began as a reporter in the Orwellian year of 1984. My first novel is about the end of the world. But I try to look on the bright side.
I live in Brisbane, Australia, with my wife and two daughters.
I’m into swimming, a decent walk, occasionally losing balls on a golf course and all manner of paranormal oddity. I’m a lover of both kinds of music — rock and jazz — and recently got back together with my old band from the ’80s, The Filberts.
Almost but not quite lost deep in the desert, driving a camper van too fast along a corrugated dirt track and afraid my life might be about to end suddenly in a cloud of blood and dust, I started to hear that voice.
The one that holds my sort to ransom, that wakes me in the middle of the night and drives fingers to keyboards despite all rational argument to the contrary.
Chasing the fading sound of that voice across a pitch-black desert is a journey of wonderful discovery punctuated with moments of bone-crushing trepidation when the trail vanishes without warning.
The trick is to pretend not to listen. Then the call grows louder.
Science loves the rational and cares not that fiction loves the fantastic.
Making them meet is like forcing together two repelling magnets.
The gap between them becomes more impossible the smaller it gets.
But sometimes, when they’re almost touching, magic happens.
I live in Brisbane, Australia, with my wife and two daughters.
I’m into swimming, a decent walk, occasionally losing balls on a golf course and all manner of paranormal oddity. I’m a lover of both kinds of music — rock and jazz — and recently got back together with my old band from the ’80s, The Filberts.
Almost but not quite lost deep in the desert, driving a camper van too fast along a corrugated dirt track and afraid my life might be about to end suddenly in a cloud of blood and dust, I started to hear that voice.
The one that holds my sort to ransom, that wakes me in the middle of the night and drives fingers to keyboards despite all rational argument to the contrary.
Chasing the fading sound of that voice across a pitch-black desert is a journey of wonderful discovery punctuated with moments of bone-crushing trepidation when the trail vanishes without warning.
The trick is to pretend not to listen. Then the call grows louder.
Science loves the rational and cares not that fiction loves the fantastic.
Making them meet is like forcing together two repelling magnets.
The gap between them becomes more impossible the smaller it gets.
But sometimes, when they’re almost touching, magic happens.
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January 16, 2018
I enjoyed this well-written short novella and I must say that it really snuck up on me. It opens with an account of the 1968 flight of Apollo 8 and incorporates an interesting possible scenario of what the astronauts may have encountered on the dark side of the moon.
For me, the real eye-openers of the story begin after the astronauts splash down back on earth and are met on board the Naval carrier by an extremely odd, fanatical scientist waving around a copy of the Condon Committee Report. Even more surprising are the ensuing conversations which take place in an underground bunker somewhere else on the planet.
The story puts forth some very intriguing "what if" questions concerning the NASA space flights, non-human presence on the moon, the US government, and secretive elite factions around the globe. The author deftly weaves threads of known personalities and events with his own alternate version of what may have transpired during and after the historic moon mission.
The novella is a quick read and the author has left plenty of room for expansion into a longer story. I will definitely be buying the sequel when it comes out to find out more of what he theorizes about the "sleeping gods" and the horde of information kept from humanity at large.
For me, the real eye-openers of the story begin after the astronauts splash down back on earth and are met on board the Naval carrier by an extremely odd, fanatical scientist waving around a copy of the Condon Committee Report. Even more surprising are the ensuing conversations which take place in an underground bunker somewhere else on the planet.
The story puts forth some very intriguing "what if" questions concerning the NASA space flights, non-human presence on the moon, the US government, and secretive elite factions around the globe. The author deftly weaves threads of known personalities and events with his own alternate version of what may have transpired during and after the historic moon mission.
The novella is a quick read and the author has left plenty of room for expansion into a longer story. I will definitely be buying the sequel when it comes out to find out more of what he theorizes about the "sleeping gods" and the horde of information kept from humanity at large.
November 26, 2017
A fascinating read . . .
Trying to visualize what the outcome could have been had this story been a reality . . . fascinating well thought out and unique plot. Using the backdrop of real people in historic events almost blurs what we know about the actual events!
Trying to visualize what the outcome could have been had this story been a reality . . . fascinating well thought out and unique plot. Using the backdrop of real people in historic events almost blurs what we know about the actual events!
October 27, 2017
Nice story. Needs filling out.
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