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Conflict
While working on a dude ranch in present day Montana, Joe Kuruk saves a young girl from a club-wielding warrior. His confusion is intensified when he realizes that the girl, Alta, has crossed over from another time and place.
And the only way to reunite her with her family is to cross back with her.
Accompanied by a few friends, Joe crosses into Alta's world only to find her home destroyed by a savage war chief.
Then the gate closes behind them.
Stranded in the Eleventh Century, on the present day Susquehanna River, Joe and his band fight to create a safe home for the refugee they've gathered.
And to prepare for future European contact.
And the only way to reunite her with her family is to cross back with her.
Accompanied by a few friends, Joe crosses into Alta's world only to find her home destroyed by a savage war chief.
Then the gate closes behind them.
Stranded in the Eleventh Century, on the present day Susquehanna River, Joe and his band fight to create a safe home for the refugee they've gathered.
And to prepare for future European contact.
374 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 8, 2016
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February 1, 2018
I thought the book was okay. Some parts were confusing, and others were annoying - how many times were they going to do the same silly things? I thought they used their supplies to easily for having such a limited amount, should have saved them for more dire circumstances. All in all, this book was alright but it's not one I'd recommend.
December 9, 2016
Time-travel, maybe; romance, perhaps; historical, certainly; Walt Socha’s Conflict combines present and past in a very cool tale of modern characters who help people relive America’s history through the ancient arts. When this busy crowd are thrust into reliving history for real, those arts, convincingly portrayed, combine with some seriously clever improvisation to rescue a group of children from tribal warfare and worse. But the enemy might want its victims back.
The author’s research is offered with an satisfyingly light and natural touch, extending beyond convincing details of weapons into medicine, astronomy and more. As this tribe of time-displaced explorers copes with indigenous enemies, old traditions, and new ills, they'll find that quests for vengeance and forgiveness clash as surely as personalities. Cultural taboos insert their curious rules, and a man who’s struggled to value himself learns his strengths and weaknesses.
Conflict stands alone as a smoothly written, wisely engineered and researched novel that blends myth, science, mystery and history. But an overarching tale casts a recurring shadow, and more novels must surely be in the works. They’ll be well worth looking out for.
Disclosure: I bought it on a deal.
The author’s research is offered with an satisfyingly light and natural touch, extending beyond convincing details of weapons into medicine, astronomy and more. As this tribe of time-displaced explorers copes with indigenous enemies, old traditions, and new ills, they'll find that quests for vengeance and forgiveness clash as surely as personalities. Cultural taboos insert their curious rules, and a man who’s struggled to value himself learns his strengths and weaknesses.
Conflict stands alone as a smoothly written, wisely engineered and researched novel that blends myth, science, mystery and history. But an overarching tale casts a recurring shadow, and more novels must surely be in the works. They’ll be well worth looking out for.
Disclosure: I bought it on a deal.
August 10, 2017
Conflict by Walt Socha
Alternate reality or time traveling, neither the protagonists or I are sure what happen. A group of young adults end up leaving a dude ranch and ending up nearly 1000 years in the past. The group discovers that the past much as the future is fraught with danger and potential.
Joe has a good heart and is suffering from nightmares when he suddenly finds himself as a leader of a band of mismatched adventurers. Thrust into Pennsylvania Indian history, the group finds themselves unknowingly tasked to change the future.
The struggle Joe has with age and adulthood smacked of realism. The incursion of Mississippi river culture into Pennsylvania is theoretically accurate. Socha did a nice job setting up a culture and how it handled different types of invasion.
This appears to be the first in a series, I look forward to reading more.
Web: http://www.waltsocha.com/
Alternate reality or time traveling, neither the protagonists or I are sure what happen. A group of young adults end up leaving a dude ranch and ending up nearly 1000 years in the past. The group discovers that the past much as the future is fraught with danger and potential.
Joe has a good heart and is suffering from nightmares when he suddenly finds himself as a leader of a band of mismatched adventurers. Thrust into Pennsylvania Indian history, the group finds themselves unknowingly tasked to change the future.
The struggle Joe has with age and adulthood smacked of realism. The incursion of Mississippi river culture into Pennsylvania is theoretically accurate. Socha did a nice job setting up a culture and how it handled different types of invasion.
This appears to be the first in a series, I look forward to reading more.
Web: http://www.waltsocha.com/
June 23, 2018
A good, solid time-travel portal story.
The characters are solid, if not especially surprising. The mostly interest is the contrast with the bronze-age-like state of America a thousand years ago. A lot of it is probably supposition (I don't think the mound culture of northern america is that understood), but it does feel plausible, which is a good scaffold of a story.
The enigma of the medicine men sacrificing themselves for... something? could have been more stressed, though.
The characters are solid, if not especially surprising. The mostly interest is the contrast with the bronze-age-like state of America a thousand years ago. A lot of it is probably supposition (I don't think the mound culture of northern america is that understood), but it does feel plausible, which is a good scaffold of a story.
The enigma of the medicine men sacrificing themselves for... something? could have been more stressed, though.
September 26, 2018
Very nice story. Much better than what I was specting.
Very nice story. Much better than what I was specting. I recomend this book for every reader that like Kingdom Building like novela.
Very nice story. Much better than what I was specting. I recomend this book for every reader that like Kingdom Building like novela.
December 15, 2019
No wonder it was free.
Very, very simple development in all the major areas; character, dialogue, predictability, probability, etc. not worth the time. SM Stirling; now there is a person who knows how to develop a story properly.
Very, very simple development in all the major areas; character, dialogue, predictability, probability, etc. not worth the time. SM Stirling; now there is a person who knows how to develop a story properly.
December 28, 2019
Good book
This story line is a great what if. What could change , What would you do different if you were in there shoes
This story line is a great what if. What could change , What would you do different if you were in there shoes
April 30, 2021
Good
Was good once I got into it well written good plot fun read good twist and turns decent book will read book 2
Was good once I got into it well written good plot fun read good twist and turns decent book will read book 2
March 13, 2017
I was back and forth on this one. Kind of went through ebbs of liking and being annoyed by this. Took 100 pages to get into for me. The characters though . . . repeatedly let their guard down. That got irritating. You understand once, but twice in a stressed situation? Come on. Also, the language thing. I understand why it was done but it was crude in its execution.
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