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The Stasis Stories #1
A Pause in Space-Time
This novella length hard Sci-Fi book begins the “Stasis Stories,� a series of tales from the near future. They tell us about Kaem Seba, a sickly and financially destitute young man who uses his extraordinary math talents to work out a way to stop time within limited volumes of space-time. He and Arya Vaii, a business student, set out to develop the phenomenon. It quickly becomes obvious that, beyond the fact that time stops inside the stasis field, the volume of space-time in stasis might be useful for some of its other phenomenal properties. Since it essentially can’t be altered (time’s stopped inside) it’s stronger than any known substance and, unlike matter, does not melt. This makes it the perfect material for building rocket engines. They set out to sell such engines in order to provide their budding business enough profit to let them develop other useful products. Unfortunately, the owner of the lab that tested the properties of their samples also recognizes their potential. His desire to share in their profits unhinges his shaky grasp on reality. When he can’t talk them into letting him join their enterprise, he demands a share at gunpoint.
168 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 12, 2019
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Laurence E. Dahners
61books656followersI was born on the island of Cyprus where my dad was employed as a mining engineer. We moved to the Philippines (more mining) when I was three and then to Arizona when I was 9. I went to med school at the University of Arizona and did a residency in Orthopaedics at the University of Kansas. I taught Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill until I retired in 2017.
I've always loved science fiction and it's been great fun getting to write some. I also like music and have a little home recording studio. You can read more, listen to some music and look at some of my art, at if you like.
If you want to contact me, or be put on my email list to be notified when new books come out, just email me at [email protected]
Laury Dahners
I've always loved science fiction and it's been great fun getting to write some. I also like music and have a little home recording studio. You can read more, listen to some music and look at some of my art, at if you like.
If you want to contact me, or be put on my email list to be notified when new books come out, just email me at [email protected]
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December 31, 2019
Rating 3.0 stars
Not bad. I like this authors other work better though. The main character creates a stasis field where time stops in that area. This area of stasis is not affected by anything. Temperature, pressure, resistance, etc. He teams up with a woman who has helped him through college and is studying business. Together they plan to sell this as a product to a space organization for building rockets. I thought there could be more to the applications than just what was written about. I also wanted more with the relationship between the two friends. Just have to wait and see what happens next.
Not bad. I like this authors other work better though. The main character creates a stasis field where time stops in that area. This area of stasis is not affected by anything. Temperature, pressure, resistance, etc. He teams up with a woman who has helped him through college and is studying business. Together they plan to sell this as a product to a space organization for building rockets. I thought there could be more to the applications than just what was written about. I also wanted more with the relationship between the two friends. Just have to wait and see what happens next.
December 16, 2019
Laury’s stories are always captivating and so creative. The only thing I don’t like about them is they end and I have to wait until the next one.
I enjoy his technique of using an apparently weak and socially marginalized protagonist who regularly surprises both the other characters and the reader.
I also appreciate that each story tends to have strong female characters.
I particularly liked this one because it involved a new concept - time travel. Yet I felt a connection with a concept he also uses in some of the other ones in which he utilized “near science� about characteristics of newly invented materials.
Just really cool and fun stuff.
Can’t wait for the rest of the series!
I enjoy his technique of using an apparently weak and socially marginalized protagonist who regularly surprises both the other characters and the reader.
I also appreciate that each story tends to have strong female characters.
I particularly liked this one because it involved a new concept - time travel. Yet I felt a connection with a concept he also uses in some of the other ones in which he utilized “near science� about characteristics of newly invented materials.
Just really cool and fun stuff.
Can’t wait for the rest of the series!
December 17, 2019
Needs editing
I liked it. I read everything Mr Dahners writes because he invents clever little things that impact the world in a big way, yet he still puts characters into the story.
The editing issue: several times a character (1) made a comment the seemed to be a response to another character(2), but wasn’t. (2) hadn’t actually said what was ‘repeated�. My issue is that it happened more than once and it was always a rewording of the underlying concept. Here is an example:
(2) “We could use it to play a sport like baseball.�
(1). “Football?!?�
All that being said, I still liked the story and look forward to more.
I liked it. I read everything Mr Dahners writes because he invents clever little things that impact the world in a big way, yet he still puts characters into the story.
The editing issue: several times a character (1) made a comment the seemed to be a response to another character(2), but wasn’t. (2) hadn’t actually said what was ‘repeated�. My issue is that it happened more than once and it was always a rewording of the underlying concept. Here is an example:
(2) “We could use it to play a sport like baseball.�
(1). “Football?!?�
All that being said, I still liked the story and look forward to more.
