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Tombs Rising #3
The Infinity Mainframe
It called to him from the darkness. He shouldn’t have listened.
The Department is watching, ensuring telepaths play by the rules, but a murder in their ranks drives Ruby to hunt her friend's killer.
But as she goes undercover, Ruby gets tangled in the secretive world of telepaths, desperate to prevent a conflict the world isn’t ready for—and can’t survive.
The Infinity Mainframe is the third book of the Tombs Rising science-fiction series. If you're a fan of Torchwood, Stephen King, or The X-Files, then you'll love a series that combines all of their best traits in a fast-paced, thrilling adventure.
Buy THE INFINITY MAINFRAME and take your first steps into Robert Scott-Norton’s Tombs Legacy.
The Department is watching, ensuring telepaths play by the rules, but a murder in their ranks drives Ruby to hunt her friend's killer.
But as she goes undercover, Ruby gets tangled in the secretive world of telepaths, desperate to prevent a conflict the world isn’t ready for—and can’t survive.
The Infinity Mainframe is the third book of the Tombs Rising science-fiction series. If you're a fan of Torchwood, Stephen King, or The X-Files, then you'll love a series that combines all of their best traits in a fast-paced, thrilling adventure.
Buy THE INFINITY MAINFRAME and take your first steps into Robert Scott-Norton’s Tombs Legacy.
296 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 3, 2017
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Robert Scott-Norton
21 books23 followersRobert Scott-Norton writes to thrill, entertain, and keep people reading until the last page. Raised in Southport, he’s lived there most of his life and has concluded that this ordinary seaside town is the perfect setting for all the horrors he can throw at it.
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June 29, 2021I cannot understand the positive reviews for this book or imagine why anyone would bother reading the sequel. I love a potboiler as much as anyone but found the characters shallow and unbelievable, cliches too numerous to mention [Spoiler- ghosts with cut throats leering at their victims, nerdy and badly dressed ghost hunter, creepy room with pentagram - and by the way this is a symbol of protection so you wouldn't get blood inside it - books written in Latin which no-one can understand but recites anyway etc etc). I read through it to be fair to the author but was left asking why I'd spent a couple of hours of my life on it.
August 28, 2019
Loved books but no finale.
I have read and reread this series, but still no update on book 4. Shame as it has been entertaining but it is no different to reading a novel with the last few pages ripped out! Oh well...deleting from my library so as to stop being disappointed.
I have read and reread this series, but still no update on book 4. Shame as it has been entertaining but it is no different to reading a novel with the last few pages ripped out! Oh well...deleting from my library so as to stop being disappointed.
April 28, 2017
Scott-Norton mixes the ordered manner of police thrillers with telepathy and close-future dystopia to create a story that feels like cyberpunk from the side of the law.
This novel is the third volume of the Tombs Legacy series. Transfer of enjoyment-reducing insight of previous volumes might occur beyond this point.
Ruby works for the Department, the parallel police service tasked with overseeing telepaths and dealing with those who break the rules. Following intelligence that terrorists opposed to the British Government’s stance on telepaths intend to infiltrate the launch of the latest generation personal computer/communicator/assistant, she and her partner, Nikolai, discretely attend. A mission that Ruby hopes will give her another collar to add to her score. However, when Nikolai blows his cover with a loud paranoid rant in the middle of the party, then is murdered later that night, Ruby wants answers. But, with Nikolai’s death judged a murder rather than a telepath crime, she’ll have to go against both the regular police and her own people to get them.
While this book is the third volume in the series, it isn’t a direct sequel, either in protagonist or timeline. The story starts the day before the start of The Remnant Keeper, and – although Nikolai is the murder victim whose eyes are passed to Jack Winston at the beginning of that book – only shows glimpses of the events in that book.
Instead, Scott-Norton takes advantage of a protagonist with investigation skills and – initially at least – the backing of the authorities to provide a fresh perspective on OsmiTech, Devan Oster, and the reasons behind Nikolai’s death.
As such, this novel is likely to be accessible to readers unfamiliar with the series, making it a suitable starting point.
This parallel-narrative approach offers readers who are familiar with the events of the previous volumes greater depth into the events that shaped it and the knowledge that – on occasion – Ruby is unwittingly trusting the wrong people or missing key facts, providing a greater tension in several critical moments.
Ruby is a well-crafted protagonist: fully distinct from Jack, yet also shaped by the same world. As with Jack she has a disordered private life that both interferes with and aids her attempts to investigate the conspiracy that she’s stumbled upon. This adds strongly to the sense that she’s a real person, making her deviations from the most logical course highly plausible and making the reader sympathise.
As with Scott-Norton’s other work, the supporting cast are a solid balance of world-driven nuances and basic humanity, making their motivations and basic drives accessible without damaging the sense that this is a world shaped by different concerns and technologies than our own.
While it won’t come as a surprise to readers who have read the previous volumes, those considering this as an entry point should be aware that the novel does contain graphic – but not unnecessary – descriptions of technology based around eyeballs.
Overall, I greatly enjoyed this novel. I recommend it to readers seeking a complex dystopian thriller.
I received a free copy from the author with a request for a fair review.
This novel is the third volume of the Tombs Legacy series. Transfer of enjoyment-reducing insight of previous volumes might occur beyond this point.
Ruby works for the Department, the parallel police service tasked with overseeing telepaths and dealing with those who break the rules. Following intelligence that terrorists opposed to the British Government’s stance on telepaths intend to infiltrate the launch of the latest generation personal computer/communicator/assistant, she and her partner, Nikolai, discretely attend. A mission that Ruby hopes will give her another collar to add to her score. However, when Nikolai blows his cover with a loud paranoid rant in the middle of the party, then is murdered later that night, Ruby wants answers. But, with Nikolai’s death judged a murder rather than a telepath crime, she’ll have to go against both the regular police and her own people to get them.
While this book is the third volume in the series, it isn’t a direct sequel, either in protagonist or timeline. The story starts the day before the start of The Remnant Keeper, and – although Nikolai is the murder victim whose eyes are passed to Jack Winston at the beginning of that book – only shows glimpses of the events in that book.
Instead, Scott-Norton takes advantage of a protagonist with investigation skills and – initially at least – the backing of the authorities to provide a fresh perspective on OsmiTech, Devan Oster, and the reasons behind Nikolai’s death.
As such, this novel is likely to be accessible to readers unfamiliar with the series, making it a suitable starting point.
This parallel-narrative approach offers readers who are familiar with the events of the previous volumes greater depth into the events that shaped it and the knowledge that – on occasion – Ruby is unwittingly trusting the wrong people or missing key facts, providing a greater tension in several critical moments.
Ruby is a well-crafted protagonist: fully distinct from Jack, yet also shaped by the same world. As with Jack she has a disordered private life that both interferes with and aids her attempts to investigate the conspiracy that she’s stumbled upon. This adds strongly to the sense that she’s a real person, making her deviations from the most logical course highly plausible and making the reader sympathise.
As with Scott-Norton’s other work, the supporting cast are a solid balance of world-driven nuances and basic humanity, making their motivations and basic drives accessible without damaging the sense that this is a world shaped by different concerns and technologies than our own.
While it won’t come as a surprise to readers who have read the previous volumes, those considering this as an entry point should be aware that the novel does contain graphic – but not unnecessary – descriptions of technology based around eyeballs.
Overall, I greatly enjoyed this novel. I recommend it to readers seeking a complex dystopian thriller.
I received a free copy from the author with a request for a fair review.
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