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Can You Hear Me?

Geonn Cannon (Goodreads Author)

4.16 · Rating details · 68 ratings · 19 reviews

For the next two years, Colonel Noa Laurie - the sole survivor of a disaster which destroyed the International Space Station - will be orbiting Earth in an experimental craft called ODIE. Her mission: to clear away the treacherous minefield of space junk that has accumulated around the planet and endangers future missions. Her only lifeline during this mission will be the ...more

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Oct 17, 2017 Dee rated it liked it

Shelves: f-f, lesbian-romance, r2r, sci-fi, bisexual, head-hopping, 3-and-a-half-stars

3.5 stars

A story that is bound to appeal to many. It's told in a different style to what I'm used to from this author, head-hopping, which I'm picking was a conscious choice due to the distance between the characters. I think it's called Omniscient narrative? Something readers will either enjoy or feel like they are bungee jumping between space and earth .

There's a lot of sex in this book, or should I say, solo-sex, more so joint solo-sex scenes. Confused? You'll have to ...more

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Aug 10, 2018 Heinerway rated it really liked it

Shelves: there-is-a-dog, love-story

Terrific story! Outstanding! Don't miss this book!

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Aug 31, 2018 Alexis rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: bisexual-pansexual-fluid, crazy-annoying-awful-ex, dogs-cats-horses-pets, lesfic, ranch-farm-country-small-town, fantasy-sci-fi

This book takes "long distance relationship" to a whole other level because while Jamie is in Indiana, Noa is orbiting the earth. So how did these two crazy kids get together?

It turns out that Jamie got a hell of a lot more than she bargained for when she grabbed the microphone of a old radio and yelled out her frustrations about her ex. Astronaut Noa, who just happened to be listening becomes immediately intrigued by Jamie. The only people she normally gets to talk to are the mission scientist ...more

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Jun 10, 2018 Tinything rated it really liked it

I actually dont know how to describe this book. There were touching moments and i enjoyed them. I also enjoyed their long distance relationship that they managed only to talk with each other 1 hour per day. And sometimes they couldnt talk with each other for one week because of their connecting time keep shifting due to the time lapse and the space craft travel route, combine with the Earth rotation things. So the time that they couldnt talk because of it overlapped with their sleeping time. ...more

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Feb 01, 2018 K. Aten rated it it was amazing

4.5 rounded up because of a single typo I found.

Beginning to end, I loved this newest book by Geonn Cannon. The writing was solid and the buildup between the two main characters flowed well. Noa is not the typical pilot that you see in so many other books. She is model attractive and has been underestimated her entire life. With advanced degrees in science, she’s neither a pretty face nor a simple rocket jock. And she’s lonely. Her voice on the ground, Jamie, also broke the mold in h ...more

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Jun 15, 2019 Lisa R. Smith rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

A lesbian romance happening in a unique environment.

I love the premise of this book.

Colonel Noa Laurie, Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Air Force fighter pilot with forty-seven combat missions, NASA astronaut, the sole survivor of the total destruction of the International Space Station, and drop dead good looking lesbian, finds herself returning to space, for a private aeronautic company, 8 years after the ISS catastrophe. The ISS accident has halted all space explor A lesbian romance happening in a unique environment.

I love the premise of this book.

Colonel Noa Laurie, Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Air Force fighter pilot with forty-seven combat missions, NASA astronaut, the sole survivor of the total destruction of the International Space Station, and drop dead good looking lesbian, finds herself returning to space, for a private aeronautic company, 8 years after the ISS catastrophe. The ISS accident has halted all space exploration and work because debris of the station is up there floating around with all the rest of the space junk left over the years. The two year mission is to gather or destroy the junk and debris to clear space immediately outside earths atmosphere. The only catch is that Laurie will go alone.

