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Monday, January 7, 2013

Special Spotlight : Yardrof by author Gion B. Tahunka

Dear readers,

Today blog Wonderworld is most privileged to present an intriguing and coming of age science fiction novel titled YARDROF written by the exceptionally talented author Gion B. Tahunka. Please enjoy your visit through this spotlight that will highlight the synopsis and chapter excerpts of YARDROF, its purchase links and the author's bio.


 BOOK DETAILS


Title: Yardrof

Genre : Science Fiction, Young Adult, Adventure 


Author: Gion B. Tahunka


                                   YARDROF at Barnes and Noble Nook Stores 

                                   YARDROF at Google Play Bookstore 


ISBN: 9781456606305


Word count: (rounded) 51,000


Format: EBook (digital); ePUB, MOBI

FROM THE AUTHOR

The author has made available a partial sum of his book Yardrof, in allowing readers to get a glimpse of his science fiction work.  As his providing he has produced a free to share and download version of his eBook Yardrof. 

If preferred, do read the free version of Yardrof.  As it is free to download. YARDROF_Chapter-One_FREE can be downloaded in access with the following link: http://www.freehostina.com/wqst4eb9u7kc.html


Set in the town of Yardrof, the story takes the reader to the future along with some visits to the past, but then suddenly breaks away from those now familiar bonds by his captivation to someplace so very far away, and yet--so near as to then be brought back again, within the reader experience to join the partaken in some new Earthly insights imagined by the author. Yardrof is the author's first novel.



SYNOPSIS


   Randall Kazamp is a boy who, despite their set limitations, always plays by or within the rules--even though he oddly winds up as the occurrence that has the rules to be broken by the establishment of an on-course heading that's all the way back to an open door that somehow has wound up with a big new discovery inside. But to no one's big surprise it is very old.  And Randall is led away to unwind alone, but he oddly discovers his mind that's on course to being a man's.



    But still joined, when it comes right down to it, the known universe is equally as big or mysterious or capable as any act occurring in it, as they go clasp in clasp would likely be the guess or so it would seem--while on their way.  But Randall Kazamp, at his age in this story hasn't even completely developed a guess--as he is still a boy. Randall, though, is different than any other boy; but, yet, he is quite the same--and just like the Universe, they specifically are all growing-up, which is also the theme of the book Yardrof--with its rounded 51,000 words.



   The science fiction story takes place in the town of Yardrof, within an environment setting of the first quarter of the twenty-second century.



   From the Kazamp backyard, where Randall Kazamp helps his father, Peter Kazamp--a scientist, tend his goldenrain trees, to Randall's help as 'the breaking molds' by his entrance into a rather hushed radar telescope site located in his hometown, and then off in scope to a parallel world that Randall helps bring into focus in one apparent mode that results with an official glimpse--might all be described as strange in this story.  But following his helpful acts, Randall strangely, though naturally his best, helpfully helps himself to his very own.



   So, do grab hold, while reading Yardrof, in readiness for a text-tract roller coaster ride given a chain of events lain both before and after some apparent given facts.  Still, conclusively though, amounts to nothing more than growing-up. Yet, in pertinence to lively, commonly extraordinarily does so--in one way or another anyhow.  Just the same, in the story Yardrof, Randall Kazamp is ordinary with respect to growing up, as he is a boy; but he makes an Earthly-unearthly discovery which leads to his further development in being just one among other events visited in the story by the reader.  In the book Yardrof, the stage and the scenario have been setup and arranged, it's up to the reader from that point onward.  It's science fiction, but at least something's left.


YARDROF [ Excerpt ] - Chapter 2

   That's what Randall let pass as his thoughts on his thirteenth birthday, a virtual shelf of memories containing an accessible reminder of his twelfth birthday, and any puppetry held by him within the frame was his only entertainment. Well, Randall's thirteenth birthday was yesterday, and that's where he has to leave it. 

Today is another day; it is still early, and Randall is headed in the direction of downstairs to get some breakfast before his father takes him out shopping. But first he wants to check in on his father to see if he's up and about yet. After Randall had checked throughout the house in unsuccessfully locating Mr. Kazamp, he eventually finds him out in the backyard near some of his goldenrain trees, as he catches glimpses of Mr. Kazamp out of the side-door of the kitchen while getting himself some breakfast. 

Mr. Kazamp had promised to take Randall shopping today, since he didn't get him anything for his thirteenth birthday yesterday. With the weekend arriving the day after Randall's birthday, Mr. Kazamp had decided this year to just wait with the birthday present gift--and take Randall shopping on this Saturday instead. Randall being the mature lad that he is, wouldn't have minded at all if his father had just skipped all of the birthday with gift hoopla.

