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H1 L1 A0
H1, L1, A0 is a science fiction novel with a strong climate-fiction pulse, and at its core, it imagines a future where Earth is buckling under environmental collapse, overcrowding, and political failure, pushing humanity toward vast Ark-like space projects, strange new technologies, and eventually contact with alien forces. The story follows James Kidd, who tells much of it in the first person, beginning from a crisis point high above an unknown planet and then reaching back across centuries of memory, survival, and transformation. What stayed with me most was how the book tries to braid together personal memoir, planetary warning, military adventure, and big-idea speculative fiction into one long arc.
What I found interesting is that the novel doesn’t move like sleek, polished hard science fiction that’s obsessed with efficiency. It feels more talkative than that, more authentic, almost as if James is sitting across the table trying to tell me everything before time runs out. Sometimes that means the writing rambles, circles, and doubles back. But that same looseness also gives it a certain honesty. The book has a homemade intensity to it. I could feel the author wanting not just to entertain me, but to argue, warn, and remember. That choice gives the novel a rough sincerity I ended up respecting, even when I wanted a firmer editorial hand.
This is not shy fiction. It’s deeply concerned with climate damage, human selfishness, political cowardice, and the fantasy that someone else will save us. Even when the story opens outward into alien tech and deep-space possibility, the moral center stays pointed back at Earth. The novel keeps asking what kind of species creates brilliance and ruin at the same time. James, Charlotte, May, and Alexander help ground that question because they are not just symbols in a debate. They’re part of the machinery of the plot, but they also feel like the human anchors that keep the book from floating away into concept alone. And the ending note from the author makes the book’s purpose even clearer: this story may be speculative, but its anxiety about the planet is not.
I’d recommend H1, L1, A0 most to readers who enjoy idea-driven science fiction, especially fiction that mixes environmental warning, future history, and space adventure with an earnest, personal voice. Readers who like ambitious, talky, reflective sci-fi that cares more about the size of its questions than perfect polish will find a lot to engage with here. For me, it felt like hearing a long, urgent story from someone who has been carrying it for years and cannot quite let it go until he has said his piece. That gives the book its own distinct gravity.
Pages: 184
The Phoenix CODEX: 138 Palindromic Mirror Edition Complete Phoenix Chronicles: Complete Phoenix Chronicles: A Trilogy of Trilogies
The Phoenix Codex is a theatrical metaphysical thriller that treats structure as part of the story, not just a container for it. Bradley Rogue builds the book as a “palindromic mirror” with ascending and descending arcs wrapped around a central point, and that design gives the whole thing a ritualized, incantatory feel rather than a straightforward adventure-novel rhythm. The opening makes its intentions clear right away: “It’s also a novel. Also a seed. Also a key.” That line captures the book’s whole personality. It wants to be read as fiction, transmission, puzzle box, and initiation text all at once.
At the center of it all is Dr. Natori Saira Evren, who isn’t just a protagonist so much as the book’s tuning fork. Her synesthesia, her academic outsider status, and her role as a traveler through patterns of recurrence make her the ideal guide for a world built on hidden frequencies, ancient architectures, and repeating catastrophes. The book follows her through interrogations, prequels, secret histories, temporal jumps, and revelations about the Phoenix cycle, and it does so with total conviction. Rogue writes like someone fully committed to the reality of his invented cosmology, and that commitment gives the novel its distinctive heat.
The book wants myth, conspiracy, sacred geometry, speculative archaeology, simulation theory, apocalypse, and spiritual transformation all in the same breath. Sometimes that makes the prose feel deliberately overwhelming, but that excess is also part of the reading experience. This is a book that likes pressure, repetition, symbols, and declarations. It keeps returning to numbers, mirrors, cycles, names, and encoded meanings until the language starts to feel ceremonial. Even the narrative instructions invite readers to treat the novel as an object with multiple valid pathways, which is a pretty revealing choice. The Phoenix Codex isn’t shy about asking the reader to participate in its pattern-making.
The most interesting thing about the novel is how openly it explains its own method. In the author’s note, Rogue says, “The Phoenix Chronicles make no claims to historical accuracy. They are mythology—but mythology that is aware of its own mythological status.” That self-description is useful because it points to what the book is really doing. It isn’t just telling a story about a hidden truth. It’s dramatizing the human urge to arrange history, fear, destiny, and transcendence into one giant meaningful design. That gives the novel a strange double quality. It’s earnest and self-conscious at the same time, immersive but also always nudging readers to notice the architecture holding it together.
