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Chimera (Universe Eventual Book 1)
The book starts at a fast pace and almost immediately introduces two of the main characters, with the hint of a third. The reader soon finds themselves in a dystopian universe, the colony of Stephens’ Point is dying, abandoned by Earth.
The characters of Theo and Selena are well detailed while the other two main characters Marcus and Megan are less so, but still very real.
As a start to what appears to be a series, ‘Universe Eventual’, this is very impressive. I would have given it five stars except I couldn’t really envisage the environment and place in which it was set as well as I would have liked.
I’m looking forward to more in this universe!
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author: John Michael Hileman
name: Rae
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2011
rating: 2
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This was a more average book than I expected from the initial blurb. The plot line was thin and ended up coming out as some contrived christian v muslim v shady money manifesto #review
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author: Tony Healey
name: Rae
average rating: 3.59
book published: 2014
rating: 4
read at: 2015/04/18
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This turned out to be a much better book than I initially expected. The story line is strong and the action sequences are well written #review
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FIERCE: Sixteen Authors Of Fantasy
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“Then happened that which made me lighter: for the dwarf sprang from my shoulder, the prying sprite! And it squatted on a stone in front of me. There was however a gateway just where we halted.
“Look at this gateway! Dwarf!†I continued, “it hath two faces. Two roads come together here: these hath no one yet gone to the end of.
This long lane backwards: it continueth for an eternity. And that long lane forward—that is another eternity.
They are antithetical to one another, these roads; they directly abut on one another:—and it is here, at this gateway, that they come together. The name of the gateway is inscribed above: ‘This Moment.’
But should one follow them further—and ever further and further on, thinkest thou, dwarf, that these roads would be eternally antithetical?â€â€”
“Everything straight lieth,†murmured the dwarf, contemptuously. “All truth is crooked; time itself is a circle.â€
– Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900
“Thus Spake Zarathustra”
‘You must learn to wait properly’
‘And how does one learn that?’
‘By letting go of yourself, leaving yourself and everything yours behind you so decisively that nothing more is left of you but a purposeless tension’
– Eugen Herrigel from Zen in the Art of Archery
We are not wholly bad or good
Who live our lives under Milk Wood,
And Thou, I know, wilt be the first
To see our best side, not our worst.
– Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)Â in Under Milkwood
It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential
is invisible to the eye.
– Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900-1944)
One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honor or observation.
– Sir Walter Scott.
