Review: On edge waiting for the BOO!
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 22, 2013
J. Joseph Wright gave me a copy of Cemetery Planet. I took it because, really, can one have too many books? Then I looked at the genres that he tends to write (Sci-Fi and Horror) and some of it appears to be really scary. So I did the only sane thing, I asked my 21 y/o daughter who likes things like "Walking Dead" to read it first. She did and then she nagged me to read it.I needed to know if I was going to be able to sleep afterward and she assured me that while I should read it in the daytime, I'd enjoy it.She was right. This was great! Yes, it's a short story. In fact, I read it while I waited for a prescription to be filled. Of course the fact that it is a total page turner had me finish it in that short time frame.The blurb:It's eight hundred years in the future, a time when the Earth had become so populated, all graveyards had to be relocated to another planet. It's an entire world of graves in a lonely, desolate part of the galaxy, and Harvey Crane, the sole caretaker, finds he's not alone on...Cemetery Planet.Okay, kind of freaks me out, too, to think about being on a planet of graves. ALONE on a planet of graves. It's good that the computer can do a bio scan to verify that one is truly alone. And Harvey is. Well, maybe. He begins to suspect not when "things" start happening. I was on the edge of my seat waiting for that BOO to come. Well done, Mr. Wright!One of Harvey's jobs is to make sure that the holo images work. In front of many of the graves is a pressure plate, that when activated, a holo image of the deceased plays a pre-programmed message to the visitor.  Of course he can't check every single one every single night, so he does a random sampling of them. But he always returns to one particular holo image. Lea Hamm. She's the prettiest woman he's ever seen. With the advances in technology, he gives her an upgrade. The holo image can now learn and converse with him. And maybe become something a bit MORE.Yes, that's when THINGS start happening. Creeped me out! But it was a fun kind of shiver down my spine.So, if you are looking for a bit of fun, a bit of creepy, a bit of sweetness, a bit of BOO, this one is for you!