Anamnesis Paradox

Time Travel Through Past Lives Adventure #3

by Stewart Sanders

Paralysed. To become conscious of your lives, yet learn of the futility of knowing. Do you desire to become something more than a mere ripple upon the multidimensional layers of time?

Converged. For your lives to begin to make sense, a sequence emerging from the chaos, and a budding awareness of self-destruction. And now, amongst the ruins of lives lived at an uncompromising pace, start the dreams.

Welcome to your Anamnesis.

246 pages, Paperback

Published November 24, 2016

About the author

As a child, I, like many thousand others, wanted to be an astronaut. I would write to NASA every week to ‘help’ them with ideas and I would be so excited, as they would write back. It was in one of those letters that they suggested I should write science fiction. I took the hint and stopped pestering them! Sadly, I never realised my dream to become an astronaut, but I do enjoy both flying and writing. Not at the same time, of course, for that would be dangerous and I’m sure the Civil Aviation Authority would soon withdraw my licence!

Thanks to the help and encouragement of some amazing friends and a loving family, I’ve decided to take NASA’s advice.

Now writing a brand new thriller.

Reviews

[Ian Miller · Rating 3 out of 5]

I should start with a caveat: I did not notice until too late the author's "warning" that you should read volumes 1 & 2 in this series first. So the question is, is this book stand-alone, and my view is, I don't know. This may seem odd, but let me explain. From what I understand, the book is written in the first person, and that person may be a sphere (of unknown origin in this book), or a number of characters spread across time, including early Plantagenets, pre-WW1, somewhere around 1980s and mid 1990s. They also seem to know what they will be in the future, and what the future will be, however, they make no use of this knowledge. Much is made of the Soviets in the mid 1990s, so it is not historically valid. The writing is good in the sense that sentences are well-written, but the whole lacks clarity and clarity of purpose, at least for me. The author shows a tremendous imagination for setting and situation, but then slices and dices such situations so the reader leaps all over the place encountering small scenes that for me did not show meaning. One example. For some reason "I" is over a ledge holding Mac from falling to his death. So, what happens? We have a long semiphilosophical conversation until the arms get tired and I drop Mac. Not a lot of emotion here. There is a battle scene late in the book that corresponds to nothing realistic (nothing wrong with that –the author has made a completely imaginative world) BUT then fails because the battle has no tension, no strategy really, and any semblance of tactics is along the lines of deus ex machina. There is another scene where "I" is hunting "me". For what purpose? Whatever, there appeared to be no consequence. For me, a story should involve change; things at the end should be different in some way from the beginning. Thus a character might develop, a crime might be solved, etc. This had so many strands that I found it difficult to see any coherent story. Accordingly, I have no idea whether reading books 1 & 2 would make much difference to my opinion.

[Robert Gana · Rating 5 out of 5]

When you get into stories like these, there are times when you have to wonder if the reader will ever learn all the answers. Having read all three books, I can confidently say that this book does not wrap up every thread, but it does provide many, many answers!
Think of this book as the third season to a TV series that is only getting better