Peter Kazamp has been in the habit of babying Randall just a bit, and that's mostly because of a mother who is missing in Randall's life. Mr. Kazamp kind of over does it in that aspect of parenting though, in an attempt to try not to leave anything avoidably out that would deny Randall a full life.

 
AUTHOR BIO

   Gion B. Tahunka is a poet and writer who is infatuated with the arts, life with art, and the art that continuously joins life through and by way of the creatures that produce it, enhance it--if it be so, or just keep it going.  The author has a certificate of preliminary education along with his interest in computers and science related research as well.



   The author has been storytelling since he was a child some decades ago.  But when he did read the accessible author titles at the public library, as during those early years of his and while he was a child, the mystery-titles were always his favorite.  Though, he would have to discretely move closer but not completely over into the adult section to satisfy that urge.  As even back then--decades ago, adult books could not be checked out by children.  But he did manage to find some mystery novels, there at the public library, that were close, but not quite adult--and as those which could be checked out by anyone his age as well.  Ever forward though, the librarian was always watching, and he always wanted to avoid having to make acknowledgment of that supervision, in answering that he wasn't taking those steps of his clear over into the adult section.  As that's why he was always so discreet on his paths toward no clarifications having to be made--but as his silent reward instead.  Though space, and those regularly scheduled frontiers, had regularly come to shed tears by him.  But the author hasn't been situated to afford any entertainment such as that, any given moment, in recent times.  Because the author now has a space oriented science fiction book of his own to realistically cry about, and independently at that.  Now that's science fiction.



   Author written is Yardrof, and some parts of it might be surmised as being in a writing style that perhaps was rediscovered after being towed out from under an old forgotten world, but then promoted out-front of a narrator that braves in the likeness of an unlikely humorous guide while guiding the reader through this rather dark tale--and while being a caretaker of a lantern, and to extensions at times during its poetic sway that also had flickered while being the negotiator on read paths.  Yardrof is a bit dark in nature, and even spiritual in the sense of right and wrong--though self-direction was not written all the way down to null in the outcome text.


Friday, September 7, 2012

Featured Ebook : The Deep Dark Well by Doug Dandridge

Ebook : THE DEEP DARK WELL

Genre : Science Fiction, Action-Adventure

Author : Doug Dandridge

Author Page :  http://www.amazon.com/-/e/B006S69CTU

BookTrailer :  http://youtu.be/UhzXuqsLuvs

Amazon Stores :  http://www.amazon.com/dp/B006S3GOKS

Reviews : Multiple 4.3-5stars

Blurb : In the year 2089 Pandora Latham is working to tag comets.  Kuiper miner Niven comes across a derelict of far superior technology, an English name on the hull.  As Pandi and crew explore the ship, space distorts around them, the Universe getting rid of the paradox.  While the ships break apart Pandi jumps into an active wormhole.  Pandi comes out in an advanced space station 46,000 years in the future that appears deserted.  

Pandora finds herself in a fight against the cybernetic defenders of the station.  Watcher, a genetically engineered super being, observes the fight.  His curiosity and loneliness get the better of him and he allows Pandi to survive.  He sends his own robots to gather her up, while watching other developments in the Supersystem, a group of eight star systems in orbit around the black hole.

A task force from the newly risen xenophobic Nation of Humanity has entered the system, to capture technology from  the station.  The Nation sees all alien life as evil.  It wishes to increase its tech to aid it in its war against the evil.  Traveling from their home system using their space destroying drives, they will not be dissuaded.  Pandi is captured by Watcher and taken to his quarters.  Her emotional stress and his loneliness draw them together.  Watcher disappears and is replaced by his paranoid brother, Vengeance, who captures and tortures Pandi, taking sadistic pleasure in her agony.


The Nation of Humanity ships probe the station.  Vengeance uses the graviton beam projectors in orbit around the hole to destroy two ships.  The rest pull back and continue to probe the station.  Meanwhile new visitors have entered the system in a different kind of ship, deploying a more advanced drive than the Nation.  The newcomers, from the Kingdom of Surya, have been at war with the Nation for generations.


Pandi fights her way free from Vengeance.  She gains access to the control center in another section of the station.  The Nation of Humanity force strikes, using pseudo FTL drives to get in under the defenses, escaping with much of the tech they were after.  Pandi, using a shielded system, delves into the mystery of Watcher/Vengeance.  She finds that Vengeance destroyed civilization at the behest of the station computer, thousands of years prior.  

