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Beta-Earth Chronicles #5
The Third Earth
This is an alternate cover edition - ASIN: B01MSH4KZG
Immerse yourself in an extraordinary universe revealed by the most original storytelling you’ll ever experience. “Science fiction yes, but so much more.”
For twenty years, Dr. Malcolm Renbourn and Tribe Renbourn faced adventure after adventure, struggle after struggle on Beta-Earth.
Now, Renbourn and five of his Betan wives are forced to cross the multi-verse once again, this time to the strange world called Cerapin-Earth. After startling and frightening physical transformations, the altered Renbourns meet two new kinds of humanity. One is the dominant pairs who are able to share thoughts and sensations at the same time. The other are the nams, single-bodied people the pairs deem defective mono-minds. As a result, nams are exiled from the overpopulated cities of pyramid hives.
Tribe Renbourn must join the outcasts and teach them they are as worthy of love and acceptance as any unkind pair. But helping the nams learn how to stand up for themselves ultimately leads to a catastrophic war. At the same time, Cerapin scientists plan another multi-versal jump that must also end in a costly disaster. Along the way, two sexy spies complicate everything.
On a world where technology is worshiped like a religion, how can the nam rebels overcome the superior armaments of the pairs using primitive weaponry? While this conflict brews, Tribe Renbourn explores what it means to be human in ways they never expected. Will their epic end like it began, forced to sacrifice themselves to save a doomed city?
Immerse yourself in an extraordinary universe revealed by the most original storytelling you’ll ever experience. “Science fiction yes, but so much more.”
For twenty years, Dr. Malcolm Renbourn and Tribe Renbourn faced adventure after adventure, struggle after struggle on Beta-Earth.
Now, Renbourn and five of his Betan wives are forced to cross the multi-verse once again, this time to the strange world called Cerapin-Earth. After startling and frightening physical transformations, the altered Renbourns meet two new kinds of humanity. One is the dominant pairs who are able to share thoughts and sensations at the same time. The other are the nams, single-bodied people the pairs deem defective mono-minds. As a result, nams are exiled from the overpopulated cities of pyramid hives.
Tribe Renbourn must join the outcasts and teach them they are as worthy of love and acceptance as any unkind pair. But helping the nams learn how to stand up for themselves ultimately leads to a catastrophic war. At the same time, Cerapin scientists plan another multi-versal jump that must also end in a costly disaster. Along the way, two sexy spies complicate everything.
On a world where technology is worshiped like a religion, how can the nam rebels overcome the superior armaments of the pairs using primitive weaponry? While this conflict brews, Tribe Renbourn explores what it means to be human in ways they never expected. Will their epic end like it began, forced to sacrifice themselves to save a doomed city?
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About the author
Wesley Britton
29 books108 followersImmerse yourself in an extraordinary universe revealed by the most original storytelling you’ll ever experience. “Science fiction yes, but so much more.”
Besides his 33 years in the classroom, Dr. Wesley Britton considers his Beta-Earth Chronicles the most important work he’s ever done. “I suppose an author profile is intended to be a good little biography,” Britton says, “but the best way to know who I am is to read my novels.”
Still, a few things you might like to know about Wes include the fact he’s the author of four non-fiction books on espionage in the media, most notably The Encyclopedia of TV Spies (2009). Beginning in 1983, he was a widely published poet, article writer for a number of encyclopedias, and was a noted scholar of American literature. Since those days, for sites like BlogCritics.org and BookPleasures.com, Britton wrote over 500 music, book, an movie reviews. For seven years, he was co-host of online radio's Dave White Presents for which he contributed celebrity interviews with musicians, authors, actors, and entertainment insiders.
Starting in fall 2015, his science fiction series, The Beta-Earth Chronicles, debuted with The Blind Alien. Throughout 2016, four sequels followed including The Blood of Balnakin, When War Returns, A Throne for an Alien, and The Third Earth. Return to Alpha will be the sixth volume of this multi-planetary epic.
