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Field #2
Field Two
Every story has its darker side. Times have changed.“Sci fi at its best with concepts not found elsewhere.”
“Certain events in the book stand alongside the best reveals in popular science-fiction.”
Book Two of the time-defying Field Series takes hold of you from chapter one and doesn’t let go until the very last line. Sharp Sci-Fi charged with intrigue, Field Two has you racing through the pages deep into the night, but not wanting the story to end.
From the back ’s extinction was The 64 years were over.The devastation was Billions had died.Archive’s solution had But it wasn’t too late…
There was still Time.
An emergent symbol now echoes through key moments,influencing the course of human affairs.In a myriad of possible futures,A single mind holds the key.
What Amazon readers are ★★★★★ “Brilliant concept and well written.”
★★★★★ “Field 2 not just fills in a few gaps but turns things upside down and twists them sideways.”
★★★★★ “Fascinating and very, very clever!”
★★★★★ “Certain events in the book stand alongside the best reveals in popular science-fiction.”
★★★★★ “Complex characters and intertwined storylines make it impossible to guess the outcome.”
★★★★★ “Just amazing creative storytelling.”
★★★★★ “This author's imagination and attention to detail blows my mind!”
★★★★★ “Sci fi at its best with concepts not found elsewhere.”
★★★★★ “A thoroughly fascinating, rewarding, and enjoyable read.”
★★★★★ “These characters are my friends and I need to know what will happen to them!”
★★★★★ “The second book seems to turn up the magnification allowing you to dig deeper into this fascinating story. Then it becomes clear that there is a whole lot more to come. Brilliant.”
A look inside the Field…He began to outline his proposed method of enforcing a new, controllable, social order when the appropriate time came.“After Tenca makes its demonstration, our enemy will become Siva,” he said, “But even then it will be more than two years away from a possible impact. It’s too distant, too intangible, to ignite action. We’ll need to give the world something real to fear, something that will be happening right now for them, something to unite against.”He walked to the front of the room again and deliberately pushed his spectacles back into place. It was a subtle action, but it conferred on him an air of authority and he knew he needed to maintain their confidence before continuing.
“The anatomy of fear has its roots based in a breakdown of perceived order.
“Certain events in the book stand alongside the best reveals in popular science-fiction.”
Book Two of the time-defying Field Series takes hold of you from chapter one and doesn’t let go until the very last line. Sharp Sci-Fi charged with intrigue, Field Two has you racing through the pages deep into the night, but not wanting the story to end.
From the back ’s extinction was The 64 years were over.The devastation was Billions had died.Archive’s solution had But it wasn’t too late…
There was still Time.
An emergent symbol now echoes through key moments,influencing the course of human affairs.In a myriad of possible futures,A single mind holds the key.
What Amazon readers are ★★★★★ “Brilliant concept and well written.”
★★★★★ “Field 2 not just fills in a few gaps but turns things upside down and twists them sideways.”
★★★★★ “Fascinating and very, very clever!”
★★★★★ “Certain events in the book stand alongside the best reveals in popular science-fiction.”
★★★★★ “Complex characters and intertwined storylines make it impossible to guess the outcome.”
★★★★★ “Just amazing creative storytelling.”
★★★★★ “This author's imagination and attention to detail blows my mind!”
★★★★★ “Sci fi at its best with concepts not found elsewhere.”
★★★★★ “A thoroughly fascinating, rewarding, and enjoyable read.”
★★★★★ “These characters are my friends and I need to know what will happen to them!”
★★★★★ “The second book seems to turn up the magnification allowing you to dig deeper into this fascinating story. Then it becomes clear that there is a whole lot more to come. Brilliant.”
A look inside the Field…He began to outline his proposed method of enforcing a new, controllable, social order when the appropriate time came.“After Tenca makes its demonstration, our enemy will become Siva,” he said, “But even then it will be more than two years away from a possible impact. It’s too distant, too intangible, to ignite action. We’ll need to give the world something real to fear, something that will be happening right now for them, something to unite against.”He walked to the front of the room again and deliberately pushed his spectacles back into place. It was a subtle action, but it conferred on him an air of authority and he knew he needed to maintain their confidence before continuing.
“The anatomy of fear has its roots based in a breakdown of perceived order.
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516 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 11, 2016
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Simon Winstanley
19 books53 followersAfter choosing between Astrophysics and Electromechanical Engineering, Simon Winstanley went on to become (variously) an Engineer, Technology Teacher, Concept Illustrator, 3D Motion Ride designer, Visual Effects supervisor and Science Fiction author. He lives in North London, but his mind still commutes off-world.
