Hometown Kelly and the Gizmo Team (Kindle Edition)
By Sharon L Reddy
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First tagged by Spinner "Talespinner"
Customer tags: gizmo, mm, gadgets, small town, wealth, superhero, science fiction adventure, heroes, comics, sharon l reddy, corporate, action adventure
Review & Description
Science Fiction; avant-garde, context definition below.
Novella length, 36,000 words, about 150 paperback pages
How many times have you seen, "This isn't like any story you've read before?" Do you believe it? Would you like to make a wager? Download the sample. Make me prove it.
It was Hell and always had been, but the only other choice was dead and he didn't get to make that one either. He'd worked not to wish he'd died with his parents in the accident he'd been too young to remember. He was alive and they weren't. Because they weren't, he was so rich he was kept alive. As long as he was, others had control of the wealth and used it, in his name of course, to make more wealth. They wielded the power it gave them, also in his name. They didn't know he was there. No one did.
But someone did know there was someone trapped inside the work of art, preserved for the power of wealth it gave those who controlled a corporation. A daring rescue, surprising proof and a unique town that decided he was theirs, miracles do happen.
The working title of this little piece (about 180 paperback pages) was "I always loved comic books." It was fun and someday there will be more adventures of Kelly, Jim and Gizmo's team.
This is on all my book pages. Do read it once. You need to know this stuff to decide if the twenty years I've been writing for this stage of e-publishing is going to be a blast, and wow, there's a lot.
I write for an under-served market. Will others like my work? Yes, but they aren't really wishing for something that's not available. Or not this something. There really isn't anything else like my work out there. If there had been, I'd have found it. I want action-adventure that never slows down and engages me intellectually too. I want superheroes who are eloquent and brilliant. I want characters who sound like they've got an incredible education and wisdom from 'immortals,' who aren't cases of arrested development that haven't learned anything since they were 20. I want books I have to read more than once to get everything in them out of them. I want societies that don't have any missing pieces. Traders who think about profit margin, and guard captains who think about needing to use the toilet and wish the dignitaries would, please, go into the meeting room. To get it, I had to write it.
Raven's Reviews, (members.fortunecity.com/arwen_e/pz/sharonr.html) 1999,
Raven, Introduction:
"Reddy writes distant-future sci-fi with a heavy emphasis on romance, relationships, and psychology. Since her material is published only in electronic format, she has a unique, fast-paced style that lacks most of the usual descriptions that slow readers down in traditional books. The dialogue contains the information you need to know who is speaking and what the action is, somewhat like a radio show with occasional moments of narration. This allows one to read almost as fast as one can think; it also lets Reddy pack the plot action and character development of a trilogy into the space of one long book.
Yes, these books are romantic brain-candy, but they're fun. If you like almost any kind of men at all, you'll like hers- they're all gorgeous, as well as sensitive, brooding, boyish, powerful, passionate, and charming. Male authors have long had a monopoly on portraying gender relations in space, creating myths of the gallant future knight who clearly seperates his fighting from his women. Reddy doesn't hold with that. She also doesn't hold with timid women who wait to be rescued. Her heroines are in keeping with the modern world- protectors of those they care about no matter what it takes."
Raven, Review, Heroes need a Captain:
"To describe the plot, I would have to write a paragraph per chapter."
Raven, thank you. You too, Dragon. You did a great service to us all, treating e-published equally on your site. No, I won't let you correct the typos. That site is an historical document, too. Read more
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