The Phoenix Codex is less a conventional novel than a designed experience, and that’s what makes it memorable. It reads like a fusion of esoteric manifesto, sci-fi myth cycle, and visionary character saga, all organized around symmetry and recurrence. Readers who click with its wavelength will probably admire the sheer audacity of the construction and the intensity of its voice. Even when it gets wild, it knows exactly what it’s trying to summon: a story where reading becomes a form of initiation, and where narrative structure itself becomes part of the spell.
Pages: 550 | ASIN : B0GF7YTNQ8
Red Ghost Trilogy: The Complete Series
Red Ghost Trilogy is a big, pulpy, wide-angle genre mashup in the best sense. It opens with a sixteenth-century sea disaster, swings into modern criminal conspiracies and cosmic horror, and keeps expanding until it becomes an apocalypse story with time travel, myth, telepathy, pirates, and spacefaring war. What makes it hang together is that author Gerry Eugene writes like he genuinely enjoys every strange ingredient he’s tossing into the pot. The book isn’t shy about being large, dramatic, and weird, and that confidence gives it a real charge.
What the trilogy really is, though, is an ensemble adventure built around people with mythic nicknames and very human grief. Anders Benson, Emerson Beekman, Anne Forcetti, Fred Collier, and especially Genevieve Cocklin all arrive with outsized abilities, but the story keeps grounding them in loss, loyalty, and stubbornness. Genevieve ends up being the emotional center of a lot of the book, which surprised me in a good way. She’s introduced with the blunt, perfect line, “Genevieve was a pirate,” and Eugene spends a lot of time proving how many shades that can hold: strategist, lover, killer, commander, and eventually something close to legend.
The thing I liked most was the book’s scale. Eugene doesn’t think in narrow lanes. He thinks in collisions: old Spain and future war, organized crime and folklore, fungal plague and sacred cure, helicopters and demons. Even the diction likes to leap upward. Early on, one of the villains offers a string of clues that sounds like a thesis statement for the whole trilogy: “Cosmology. Cosmic vortices. Conical wormholes. Triggering megahertz. Auditory mandalas.” That line tells readers exactly what kind of ride this is. It’s not interested in staying tidy. It wants to be vivid, maximal, and just a little feverish.
Eugene likes ornate prose, formal phrasing, dramatic entrances, and chapter-to-chapter momentum, and that gives the book an old-school storytelling energy. He also has a gift for giving emotional pain a clean, memorable shape. One of the strongest stretches in the first book is Genevieve’s rush toward Seattle after the world has started collapsing around her. That whole sequence works because the action never floats free of feeling. For all the telepathy, monsters, and battlefield planning, the trilogy keeps coming back to what catastrophe does to love, friendship, and chosen family.
Red Ghost Trilogy is a sprawling speculative epic that runs on sincerity, imagination, and momentum. It’s the kind of book that wants to entertain generously. It gives readers haunted history, end-of-the-world stakes, magical combat, and a found-family core sturdy enough to carry all that spectacle. Anyone who likes fiction that blends science fiction, fantasy, horror, and adventure, this collection has a lot to offer. It feels less like a neatly engineered machine and more like a huge, eccentric saga told by someone who loves stories too much to keep them small.
Pages: 748 | ASIN : B0GKXKF9Z6
Knowledge Is Power
Where Did Computers Come From? follows two young brothers who find themselves on a time-traveling adventure after they discover a sentient technological construct in their garage. Where did the idea for this story come from?
Ever since my first son, Jacob, was born, I’ve had the desire to teach him all I have grown to know and love about computers. I could not find any STEM-related books for children that taught them about the origins and future of technology.
Growing up in the late 80’s to early 2000’s, technology has seen a tremendous growth and transformation, from payphones to cellular smart phones, from Ataris to Nintendo, Xbox, and PlayStation, from cassette (mix) tapes and Walkman to Pandora and Spotify. The growth has not stopped, nor do I feel like it will in the foreseeable future, with the continued injection of Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, and future Quantum technology; however, to grow is also to know the past. My intent was to create a fun, interactive book series to teach the children of today, those that are born with technology at their fingertips, where this all started, so that they can create love and respect for it and also build the technology of the future.
