Rise
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.47 (929 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1941758835 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 620 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-11-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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I just kept on reading! I jumped into this book and just kept on reading. Tremendous character development and awesome world building. Brian Guthrie is a real talent. I look forward to reading more of his books.. Amazon Customer said Must read new author -- Rise will not be a disappointment!. Amazing and creative new author! Rise has the Sci-Fi/Fantasy market's attention. I loved the book so much that I bought twenty to give as gifts this Christmas!!. "Loved this book" according to Lauren K. Loved this book! Great story that pulls you in to a new world the author has created. Can't wait to read the rest of the series!
Guthrie neatly if straightforwardly weaves together the four stories, letting events repeat without contradiction (no Rashomon here); his worldbuilding is complicated enough, including the characters' ability to rewrite the "code" of reality, to require some simplicity of plot. But it is starting to fail, and Logwyn, a scribe, is sent by her dragon queen to interview four outsiders from different shells and cultures to piece together why. Science fiction makes "Their world exploded" literal in this ensnaring SF mystery set on various fragments ("shells") of a shattered planet that still orbit around its glowing core. (Sept.) - Publishers Weekly. Set up by the Ancients, the shells host colonies of humans who depend upon the infallible technology of their ancestors to survive. Raising more questions with every answer, this volume should intrigue readers enough to look for the sequel. Armed only with a box whose contents she has not dared to view, L
Based out of Germany, Brian Guthrie is a serial author of science fiction, fantasy, and more. His first novel, Rise (book one of a series of four releasing Sept 2016) won the Inkshares Nerdist Contest and his second novel, After Man (co-authored with Michelle Guthrie; book one of three slated for release early 2017) won the Inkshares Geek and Sundry contest, making him the first author on Inkshares to win two contests. He has completed Rise's sequel, Fall, and has plans for an anthology piece, some historical fiction, and much more. He is married to Michelle Guthrie, a father of a nine-year old girl who is as much boy as she is girl, and has two cats.
As the stakes become clear, the inhabitants of the Shells begin to turn on each other, and appear headed for all-out global war.Now the paths of several strangers will converge at the opportune moment. But the Network is breaking down, water is sparse, and a complete societal collapse is imminent. On a world brought to the brink of destruction, life now clings to the shattered remains of the planet's crust. These fragments are the Shells: fragile wastelands of desert and rock, protected from the cold of space by a water shield. From a woman who seeks to protect her family as it's ripped apart to a prison warden hiding from his past, this unlikely group has little in commonbut together, they may hold the key to saving humanity from its worst enemy: itself.. In the struggle for survival, its people have depended on ancient technology, controlled by the omnipresent Network, to sustain the entire population