What do you think?
Rate this book
New Worlds! New Adventure!: A Slipstreamers Adventure
Cassidy Cane goes by many titles -- archeologist, anthropologist, adventurer -- but none more fitting than that given to her on some strange Slipstreamer.Cassidy slips between worlds, traveling to bizarre planets and alternate Earths to find extraordinary new technologies and artifacts that might better humanity!Cassidy was living a normal life when she was approached by Dr. Gamgee to go on a mission to another world to recover a cure for a deadly disease! Now she finds herself in a frightening new city, where the very language she speaks makes her a threat, and she must find the cure quickly to save her own father!Written with bestselling author Matthew LeDrew! Start the adventure now!
108 pages, Kindle Edition
Published September 4, 2020
1 person is currently reading
1 person want to read
About the author
Matthew Ledrew
70 books63 followersMatthew LeDrew has written over twenty novels, some of which have gone on to become Canadian and international bestsellers.
Since 2007 he has traveled all over Canada promoting his work as well as teaching seminars on writing and publishing.
He currently holds a Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant and an ArtsNL Professional Projects Grant for the completion of his first two Newfoundland-set novels, a treasure-hunt novel and a literary fiction novel exploring toxicity within the Newfoundland arts scene, respectively.
He holds an Honours Degree in English from the Memorial University of Newfoundland with a minor in Anthropology. He studied Journalism at College of the North Atlantic in Stephenville, Newfoundland. He has worked with Transcontinental Publishing as well as student-youth magazine The Troubadour.
He has been called "the face of Newfoundland Genre writing" and is one of the most successful authors working and living in his province today.
Since 2007 he has traveled all over Canada promoting his work as well as teaching seminars on writing and publishing.
He currently holds a Canada Council for the Arts Research and Creation Grant and an ArtsNL Professional Projects Grant for the completion of his first two Newfoundland-set novels, a treasure-hunt novel and a literary fiction novel exploring toxicity within the Newfoundland arts scene, respectively.
He holds an Honours Degree in English from the Memorial University of Newfoundland with a minor in Anthropology. He studied Journalism at College of the North Atlantic in Stephenville, Newfoundland. He has worked with Transcontinental Publishing as well as student-youth magazine The Troubadour.
He has been called "the face of Newfoundland Genre writing" and is one of the most successful authors working and living in his province today.
Ratings & Reviews
Friends & Following
Create a free account to discover what your friends think of this book!
Community Reviews
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews
January 14, 2022
Preamble
I previously read and reviewed one of the Slipstreamers novellas, Boulders Over The Bermuda Triangle by Peter Foote and J.D. Ryot. Peter is one of the moderators of one of my homes on the web, a writer’s group from my native land called Genre Writers of Atlantic Canada. New Worlds! New Adventure! was written by Matthew LeDrew and J.D. Ryot. Matt is another moderator of the group.
I’m doing it all for the brownie points (kidding!) In truth, the stories are relatively short and pulpy and refreshing. They’re written for a younger audience, which tends to mean that the themes aren’t as heavy as my usual fare.
A note about my reviews: I consider myself an appreciator, not a critic. I know first-hand what goes into the creation of art – the blood, the sweat, the tears, the risk. I also know that art appreciation is subjective and lernt good what mama tell’t me – if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. I’m not a school marm grading a spelling test – I’m a reader who enjoys reading. If a book is entertaining, well-written, and I get absorbed into it, five out of five. I have gone as low as three stars – anything less than that and I will not review a book (chances are I DNFed anyway). Regardless, I wouldn’t even put a star rating system on my reviews but for the reality of storefronts like Amazon.
Take from that what you will.
Review – 5/5
“Elevator music was the same no matter the dimension, she thought, unsure if this was a positive or a negative thing.”
If I had to describe Cassidy Cane, the protagonist of the series, I’d probably bring up Indiana Jones, Tintin, and some music snob out to get muzak for its crimes against humanity. Maybe a less filthy Rick and Morty: a dimension-hopping artifact gal on repeat adventures of her lifetime! Cheeseball 90s sci-fi series Sliders might get thrown into the mix as well.
I’ve read two of the stories so far, and they feel like a pulp sci-fi show. Or maybe something you would find in a magazine that the kids of the 1920s had to hide from their parents. Not because of the racy content, mind you (this is true young-adult-as-in-older-kid-weird-literature-naming-quirk fare). More for ‘comic books are going to rot your brain’ kind of verboten. It’s describing a feeling.
It’s a feeling I absolutely died for when I wore a younger man’s clothes.
Put plainly, it’s a young adult sci-fi serial. It stars an ‘archeologist, anthropologist, adventurer’ by the name of Cassidy Cane. She’s got plenty of pluck, folks, and she aims said pluck directly at interdimensional holes, guided by an old man with Coke bottle glasses and a few physics degrees.
In this first adventure, Dr. Herbert Gamgee (props to the authors for the Tolkien nod) tantalizes Cassidy with a trip to save her father’s life. I’m not kidding – apparently Gamgee found a treatment for a disease that is threatening Cassidy’s father’s life. Except there’s a stage two to the disease and another cure must be found. Only, instead of using medical science, in grand sci-fi tradition our intrepid explorer will use the power of interdimensional portals to solve her woes.