Did you base Jake and Eli on real children or experiences?
I have fond memories as a child, growing up and going to early computer shows at the local racetrack with my father to buy individual computer parts, from RAM, floppy drives, CPUs and coming home to put together what was essentially my LEGO, taking all of those parts and building my own computers. Since that early age I have been taking technology apart and putting it back together. I’ve had a successful career building large computer systems from concept to operations and now focused on the cybersecurity protections of them. I apply all of the knowledge I have gained over the years as the basis of accuracy for these books. The hardest part is putting them in terms kids would understand and enjoy and that is where the magic occurs. My co-conspirators and inspiration for this series are Jacob and Elijah, my two sons (9 and 7 respectively), who I talk through my imaginary concept to ensure it makes sense and is fun.
As a child, I excelled in math and science but struggled with reading and specifically comprehension and retention of information I read. This was the driver for the interactive nature of the book series. Each book has a QR code where parents, teachers and kids can open a webpage with additional supplementary information tailored to the specific story they read to reinforce the concepts. The page content ranges from fun facts, to interactive knowledge check games, and downloadable content such as connect the dots, spot the difference, etc. The play aspect of this makes it not only fun but will hopefully help retain the overall topic taught in the stories.
Techtor is a memorable addition to the story. How did you design this character to feel friendly and approachable for young readers?
The vast majority of us have a fascination with traveling through space and time. It captivates us as we watch super hero adventures or movies that challenge our thinking of moving particles through space. In the first book adventure, we see Jake and Eli traveling through time and going into the past to meet a mainframe computer. In the second adventure, they travel into the innermost parts of a computer to learn how the parts work together. In the third adventure, not yet released, we will see Jake and Eli enter into the world of coding to learn the language of computers. These concepts were drawn from great movies like Honey, I Shrunk the Kids or even Willy Wonka where humans were transported through time and space, transformed to particles and reassembled in a different location and/or size.
Can you give us a glimpse inside the next book in the Jake and Eli’s Adventures series?
As such I strive to teach my children that the boom of technology could be used to achieve great things; however, it can also be used for harm. Each book released in the series is intended to build on the previous story. As such, a future book is focused on ensuring that everyone knows how to safeguard themselves while taking advantage of the wonderful benefits we get from technology. This protection would include knowing how to avoid cyber bullies and being aware of what scary “digital” roads not to go down. It will also highlight that protection is not the job of one individual but more of the entire family. Knowledge is power. If you know what you need to be cautious of, the better equipped you’ll be to avoid them.
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Have you ever wondered where computers came from? In Jake and Eli’s Adventures: Where Did Computers Come From?, brothers Jake and Eli embark on a thrilling journey through time to uncover the secrets of technology! When their dad encourages them to explore the garage, they meet Techtor—a friendly guide who opens the door to the past. Together, they discover Max the Mainframe, a giant octopus-like computer that processes information in a whole new way! With colorful punch cards and fascinating facts, Jake and Eli learn how computers evolved from massive machines to the personal devices we use today. Filled with excitement, mystery, and fun, this adventure will spark curiosity and inspire young readers to explore the world of technology. Get ready to dive into the past and discover how computers changed our lives forever!
We Have More To Do
Pocket Watch Portals: The Timekeeper’s Revenge follows four siblings into an enchanted realm, who need to fix the time rift they accidentally created before the vengeful Timekeeper destroys every world. What was the inspiration for the setup of your story?
When I received the 1st book in the series, Pocket Watch Portal Adventure, my 3-year-old grandson Artie came to me with alligator tears, telling me, “I wasn’t done with us, we have more to do!” He started telling me about the fairy princess named Misty, and how she needs them to come back and save not only their realm but all realms. He described it as needing a “white Dragon,” later becoming the snow dragon, Erithon. and a unicorn, later named Ethel. The King & Queen, with the people of that realm, needed help to bind up the timekeeper due to the kids breaking the rules of time travel.
This book explores the consequences of time travel. Why was that important to include?
Thought about the fact that time travel would affect anything after that point and change things. So I kept this in line with the first story to show that if you don’t follow the rules, whether it be time travel or any rule, it has consequences.
Kindness plays a big role in solving problems. Was that a core theme from the beginning?
Kindness and all the core values are a part of Christian living, even though the mythical creatures and the time travel, I wanted to continue to show those values to my grandkids and the readers.