Jamie Faris is a bisexual women on the verge of divorce, living in rural Indiana with her dog, Cisco. Jamie is beauty in her own right, a woodworker, making custom furniture for clients she gets by word of mouth or email on her phone. Jamie lives in rural Indiana, has no internet and doesn’t interact with the outside world much. She has her wood shop in her barn. In this barn is a Galaxy amateur ham radio, given to her by a client, that Jamie’s niece hooked up for her. She rarely plays with it, listening to truckers mostly, until the day her estranged husband makes her blind running angry and she picks up the mic and lets loose a vitriolic rant.

In space for awhile, bored and lonely, Colonel Laurie picks up part of the transmission. Surprised and intrigued that a civilian had somehow hacked the ships communication system she asks the crying sender if everything is “alright down there”. This starts a space to earth dialogue that’s last over a year and results in romance.

The rest of this is me carrying on........

I found some minor inconsistency that broke continuity of the story in my head (and I hate that) - in the beginning the radio was gifted to Jami by a client who no longer wanted it cluttering up her garage, and later, the radio had been bartered for a piece of furniture. Also minor, the ship was described as moving at “incredible speeds-almost five miles a second”, then later in the story Jamie says “Technically she’s always running from me at something like eight miles a second.”

A couple other things made me squint my eyes. Mr Cannon had the astronaut crying in space over 14 times (both women cried 27 times throughout the story) but really; Do women astronauts generally cry while on the job? ... Final, I have to mention this because it stopped me cold and made me laugh and shake my head. After a love scene he writes “sending lovely little jolts through her whole crotch” - I’ve read over 400 lesbian romance novels and from my own life experience, women don’t generally refer to their genitalia as their crotch, especially during a tender love scene. “Crotch” is a guy word.

There were plenty of moments that gave me pause and caught my imagination. Before Noa starts her mission she is interviewed on television. As the interviewer waxes about her status as a superhero, Noa laughs and says “It’s all science, Nick.” Putting the whole endeavor of space travel and collecting the debris into true perspective. Also, when Noa is about to board the ship to launch, she looks off in the distance and mentally observes “Between the ground and her destination was the firmament, the place where all of human life and history unfolded since the dawn of time.” I liked it. Much later, when the ship developed problems that lead to aborting her mission, Noa suited up to go out to check the malfunction, it was intense and I was wide-eyed when I read “And she was in space. She was floating outside the safety of her ship, hanging by a thread. She turned toward the planet and stared down. Clouds were between her and the ocean. It was immense and so small at the same time.” I thought it was a simple but profound observation of our Earth.

After returning to earth (no spoiler really, it wouldn’t be good lesbian romance if she didn’t live), Noa was using her celebrity to influence next generation space explorers. “Who knew which speech would be attended by a future Sally Ride or Katherine Johnson?” I liked that Cannon mentioned Ms. Johnson.

One of my favorite parts comes at the end and involves a fruit basket. ...more

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Feb 28, 2018 Jess rated it it was amazing

Shelves: arc-lovebytes, format-kindle, genre-romance, genre-sci-fi, lgbt-lesbian, lgbt-bisexual, publisher-supposed-crimes, setting-indiana, setting-space, character-scientist

I received this book free from Love Bytes and the author in exchange for an honest review.

This review was first posted to Love Bytes: LGBTQ Book Reviews. It has been slightly edited here for content.

Though Geonn Cannon is a pretty prolific lesfic and fan fiction writer, this is the first published work I’ve read by him. I've read a few of his free works on AO3 and have always been impressed with them. I’m definitely excited to read more of his published works now—he’s an awesome storytelle I received this book free from Love Bytes and the author in exchange for an honest review.

This review was first posted to Love Bytes: LGBTQ Book Reviews. It has been slightly edited here for content.

Though Geonn Cannon is a pretty prolific lesfic and fan fiction writer, this is the first published work I’ve read by him. I've read a few of his free works on AO3 and have always been impressed with them. I’m definitely excited to read more of his published works now—he’s an awesome storyteller who knows how to blend a great plot with believable characters and a scorching romance.