If the plot feels a little contrived, the suspension of disbelief is maintained through the sheer amount of action that comes galloping through the pages. The book is sixty-four pages long, according to my Kindle. And aside from a somewhat slow burn chapter that establishes that Cassidy’s father pronounces ‘Chicago’ like ‘Chicargo’ like a great number of Newfoundlanders (thanks to the authors for that reminder of one of my favourite bits of local linguistic flavour), the action does not let up.
Quite literally – Cassidy just goes full tilt from the moment she enters the portal till the moment she makes it back to her home universe and the doctor blows the hole to smithereens. It was quite a feat. I kept looking at the pages left in the story and wondering how they were going to tie it up in a bow before the end. Hats off – colour me impressed.
I could tell you about how she’s given the name 'Slipstreamer' by the antagonists, how she just randomly grabs an alien box and assumes it is a PC that has the info she needs on it, how the authors describe an interdimensional pork and horseradish sandwich in a way that made me seriously want to find a hipster food truck stat – or you could just read it for yourself.
I previously read and reviewed one of the Slipstreamers novellas, Boulders Over The Bermuda Triangle by Peter Foote and J.D. Ryot. Peter is one of the moderators of one of my homes on the web, a writer’s group from my native land called Genre Writers of Atlantic Canada. New Worlds! New Adventure! was written by Matthew LeDrew and J.D. Ryot. Matt is another moderator of the group.
I’m doing it all for the brownie points (kidding!) In truth, the stories are relatively short and pulpy and refreshing. They’re written for a younger audience, which tends to mean that the themes aren’t as heavy as my usual fare.
A note about my reviews: I consider myself an appreciator, not a critic. I know first-hand what goes into the creation of art – the blood, the sweat, the tears, the risk. I also know that art appreciation is subjective and lernt good what mama tell’t me – if you don’t have anything nice to say, don’t say anything at all. I’m not a school marm grading a spelling test – I’m a reader who enjoys reading. If a book is entertaining, well-written, and I get absorbed into it, five out of five. I have gone as low as three stars – anything less than that and I will not review a book (chances are I DNFed anyway). Regardless, I wouldn’t even put a star rating system on my reviews but for the reality of storefronts like Amazon.
Take from that what you will.
Review – 5/5
“Elevator music was the same no matter the dimension, she thought, unsure if this was a positive or a negative thing.”
If I had to describe Cassidy Cane, the protagonist of the series, I’d probably bring up Indiana Jones, Tintin, and some music snob out to get muzak for its crimes against humanity. Maybe a less filthy Rick and Morty: a dimension-hopping artifact gal on repeat adventures of her lifetime! Cheeseball 90s sci-fi series Sliders might get thrown into the mix as well.
I’ve read two of the stories so far, and they feel like a pulp sci-fi show. Or maybe something you would find in a magazine that the kids of the 1920s had to hide from their parents. Not because of the racy content, mind you (this is true young-adult-as-in-older-kid-weird-literature-naming-quirk fare). More for ‘comic books are going to rot your brain’ kind of verboten. It’s describing a feeling.
It’s a feeling I absolutely died for when I wore a younger man’s clothes.
Put plainly, it’s a young adult sci-fi serial. It stars an ‘archeologist, anthropologist, adventurer’ by the name of Cassidy Cane. She’s got plenty of pluck, folks, and she aims said pluck directly at interdimensional holes, guided by an old man with Coke bottle glasses and a few physics degrees.
In this first adventure, Dr. Herbert Gamgee (props to the authors for the Tolkien nod) tantalizes Cassidy with a trip to save her father’s life. I’m not kidding – apparently Gamgee found a treatment for a disease that is threatening Cassidy’s father’s life. Except there’s a stage two to the disease and another cure must be found. Only, instead of using medical science, in grand sci-fi tradition our intrepid explorer will use the power of interdimensional portals to solve her woes.
If the plot feels a little contrived, the suspension of disbelief is maintained through the sheer amount of action that comes galloping through the pages. The book is sixty-four pages long, according to my Kindle. And aside from a somewhat slow burn chapter that establishes that Cassidy’s father pronounces ‘Chicago’ like ‘Chicargo’ like a great number of Newfoundlanders (thanks to the authors for that reminder of one of my favourite bits of local linguistic flavour), the action does not let up.
Quite literally – Cassidy just goes full tilt from the moment she enters the portal till the moment she makes it back to her home universe and the doctor blows the hole to smithereens. It was quite a feat. I kept looking at the pages left in the story and wondering how they were going to tie it up in a bow before the end. Hats off – colour me impressed.
I could tell you about how she’s given the name 'Slipstreamer' by the antagonists, how she just randomly grabs an alien box and assumes it is a PC that has the info she needs on it, how the authors describe an interdimensional pork and horseradish sandwich in a way that made me seriously want to find a hipster food truck stat – or you could just read it for yourself.
October 13, 2020
The first episode of the slipstreamers series is a smash hit. It's lead character, Cassidy Cane is well developed and intriguing. The first episode starts the series off strong and I can't wait to continue the journey into other worlds.
September 5, 2020
A fast-paced, thrilling adventure. This is a fun and intriguing story for all readers, and what's even more fun is that the next episode is coming shortly!
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3 reviews