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Tendrils
Working on the HALO (High Altitude Atmospheric and Light Observatory) research platform sixteen miles above Earth's surface , Crystal Calhoun is used to an alien form of existence. But when she dreams through the waking eyes of a shipboard peer the game changes, and when she learns that the same thing is happening to others her paranoia kicks in and she seeks to understand what's happening. The problem is that even the people running the entire operation don't have a clue, and what's worse is that they're more confused and worried than she is--especially when an apparent victim of some other form of psychosis takes a running jump off the platform itself.
Along with her friend Jonn Vine, Crystal becomes determined to get to the truth of the matter. This hardly endears them to the project's overseers, who are desperate to avoid a panic as the strangeness escalates. Soon enough the two are under close scrutiny, for Vine has actually seen strange undulations around others aboard wavering distortions that he tells Crystal look like the flagellating tentacles of something otherwise invisible. And Crystal is one of those with the shimmering tendrils about her body, he says, but neither she nor most aboard can see them.
Paced in the style of a Hitchcock thriller but with "near future-istic" trappings, Tendrils is a tense old school narrative of wonder, awe and terror.
Along with her friend Jonn Vine, Crystal becomes determined to get to the truth of the matter. This hardly endears them to the project's overseers, who are desperate to avoid a panic as the strangeness escalates. Soon enough the two are under close scrutiny, for Vine has actually seen strange undulations around others aboard wavering distortions that he tells Crystal look like the flagellating tentacles of something otherwise invisible. And Crystal is one of those with the shimmering tendrils about her body, he says, but neither she nor most aboard can see them.
Paced in the style of a Hitchcock thriller but with "near future-istic" trappings, Tendrils is a tense old school narrative of wonder, awe and terror.
222 pages, Hardcover
Published February 12, 2022
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July 28, 2022
Is it real ?
Is it an hallucination?
Is it first contact ?
Or is it an infiltration after all ?
That’s the dilemma which the Author Kevin Candela written with such perfection that the tension and guess work never released your thoughts, twisting and mangling my brain all over the place.
Philip Church is a known narrator which can’t go wrong and as always created a perfect audiobook !
Recommended !!!!
Oded Ostfeld.
Is it an hallucination?
Is it first contact ?
Or is it an infiltration after all ?
That’s the dilemma which the Author Kevin Candela written with such perfection that the tension and guess work never released your thoughts, twisting and mangling my brain all over the place.
Philip Church is a known narrator which can’t go wrong and as always created a perfect audiobook !
Recommended !!!!
Oded Ostfeld.
August 30, 2022
( Format : Audiobook )
"Is that alive?"
An unusual story of - well, not really sure what. Possession, perhaps, or invasion. It has lots of potential but never seems to achieve the real drama hinted at in the early stages. Rather flat, even the putative romance. An OK read with a good narration by Philip Church.
I downloaded my complimentary copy on request from Free Audiobook Codes. Thank you.
"Is that alive?"
An unusual story of - well, not really sure what. Possession, perhaps, or invasion. It has lots of potential but never seems to achieve the real drama hinted at in the early stages. Rather flat, even the putative romance. An OK read with a good narration by Philip Church.
I downloaded my complimentary copy on request from Free Audiobook Codes. Thank you.
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