The computer has been switching out the personalities of the “brothers” while they sleep, using Watcher as a companion, and Vengeance the sadistic defender of the station.  Pandi entices Watcher to her area and induces the change to Vengeance by telling Watcher the truth.  Pandi captures Vengeance and reawakens Watcher, who is horrified to learn that his other self was responsible for the deaths of trillions.  The station computer was afraid it was going to be disconnected in favor of another, more advanced computer.


Watcher and Pandi decide to take out the central computer.  Watcher uses wormholes to flood each target area with radiation while Pandi strikes.  The last, primary, core does not have a working demolition charge, and Pandi brings the mouth of a wormhole with her in the assault.  The computer is destroyed as the black hole sucks it out the station.  Pandi makes a last second escape and finds herself plummeting into the black hole.  

She barely avoids the event horizon and just generates enough vector to just miss the station.  Watcher picks Pandi up from space and the pair plan to revive Galactic Civilization.  In the tradition of Ringworld, THE DEEP DARK WELL is of course written with the possibility of sequels as Pandi and Watcher explore the Galaxy.

Amazon Reviews (View all reviews) 



 

Sunday, September 2, 2012

Featured Ebook : Lyon's Legacy (Catalyst Chronicles, Book One) by Sandra Ulbrich Almazan

Ebook : LYON'S LEGACY (Catalyst Chronicles, Book One)

Genre : Science Fiction

Author : Sandra Ulbrich Almazan

Author Website : http://www.amazon.com/Sandra-Ulbrich-Almazan/e/B006GQR4KQ

Author blog : http://ulbrichalmazan.blogspot.com/

Goodreads Author Page: http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/5282664.Sandra_Ulbrich_Almazan

Amazon Stores: Kindle Edition
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B005T82Z0G

Amazon Stores : Paperback Edition
http://www.amazon.com/Lyons-Legacy-Catalyst-Chronicles-Book/dp/1475056230

Barnes and Noble Store : http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lyons-legacy-sandra-almazan/1106468355

Smashwords Store : https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/94420

Reviews : Multiple 4.5-5 stars

Blurb: Sometimes being a geneticist isn’t enough to understand your family....

Joanna Lyon is the great-granddaughter of the legendary TwenCen musician Sean Lyon. She may have inherited her ancestor's musical talent, but her parents' bitter divorce and her Uncle Jack's attempts to remake her into another Sean have left her hostile toward her family and music. Her passion is for science, but since she has no access to the family funds, she struggles to earn enough credits for graduate school. 


Then her uncle sets up a business deal with her employer to make Joanna go on a mission for him: travel via the spaceship Sagan to an alternate TwenCen universe where Sean is still alive. Joanna must collect a DNA sample from Sean so her uncle can create a clone of him. She refuses at first, but finally agrees to go. Secretly, however, Joanna believes her uncle will exploit the clone, and she plans to sabotage the project to stop him. 

But when she falls in love with one of the scientists in the Sagan's genetics lab, clashes with other time travelers who fear she'll change how history develops on the alternative TwenCen Earth, and receives devastating personal news, Joanna will find herself pushed to her limit even before she comes face-to-face with her hated ancestor. 

Their encounter will leave her changed forever. Will she still be able to thwart her uncle's plan, and what will she have to sacrifice to do so?

Amazon Reviews (View all reviews) 



Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Featured Ebook : 'Sacerdos, The Sacerdos Mysteries I' by Elizabeth Amisu

Ebook : SACERDOS (The Sacerdos Mysteries #1)

Genre :  Young Adult/New Adult Fantasy-Science Fiction

Author : Elizabeth Amisu

Author Website :   http://www.amazon.com/Elizabeth-Amisu/e/B007SNDN56
 
Goodreads Author Page :  www.goodreads.com/elizawriter

Facebook Author Page :  www.facebook.com/sacerdosmysteries

Author's Twitter handle :  www.twitter.com/sacerdosseries

 UK Amazon : http://www.amazon.co.uk/Sacerdos-The-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B007S8PK4S

US Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Sacerdos-The-Mysteries-ebook/dp/B007S8PK4S 

ISBN : 9781622090907 (Paperback) 

Reviews : Multiple 5stars -UK Amazon and 4stars-US Amazon 

Blurb :  Caelara, a fifteen year-old teenager from East London, doesn’t think there is anything special about her life. That is until a package arrives on her doorstep which threatens to blow her world apart. She and her father flee London and find themselves trapped in an alternate universe, in the ancient city of Sacerdos. Once there, she develops the supernatural ability to manipulate water and is quickly enlisted to the army. However, a bloodthirsty killer, Reficio, is on the loose and needs her to accomplish his plans...

