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The Burning Years
In the year, 2060, Sophie, a top female scientist, dismantles the government weather modification program and steals the male and female trans-humans who hold the promise of extended life.
While the remaining inhabitants of Earth are forced to design new underground habitats in order to survive a harsh, overheated world, Captain Rachel Chen, takes the worldship Persephone to Proxima Centauri, hoping that this new star system will provide a refuge for the survivors of the human race.
While the remaining inhabitants of Earth are forced to design new underground habitats in order to survive a harsh, overheated world, Captain Rachel Chen, takes the worldship Persephone to Proxima Centauri, hoping that this new star system will provide a refuge for the survivors of the human race.
228 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 3, 2017
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March 15, 2017
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Imagine a time in the not so distant future when all of the warnings about global warming and humanity robbing our planet of all it has to give comes true. The Earth has become the enemy to our existence, but science has fought back by creating a better human, part machine, part flesh, able to repel what the elements can do. Imagine the hunt for a new planet to call home, ships sent into space, traveling years from our planet, colonies being established on the moon and even Mars.
What is left of the world is now under one governing body, a body filled with greed, treachery and whose truths lay hidden from the common man’s eyes. Underground communities of rebel spring up, those fighting to survive in the harsh winds and heat.
Two of the most brilliant scientists escape to freedom in an effort to save mankind, but not before becoming public enemy #1. Now on the run with their greatest creation, two cyborg beings, the government will stop at nothing to obtain what they consider the prefect fighting machines, including killing the last hopes for a second chance at life on Earth.
THE BURNING YEARS by Felicity Harley should be a must read as a warning to what looks to be Earth’s future. Track brave heroes as they forge the unknowns of space, knowing they will never return to the Earth. Follow the journey on land of a heroic group of scientists and their first successes with modifying the human body into a faster, stronger, being with the true capabilities to survive the chaotic furnace Earth has become. Are they also the key to near immortality?
I felt I was reading a journal of the events in the future, of those who gave their lives, those who survived and those who made survival possible. Covering decades of time, see the next generations rise, stronger, smarter and still willing to carry on the quest for humanity’s survival.
All I can say is read it, you’ll be glad you did as some very possible scenes unfold as once again, mankind’s own greed and lust for power and eternal youth threaten to bring Earth to its dying breath. I was mesmerized by Felicity Harley’s depiction of the future, based on current scientific data, postulation and the creative genius of an author with some powerful ideas that just seem terrifyingly real.
I received this copy from Felicity Harley in exchange for my honest review.
Publisher: Double Dragon eBooks (February 14, 2017)
Publication Date: February 14, 2017
Genre: Science Fiction | Survival | Thriller
Print Length: 254 pages
Available from: Amazon
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Twelve Copies are available for review! Click on Link to Enter!
Imagine a time in the not so distant future when all of the warnings about global warming and humanity robbing our planet of all it has to give comes true. The Earth has become the enemy to our existence, but science has fought back by creating a better human, part machine, part flesh, able to repel what the elements can do. Imagine the hunt for a new planet to call home, ships sent into space, traveling years from our planet, colonies being established on the moon and even Mars.
What is left of the world is now under one governing body, a body filled with greed, treachery and whose truths lay hidden from the common man’s eyes. Underground communities of rebel spring up, those fighting to survive in the harsh winds and heat.
Two of the most brilliant scientists escape to freedom in an effort to save mankind, but not before becoming public enemy #1. Now on the run with their greatest creation, two cyborg beings, the government will stop at nothing to obtain what they consider the prefect fighting machines, including killing the last hopes for a second chance at life on Earth.
THE BURNING YEARS by Felicity Harley should be a must read as a warning to what looks to be Earth’s future. Track brave heroes as they forge the unknowns of space, knowing they will never return to the Earth. Follow the journey on land of a heroic group of scientists and their first successes with modifying the human body into a faster, stronger, being with the true capabilities to survive the chaotic furnace Earth has become. Are they also the key to near immortality?
I felt I was reading a journal of the events in the future, of those who gave their lives, those who survived and those who made survival possible. Covering decades of time, see the next generations rise, stronger, smarter and still willing to carry on the quest for humanity’s survival.
All I can say is read it, you’ll be glad you did as some very possible scenes unfold as once again, mankind’s own greed and lust for power and eternal youth threaten to bring Earth to its dying breath. I was mesmerized by Felicity Harley’s depiction of the future, based on current scientific data, postulation and the creative genius of an author with some powerful ideas that just seem terrifyingly real.
I received this copy from Felicity Harley in exchange for my honest review.
Publisher: Double Dragon eBooks (February 14, 2017)
Publication Date: February 14, 2017
Genre: Science Fiction | Survival | Thriller
Print Length: 254 pages
Available from: Amazon
For Reviews & More: http://tometender.blogspot.com
April 1, 2017
Imagine a future, not quite distant, where Mother Nature is almost destroyed, where the air pollution is almost unbearable, where the sun is too hot for the humans and where the politicians care only for their personal gain and their survival. Sounds familiar? Well, that's what I thought!
