The Digital Sea eBook Thomas K Carpenter
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It’s 2052. A new reality is just a download away.
Decay is ubiquitious as the world's population shrinks under Sagan's Law. But no one cares as their lives are consumed by the Digital Sea an immersive augmented reality that’s always on, seen through eye-screens and controlled by the mind.
Zel Aurora, a skilled reality-hacker, can change the Digital Sea with a thought, but all that power can't save her daughter from a deadly disease. So Zel makes a deal with the Djed, a powerful crime lord that she's betrayed once before, to stop the new realities threatening his global empire. When the Djed sends along his murderous bodyguard that’s immune to her powers to make sure she completes the job, she’s forced to make a choice that may cost her daughter’s life.
** Series Order **
Book One - The Digital Sea
Book Two - The Godhead Machine
Book Three - Neochrome Aurora
The Digital Sea eBook Thomas K Carpenter
I truly loved and enjoyed this book. I had no previous experience with this author and am looking forward to more from him. I am so very glad to learn from his website that this book is the first of a trilogy, YES!!!! :) :) The second installment, "The Godhead Machine", is supposed to be coming in November 2011 and the third, "Neochrome Aurora", in January 2013.The year 2052 is certainly not far away at all and the thought of augmented reality being so prevalent is very exciting to me. I certainly love "real life" but I also feel that computers, the internet, various applications, can enhance our lives and experiences in ways we can't even comprehend yet.
The other reviewers (at least the ones up through 05/26/11) have hit all of the points that I feel are important and I especially feel that the review entitled "I want more!!" from May 26, 2011 by Melissa, a Reviewer for 1000 + Books to Read, reflects how I feel about this book and thus I won't rehash what she has so eloquently written.
This may be a bit overreaching but the character Zel Aurora reminds me of Lisbeth Salander from Stieg Larsson's trilogy that started with "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", as does the writing in general.
Very well done book, thank you Mr. Carpenter!
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The Digital Sea eBook Thomas K Carpenter Reviews
The Digital Sea is an intriguing dystopian novel with sufficient plot and character development to hook the reader within a few pages. Those who like science fiction, mystery and/or techno-thrillers will enjoy this novel. The Digital Sea is also the first novel of a trilogy; this becomes very apparent at the end of the novel when the story arc concludes but subtly suggests that soon there will be other events to disrupt the normal life of Zel Aurora and her daughter.
The characters are not all introduced together, but each is featured in his/her own chapter at the beginning which also includes some backstory for each member of the vast cast of this novel. This type of construction makes the story difficult to follow in the beginning, but perseverance is worthwhile. Readers having difficulty with the number and mission(s) of the characters may wish to make a cheat sheet.
While reading this novel, I noted that some of the transitions from one chapter to the next were not as smoothly accomplished as I could have wished. This is particularly true in the beginning, but I also noted a similar effect between the last few chapters. It is less apparent in the middle of the book. The rough transitions did not detract from my over-all enjoyment of the book.
Note for those intending to read the next two novels in this series Start with The Digial Sea, so that you will have sufficient indoctrination into this world to enjoy the followups.
This review also appears on Dragon Views and LibraryThing, as well as on any other appropriate site I may find to post it.
FTC regulations require the following disclosure This novel was received free from the author in exchange for this review. Despite the above statement, I want the reader to know the following as well I chose to read The Digital Sea because I wanted to read it. I was not obligated in any way to accept the author's offer of the free copy. The above review (excluding this paragraph) is worded exactly the same as it would have been worded had I chosen to purchase my copy of this book. Receiving a free copy of the novel has not altered my opinion of the author's work. This review contains my honest opinion of the book, for which I have received no financial compensation.
The confused world of augmented reality resurfaces in this mystery/spy novel set in the year 2052 by Thomas K. Carpenter. I only say that because this theme is my least favorite when I'm reading sci-fi, or fantasy novels. I'm reminded of Vernor Vinge's 'Rainbows End', the 2007 Hugo Award winner for best novel. I disliked that novel! Vernor spoke of a world in which " ...the virtual and the real are a seamless continuum, layers of reality built on digital views seen by a single person or millions, depending on your choice." Well, here we go again. The difference is that I didn't dislike Carpenter's novel. Don't get me wrong, I was still perplexed, but so were some of his characters. One of the main good characters, Zel Aurora thinks to herself on page 193... " Damn it. Even with you I don't always understand what's going on. It's like having a play in a foreign country explained to you. I hear the explanation, but I don't know what it means." Amen, Zel, I had the same problem reading this avant garde type novel. That being said, I thought the author highly competent. Some of the character's lines are clever; such as, the reporter, Jartelle, thinking about an affair he had with a girl named Anesha..." I cannot be so blind to think it is a relationship. Still, what's the difference, it's only a title. Journalist. Prostitute. Some say they are no different, and the latter pays better." There are quite a few of these kinds of snippets throughout the novel. This was a well written and thought- through novel that just happened to be about a topic that I don't like.