May 4, 2022
4 You Were Acting Like A Man Stars
A Pause In Space-Time is the first book in The Stasis Stories series by Laurence Dahners.
Hello, revolutionary technology of the future! If only this concept was even theoretically possible. (I'm no scientist, so don't quote me on conceivability). This is the epitome of science fiction. Let's freeze a pocket of time, while I stasis its nigh indestructible. I'm geeking out over all of the mentioned, and untouched applications for such a product.
Depending on how decent our MCs are trying to be they could give their product a shelf life. The myriad of companies would have to come back for replacement parts. Or they could simply make them last 'forever' and sell them for even more exorbitant prices. But I imagine most companies expect a shelf life, and even prepare for it in the most dangerous case. Which when consider the purpose of Stade in conjunction with rocket ships, is likely to be extremely dangerous.
So, who wants to bet that this Space Gen company tries to steal the patent out from under them? Even without the proprietary formula? Or at least another more devious competitor?
A Pause In Space-Time is the first book in The Stasis Stories series by Laurence Dahners.
Hello, revolutionary technology of the future! If only this concept was even theoretically possible. (I'm no scientist, so don't quote me on conceivability). This is the epitome of science fiction. Let's freeze a pocket of time, while I stasis its nigh indestructible. I'm geeking out over all of the mentioned, and untouched applications for such a product.
Depending on how decent our MCs are trying to be they could give their product a shelf life. The myriad of companies would have to come back for replacement parts. Or they could simply make them last 'forever' and sell them for even more exorbitant prices. But I imagine most companies expect a shelf life, and even prepare for it in the most dangerous case. Which when consider the purpose of Stade in conjunction with rocket ships, is likely to be extremely dangerous.
So, who wants to bet that this Space Gen company tries to steal the patent out from under them? Even without the proprietary formula? Or at least another more devious competitor?
April 3, 2020
Chapter one of this book is titled Kaem Seba's junior year, Chapter two is then titled The start of Kaem Seba's freshman year. I hate this, I know it won’t bother most people, but I don't want to read something that is going to happen later in the book.
April 2, 2024
Start of a series which asks what would happen, if it would be possible to stop time in a definite volume of space - regardless of its contents. Typical example for Laurence Dahners' optimistic hard-scifi stories. Fun to read.
December 15, 2019
The gifted worlds of Laurence Dahners
This novella is another home run for Mr. Dahners. He has a way of world building that combones, genius, sci-fi, technology, and the human experience that just draws you in. I now find myself invested in more of his characters and their lives. I am hoping there is alot more to come in this series. I will admit that the Hyllis family series is my favorite, but I love anything written by Mr. Dahner.
This novella is another home run for Mr. Dahners. He has a way of world building that combones, genius, sci-fi, technology, and the human experience that just draws you in. I now find myself invested in more of his characters and their lives. I am hoping there is alot more to come in this series. I will admit that the Hyllis family series is my favorite, but I love anything written by Mr. Dahner.
December 14, 2019
GREAT READ!!! I hope the author continues this series real soon!!!
December 14, 2019
Oh, shoot... Hooked on another series ;-)
He did it again. Really interesting premise. I can’t wait for the next one in the series.
How does Laury do it????
Clay
He did it again. Really interesting premise. I can’t wait for the next one in the series.
How does Laury do it????
Clay
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July 17, 2022uninteresting
Rating: minus 1
The kindest that can be said is, the plot is very bad Disney preteen adventure. The characters are notions. The overall writing is as flat as the characters but as poorly written as it is, most of the science fiction from Amazon's selection that I've tried, are worse.
The ratings are not useless so much as meaningless. For context read my review of "Dark Horse", a good story by Diener or Powers of the Earth (a ridiculous rant) and the accompanying comments from a Claes Rees, Jr/cgr710 (a self-proclaimed NeoNazi). Both are supposedly novels with similar ratings, a fact that is mind-numbing. I think that demonstrates not just the predominance of bad writing that is the bulk of the selection but (Claes Rees, Jr) the existence of a slimy membership segment in this corner of the site.
GLORY TO UKRAINE !!!
Like the large majority of minimal effort US print, there is not much to describe this book. This book is not so much an empty shell of a novel as an uninteresting narrative. The two are not the same unless (and I will concede that an argument can be mounted that) all communication is narrative (the subset story only being notional, yada, yada). I am not equipped nor inclined to either battle that argument nor dive into that philosophical, political and linguistic hellscape.