Set in the latter 21st century, The Burning Years is a novel that a couple of years ago would be considered as part of the science-fiction genre. Well, not anymore, at least according to me; because if we keep up neglecting our environment and using so recklessly our natural resources of energy, we're gonna end just like the people in this novel, forced to move underground in order to survive.
Thankfully, a group of scientists is eager to attempt a very risky journey; some of them leaving in an underground colony, along with two trans-humans (a part-human, part-technologically advanced species), and some of them flying with a spaceship, called Persephone, to a nearby star. All of them however have the same goal; to save humanity. Though the question remains; is humanity ready to be saved? Or the time for its destruction has eventually come?
Although I claim to be more into the fantasy novels, rather than the science-fiction ones, The Burning Years, written by Felicity Harley, truly piqued my interest, especially because of those so vivid characters and the accuracy of the events that I'm afraid we, or those after us, are gonna face soon enough.
What's more, the author presents in a very plain way matters such as science, biology, evolution and climate change. And when things get a bit messy for some readers like me, who detest physics, well... Hallelujah! There is a glossary, too! I adore those authors! For real!
Overall, this novel was easily read, with a very clear and unambiguous plot line. I also found quite clever the fact that the author gives to the reader a full background story of the main characters, something which explains their motives and actions later on.
In closure, I have to admit that I would gladly re-read this novel, since there are very few authors that engage with not so popular subjects, such as physics and biology, and yet they manage to make them look super cool, once combined with human relationships, ethics and the eternal question: humans' destruction and humans' salvation?
The Burning Years is a novel that will make you think twice of the damage we have caused and keep causing, after reading it! Which is why it must have a spot in your bookcase!
Set in the latter 21st century, The Burning Years is a novel that a couple of years ago would be considered as part of the science-fiction genre. Well, not anymore, at least according to me; because if we keep up neglecting our environment and using so recklessly our natural resources of energy, we're gonna end just like the people in this novel, forced to move underground in order to survive.
Thankfully, a group of scientists is eager to attempt a very risky journey; some of them leaving in an underground colony, along with two trans-humans (a part-human, part-technologically advanced species), and some of them flying with a spaceship, called Persephone, to a nearby star. All of them however have the same goal; to save humanity. Though the question remains; is humanity ready to be saved? Or the time for its destruction has eventually come?
Although I claim to be more into the fantasy novels, rather than the science-fiction ones, The Burning Years, written by Felicity Harley, truly piqued my interest, especially because of those so vivid characters and the accuracy of the events that I'm afraid we, or those after us, are gonna face soon enough.
What's more, the author presents in a very plain way matters such as science, biology, evolution and climate change. And when things get a bit messy for some readers like me, who detest physics, well... Hallelujah! There is a glossary, too! I adore those authors! For real!
Overall, this novel was easily read, with a very clear and unambiguous plot line. I also found quite clever the fact that the author gives to the reader a full background story of the main characters, something which explains their motives and actions later on.
In closure, I have to admit that I would gladly re-read this novel, since there are very few authors that engage with not so popular subjects, such as physics and biology, and yet they manage to make them look super cool, once combined with human relationships, ethics and the eternal question: humans' destruction and humans' salvation?
The Burning Years is a novel that will make you think twice of the damage we have caused and keep causing, after reading it! Which is why it must have a spot in your bookcase!
July 6, 2017
An interesting concept about what will happen when climate change starts to damage the earth – as we know it.
But oh dear me. Was the style turgid. It took me weeks to get past the first chapter or two. It's mostly written in third person distant, with some chapters first person (also distant). It's a great example of a book being all tell and no show, and is totally devoid of feeling and emotion.
What we do have though is endless descriptions of the science side and what people plan to do. Essentially, people are trying to build underground communities. Domes, growing crops, and messing around in labs – the usual. But this is padded out at length with repetitive paragraphs and chapters about how they are going to achieve this.
I was puzzled as to why some words were in bold eg hydroponics, intercropping, symbiosis, because it made for a jarring read. At the end of the book, it turns out there is a/n (unnecessary) glossary for all these bolded words.
To add some distraction we have a spaceship off to establish colonies elsewhere, and two runaway trans-humans, ie engineered so they are superhumans.
Nice idea for a story, but it didn't exactly make for a gripping read.
But oh dear me. Was the style turgid. It took me weeks to get past the first chapter or two. It's mostly written in third person distant, with some chapters first person (also distant). It's a great example of a book being all tell and no show, and is totally devoid of feeling and emotion.
What we do have though is endless descriptions of the science side and what people plan to do. Essentially, people are trying to build underground communities. Domes, growing crops, and messing around in labs – the usual. But this is padded out at length with repetitive paragraphs and chapters about how they are going to achieve this.
I was puzzled as to why some words were in bold eg hydroponics, intercropping, symbiosis, because it made for a jarring read. At the end of the book, it turns out there is a/n (unnecessary) glossary for all these bolded words.
To add some distraction we have a spaceship off to establish colonies elsewhere, and two runaway trans-humans, ie engineered so they are superhumans.
Nice idea for a story, but it didn't exactly make for a gripping read.
November 2, 2024
Very well written! Not my typical style but I think felicity really did a good job with all the information she put into this book it was such a interesting concept and certainly gave me a lot of sci-fi nostalgia
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