![]() ![]() So, with that out of the way, let me tell you how this book 's not the way you expected! For those on the starship, that would be like going through a door, turning around and stepping back into what would be 16 years in the future on Earth. In this story the trip would be an eight-light-year distance which would mean those people doing the traveling wouldn't be returning back to Earth for at least sixteen years (eight years going and eight years returning). So, for those people, it would seem like a blink of an eye, while anyone on Earth would have aged a light-year. These stargates can send a ship with it's onboard crew and passengers to another solar system light-years away. No the first book and this one actually use quantum gates, or stargates, to travel vast distances in space at the speed of light. I say that because both of these stories involve time-travel, but not in the sense you think about just hopping back and forth in time. It is somewhat different than the first book, "Endeavour" which was a really good story, but kind of hard to get your head around. Well, it took me awhile to get around to reading this books and I'm not sure why. I will probably carry on to read more by Kearn but I suspect I will have to grit my teeth to get through to what will probably be very good stories. This is a terrible shame as a little more effort in polishing his work would result in stories that could stand comfortably alongside many more well-known authors. Either way Erebus has far too many typos, clumsy phrasing and missing or extra words that made my reading of it a distinctly staccato affair. And to be fair Kearn did bring in an editor (all self-published authors desperately need to do this if they wish to be taken seriously) but I don’t know whether that editor was just working on editing the story rather than proof editing as the latter left much to be desired (as it did in the previous book). This was not technically a self-published offering but the publisher is a very very small publisher who is really catering mainly to authors who would otherwise only self-publish. The whole of that first section of the book could have easily been dispensed with. Adding a very dubious sense of revenge for an incredibly indirect death was both implausible and totally unnecessary. It is not necessary for a policeman to be provided with additional motive to chase a bad guy a professional dedication to their duty is sufficient. There was some significant padding the entire first 50 odd pages' sole purpose was to introduce two characters and provide an unnecessary motive. There were pieces of dodgy science (as far as I’m aware the anchor point for a space elevator must be on or very close to a planet’s equator – the Mediterranean on Earth simply wouldn’t work) though less than in Endeavour. The problem is that the story is excellent – interesting and compelling – the delivery, however, is not. This is my second book by Ralph Kearn and, sadly, it suffered from exactly the same problems as Endeavour the first in this series and was therefore equally frustrating. From the heart of civilization to the very frontiers of human space and far beyond.Īnd what Trent discovers, amongst the relics of the alien Sleeping Gods, will change humanity’s place in the universe forever.Įrebus: a Sleeping Gods novel from the author of the Amazon best-seller, Endeavour. So begins a hunt across space and time that will take Trent from the burning deserts of Africa to the cosmopolitan space cities of the Jupiter Alliance. Their enemy is lethal, elusive, with access to vast resources and advanced technology. ![]() The explorer ship, Erebus, is reassigned from its mission and sent to Jupiter to investigate this atrocity with Trent’s international team onboard. Those responsible must be found and brought to justice. Billions throughout the Solar System are wondering, Where next? Thousands become refugees as the shattered remnants of the moon threaten the Jupiter Alliance. Hundreds are dead in the cataclysmic explosion. The sparsely populated moon, Io, is destroyed in a terrorist attack. ![]() In a country long since abandoned to its own devices, Inspector Layton Trent is investigating the massacre of fifteen people when an event occurs in Jupiter space. Humanity has tamed the worlds of Sol and taken the first, tentative steps to the stars. Probably more than you ever wanted to know.” “You’re going to learn a thing or two about space-time. ![]()
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