Will we see more adventures with these characters?
Absolutely, We are working on the 3rd & 4th story in the series.
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Pocket Watch Portal Adventure: The Timekeepers Revenge
Pocket Watch Portals follows Justice, Teddy, Ellie, and little Artie as they get pulled back into a magical realm after a strange storm hits their grandparents’ ranch. A fairy named Misty appears and explains that their past adventures accidentally caused a dangerous rift in time. Soon the kids, along with the always-dramatic Uncle Jeff, are flying on clouds, meeting dragons, riding unicorns, and scrambling to collect a powerful crystal and a legendary flower to stop the terrifying Timekeeper from returning. The story builds into a huge battle full of fairies, dragons, unicorns, and a very panicked Uncle Jeff trying to save the day.
The writing is playful and full of little jokes that made me grin. Artie’s sweet mispronounced words melted me, and Teddy’s wild confidence cracked me up. I kept wanting to nudge Justice to relax because he tries so hard to act responsible while everything around him just gets stranger and stranger. The whole thing gave me that warm, nostalgic feeling of childhood summer adventures that always got just a bit out of hand, and I liked that the world felt colorful and soft even when the stakes were high.
I didn’t expect a children’s book to dive into the consequences of time travel in such a fun way, and I liked how each kid had a specific role in fixing the problem. Teddy bonding with the giant snow dragon might be my favorite moment. It felt so pure. The book really leans into magic as something alive and emotional, not just flashy, and I found myself weirdly touched by how often kindness solves the problem rather than power. Even Uncle Jeff’s chaotic bravery felt genuine and sweet.
I’d totally recommend The Timekeeper’s Revenge for kids who love fantasy worlds, magical creatures, silly humor, and quick adventures that never sit still. It’s also great for adults who enjoy lighthearted stories that feel like stepping back into childhood for a bit.
Pages: 60 | ASIN : B0CW1JPBHW
Brilliant Genesia
Brilliant Genesia by Eva Barber is a genre-blending speculative science fiction novel that starts like a quiet dystopian coming-of-age story and grows into a high-stakes, reality-hopping fight for humanity. It opens in Andalia, where twelve-year-old Zara is taken to a mental health clinic because she keeps seeing a dark-haired woman in frightening, increasingly vivid “visions.” As Zara grows up, her brilliance bumps up against a society that hems girls into narrow roles, and her secret inner life becomes the seed of something much bigger. Eventually, the story pivots into adult Zara’s life as a top scientist and mother, tangled in time travel experiments, missing people, and a chilling technology called “Brilliant Genesia” that promises immortality by stripping away the parts of us that make us human.
What I kept noticing, in a good way, is how Barber writes with a strong visual hand. The early pages linger on soft colors, quiet art, robes, and ritual, which makes the control in Andalia feel normal at first, almost cozy, until you realize that is the point. Those details do more than decorate the scene. They build a kind of polite cage. I also liked that Zara’s intelligence is not presented as a quirky trait, it is a pressure point. When she is forced to stay small, you feel it in her silences, and in the way she measures what she can safely say. The writing has an earnest, direct quality. It is not trying to be cool. It is trying to be clear, and I appreciated that.
The author also makes a bold structural choice: the book doesn’t just “raise the stakes,” it changes the whole playing field. One minute you’re in a tightly controlled society with a girl being studied, and later you’re dealing with a grown Zara, the Vortex, and forces that literally call her by another name, insisting she is “Olesya Solensky,” pulling her into a broader web of dimensions and old relationships. That kind of shift can feel risky, but here it mostly worked for me because the emotional through-line stays consistent: a woman trying to protect her child, and a child trying to get her mother back. When the villain argues that “Brilliant Genesia” improves life by removing love, empathy, and messy human needs, I found myself oddly unsettled because the logic is smooth on the surface, like glass, and still wrong in the bones. And the book doesn’t let you forget the social cost either. Zara’s past includes hiding who she is, even pretending to be a man to pursue her work, which gives the later ethical questions real weight instead of making them abstract.
I’d recommend Brilliant Genesia most to readers who like speculative sci-fi with a dystopian spine, especially if you enjoy stories that start intimate and then swing wide into big-idea territory (time experiments, parallel lives, and moral battles over what “progress” means). If you want a neat, single-lane plot, the genre shift might feel like whiplash. But if you like ambitious sci-fi that’s still rooted in family bonds and anger at unjust systems, you’ll enjoy this story. And if you’re the kind of reader who finishes a book and immediately wants to talk it through with someone, it gives you a lot to think about.
