A Larger Universe eBook James Gillaspy
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A five-thousand-meter starship; a dying civilization; an ancient evil
The broadcast interview of a young computer prodigy attracts the attention of aliens aboard an interstellar trading ship. The kidnapping of Tommy (and his cat) begins an adventure among the stars a coming of age story entangled with computers, and faster-than-light travel.
On board the starship, Tommy meets a crew of humans, descended from peasants, priests, and soldiers taken from Earth a thousand years before, slaves to the seldom-seen aliens, the Nesu, inhabiting the upper third of the ship.
Tommy is expected to replace the ancient and failing computers on the ship with computers taken from Earth, beginning with the long-dead missile controller, without which the ship is defenseless.
But the Nesu are themselves refugees from another alien civilization that, fifteen hundred years before, destroyed the Nesu home world and now block all scientific advancement in the local arm of the galaxy.
A high-tech, science fiction adventure.
A Larger Universe eBook James Gillaspy
I'll add my two cents to what some of the other viewers have already said.This is an eerily engaging story that will absolutely pull you in if you're the right kind of reader. By that, I mean you need to be able to appreciate a greater insight into the protagonist's special talents than a lot of standard sci-fi fare is willing to provide. The author doesn't deal any more in handwavium than he absolutely has to; much of the story is spent recounting recognizable software development and debugging methodologies to a somewhat gritty degree. If you're into that kind of thing (as I am, as a former programmer), you are really going to like the way some of the plot advancements and complications are handled.
Beyond that one aspect, there's something about this story that just hits the sweet spot. A couple of other reviewers have made reference to early Heinlein. Add a very young hero who has both Tom Swift and John Carter Of Mars somewhere in his family tree, and you're starting to get the idea.
The world-building is simple, believable, and sufficient to the story, as is the author's narrative style. Nothing about the plot is telegraphed or predictable. (Well, a couple of things do happen to the hero that the engaged reader will have suspected were only a matter of time. You'll recognize them when you get to them.)
There are a few minor editing errors sprinkled throughout, but nothing that's going to jolt you out of immersion.
This author is a perfect example of why I'm such a fan of browsing the self-publishers in Amazon's Kindle shop. Yes, it's a bit of a hit-or-miss effort to find the good stuff, but then you happen across a gem like this and you realize the hunt was worthwhile.
This unpretentious, terrific little book is the most enjoyable escapist science fiction I've read in the past couple of years. And yes, I too am now waiting for a sequel. In fact, I'm drumming my fingers.
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A Larger Universe eBook James Gillaspy Reviews
Pretty entertaining read. The author must be a programmer himself to go so far into those details.
At times a bit too much.
Ok and solidly in the "Starwars" sort of universe teeming with other civilizations.
I give him some credit for taking the time to imagine how FTL could be achieved and how present day earthlings could be sitting here not hearing a thing from out there. Though I don't believe it myself.
I'm a space enthusiast but heck, without FTL we are pretty much stuck here and the Galaxy is closed. I wouldn't want everyone to give up. So though I'm skeptical, ok.
A bit teasing and not much else in romantic interest. There's more action than this on the slow generation ships.
Ha, zero women will read this book.
I will start off to say this book was pretty good – a bit too technical at times – but good all of the same. However, the ending left you hanging with a promise at the end of a sequel titled “An Emergent Universe.” As I type up this review, that promise of a sequel was over six years ago and all references to it have been scrubbed from the author’s website. If you enjoy serial science fiction novels as I do, while the book was good, I wouldn’t read this one as it will just leave you frustrated with an incomplete story.
I really enjoyed this book. I was surprised that it was a first novel by this author as the writing, proofing and grammar were top quality. The story is a typical coming of age, space opera science fiction but it avoids most to the cowboy aspects of a lot of indie scifi that I've read.
Now I said the story is typical but it has enough twists and turns and different looks at common tropes to be really satisfying. It took a little time to get into the story, but it soon became a page turner and denied me a full nights sleep since i was up until 2am finishing the story.
The book does have a "nerdy" feel to it because the young protagonist is a genius computer hacker, kidnapped by an alien species for his talent. Along the way, the known laws of physics are bent and broken but only enough to move the plot along. I like that the author recognizes that physical laws are being broken and just has the protagonist say so without resorting to blabber and technospeak.
Surprising that the book isn't doing better. It deserves higher ranking than so many other indie novels that are selling better. I hope Mr. Gillaspy keeps writing, I would like to read more. I'm buying his latest novel tomorrow--The Lesser Talisman.
I cannot even imagine giving this book less than a five star rating. Mr. Gillaspy has done an amazing job of bringing to life a world within a world with protagonist, antagonist, heroes and anti-heroes. The book has a grandiose feel to it because of the vastness of the ship world, but it also has a universal appeal as they battle an unknown enemy that dogs their every move throughout space, theirs and all other space faring beings. The fact that it is a young boy/man that ends up holding the key to so much of the answers they need, and the relationships he forms while trying to grow and develop into a young man aboard a space ship with such a wide assortment of beings is both heart warming and amazing. Full of adventure, great development of all characters, a deeper understanding of issues that probably all cultures face, Mr. Gillaspy makes me want to find a way on board! There have been comments on the technicality of some of the computer and code programming, and yes, some of it was way above my head, but his detailed explanations provided just the right amount of information for the tech newby, enough challenge for the experienced computer person, and for those of us who are electronically challenged, we tagged along well enough to see where all of the lines of code were taking us. Not an easy task, but he does it with great success. Highly recommend this book, and can't wait for the sequel to come out. In fact, I'm tired of swimming in the pool waiting! Please hurry!
I'll add my two cents to what some of the other viewers have already said.
This is an eerily engaging story that will absolutely pull you in if you're the right kind of reader. By that, I mean you need to be able to appreciate a greater insight into the protagonist's special talents than a lot of standard sci-fi fare is willing to provide. The author doesn't deal any more in handwavium than he absolutely has to; much of the story is spent recounting recognizable software development and debugging methodologies to a somewhat gritty degree. If you're into that kind of thing (as I am, as a former programmer), you are really going to like the way some of the plot advancements and complications are handled.
Beyond that one aspect, there's something about this story that just hits the sweet spot. A couple of other reviewers have made reference to early Heinlein. Add a very young hero who has both Tom Swift and John Carter Of Mars somewhere in his family tree, and you're starting to get the idea.
The world-building is simple, believable, and sufficient to the story, as is the author's narrative style. Nothing about the plot is telegraphed or predictable. (Well, a couple of things do happen to the hero that the engaged reader will have suspected were only a matter of time. You'll recognize them when you get to them.)
There are a few minor editing errors sprinkled throughout, but nothing that's going to jolt you out of immersion.
This author is a perfect example of why I'm such a fan of browsing the self-publishers in 's shop. Yes, it's a bit of a hit-or-miss effort to find the good stuff, but then you happen across a gem like this and you realize the hunt was worthwhile.
This unpretentious, terrific little book is the most enjoyable escapist science fiction I've read in the past couple of years. And yes, I too am now waiting for a sequel. In fact, I'm drumming my fingers.
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