 UK Amazon Reviews (Click to view all reviews)

US Amazon Reviews (Click to view all reviews) 

Editorial Review - The Mysteries tell the story of Caelara, a young girl whose difficult existence with her alcoholic father is turned upside down when she discovers she has the power to manipulate the elements. Before she knows it she is enrolled into the Sacerdos Institution, a school for gifted youths, where she meets pupils with different talents from a world that she never knew existed.

Caelara’s special skills place her in the order of Alatius, the order of sky and sea, and soon she and the other astute members of the Elite are drafted into republican war to defend the life of people that Caelara is growing to love.

Elizabeth has created a new language and painted the world of Terra Magna with vivid clarity, a world where workers are replaced with golems, elements are there to be manipulated and being gifted means you are in the heart of danger.




 


Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Featured Ebook : The Sword And The Pen by Elysa Hendricks

Ebook : THE SWORD AND THE PEN

Genre : Fantasy Romance

Author : Elysa Hendricks 

Author Website :  http://www.elysahendricks.com

 Amazon  Author Page: 
 http://www.amazon.com/Elysa-Hendricks/e/B0034PZQP2

Amazon  Stores : Kindle and Paperback
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B008E6XBDK 

Reviews : Multiple 4.9-5 stars

Blurb : If your fantasy became reality, what would you do?

It was time. After penning ten popular sword-and-sorcery novels, Brandon Alexander Davis was ready to move on. Ready to stop hiding in his fictional world. Ready to start living a real life. There was just one problem: as he plotted the noble death of Serilda D'Lar, his fictional creation, complete with mile-long sword, skimpy leather outfit and badass attitude, appeared in his study.

Was she nothing more than a crazy fan, or had Brandon finally cracked?

This warrior woman whom he knew so well, so strong yet vulnerable, was both fantasy and reality. She was an invitation to rediscover all he once knew--that life is an incredible, magical journey and, for love, any man can be a hero.


Amazon Reviews (Click to see all reviews) 

Editorial Reviews 

"Once I started "The Sword and the Pen", I could not lay it down! It is so good! "The Sword And The Pen" is a BLAST! It is a very fun, and entertaining fantasy romance. This story is different and fresh. We all need to have these fresh idea's PENNED" for us. Thank the heavens for the Author's great imagination! Highly recommended! Goes on the keeper shelf! Enjoy!" -Ace Reader

"The Sword and the Pen carries readers on a fantastic journey, hopping point of view and dimensions beautifully. Anchoring you to the unpredictable plot are the two main characters, Brandon and Seri, who both captured my attention and affection at once. 


Strong and confident, Seri stands apart from more standard waif-like heroines. And I'm not sure I've ever met a hero more believable than Brandon. More than merely scrumptious, Brandon is stubborn, silly, and even a little frightened at turns. In a genre often dominated by flawless, broad-shouldered leads that seem more closely related to statues than men, Brandon is wholly and deliciously human. 

The characters bring a solidness to the story and by bringing them to life, Ms. Hendricks makes you believe in the impossible." -- Natalie Richards

"Though the concept of a fictional character coming to life has been done before and recently cleverly twisted in the Thompson-Ferrell movie Stranger than Fiction, Elysa Hendricks refreshes it with her lead pairing. Serilda understands what is going on by simply believing writer Brandon is a powerful wizard;

Brandon believes that one or both is crazy. Told mostly in a first person viewpoint from the lead couple, fans will enjoy this super romantic fantasy as the heroine knows the pen is mightier than the sword but the hero believes the heart is mightier than THE SWORD AND THE PEN." -- Harriet Klausner


"The Sword and the Pen is a wonderful, innovative, fun, exciting fantasy blending modern and ancient world in a great love story. Which world is the real one? The modern, into which a woman warrior tumbles? Or the "ancient" one where a modern author tries to change his fictional history. All this and a great love story too. What more could you want! I completely recommend this book!" --Ann Macela

"The Sword and the Pen by Elysa Hendricks is a thoroughly enjoyable story of fiction meets fact. When author Brandon Davis comes face to face with his fictional creation (in the flesh) both his fantasies and his reality are forever changed. The characters are strong, believable and likable and the book is an entertaining, fast read which will have you smiling--even if you're squeezed into the center seat on a coast to coast flight! I look forward to many more stories from this talented new author." -- Kelle Riley
 

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