Britton earned his doctorate in American Literature at the University of North Texas in 1990. He taught English at Harrisburg Area Community College until his retirement in 2016. He serves on the Board of Directors for Vision Resources of Central Pennsylvania. He lives with his one and only wife, Betty, in Harrisburg, PA.
Find out more about the Beta-Earth series on the official website -- http://www.drwesleybritton.com
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February 16, 2019
This book is my favorite of the series so far!
Wesley Britton has an imagination that has created worlds and situations I haven’t seen anyone create before. New ideas, worlds, characters – it’s great! And yet, with all these new situations and conditions, there is a great story there.
Third World changes everything for the Renbourns; literally and figuratively. The way of life on this world is different, perhaps even more different that the “Tribe” lifestyle of Beta Earth. First, there is the great change on arrival in this world – physically – for more than just Malcolm. Then the discovery of the entirely different populace. I don’t want to be more specific and give away the surprise and fun you will have reading it, so I’ll leave it here.
One more thought - this book continues to address issues common in our society – especially prejudices, and the idea that one way of living is better than the other.
So there it is – new ideas, great story, thoughtful.
Wesley Britton has an imagination that has created worlds and situations I haven’t seen anyone create before. New ideas, worlds, characters – it’s great! And yet, with all these new situations and conditions, there is a great story there.
Third World changes everything for the Renbourns; literally and figuratively. The way of life on this world is different, perhaps even more different that the “Tribe” lifestyle of Beta Earth. First, there is the great change on arrival in this world – physically – for more than just Malcolm. Then the discovery of the entirely different populace. I don’t want to be more specific and give away the surprise and fun you will have reading it, so I’ll leave it here.
One more thought - this book continues to address issues common in our society – especially prejudices, and the idea that one way of living is better than the other.
So there it is – new ideas, great story, thoughtful.
April 5, 2023
Science fiction, yes...but so much more.
The author's quote hits the nail on the head in describing the fifth installment of the Beta-Earth Chronicles. Fans of Frank Hebert's Dune will love the rich and heavy details of Wesley Britton's Third Earth along with its exploration of what defines us.
The book takes a moment to warm up, but once it gains momentum, it travels at lightspeed, making it difficult to put down.
And while this is the fifth book in the series, the books can be thoroughly enjoyed as a standalone. Britton provides any needed background within the context of the introduction. Be aware, Britton's writing style may prove a bit wordy and sometimes dry to some readers.
If you enjoy "thinking" science fiction set in dramatic new worlds with fully-developed characters, set a course for Wesley Britton's Third Earth.
*I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review.
The author's quote hits the nail on the head in describing the fifth installment of the Beta-Earth Chronicles. Fans of Frank Hebert's Dune will love the rich and heavy details of Wesley Britton's Third Earth along with its exploration of what defines us.
The book takes a moment to warm up, but once it gains momentum, it travels at lightspeed, making it difficult to put down.
And while this is the fifth book in the series, the books can be thoroughly enjoyed as a standalone. Britton provides any needed background within the context of the introduction. Be aware, Britton's writing style may prove a bit wordy and sometimes dry to some readers.
If you enjoy "thinking" science fiction set in dramatic new worlds with fully-developed characters, set a course for Wesley Britton's Third Earth.
*I received a complimentary copy of this book in exchange for a fair and honest review.
January 27, 2018
After a slow start, The Third Earth steadily increased in pace until I wouldn't put it down, paranoid that the story might keep going whether I was there to read it or not. However, the book is very detail-heavy, and has more of the feel of a series' first book that is looking to set up books that come after it, rather than the feel of a series' fifth book.
Both of those things aside, my only real complaint is that the book was over too quickly to really get to know the characters in their new setting.
Both of those things aside, my only real complaint is that the book was over too quickly to really get to know the characters in their new setting.
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