I have tried to read a number of these mind-numbing books. They are all written in that soulless third person. Unfortunately, my experience has been that a significant minority of recommendations from Amazon are much worse than this. One set couples this "style" to an overt political perspective and message, usually that of the working class hero successfully conquering the heights of the social pyramid. The others are grimmer.
It seems that film and TV will always deliver a story, sometimes badly and other times superbly but will always attempt a story that engages and entertains some larger audience. Production costs and other factors play the greatest part in this, I'm sure. Still it makes possible the Netflix collection with what I suspect is the largest collection of good science fiction. To explore all types of titles and examine the universes of games, TV, book series and film, YouTube is my choice. The book tubes are a good community for readers wanting thoughtful commentary and the sharing of bookish things. It also can direct a reader to educational sites that provide video and reference material for additional information in a wide variety of topics. Some of my favorite channels are.
EarleWrites, Munecat, Tiny Wee Boat, Ben and Emily, Owen Jones, Novara Media, Tara Mooknee, Some More News, The Templin Institute, The Juice Media, Tom Nicholas, Filaxim Historia, Dr Becky, Lady of the Library, Tulia, May Moon Narrowboat, Renegade Cut, Sabine Hossenfelder, Epimetheus, Kings and Generals, BrandonF, Real Engineering, Swell Entertainment, The Piano Guys, The Armchair Historian, Military History Visualized, Chloe Stafler, France 24, Alize, Alice Cappelle, Perun, History of the Earth, Jabzy, IzzzYzzz, Three Arrows, Second Thought, Noah Sampson, Philosophy Tube, Cruising Crafts, Cruising Alba, Chugging Along, Adult Wednesday Addams, Sort of Interesting, Celtica, Kalaripayattu, The Narrowboat Pirate, Epic History, Joe Scott, We're in Hell, Minuteman, Flash Point History, Lydia Loves Timelines, The Welsh Viking, Diane Callahan Quotidian Writer, Hello Future Me, Odyssey, Cruising the Cut, Foxes Afloat, Narrowboat Adventures, Half as Interesting, Weir on the move, Medieval Madness, Future Unity, 2Cellos, What Vivi did next, Camper Vibe, With Olivia, I'm Rosa, Voices of the Past, Ancient Americas, Between the Wars, Prime of Midlife, The Great War, Spacedock, PolyMatter, Vlad Vexler, Zoe Baker, Sarah Z, Book Odyssey, Beautifully Bookish Bethany, Merphy Napier, Told in Stone, Real Life Lore, A Life of Lit, Eckharts Ladder.
I wish for you a glorious morning, a splendid afternoon, a fantastic evening and a beautiful night.
Without Hope there is only the bleak.
Lore of the Dark Sisters
Rating: minus 1
The kindest that can be said is, the plot is very bad Disney preteen adventure. The characters are notions. The overall writing is as flat as the characters but as poorly written as it is, most of the science fiction from Amazon's selection that I've tried, are worse.
The ratings are not useless so much as meaningless. For context read my review of "Dark Horse", a good story by Diener or Powers of the Earth (a ridiculous rant) and the accompanying comments from a Claes Rees, Jr/cgr710 (a self-proclaimed NeoNazi). Both are supposedly novels with similar ratings, a fact that is mind-numbing. I think that demonstrates not just the predominance of bad writing that is the bulk of the selection but (Claes Rees, Jr) the existence of a slimy membership segment in this corner of the site.
GLORY TO UKRAINE !!!
Like the large majority of minimal effort US print, there is not much to describe this book. This book is not so much an empty shell of a novel as an uninteresting narrative. The two are not the same unless (and I will concede that an argument can be mounted that) all communication is narrative (the subset story only being notional, yada, yada). I am not equipped nor inclined to either battle that argument nor dive into that philosophical, political and linguistic hellscape.
I have tried to read a number of these mind-numbing books. They are all written in that soulless third person. Unfortunately, my experience has been that a significant minority of recommendations from Amazon are much worse than this. One set couples this "style" to an overt political perspective and message, usually that of the working class hero successfully conquering the heights of the social pyramid. The others are grimmer.
It seems that film and TV will always deliver a story, sometimes badly and other times superbly but will always attempt a story that engages and entertains some larger audience. Production costs and other factors play the greatest part in this, I'm sure. Still it makes possible the Netflix collection with what I suspect is the largest collection of good science fiction. To explore all types of titles and examine the universes of games, TV, book series and film, YouTube is my choice. The book tubes are a good community for readers wanting thoughtful commentary and the sharing of bookish things. It also can direct a reader to educational sites that provide video and reference material for additional information in a wide variety of topics. Some of my favorite channels are.
