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  • In Lucem Solaria - Birth of Queen Bee on Aug. 06, 2016

    Well one things for sure, this is Waaaay different than a usual Sci-Fi book. Not a wonder its free theres a real cliffhanger, well a few of them. Now, I mean this in a nice way, but sometimes they say Sci-fi writers are crazy and the crazier they are the better they are... So this author is crazy... the craziest one I've read in years... and I read lots of Philip K. Dick, and he had schizophrenia! So in the book humans are on the verge of extinction, and I like the cause of that... its not climate change or global war, the author really thought hard about why things die out. I understood why, but I think the timeline is too tight. Then again what would I know? So this computer called Solaria creates a digital afterlife, and all these stored dead folks go there. The star of this book is not Solaria (the Goddess/Computer) or George (the Crazy scientist guy), I think its Alterra the girl that becomes the queen. Her culture and her world is like really whacky. She's also sort of naive and her world is still in the medieval times or something. But I think thats what the Elysian people are supposed to be like...sort of stupid and naive. She's an alien, well a computer alien but you sort of get to know how she thinks. Its really well written, which is always a plus. Easy to read yet incredibly descriptive. Some of the science things sort of got me... I read sci-fi but that doesn't make me a scientist. Its not that important to the story. And this is a story more than anything. A pretty good one. You really get to hate George Morris as he changes over the years, he just gets more and more arrogant, obnoxious and power hungry. But you can see why, In the middle of the book a bunch of terrorists knock an asteroid off course and it hits London and New York. Thats when you get to see that Solaria is not just a machine. Until then you sort of have an idea she might be lying to George. But after that its obvious she's not lying,. The story is really good and it seems like this could actually happen. A digital afterlife, Its not that far in the future. If it ever does happen that someone invents this afterlife then sign me up. I'm only 28 at the moment but who's to say I wouldn't get hit by a number 12 bus! 5 Stars and yeah I'll probably end up buying the second one to find out what the hell is going on.