Collapse And Delusion eBook Michael D Smith
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Amav Commer and her husband Jack, Supreme Commander of the United System Space Force, present their eleven month-old son Jonathan James to guests at the 2038 wedding of time traveler Urside Charmouth. Former Typhoon II engineer Phil Sperry, damaged by his 2035 Centaurian brainwashing, has quit the USSF to become chief of staff to Marsport mayor and former Martian terrorist G'rea'nyaigu'nye, a name shortened by the human colonists on Mars to Greeney Gooney. Ashamed of his former obsession with Amav, Phil now has his eye on Earth Animal Rescue program director Hedrona Bhlon in her low-cut gown.
But Zarj troopers from Alpha Centauri time-kidnap Phil, Gooney, Hedrona, and the infant Jonathan James to April 2049. To Phil's horror, the commander is Clopt, who abducted the Typhoon II crew in 2035. Phil once again succumbs to the Centaurian Grid, but Hedrona resists and Gooney puts himself into a coma.
Considered an Animal, Hedrona must fight as a Gladiator of the Sled for four years. In May 2053, when the Emperor dies and the Grid collapses, Hedrona saves Phil from being killed by Animal Gladiators and the two journey to Clopt's flagship to rescue Jonathan James. The boy, now five, has a robot attendant, John Root, an irritating recreation of the youngest Commer brother John, who died ramming the Typhoon I onto Mercury. Greeney exits his coma and plans to send Martians to counsel the psychologically wounded, Gridless citizens of Alpha Centauri.
In June 2075 Jack and Amav arrive in Alpha Centauri with the Typhoon IV crew to attend Jonathan James' literary award party. They've only seen their twenty-seven year-old son three times since 2053, as he chose to remain on the planet Andertwin with Hedrona, Phil, and Gooney. Now Gooney has declared himself Emperor of Alpha Centauri. But when Amav is kidnapped aboard her son's spaceship along with Phil, Jonathan James explains that Greeney is a mere regent and that Phil must have sex with Amav to record special human software code which will make Jonathan James Emperor.
Attempting to rescue Amav and Phil, the Typhoon crashes on takeoff, its computer systems wiped out by Gooney's Amplified Thought. John Root gloats that he inserted malware into Jonathan James' bestselling, libelous, father-bashing autobiographical novel in order to spread a new Grid throughout Alpha Centauri. Greeney Gooney transfers the full Emperorship to Jonathan James--who can't handle the plug of trillions of suffering Alpha Centaurians and begs to be chopped into pieces.
Collapse And Delusion eBook Michael D Smith
Collapse and Delusion, Book Four in the Jack Commer Series, starts off innocently enough, at a wedding where we get re-acquainted with the characters in the series. The author does a good job including refreshers about events in the previous books without big info dumps, thus setting the stage for a swift and nasty decline into scifi mayhem, including hostile aliens, dastardly plots, cool weaponry, and interesting, fleshed-out interpretations of things like time travel and programmed consciousness.In contrast to the technical aspects of this story are a group of colorful, entertaining characters: commanders, engineers, badass women, sleezy journalists and politicians, and the redoubtable Alpha Centaurians, an alien warrior race with unsettling characteristics, pissed off attitudes and hidden agendas. These characters clash against a backdrop of a series of programmed time-space shifts and the utter collapse of the vast, Alpha Centaurian empire, in which every citizen is part of a collective mind.
Things get ugly when Supreme Commander Jack Commer and his wife Amav journey to meet their son, who was abducted as an infant by the Alpha Centaurians. Now a recalcitrant young adult who was raised by the enemy as part of a warriors’ brotherhood, he has written a novel, popular across the cosmos—but is not what it seems. During this stressful visit, in which they’ve planned a reunion party with their friends and colleagues, the Commers are pulled into a war for control over the shattered Alpha Centaurian empire, a battle that involves an unlikely bunch of would-be overlords. In the resulting chaos, everyone scrambles to take sides between collective bliss and perfection—and the scarier choice of individuality and free will. Just when it seems there’s no good place things can go, a twist involving the surprising transformation of a tormented protagonist makes for a satisfying ending.
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Collapse And Delusion eBook Michael D Smith Reviews
Early in this fourth entry in the Jack Commer series, someone is asked how he manages to understand what is going on. His answer is that he simply accepts the chaos and believes everything will turn out all right as predicted.
One is reminded of the poem by Rudyard Kipling “If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you…” for indeed there’s a lot of blame being tossed around in this story, and a lot of panic as well. Most of it surrounds Phil Sperry, for this is Sperry’s novel first and foremost. He’s the main character this time around, and finally gets to prove exactly what kind of man he is.
The title Collapse and Delusion is most appropriate, for delusion is its byword and also describes a good portion of the plot…but it’s a delightful delusion, filled with wild humor. One might compare it to The Three Stooges in Space, or It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World…I mean, Universe.
This is easy to say but more difficult to prove without going into a summary of the plot, which is definitely a difficult task. Suffice it to say somewhere within all the fun is the defeat of the Centaureans by the USSF, in a way that’s clever, unique, and totally laughable…so no spoiler there.
I urge everyone to read this funny…yes, confusing and delusional…but satiric literary madness for yourself and enjoy. Afterward, recommend it to a friend…but don’t try to give him a synopsis. That’ll spoil the pleasure of his own discovery of Michael D. Smith’s series.
There are a couple of new characters and plenty of old ones. Indeed, the first chapters are a bit like a disorganized family reunion in which most of the members have a grudge against each other but within a few minutes are all friends again.
It’s a hoot, a blast, bitingly satiric, and funny as all get-out. I highly recommend not only this entry, but the entire series.
This novel was supplied by the author and no remuneration was involved in the writing of this review.
Collapse and Delusion, Book Four in the Jack Commer Series, starts off innocently enough, at a wedding where we get re-acquainted with the characters in the series. The author does a good job including refreshers about events in the previous books without big info dumps, thus setting the stage for a swift and nasty decline into scifi mayhem, including hostile aliens, dastardly plots, cool weaponry, and interesting, fleshed-out interpretations of things like time travel and programmed consciousness.
In contrast to the technical aspects of this story are a group of colorful, entertaining characters commanders, engineers, badass women, sleezy journalists and politicians, and the redoubtable Alpha Centaurians, an alien warrior race with unsettling characteristics, pissed off attitudes and hidden agendas. These characters clash against a backdrop of a series of programmed time-space shifts and the utter collapse of the vast, Alpha Centaurian empire, in which every citizen is part of a collective mind.
Things get ugly when Supreme Commander Jack Commer and his wife Amav journey to meet their son, who was abducted as an infant by the Alpha Centaurians. Now a recalcitrant young adult who was raised by the enemy as part of a warriors’ brotherhood, he has written a novel, popular across the cosmos—but is not what it seems. During this stressful visit, in which they’ve planned a reunion party with their friends and colleagues, the Commers are pulled into a war for control over the shattered Alpha Centaurian empire, a battle that involves an unlikely bunch of would-be overlords. In the resulting chaos, everyone scrambles to take sides between collective bliss and perfection—and the scarier choice of individuality and free will. Just when it seems there’s no good place things can go, a twist involving the surprising transformation of a tormented protagonist makes for a satisfying ending.
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