Book Review: What is the next logical step for Humans?

Post Human Series Books 1-4

Written by David Simpson

Post Human Books 1-4 is what I would consider an Omnibus novel. That is good because really detest when authors under develop a story and the end product comes out under the Hugo definition for a novel.

Craig Emilson is a a Special Forces Operator working for the US trying to suppress the Chinese effort to develop a strong A.I. He and his team do a sub-orbital insertion into a radioactive wasteland from SpaceShip II, way to go Virgin Galactic. Just the start of a very twisted saga of events stretching a couple of hundred years, Moore’s law not withstanding.

The books progress from Sub-Human to Post Human, Human Plus and finally Trans-Human. In some of the story-lines the reader has a firm grasp of who is the protagonist and who is not but by the end…we are our own worst enemy.

I liked the quality of this book from concept through editing and the price is excellent for a kindle product. Personally, I give it four out of five stars for entertainment value and ignore some of the hand waving that occurred during…oh, trans-dimensional travel, worm-holes, alien humanoid shaped androids because we are the pre-eminent shape sentient life would choose…okay, so I didn’t ignore it.

Here is something that caught my notice because it truly is BS. Amazon shows this work has 1,816 reviews. If you think that is legit good for you. I don’t. Just call me jaded I guess but the effort to get legitimate reviews out of readers these days is Herculean and to see that tens of thousands are putting up reviews for best sellers sends up my scam antenna.

For the most part the demographic that consumes Science Fiction is not extroverted in the manner that would gain this response. That being said I’m encouraging folks to read this book in the four book form. Enjoy!

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00H0D5NTI?keywords=post%20human%20series%20books%201-4&qid=1445376461&ref_=sr_1_1&s=digital-text&sr=1-1

Audio Book Review: Never Fear, Creed is here!

Assault Troopers

Written by Vaughn Heppner

Narrated by Christian Rummel

Creed is the son of MadDog Creed, a famous space shuttle pilot. He’s been through the school of hard knocks to arrive in Antarctica as site security for a research station. That’s where he is when the aliens arrive in orbit and try to extinguish the human race, his dad being the first casualty.

Another set of aliens arrive, start collecting humans and Creed goes berserker on them because to Earthers one alien looks just like another right? Not to put too many spoilers out there this tale turns into an Interstellar translation of Spartacus. The tech is fun, as is the dialog among the humans, aliens and androids. One thing I found to be kind of tiresome was the sheer number of pop culture references that the author threaded into the story.

Creed is an unlikely savior of humanity but he seems to be the only one stepping up to give it a try and that makes the tale. Narration and voice ranges were excellent. Alien and world building was pretty good too. I’m giving the audio version of this four stars out of five. Space Military Opera, post apocalyptic style.

http://www.audible.com/pd/Sci-Fi-Fantasy/Assault-Troopers-Audiobook/B00FEIBZ9S