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Borrowed Planet
A secret dark projects organization known as the "Committee" uncovers a cryptic message in the infamous Roswell crash and seeks to uncover its meaning. The Committee determines the aliens who built the craft are an endangered species, and that the Roswell craft was from the future. The Committee realizes hidden alien Earth colonies exist, and slave human hybrids created by the aliens live among humans. In a secret facility in the Rocky Mountains, Dr. Black and Mr. Nix experiment on government agents, physically transforming them into hybrid mimics, so they can infiltrate the hybrids and discover the locations of the alien colonies.Tomas Seventeen is the only agent of seventeen to survive the transformation. He must somehow integrate with these hybrids to locate a hidden colony, and find out what the alien's intentions are toward humanity, while avoiding discovery by aliens that he is human, or by US Military who mistake Tomas for a hybrid.
284 pages, Paperback
Published May 18, 2018
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September 30, 2019
Aliens from Earth. Whaaaat!
The story was good and handled the "timey-wimey stuff" (quoting the Doctor who is something of an expert on time) as well as could be done.
The characters fit the story more or less but the global response is limited to U.S. efforts. It's not clear what the rest of the planet militaries are doing about the threat. Internal dialogue was nicely done until the MC spends pages trying to understand the nature and purposes of god. It's not clear which god, he has in mind. There are so many to choose from. Most of the planet is polytheistic or atheistic (the Indian and Chinese pantheons alone are huge, don't get me started on Zoroastrianism), so there are a lot from which to choose.
The big problem in even trying to focus on the writing skill, is the lack of editing. It's really bad. The examples run from "crafts" used to refer to multiple spacecraft (unless the writer was referring to lace making or puppet creation, which really changes my take on the story) to "spawns" as a noun (given that it's a military label for alien creatures, I might have given that a pass, if not for all the other errors). There are sentences with present and past tense used in the different clauses, orphan words and whole sentences that are indecipherable. There's so many examples of those that you won't have time or energy to attack the stranger paragraphs.
The story was good, the plot wasn't bad (allowing for a reasonable amount of science fiction leeway), the dialogue was more than serviceable but the editing might drop you out of the story flow several times in a chapter. If you can read through the editing or its lack, it isn't a bad read.
The story was good and handled the "timey-wimey stuff" (quoting the Doctor who is something of an expert on time) as well as could be done.
The characters fit the story more or less but the global response is limited to U.S. efforts. It's not clear what the rest of the planet militaries are doing about the threat. Internal dialogue was nicely done until the MC spends pages trying to understand the nature and purposes of god. It's not clear which god, he has in mind. There are so many to choose from. Most of the planet is polytheistic or atheistic (the Indian and Chinese pantheons alone are huge, don't get me started on Zoroastrianism), so there are a lot from which to choose.
The big problem in even trying to focus on the writing skill, is the lack of editing. It's really bad. The examples run from "crafts" used to refer to multiple spacecraft (unless the writer was referring to lace making or puppet creation, which really changes my take on the story) to "spawns" as a noun (given that it's a military label for alien creatures, I might have given that a pass, if not for all the other errors). There are sentences with present and past tense used in the different clauses, orphan words and whole sentences that are indecipherable. There's so many examples of those that you won't have time or energy to attack the stranger paragraphs.
The story was good, the plot wasn't bad (allowing for a reasonable amount of science fiction leeway), the dialogue was more than serviceable but the editing might drop you out of the story flow several times in a chapter. If you can read through the editing or its lack, it isn't a bad read.
August 9, 2018
This was an amazingly good first effort by Mark Riverstone. If you like books concerning conspiracies, alien abductions, men in black, underground military bases, the Philadelphia Experiment, or listen to late night radio on a regular basis, this is the book for you. I am looking forward to the next installment.
August 7, 2018
This science fiction book has a different twist that Sci Fi needs. It is not a space western. Definitely exciting with a lot of unexpected psych interest. I found it hard to put down.
August 7, 2018
I enjoyed the base concept and original take on the classic sci-fi theme of 'aliens among us'. It takes place in current times, and combines actual events with fictional, so it would appeal more to the fictional reader that a fantasy reader. The action moved quickly and the plot developed unpredictably. There was also ample backstory and internal character struggle. The other characters are distinct, compelling and sometimes humorous. The ending ties into the beginning in a unique twist of self fulfilling prophecy.
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