This book’s plot drew me in right away. It takes the long-distance relationship trope to a whole new level by having the characters separated not by a few miles but by a whole atmosphere. This is a unique story that I’ve never read before, and Cannon does a good job of establishing Noa’s career and significance in the larger realm of space travel (including a biopic about her with Charlize Theron as the leading lady, which is amazing). The romance takes center stage, but the characters are crafted carefully as individuals as well—we’re just as interested in Noa’s day-to-day life in the ODIE and Jamie’s relationship with her ex-husband as we are in their budding romance.

The stakes are set appropriately high by establishing that Jamie and Noa’s passionate romance is as tenuous as a single radio connection that only holds for hour-long windows depending on where Noa is above Earth. If Jamie cannot connect for any reason, Noa has no way of knowing why—and when their connection is lost, even for a brief amount of time, my heart absolutely broke for them both. We fall for them so fast that when they cannot communicate, the tension feels unbearably high.

Even though they’re far apart, Jamie and Noa’s love for one another is written so beautifully. They can connect sexually (with all of the awkward phone sex mishaps that occur with even the most mundane long-distance relationships) and they make do with a few photos of one another for company. Their imaginings of meeting one another (either on Earth or in space) are well-written and take on a hazy, dream-like quality that showcases the true depths of their pining. And Noa’s isolation as the sole astronaut in the ODIE makes us excited for the way when the two women can finally meet and establish the last link of their connection.

Though Cannon does a great job with the basics of Noa’s experiences in space, I wished there was a little more science involved. I wanted to know more about Noa’s ship and her expertise as a pilot, and the added info would’ve elevated the plot tension even more. I think the science research was especially rushed towards the end of the book.

This is a fantastic story that will keep you on the edge of your seat and have you savoring every moment the characters have with one another. It’s a classic romantic story with a fresh, unique plot. ...more

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Dec 09, 2017 Sonja Stuart rated it it was amazing

It’s not often where I’ve actually enjoyed a love story to the extent that I do with “Can You Hear Me”. Yes there’s romance but also a bit of humor, or rather things that I found humorous and I’m known to have an oddball sense of humor, but also angst.

The story is about two people living in solitude finding that isolation doesn’t always mean being alone. One can talk with the neighbors that live around you and talk with the men and women in charge of keeping you and your spacecraft o ...more

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Oct 30, 2018 IanWAA rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: 6-pages-200-300, 3-pay, long-distance-relationship, f-f, fluid-sexuality, romantic, sci-fi

I really was intrigued by the premises of this "long distance relationship".
Noa signs up for a two-year mission to clear up space debris in a one-person experimental ship.
Jamie is a woodworker from Indiana that has been living alone since her ex-husband(not yet divorced). They both feel extremely lonely and end up communicating and developing a relationship.

The phone sex?.. not very sure how to rate this but it was definitely a creative way on how to write it, that made it feel int ...more

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Mar 05, 2018 Nolly Sepulveda rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Although I've read other stories by and and enjoyed them,I have to admit this one was a nice change from his usual tales and the characters of Jamie and Noa were easy to like. This was a nice romance story that focused on the human connection, on how with just a few kind words and a little time you can make a difference in someone's world. Life can be full of wonderful surprises so just reach out and embrace them, you never know what you might find.

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Feb 10, 2018 Angel rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Read it more than once

This very well may be one of my favorite stories I've read in a long while. Geonn does such a wonderful job of bringing the characters to life that you feel as if you really get to know Noa and Jaime. The slow build of their relationship is wonderfully done, and even though most of it through long distance conversations it never feels static. Not to mention each of their environments is described so well that you feel as if you're truly in space or sitting in a barn in ...more

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Oct 27, 2017 Jo Frankel rated it really liked it

Shelves: 2017

While not exactly science fiction, Can You Hear Me takes place in a near-future where we see that the results of our travels in outer space mirror the way we treat the land we live on. Someone has to clean it up and who better than the woman who survived a mission to space and heroic re-entry once before? A successful assignment will mean humans can once again safely leave orbit and head to the moon, Mars, or beyond. A failure will trap us in our own isolation for the foreseeable future. No pres While not exactly science fiction, Can You Hear Me takes place in a near-future where we see that the results of our travels in outer space mirror the way we treat the land we live on. Someone has to clean it up and who better than the woman who survived a mission to space and heroic re-entry once before? A successful assignment will mean humans can once again safely leave orbit and head to the moon, Mars, or beyond. A failure will trap us in our own isolation for the foreseeable future. No pressure at all.

