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Archeons #3
Dangerous Solutions
Deka and Kylac watched their homeworld destroyed for a second time, and now Friend has abducted Kylac. Without their raptors, Kylac and Friend are sure to revert to their animal ways.
Friend has a plan for that. He is forcing Kylac to perceive the mysterious space beyond the universe. It works, but as their perception of reality grows, they become capable of destroying the universe to satisfy their animal nature.
Meanwhile, Deka and Rive travel to the last planets suffering from the disasters to gather survivors from Rel. Deka understands what happened to his mate. She's out there, beyond the universe, and there is still a chance she can come back.
Relians need a new homeworld. Humanity needs a companion species.
Who better to bring them together than a dragon?
Friend has a plan for that. He is forcing Kylac to perceive the mysterious space beyond the universe. It works, but as their perception of reality grows, they become capable of destroying the universe to satisfy their animal nature.
Meanwhile, Deka and Rive travel to the last planets suffering from the disasters to gather survivors from Rel. Deka understands what happened to his mate. She's out there, beyond the universe, and there is still a chance she can come back.
Relians need a new homeworld. Humanity needs a companion species.
Who better to bring them together than a dragon?
294 pages, Kindle Edition
Published November 16, 2019
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About the author
James L. Steele
37 books74 followersJames L. Steele has been published in various anthologies and magazines, including: Solarcide, Allasso, Different Worlds, Different Skins: V.2, Tall Tales with Short Cocks V.2, Bourbon Penn, Gods with Fur, Claw the Way to Victory, and Fictionvale.
The Archeons series, his sci-fi novels featuring nonhuman characters, is published through KTM Publishing.
He lives in Ohio, where he pursues his hobby of becoming a wine connoisseur while having between two and six existential crises per day.
Blog: https://daydreamingintext.blogspot.com/
The Archeons series, his sci-fi novels featuring nonhuman characters, is published through KTM Publishing.
He lives in Ohio, where he pursues his hobby of becoming a wine connoisseur while having between two and six existential crises per day.
Blog: https://daydreamingintext.blogspot.com/
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April 28, 2022
This was my favorite in the series so far. I admit, I was a bit skeptical from the second book that all of these crazy happenings (vast devastation, at a scale surpassing even your typical late-stage comic book arc) would have a satisfying resolution, but I was proven wrong. All of the various plot threads that had been on a slowly escalating repeat during the previous two books come to a head here, and the altercation felt appropriately epic and satisfying. It's an existentialist crisis on full blast.
Another smaller thread also resolves in this book, which is a small sub-plot touched on in the previous two, but which I think encapsulates one really great aspect of this series. The protagonists at one point uncover a series of caves underneath the sand on a desert planet, full of little crystal figures. When these figures come into contact with water, they begin to move, communicating through electron arcs and working at some imponderable task. The characters all believe that once they surmount the language barrier--learning how to communicate, themselves, using electricity--they'll solve the mystery of this new people and bring them into contact with the rest of the Universe. Without spoiling anything, it ends in a very clever and creative way, such that I felt the whole thing could easily be taken out and republished, on its own, as a complete short story or novella for a science fiction collection.
While most of the species' arcs are given only in brief throughout the series, delving into this one in such detail served, for me, to illuminate all the others in a way I hadn't experienced up until that point. It added so much more color to things, so it really stuck with me, even though it was embedded alongside all of this other, much more operatic content that is the main plot.
Anyway, I have a lot of other thoughts, but rather than posting them here I'd just encourage everyone to give this series a read, because even though I'm only about halfway through, it is quite a trip.
Another smaller thread also resolves in this book, which is a small sub-plot touched on in the previous two, but which I think encapsulates one really great aspect of this series. The protagonists at one point uncover a series of caves underneath the sand on a desert planet, full of little crystal figures. When these figures come into contact with water, they begin to move, communicating through electron arcs and working at some imponderable task. The characters all believe that once they surmount the language barrier--learning how to communicate, themselves, using electricity--they'll solve the mystery of this new people and bring them into contact with the rest of the Universe. Without spoiling anything, it ends in a very clever and creative way, such that I felt the whole thing could easily be taken out and republished, on its own, as a complete short story or novella for a science fiction collection.
While most of the species' arcs are given only in brief throughout the series, delving into this one in such detail served, for me, to illuminate all the others in a way I hadn't experienced up until that point. It added so much more color to things, so it really stuck with me, even though it was embedded alongside all of this other, much more operatic content that is the main plot.
Anyway, I have a lot of other thoughts, but rather than posting them here I'd just encourage everyone to give this series a read, because even though I'm only about halfway through, it is quite a trip.
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