Review: This is great science fiction, well written.
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 06 27, 2013
To put this review in perspective, I am a retired military engineer and over the last 50 plus years I have read many thousands of science fiction books.  I normally don’t read fantasy, but I downloaded this novel because I enjoyed “Corrector” so much and I had decided to read all of Bob Blinks books.  He is definitely in the top 10% of all the science fiction writers I have read, and that’s all of them.  The only other Kindle author who compares is Richard Phillips with his Rho Agenda trilogy.  If you liked, “The Lion of Farside” series or “The War Gods Own,” you will like this.  It’s sort of a “Crosstime Engineer” without the naked women.  And it’s not fantasy.  The science of the alternate universe just happens to look like magic.  “Wizard’s Blood” and the sequel took me a week to read.  They are amazingly long with not one minute of boring.  The second book ends well, but it begs for a sequel.  To sum it up:  A current day American crosses to an alternate universe where “magic” works.  He finds out he is the descendent of a wizard and he has the gift.  He uses his knowledge of technology to give the good guys a fighting chance.  Oh yes, he has a wizard killing gun and knows how to make gun powder.  So it's sort of “Lord Kalvan of otherwhen” like too.