Pages: 408 | ASIN : B0GF8R2N5Z
The Great Question of Life
Army of Three follows two brothers bound by loss and impossible power whose fragile alliance is shattered by the murder of the woman they love; grief drives one brother to gamble with time, destiny, and reality itself. What was the inspiration for the setup of your story?
The inspiration for Army of Three began with the most tragic day of my life. At age twenty‑one, I lost my father in a deeply traumatic way. Shortly afterward, I went through my first serious heartbreak. Axel’s great loss in the story represents these two events combined into one tragic incident. There were very few people who could understand the weight that had suddenly been cast over my life. My three brothers and my two closest friends became a new kind of brotherhood. Anyone who has lost someone close has wrestled with the great question of life: What if? What if I could have saved them? What if there were a way to go back?
As for the brothers and the family dynamic, my family was always a “family first” kind. Growing up the third of four, and moving constantly, left us with only each other more times than I can count.
A major part of my inspiration was J.R.R. Tolkien. Although my stories differ greatly from his, the creation of these tales came from the same logic: to write something meaningful enough to change how a reader thinks and feels. That kind of power can truly influence—and, God willing, make a positive impact on—a struggling world. I believe the call to writing isn’t simply enjoying books or earning an English degree. Those may help, but the calling runs deeper. The true call to writing is experiencing life in a way that shapes you, and feeling inspired to use that experience and knowledge to help others.
Axel’s choices can be frustrating yet understandable. Were there moments when you struggled with his decisions yourself?
Yes and no. Most of Axel’s choices reflected the tenderness of the human spirit. The idea is that true love is so powerful it defies logic, and the idea that love can be dangerous lives in that same space. The struggle didn’t happen when my pen pressed into the paper. It happened when I made the poor decisions that inspired Axel’s—when I was wrestling with them myself.
What were some themes that were important for you to explore in this book?
Love, Loss, redemption, and brotherhood. Most importantly, in real life it isn’t always a happy ending, but there can almost always be happiness found in the ending. When my father passed, it felt like we had lost. Eleven years later, I reflected on that feeling again and realized I had grown into a far greater man than I ever could have imagined if I hadn’t suffered and endured what I have.
What is the next book that you are working on and when will it be available?
Psychic Kids: The Secret of the Orphanage will exist within the same universe but following a completely new set of characters. It is fairly early in development and the earliest you could expect it would be January 2027.
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Axel and Karl Fassbinder were never meant to live ordinary lives. One survived a fall no human should endure; the other grew into a man strong enough to take on armies. Together they became a whispered legend — the Army of Two.
Everything changes when Azrael joins them. Scarred by tragedy and bound to a terrifying ritual where blood costs blood, she turns their duo into the Army of Three.
But her murder rips their world apart. Axel’s grief twists into a relentless drive that hurls him into conspiracies, android ambushes, and a future drowning under rising oceans. Desperate to undo the moment that broke him, he turns to the only force more dangerous than his enemies: a machine that can bend time.
Every step threatens the world he’s trying to save, and every choice pushes him toward one unescapable truth:
Some destinies can only be changed through sacrifice.
Inside these pages:
Two brothers shaped by impossible wounds — and the woman whose death may unravel time itself.
A future swallowed by storms, corruption, and shadows no one dares name.
Silent android killers, buried conspiracies, and a forbidden ritual that demands a soul in exchange for power.
Battles that defy logic, escapes no one should survive, and technology capable of bending reality.
A descent into grief, vengeance, and loyalty — and a dangerous question echoing through every chapter: How far would you go to rewrite fate?
Warning: This book will steal your sleep. Once you step into Axel’s world, the hours disappear, the pages won’t stop turning, and you won’t escape until the very last word.
Raw, cinematic, and unflinchingly emotional, Army of Three tears open a world built on broken promises and impossible choices — and refuses to let you look away.
Not just science fiction. Not just action.
A story about what we sacrifice for the people we love — even if it destroys us.
This is the book that grips readers while everyone else is still sleeping on it.
Buy Now and don’t be the last one to feel what everyone else is losing their minds over.
