Navigating Stories: A Slipstreamers Adventure

by J.D. Ryot, Lisa M. Daly

Cassidy Cane goes by many titles -- archeologist, anthropologist, adventurer -- but none more fitting than that given to her on some strange Slipstreamer.Cassidy slips between worlds, traveling to bizarre planets and alternate Earths to find extraordinary new technologies and artifacts that might better humanity!While searching for a strange magnetic mineral, Cassidy ventures to Vering Island, Astrada, a small island in a world at war with a tense relationship with the air base recently built on their island.Relations between the islanders and the air base are already tense, but when Cassidy crash-lands it results in the air base taking something of great importance from the islanders to help the war effort.Can Cassidy set things right on this world plagued by war before it’s too late?

107 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 8, 2021

Reviews

[Shannon Green · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'll start by saying that this review might be a little biased: I'm a huge fan of the author (and married to her), and I have a book later in the series.

In this volume Cassidy faces the challenges that many people face when meeting a new culture: reconciling their own bias and viewpoints with those of a new group. But, Cassidy has the additional issues of trying to do the job she was given while maintaining her personal and professional ethics.

The author examines the dilemma through a screen of action sequences that keep the reader turning pages.

[Paul Carberry · Rating 5 out of 5]

This episode of Slipstreamers dealt with some intriguing topics, and the author navigates them expertly. I loved the setting, crafted from actual locations in New Brunswick. I also enjoyed how the author tackled the theme of how war can drive technological advances, but also harm the environment in exchange for victory. But who really wins in a war?