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Beyond Cascadia #1
Echoes Through Distant Glass
After decades of civil unrest, and following the devastating Cascadia earthquake, a consolidated law enforcement entity, the Northwest Regional Law and Safety Agency, has arisen…
When Agency hot-shot cyber security defender Owen Dylan MacIntyre is tasked with investigating a potential terror threat to the Pacific Northwest, he crosses paths with the unpredictable and tragic Tomás Chen-Diaz and his brother Francisco.
A powerful global plutocrat, the enigmatic Francisco is also a brilliant amateur biotech scientist who has many powerful associates and a few dark secrets----which he's ready to kill to keep hidden.
Rapidly drawn into Chen-Diaz’ web of international conspiracies, MacIntyre finds his skills tested to the limit as he's trapped in a world where science and technology invade the most sacred realms of the human heart and soul…a world where he’ll be forced to confront some uncomfortable truths about himself…
. ..if he survives.
Book One of the Beyond Cascadia series, Echoes Through Distant Glass deftly weaves timeless themes of humanity and a range of relevant geo-political and bioethics issues into a memorable cyberpunk techno thriller drama. The vivid prose, haunting imagery and unforgettable characters will linger with the reader long after the thought-provoking and emotional conclusion.
When Agency hot-shot cyber security defender Owen Dylan MacIntyre is tasked with investigating a potential terror threat to the Pacific Northwest, he crosses paths with the unpredictable and tragic Tomás Chen-Diaz and his brother Francisco.
A powerful global plutocrat, the enigmatic Francisco is also a brilliant amateur biotech scientist who has many powerful associates and a few dark secrets----which he's ready to kill to keep hidden.
Rapidly drawn into Chen-Diaz’ web of international conspiracies, MacIntyre finds his skills tested to the limit as he's trapped in a world where science and technology invade the most sacred realms of the human heart and soul…a world where he’ll be forced to confront some uncomfortable truths about himself…
. ..if he survives.
Book One of the Beyond Cascadia series, Echoes Through Distant Glass deftly weaves timeless themes of humanity and a range of relevant geo-political and bioethics issues into a memorable cyberpunk techno thriller drama. The vivid prose, haunting imagery and unforgettable characters will linger with the reader long after the thought-provoking and emotional conclusion.
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Published April 14, 2020
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S. Kirk Pierzchala
15 books21 followersA life-long native of the Pacific Northwest, S. Kirk Pierzchala is inspired by mist and moss. She has been creating as long as she can remember. Whether playing with color and texture in a mixed media work of art, or puzzling out the perfect phrasing to depict a character's inner turmoil, she seeks to always present beauty and truth.
In short, she is passionate about using her God-given gifts to create memorable works of fiction.
In short, she is passionate about using her God-given gifts to create memorable works of fiction.
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February 4, 2024
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'Echoes...' is an ambitious work of speculative fiction, with beautiful writing, humor, social commentary, and sci-fi galore. Readers in the mood for a deep read will love meeting Pierzchala's characters, each of whom is all-too-human, while journeying across the Western United States in a near-future dystopia that one can see just around the corner from our own world, if we're not careful.
'Echoes...' is an ambitious work of speculative fiction, with beautiful writing, humor, social commentary, and sci-fi galore. Readers in the mood for a deep read will love meeting Pierzchala's characters, each of whom is all-too-human, while journeying across the Western United States in a near-future dystopia that one can see just around the corner from our own world, if we're not careful.
July 24, 2020
Echoes Through Distant Glass review
Portraying a world held utterly captive by technology and surveillance and kept that way through chemical dependency, the author makes an unexpected choice to tell us about this world through two characters, a cyber security officer and a member of a ruling family in the Mexican-Chinese drug cartel, who are intimately and naively complicit in the furtherance of these two systems of control. The two characters mirror each other in a way that makes their strange friendship both believable and moving.
Like the series Dark Mirror, there are many things in Echoes Through Distant Glass that will make readers uncomfortable at how all too close for comfort some of its speculations are, no matter what your political slant is it is hard to deny the warnings presented here, even if the reasons for how we get there are debatable.
This first novel by S.Kirk Pierzchala hits many of the same marks as other works of speculative fiction, most obviously Margret Atwood's Madd Adam Trilogy. Though the author is clearly coming at things from a libertarian slant, many of the same things go wrong in Pierzchala’s vision of the near future as they do in Atwood's, and though both could be argued to be stark warnings against the dire outcome of the current well intentioned (or not?) Neo-Liberal agenda, ultimately the warning, especially in Echoes Through Distant Glass, is the loss, for all humanity, of its connection to the Divine.
Despite its heavy subject matter this is a highly readable novel, presented in short digestible chapters and written in a sparse, stream lined prose marked by occasional moments of poetry so subtle you may almost miss them.
This is the first novel in what promises to be a series and I am looking forward to the next one.
Portraying a world held utterly captive by technology and surveillance and kept that way through chemical dependency, the author makes an unexpected choice to tell us about this world through two characters, a cyber security officer and a member of a ruling family in the Mexican-Chinese drug cartel, who are intimately and naively complicit in the furtherance of these two systems of control. The two characters mirror each other in a way that makes their strange friendship both believable and moving.
Like the series Dark Mirror, there are many things in Echoes Through Distant Glass that will make readers uncomfortable at how all too close for comfort some of its speculations are, no matter what your political slant is it is hard to deny the warnings presented here, even if the reasons for how we get there are debatable.
This first novel by S.Kirk Pierzchala hits many of the same marks as other works of speculative fiction, most obviously Margret Atwood's Madd Adam Trilogy. Though the author is clearly coming at things from a libertarian slant, many of the same things go wrong in Pierzchala’s vision of the near future as they do in Atwood's, and though both could be argued to be stark warnings against the dire outcome of the current well intentioned (or not?) Neo-Liberal agenda, ultimately the warning, especially in Echoes Through Distant Glass, is the loss, for all humanity, of its connection to the Divine.
Despite its heavy subject matter this is a highly readable novel, presented in short digestible chapters and written in a sparse, stream lined prose marked by occasional moments of poetry so subtle you may almost miss them.
This is the first novel in what promises to be a series and I am looking forward to the next one.
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