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November 21, 2016
Wow, riveting read
Cannot wait for Field 3, couldn't out this book down. So many stories interlinked, I think Simon must really be a time-lord lol
Cannot wait for Field 3, couldn't out this book down. So many stories interlinked, I think Simon must really be a time-lord lol
March 8, 2019
Difficult to follow at times but absolutely brilliant!
January 3, 2017
Countdown confirmed...
Oh, how excited I was, to stumble across Field Two! Field One had been a quite complex multi-timeline read, with a good range of characters and plotlines which kept me enthralled from start to finish. I relished the thought of the next instalment and, to prepare first re-read Field One to re-establish the characters and timelines. Sadly the book didn't quite live up to expectations, with a lot of repetition from the first novel (granted this gave some different perspectives) and a lack of explanation for the newer material meaning that at times this book felt a little disjointed. New ideas were introduced but lacked detail and appeared to lack purpose, in this novel, rather acting as waypoints for the next. Overall this made a disappointing read, and felt like "filler" a lot of the time. Mysteries were simply too mysterious and I'm left feeling annoyed having completed the book. Perhaps this will end as a trilogy, perhaps not - but I certainly feel the author would have been better served with two larger novels rather than three as this novel has lost its way following the success of book one .I'm hoping book three returns to the glories of its inception and does not continue to fizzle toward an even more unsatisfying conclusion.
Oh, how excited I was, to stumble across Field Two! Field One had been a quite complex multi-timeline read, with a good range of characters and plotlines which kept me enthralled from start to finish. I relished the thought of the next instalment and, to prepare first re-read Field One to re-establish the characters and timelines. Sadly the book didn't quite live up to expectations, with a lot of repetition from the first novel (granted this gave some different perspectives) and a lack of explanation for the newer material meaning that at times this book felt a little disjointed. New ideas were introduced but lacked detail and appeared to lack purpose, in this novel, rather acting as waypoints for the next. Overall this made a disappointing read, and felt like "filler" a lot of the time. Mysteries were simply too mysterious and I'm left feeling annoyed having completed the book. Perhaps this will end as a trilogy, perhaps not - but I certainly feel the author would have been better served with two larger novels rather than three as this novel has lost its way following the success of book one .I'm hoping book three returns to the glories of its inception and does not continue to fizzle toward an even more unsatisfying conclusion.
March 22, 2022
Oh what a jumble
This is actually worse than the first book. All the various threads from the first book are left unsolved, and we are given new ones that don't finish. Again, the chapters bounce around from time zone to time zone, but not in a linear fashion. We'll get an episode followed by the backstory which explains the episode. Confusingly interwoven are the chapters with no date. Only a ~ sign which is not searchable. These describe an intervention by someone out of time, and before time. This person's origin, purpose, and motivation are left unexplained. Her success is also indeterminate. The book ends with, everything in chaos, but nobody is dead yet although they all should be.
This is actually worse than the first book. All the various threads from the first book are left unsolved, and we are given new ones that don't finish. Again, the chapters bounce around from time zone to time zone, but not in a linear fashion. We'll get an episode followed by the backstory which explains the episode. Confusingly interwoven are the chapters with no date. Only a ~ sign which is not searchable. These describe an intervention by someone out of time, and before time. This person's origin, purpose, and motivation are left unexplained. Her success is also indeterminate. The book ends with, everything in chaos, but nobody is dead yet although they all should be.
December 27, 2017
Christmas break gave me the opportunity to jump straight into Field Two after finishing Field One
Very much a continuation of the story, to the point the two of them could have been pit together as a single book
This one jumped between timelines and characters again but was much easier to follow straight off the back of the previous book
What I specifically enjoyed about this was how it repeated a lot of ground from the first book but from the perspective of other characters, very much "two sides of the story"
Also the various subplots intertwined brilliantly adding a ton of depth to the overall story with ton of clever reveals
I need to know how it ends...straight onto book 3!
Very much a continuation of the story, to the point the two of them could have been pit together as a single book
This one jumped between timelines and characters again but was much easier to follow straight off the back of the previous book
What I specifically enjoyed about this was how it repeated a lot of ground from the first book but from the perspective of other characters, very much "two sides of the story"
Also the various subplots intertwined brilliantly adding a ton of depth to the overall story with ton of clever reveals
I need to know how it ends...straight onto book 3!
May 5, 2019
Forgot dinner reading
While I don't understand all that was in the book I had trouble putting the book down. Although you have e a good idea that probably Douglas, Monica and Kate would be reunited it was very absorbing trying to figure out HOW. In fact, I sat down in my reading chair, pushed the dogs out of the chair, and refused to answer the phone, until I had finished this book.
