Review: Very promising start to a new kind of scifi adventure I'm excited to keep reading
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 02 22, 2014
Michael writes an easy-to-read science fiction tale about an alternate future America on the brink of war. The worldbuilding is very interesting. An ominous government has turned a crowded civilization into doped-up internet vegetables. The Amish, with their refusal to take government prescribed drugs or install brain chips, are one step ahead to resisting the chaos about to ensue. One of them is our main character, Jed, who is about to leave his family to take a deep-space adventure to New Pennsylvania where he'll help colonize a new planet similar to Earth. He is an innocent sort with a kind, caring soul that makes him easy to root for. The girl he wins over offers us hope of a love story, and the strong Mexican he meets on the space ship speaks to an adventurous team that could take down whatever the enemy plans to do, if they're lucky.I won't get into spoilers, but there are lots of surprises and conflict. I'm enjoying the characters and the sense of mystery about what has happened since he went to sleep on the spaceship.