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An Alien, a Time Machine, and a Hero
Five years have passed since Skylar Holden saved the world. He’s no longer a loser, and his life is now on track. His job is going well. He’s respected. He makes plenty of money. He even has a girlfriend. He has everything he ever wished for. Unfortunately, he’s learning what it’s like to live a normal life and deal with the daily grind. He misses the excitement and challenge his previous life provided, but now he’s too afraid to risk anything in fear of losing what he’s achieved. Alfred, the extraterrestrial who helped Skylar save the world, just got fired from his job as The Intergalactic Corp’s observer on Earth. He’s been banished to live among the humans for the next two millennia without interfering in their development. This is a light sentence for an alien, but there’s a problem. An asteroid is on a collision course for Earth, and it’s large enough to wipe out all of humanity—along with Alfred. The asteroid will not reach Earth for ten years, but Alfred’s going to have to find a way to save Earth if he wants to survive himself, and he’s completely cut off from The Corp and their resources. He’s got a plan, but he’s going to need some help along with access to some of the advanced technology he’s stashed on Earth—in Skylar’s stomach.
244 pages, Kindle Edition
Published July 17, 2017
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Joey Rogers
8 books9 followersJoey Rogers is an enthusiast of sci-fi, video games, and all-around geekery. He’s a software developer by day in the high-tech city of Huntsville, Alabama and loves writing about what the future might hold.
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February 20, 2019
Here we are again, finally reviewing these two after having read them over a month or two ago. So sad how fast fun flies when you're doing time.... er time flies when you're living. Something like that. I did receive this book on good faith in exchange for an honest review and so I'm finally paying my bills.
Joey, you've done it again with this one as well. We step back into Skylar's life to find out some more about what is going on with him as there were a loose end or three in the previous book. We just weren't made aware of those ends because of the masterful storytelling Mr. Rogers pulled off for the story. It's still the same good humor. It's not as hung up on the thoughtful situations this time but more along the lines of 'we need to act to make something happen' type of encounters.
Skylar and crew have problems starting only five years after the first book. They aren't problems of the normal kind either. He's bored out of his skull and not sure just how to fix things because of his taste of what adventure was like in the previous book. At least this is how I choose to recall him, he's actually having fun living normally and feeling nostalgia about the events of the crazy past. Not really any different from what we do in our lives. Then, his buddy Alfred shows up with another problem, just as Earth shattering as the last problem they were faced with.
In this one you have a lot of the same wit and banter as you did in the first book. The tension builds and releases in much the same way with the humor well timed and all that. However, the tension this time is from how to act on information and not really on how to find the information to be able to act. This time around they are faced with a new set of problems, ironically they wouldn't have made it through this without having gone through the other mis-adventure first, which will challenge them on all new levels of thinking and creative problem solving.
I know this review isn't as long as the other one but it really is such a good novelette, it's hard to not just type out the whole thing so you can read it here and then purchase a dozen or so to show your support for Joey's writing style. I very highly recommend this whole series of books (as of today, there are three) to anyone wanting a book heavy on science at a more personable level. Nothing is tossed out there as "you have to know this or you're not worthy" but there are some very high levels of science talked about in the book. It's not really hard to understand because Skylar gets it, very well written.
Okay, this is starting to ramble and I'm sorry for reviewing while tired but please, do yourself a favor and get this book for some lighthearted and fun end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it storytelling. Joey Rogers has done it again.
Joey, you've done it again with this one as well. We step back into Skylar's life to find out some more about what is going on with him as there were a loose end or three in the previous book. We just weren't made aware of those ends because of the masterful storytelling Mr. Rogers pulled off for the story. It's still the same good humor. It's not as hung up on the thoughtful situations this time but more along the lines of 'we need to act to make something happen' type of encounters.
Skylar and crew have problems starting only five years after the first book. They aren't problems of the normal kind either. He's bored out of his skull and not sure just how to fix things because of his taste of what adventure was like in the previous book. At least this is how I choose to recall him, he's actually having fun living normally and feeling nostalgia about the events of the crazy past. Not really any different from what we do in our lives. Then, his buddy Alfred shows up with another problem, just as Earth shattering as the last problem they were faced with.
In this one you have a lot of the same wit and banter as you did in the first book. The tension builds and releases in much the same way with the humor well timed and all that. However, the tension this time is from how to act on information and not really on how to find the information to be able to act. This time around they are faced with a new set of problems, ironically they wouldn't have made it through this without having gone through the other mis-adventure first, which will challenge them on all new levels of thinking and creative problem solving.
I know this review isn't as long as the other one but it really is such a good novelette, it's hard to not just type out the whole thing so you can read it here and then purchase a dozen or so to show your support for Joey's writing style. I very highly recommend this whole series of books (as of today, there are three) to anyone wanting a book heavy on science at a more personable level. Nothing is tossed out there as "you have to know this or you're not worthy" but there are some very high levels of science talked about in the book. It's not really hard to understand because Skylar gets it, very well written.
Okay, this is starting to ramble and I'm sorry for reviewing while tired but please, do yourself a favor and get this book for some lighthearted and fun end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it storytelling. Joey Rogers has done it again.
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