Actually, I have an 8 hour plane ride coming up and am trying to decide if I can wait until then to read the next book. I don't think I have that much patience. As soon as I finish this review I'm going to start reading it. If I fall asleep in church tomorrow I can blame this book.
While I don't understand all that was in the book I had trouble putting the book down. Although you have e a good idea that probably Douglas, Monica and Kate would be reunited it was very absorbing trying to figure out HOW. In fact, I sat down in my reading chair, pushed the dogs out of the chair, and refused to answer the phone, until I had finished this book.
Actually, I have an 8 hour plane ride coming up and am trying to decide if I can wait until then to read the next book. I don't think I have that much patience. As soon as I finish this review I'm going to start reading it. If I fall asleep in church tomorrow I can blame this book.
June 6, 2019
Part two of the field series (imaginative title)
Carry's on in the same format, lots of jumping about between characters and jumping about in the time line. It's a straight continuation of part 1 and needs to be read after 'Field One'. Its the same story Earth to be destroyed by impact from space, secret plans to save some, all sorts of scheming going on, nobody can be trusted.
Continued in part 3 'Boundary'.
Its a good story but I dislike having a series of books where you need to read the previous parts in order to follow the story and each can't be seen as a distinct story in itself.
Carry's on in the same format, lots of jumping about between characters and jumping about in the time line. It's a straight continuation of part 1 and needs to be read after 'Field One'. Its the same story Earth to be destroyed by impact from space, secret plans to save some, all sorts of scheming going on, nobody can be trusted.
Continued in part 3 'Boundary'.
Its a good story but I dislike having a series of books where you need to read the previous parts in order to follow the story and each can't be seen as a distinct story in itself.
May 24, 2017
Enjoyed it as much as Field One, maybe even a bit more because missing chunks [pun intended] of the storyline were filled in ... BUT.
At times the fragmented storyline gets just too complex. Even though each chapter (or snippets in some cases) has a time stamp, I certainly could not associate each event/cliffhanger with all the dates (except maybe the events of late Dec 2013) and the mostly one-word chapter names did not help me at all - while a location would have been helpful instead.
When I read hard SF, I do expect it to be science fiction, and will openly admit that it's occasionally (way) above my head, but let me throw a couple quotes at you:
"Most helicopters suffered from blade-vortex interaction making them noisy. However, on this model the raked rotor profile and piezoelectric vibrating flaps running along the rotors’ edges cut its audio presence significantly.
And my favourite: "They discovered that, beyond the Haken manifolds and diffeomorphism that lay at the heart of the Field’s inversion process, there was an even greater dimensional complexity within the Boundary itself."
I have a feeling this is no Star Trek-like "techno babble", but actually makes sense; however, I'll have to take the author's word for it.
Still, very interesting story line, novel ideas, good characters and as such very much recommended
At times the fragmented storyline gets just too complex. Even though each chapter (or snippets in some cases) has a time stamp, I certainly could not associate each event/cliffhanger with all the dates (except maybe the events of late Dec 2013) and the mostly one-word chapter names did not help me at all - while a location would have been helpful instead.
When I read hard SF, I do expect it to be science fiction, and will openly admit that it's occasionally (way) above my head, but let me throw a couple quotes at you:
"Most helicopters suffered from blade-vortex interaction making them noisy. However, on this model the raked rotor profile and piezoelectric vibrating flaps running along the rotors’ edges cut its audio presence significantly.
And my favourite: "They discovered that, beyond the Haken manifolds and diffeomorphism that lay at the heart of the Field’s inversion process, there was an even greater dimensional complexity within the Boundary itself."
I have a feeling this is no Star Trek-like "techno babble", but actually makes sense; however, I'll have to take the author's word for it.
Still, very interesting story line, novel ideas, good characters and as such very much recommended
September 4, 2017
Mixed opinions on this.
Field one was really good. The science is believable and the multiple plots are great.
But this book jumps about a bit too much in the beginning and I found it quite dull to begin with. Very nearly jumped ship and read something else.
Think the far future is a bit pointless and kinda gives away one of the plot strings.
However, the last half of the book was quite gripping and flew through it.
Now really looking forward to book three, hoping it stays sort of believable.
Field one was really good. The science is believable and the multiple plots are great.
But this book jumps about a bit too much in the beginning and I found it quite dull to begin with. Very nearly jumped ship and read something else.
Think the far future is a bit pointless and kinda gives away one of the plot strings.
However, the last half of the book was quite gripping and flew through it.
Now really looking forward to book three, hoping it stays sort of believable.
