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The Kuiper Belt Deception
As an experiment, in 2080 the International Space Agency has stranded four couples in a complex built inside a small ball of ice about five billion miles from Earth. However, the young astronauts have a plan to return to the third planet from the sun without help from the agency. They have been betrayed in other ways, beyond being marooned. The four female astronauts become pregnant and give birth during the next year in space. Two of the four children are found to have extraordinary abilities which could be very beneficial to the human race.
266 pages, Paperback
Published April 27, 2020
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August 15, 2018
The Kuiper Belt Deception by Donald Averill is a futuristic science fiction thriller set billions of miles from earth in the year 2080. After a rigorous training course on planet earth, a research initiative put on by The International Space Agency is implemented and proceeds with four suitable human couples: Sunul and Gina Burk, Jar’l and Monel Mason, Hugh and Triel Patel, and Rob and Leanne Griswalt. The pairs are all initially thrilled with their selection, but are ultimately left to their own devices in a purpose built ice orbed compound. Soon, the young tribe of intellectuals are forced to confront the new reality of an agency that deceived them as they make their way to an alternative destination. En route, all four women fall pregnant, delivering children with superhuman capacities that are as constructive as they are inexplicable.
The Kuiper Belt Deception is intelligent science fiction with all the right components to engage its genres most die-hard fans. Donald Averill writes with authority on the subject matter, injecting a plot that is, quite frankly, out of this world (bad pun regretfully intended). The characters are well developed and both the narrative and dialogue are authentic and believable. It took a moment for me to become fully engrossed as Averill doesn't hold back in descriptive technicalities – and the technological and scientific aspects are vast, but after the moment passed it was full throttle until the very end. This is something of a castaway story encompassed in a classic space opera, and it would be very easy for me to recommend this book to those who enjoy carefully crafted science fiction suspense novels that are written by an author with a gift for detail.
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The Kuiper Belt Deception is intelligent science fiction with all the right components to engage its genres most die-hard fans. Donald Averill writes with authority on the subject matter, injecting a plot that is, quite frankly, out of this world (bad pun regretfully intended). The characters are well developed and both the narrative and dialogue are authentic and believable. It took a moment for me to become fully engrossed as Averill doesn't hold back in descriptive technicalities – and the technological and scientific aspects are vast, but after the moment passed it was full throttle until the very end. This is something of a castaway story encompassed in a classic space opera, and it would be very easy for me to recommend this book to those who enjoy carefully crafted science fiction suspense novels that are written by an author with a gift for detail.
Review written for Readers' Favorite.
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