Kate’s 2¢: “Axiom. Books 1-3” by Tim Pratt

“Axiom. Books 1-3” by Tim Pratt

Kate’s 2¢: There is a plethora of in-depth biographies of authors and reviews of their books, that state the title, author, published date, and genre; as well as,     describing what the book is about, setting, and character(s), so, Kate’s 2¢ merely shares my thoughts about what I read.  I’m just saying…

The Wrong Stars  

— Axium, the universal truth that could not be denied. A standard by which all other forms of life must be judged and, and inevitably, found   lacking.

— The White Raven space ship is very advanced and is equipped with all sorts of amenities, weapons, stealth features, artificial intelligence  (AI), and things unknow to today’s populations.

— The crew of the White Raven is a mix of real humans of the current date, people who were cryo-sleeping from 500 years ago, mecahinally enhanced bionics, and ultra-alien types.

— Axioms are the ultra-alien beings who are mostly mechanical with a few biometrics, but, basically evil with fantastical scientific adaptations.

— Keep in mind that very often, reality will catch up to sci-fi stories sooner or later  Remember Buck Rogers and his hokey looking spaceships?

The Dreaming Stars:

— Pratt evokes a shape that usually creeps the heck out of most humans to do the evil violations on its captives: the spider.  This metal bot implants itself into the back of one’s head to alter the host’s everything.

The Forbidden Stars:

— The crew of the White Raven is still in pursuit of the Axiom, using the greasy, black box that creates its own worm-hole portals travelling to a galaxy system quite remote and not heard of for more than a century.

— The horrors they find include replacing human parts in a living person with mechanical systems, altering brain functions, and augmenting the bodies with numerous pseudo-pods, multiple eyes, and radio controlled bots.

— The Axioms are located and being held in stasis until a cure can be found for the disease that racks their bodies.

— Kotskos and the ‘Benefactor’ are eventually out-witted by The Captain of the White Raven to save the galaxy and all its races, but, you knew they would ultimately win. Right?

— The main love interest in this story is the current, female captain of the ship and the female cryo-sleeper, who is the survivor of a Goldilock space ship sent from earth 500 years prior to this story.  While this relationship might not be some people’s cup of tea, if they can get beyond that, the story is really quite imaginative, interesting, dramatic, and well-done.

wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Pratt

Tim Pratt (born December 12, 1976) is an American science fiction and fantasy writer and poet. He won a Hugo Award in 2007 for his short story ” Impossible Dreams “. He’s written over 20 books, including the Marla Mason series and several Pathfinder Tales novels.

Pen name: T. A. Pratt, T. Aaron Payton

From NLS/BARD/LOC:

Axiom. Books 1-3 DB104666

Pratt, Tim. Reading time: 29 hours, 6 minutes.

Read by Shawn Hertel.

Science Fiction

The first three titles in the series, published between 2017 and 2019. In The Wrong Stars, a salvage crew discovers a wrecked ship with a sole occupant bearing news of powerful extra-terrestrials. Also contains The Dreaming Stars and The Forbidden Stars. Violence, strong language, and some descriptions of sex. 2019.

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