It begins with a murder, in sun-baked Los Angeles in 2063, when Earth's climate is nearing collapse. A new planet, Eden, is within reach, but the first two trips there did not return. What really awaits us on Eden, and who are the Alicians, an ancient sect on Earth who have been biding their time...
All 4 Eden Paradox books in one volume! From the discovery of a desperately needed new planet, Eden, to humanity's escape to the stars, to finding a new home on the planet Esperia, to fighting the galactic invader Qorall and the Machine species who will end all life... This is epic scifi, seen through the eyes of a handful of men and women trying to survive and hold onto their humanity in a hostile universe...
Barry (J F) Kirwan is a split personality. He writes science fiction under the name Barry Kirwan, and thrillers under his pen name J F Kirwan. In his day job, he travels worldwide, working on aviation safety. He lives in Paris, where he first joined a fiction class – and became hooked! This led to an acclaimed four-book series called the Eden Paradox. But when a back injury stopped him scuba diving for two years, he wrote a thriller series about a young Russian woman, Nadia, where a lot of the action occurred in dangerously deep waters. Since then he wrote a serial killer thriller called The Dead Tell Lies, and is writing a new scifi series starting with When the Children Come....
Like an ant trying to understand a nuclear reactor, it's sometimes difficult for a mere human author to imagine the thinking of a being that is more intelligent by several orders of magnitude. This is what this book is about, and ironically also where it fails. I don't ever feel like the intelligences are all that much more intelligent in any way besides technology, and even that is mostly at the space opera level.
It does make for a good space opera though. Just don't expect hard sci fi.
Sci-fi explosions. Sci-fi murders. Sci-fi car chases. "Micah’s vision was drawn to her perfect ass in [sci-fi] stretch pants." I really tried - lured by good ratings and hints of interesting intrigues, but sci-fi Bruce Willis leaves no space for a story.