Space can be a lonely place. Colonel Noa Laurie learns that the hard way in this romantic tale of an isolated astronaut and her one friendly point of communication. Geonn Cannon has described a tiny slice of what it might be like to be trapped somewhere that literally has no escape. This produces vivid descriptions of residence and weightlessness in a tiny capsule smaller than most people’s living room. Except for occasional interviews, and regularly scheduled updates with the space agency who put her there, Noa is slowly losing her mind in solitude until a voice from below deluges her with reminders of what earth can be like, if only she was there.

Jaime Faris, the chosen isolationist, makes an interesting counterpoint to Noa. She lives by herself on the outskirts of a small town, works independently, and limits her contact with others after an uncomfortable breakup at the beginning of the story. That is, until she reaches Noa by accident on a short-wave radio she was playing around with. While the radio shouldn’t have been strong enough to communicate across America, somehow it manages to reach orbit , and Jaime’s descriptive poetry leads both women to a place they hadn’t expected to find.

Cannon’s prose is beautiful. This isn’t the most plot-filled of his novels but highlights the splendour of everyday life that it’s so easy to take for granted. It’s there to remind us that love can sometimes happen, not at first sight, but through the captivation and enmeshment that comes from truly listening and being heard by someone out of reach.

I was given this ARC free by Supposed Crimes in exchange for an honest review.
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Sep 02, 2018 Melanie rated it liked it

I had some hang ups on this one...insta-love (albeit via long distance), a couple of editing mistakes, and just a plain tone. Interesting concept for a storyline about the communications between these two but that was about it for me. Decent read.

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Sep 13, 2018 Cynthia rated it did not like it

Shelves: queer

That was in some ways worse than usual lesfic. I really tried to avoid any bias bc it's a male writer, but it was so obviously written by a man (none of which was good) that it was impossible. A lot of it was hard-to-pinpoint-details in the writing that made me uncomfortable, or the feeling the emotions only reflected what the author thought women wanted to read or even actually felt in real life somehow? as if he didn't consult any woman about the realism or believablity of his (internal and ex ...more

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Sep 28, 2019 Julieta Steyr rated it liked it

Geonn always is like a fresh air, his creativity is undeniable.
But (yeah, but) I think in this history could be less sex (ok, radio-sex), the emotions floating between Noa and Jamie are well described. Don't fall into the trap of full sex in books because girls ask of more of that, lately if there's not physical interaction the romance doesn't exist. A big no.
And, what happened with Jamie sister? You forget her? I mean at the end. Ops, I think so.
Anyway, thank you for your orig ...more

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Feb 22, 2018 Heather Henkel rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Interesting book

This was not your typical romance but I really enjoyed reading it. I liked that the characters were a great distance apart for most of the book. I enjoyed their conversations.

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Oct 31, 2019 Jem rated it really liked it

4.25 stars

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Oct 08, 2018 Miss Mairi Mackenzie rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Aye

Not much in.the way of science . A reasonable l romance , better than most of boring nonsense that passes for lesbian fiction.

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Mar 06, 2018 Robin Sue rated it really liked it

Shelves: l-l, l-l-romance

Solid 4 I loved the plot in this one and the ending was perfect. Great read.

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Geonn Cannon is a male author who grew up in Oklahoma, thousands of miles from the nearest coastline, who found his calling in stories about women who live on an island in the Pacific Northwest. In 2010, Geonn became the first male author to win the prestigious Golden Crown Literary Society Award for his novel "Gemini." In 2015, he won it again for "Dogs of War." He was also invited to write an of ...more