The story is about our world in the future where "Sagan's Law" has been enacted, a world-wide one child policy. The population is still too high and there are many devious plans to lower it further. The cost of health care is only available to the rich. Limbs can be regrown. ARNet computers ( the Digital Sea ) are embedded into the body in order for a person to change their outward appearance and viewed surroundings. But can you now be controlled and monitored by unknown forces? Can some people take this a step further and become invisible at times? These are some of the questions in this new complex world. Mr. Carpenter weaves a unique tale that tries to unravel this complicated and puzzling dilemma that man has enacted on himself. Well done, Mr. Carpenter, you had this reviewer guessing, chapter after chapter.
Our heroine is Zel Aurora, a reality hacker savant, who has fashioned her own augmented reality system called the Pandora. Her child lies in bed dying from a shaking sickness. She contacts the crime lord Djed, whom she has betrayed in the past, to seek employment in exchange for enough of funds to get hemangioblast therapy for her daughter, Liala. The Djed, who speaks to her as a projection, wants to find out who is trying to start a war between India and Pakistan. They are interfering with his business. She agrees to take the job, but must take Djed's Russian assassin, Sasha, with her. Meanwhile, a Japanese politician is beheaded by an invisible assassin and a seasoned reporter named, Jartelle, suspects a bigger situation brewing and starts to follow leads ( don't worry about all the "ands", I'm invoking polysyndeton syntax ). Jartelle stays one step ahead of Zel and Sasha as they seek the answer to the plot against humanity, seemingly from a mysterious corporation called Ecoverse. Carpenter writes some of the chases like it's an episode from the Keystone Cops! For example, Zel and Sasha arrive in a now dead New Orleans to see Quicksilver Spider, then to New York to see TenNinety and the Unseen gang, only to be sent to Siberia to see Fat Tennessee ( and he is super fat! ), and then sent to Free Africa South. And guess who was there first? Yes, Jartelle! Now the story gets exciting, and this is where I stop. Now that you have tasted a little of the plot, I suggest you grab your own copy of this China Mieville-like weird fiction novel, sans the neologisms.
One flaw I find in books of this type is that the author writes-in too many sidebar characters with names. It gets too hard for the reader to remember all the character's names, only to find out that they were menial at best. I haven't even mentioned Mekena Dembo ( he's not one of the menials ), Kaydar Ayasha, Ava, the Jackal, Cutter, the twins, NURBS, or Ubiq to name a few. The reader will have a lot more empathy for characters when he can concentrate on three, or four people. But this was a enjoyable novel, even though I didn't like the theme.
Somewhere the different types of people and animals, birds, and the extra beings and "the others" the line has become nearly transparent from each other. The curtain is lifted and they work together with only some of the beings are at odds with each other. And there is the one who can pull the beings together.
The book is the first of three, with the other two coming out in the next two to three years. Great story plot and well written. Author has other material that is good, too!!
I truly loved and enjoyed this book. I had no previous experience with this author and am looking forward to more from him. I am so very glad to learn from his website that this book is the first of a trilogy, YES!!!! ) ) The second installment, "The Godhead Machine", is supposed to be coming in November 2011 and the third, "Neochrome Aurora", in January 2013.
The year 2052 is certainly not far away at all and the thought of augmented reality being so prevalent is very exciting to me. I certainly love "real life" but I also feel that computers, the internet, various applications, can enhance our lives and experiences in ways we can't even comprehend yet.
The other reviewers (at least the ones up through 05/26/11) have hit all of the points that I feel are important and I especially feel that the review entitled "I want more!!" from May 26, 2011 by Melissa, a Reviewer for 1000 + Books to Read, reflects how I feel about this book and thus I won't rehash what she has so eloquently written.
This may be a bit overreaching but the character Zel Aurora reminds me of Lisbeth Salander from Stieg Larsson's trilogy that started with "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo", as does the writing in general.
Very well done book, thank you Mr. Carpenter!
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