February 9, 2017
Another excellent read. Earth has suffered after the destruction of the moon where chunks of the moon have hit ground, creating earthquakes, tsunamis and decimation in the billions. Like Field One, this jumps around in different time periods and tells a gripping story. Pleased to report the end isn't the end. A third book is imminent and I am very much looking forward to it.
Ray Smillie
Ray Smillie
May 28, 2018
Excellent second book
This is an excellent second in a trilogy. Fills in missing bits from the first book, adds further intrigue and keeps on pulling you further through the story!
A must read if you like sci-fi, thrillers, time travel and intrigue in your reading!
This is an excellent second in a trilogy. Fills in missing bits from the first book, adds further intrigue and keeps on pulling you further through the story!
A must read if you like sci-fi, thrillers, time travel and intrigue in your reading!
July 27, 2018
Repetitive of book 1
Too much directly cloned from book 1. I mean complete cut and paste! Fair enough, bring a reader up to speed, but really you only get half a new book for your money
Too much directly cloned from book 1. I mean complete cut and paste! Fair enough, bring a reader up to speed, but really you only get half a new book for your money
March 14, 2019
very original
field one by itself was excellent but field 2 not just fills in a few gaps but turns things upside down and twists them sideways. my kind of read and already bought the next 2 books in this amazing series.
field one by itself was excellent but field 2 not just fills in a few gaps but turns things upside down and twists them sideways. my kind of read and already bought the next 2 books in this amazing series.
February 21, 2017
A good follow up, although the constant jumping around in time got a little tedious after a while and distracted from the story. Still I'd recommend it
May 8, 2017
Can't wait for the final instalment. The mixed timelines make it hard to track the multitude of lead characters however the style does create a chaotic momentum.
June 1, 2017
double nah
July 3, 2017
Enjoyed this more than the previous volume. More complex story, with more jumping around in time, but some good character development.
July 8, 2017
Got a bit bored and frustrated by the jumping around of characters and dates. Wasn't the EoW story I was looking for. Speed read the last 25% , just wanted it to end.
September 6, 2017
Loved this book, but I was hoping for more of the after landing the node piece. Hopefully there is / will be a Field 3
January 9, 2018
Alright, imaginative, bit confusing and bitty
August 19, 2018
Second installment was very good, it has some very good moral questions. I thought this would be an Asteroid hits earth disaster book but it's so much more. Well worth a read.
January 17, 2019
Not as good as the first book, but I would still like to read the last 2 to see where it ends up
March 12, 2020
Fantastic
Really enjoying this book. I'm not usually one for science type books but I'm thoroughly enjoying this series. Can't wait for the next one!
Really enjoying this book. I'm not usually one for science type books but I'm thoroughly enjoying this series. Can't wait for the next one!
March 9, 2017
Excellent.
February 5, 2017
4 Stars
I gave this book 4 stars as the story is great. The constant jumping backwards and forwards across a 60 year time frame can be frustrating though. It also feels a little cheap to use that method for twists. Great books with real twists lead the reader to come to the wrong conclusion, they don't flat out tell you one thing then 100 pages later jump back to the day before and tell you another.
I gave this book 4 stars as the story is great. The constant jumping backwards and forwards across a 60 year time frame can be frustrating though. It also feels a little cheap to use that method for twists. Great books with real twists lead the reader to come to the wrong conclusion, they don't flat out tell you one thing then 100 pages later jump back to the day before and tell you another.
January 17, 2017
Intriguing but also confusing
There's some good progressive revealing that hooked me in. But I did find the jumping about in time to be annoying. Each chapter starts, mostly, with a date and time - which isn't enough to flag when things are happening. I understand why the writer chose this approach, but some extra pointers would really have helped.
There's some good progressive revealing that hooked me in. But I did find the jumping about in time to be annoying. Each chapter starts, mostly, with a date and time - which isn't enough to flag when things are happening. I understand why the writer chose this approach, but some extra pointers would really have helped.
December 19, 2016
Ok i guess
I was expecting more after the first book, but 50% of the field 2 book was field 1 but from a different character perspective and some pages could be skipped entirely.
I wil probably purchase field3 though just to see how the story plays out
I was expecting more after the first book, but 50% of the field 2 book was field 1 but from a different character perspective and some pages could be skipped entirely.
I wil probably purchase field3 though just to see how the story plays out
January 19, 2017
Interesting book
I liked this story. It's different but keeps you hooked. Maybe a little long. I'm looking forward to book 3
I liked this story. It's different but keeps you hooked. Maybe a little long. I'm looking forward to book 3
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