EarleWrites, Munecat, Tiny Wee Boat, Ben and Emily, Owen Jones, Novara Media, Tara Mooknee, Some More News, The Templin Institute, The Juice Media, Tom Nicholas, Filaxim Historia, Dr Becky, Lady of the Library, Tulia, May Moon Narrowboat, Renegade Cut, Sabine Hossenfelder, Epimetheus, Kings and Generals, BrandonF, Real Engineering, Swell Entertainment, The Piano Guys, The Armchair Historian, Military History Visualized, Chloe Stafler, France 24, Alize, Alice Cappelle, Perun, History of the Earth, Jabzy, IzzzYzzz, Three Arrows, Second Thought, Noah Sampson, Philosophy Tube, Cruising Crafts, Cruising Alba, Chugging Along, Adult Wednesday Addams, Sort of Interesting, Celtica, Kalaripayattu, The Narrowboat Pirate, Epic History, Joe Scott, We're in Hell, Minuteman, Flash Point History, Lydia Loves Timelines, The Welsh Viking, Diane Callahan Quotidian Writer, Hello Future Me, Odyssey, Cruising the Cut, Foxes Afloat, Narrowboat Adventures, Half as Interesting, Weir on the move, Medieval Madness, Future Unity, 2Cellos, What Vivi did next, Camper Vibe, With Olivia, I'm Rosa, Voices of the Past, Ancient Americas, Between the Wars, Prime of Midlife, The Great War, Spacedock, PolyMatter, Vlad Vexler, Zoe Baker, Sarah Z, Book Odyssey, Beautifully Bookish Bethany, Merphy Napier, Told in Stone, Real Life Lore, A Life of Lit, Eckharts Ladder.
I wish for you a glorious morning, a splendid afternoon, a fantastic evening and a beautiful night.
Without Hope there is only the bleak.
Lore of the Dark Sisters
November 18, 2020
Wish it was longer!
Read it in one day! Can’t wait to see what he does with the series. Interesting premise that makes you think.
Read it in one day! Can’t wait to see what he does with the series. Interesting premise that makes you think.
December 18, 2019
Good story
Plenty of possibilities for the future of this story line. Well written and a captivating book. I'm amazed by Laury's imagination. Good work.
Plenty of possibilities for the future of this story line. Well written and a captivating book. I'm amazed by Laury's imagination. Good work.
June 14, 2020
I just binge read Laurence Dahners� A Pause in Space-Time (A Stasis Story #1) and The Thunder of Engines (A Stasis Story #2). Somehow I had missed that he’s started this new series. Shocking really as I love his stories in general, and am totally addicted to his Ell Donsaii series (which I highly recommend). Same thing goes for my husband. The reason why is as true with this series as it has been with the Donsaii series: really compelling characters, great plots that give you hard sci-fi but with a totally human context with a true Horatio Alger “rags to riches� feel. To be frank, I tend to skim the hard science parts and just enjoy the stories. My husband likes the stories too but he eats up the science. Either way we are both delighted. Unlike Ell Donsaii who is pretty much “super-girl� in her athleticism combined with astounding genius, the hero of this story, half-African (I forget which country) half-Italian Kaem Seba, is also a super genius but he has major genetic issues that keep him down physically (though there’s gene therapy that hopefully he will benefit from in a future book). Then there’s the group he gets together with to help to develop his super process (making use of stasis to produce a super virtual material), beautiful brainy business gal Arya and grumpy Gunnar, plus interaction with Kaem’s and Arya’s families, and high end business dealing with space rocket company moguls who definitely remind me of Musk and Bezios. All of which characters are super well crafted and fun to follow in a plot that has the “rags to riches� I noted, plus hi-tech business dealings, plus killer inventions, plus action (attempted kidnapping, threats, stolen equipment, etc.) and even what seems like two possible paths to really slow burn romance. Totally fun and superbly plotted and written, I’m already addicted and can’t wait for book 3.
May 11, 2021
Everyone his series are about “kids� that are smart as an AI
I’m 41% into this one and I really hope that the “kids� invention gets ripped off by the cagey professor/ business man. I want it turned into a multi-zillion profit zone just to teach the clueless “kids� that came up with the idea about patents and NDA etc.
Every story Dahners writes is about the genius X “kid� that comes up with world changing technology and usually the tech is stolen or about to be stolen.
I want this story to take a turn where the bad guy cagey businessman steals the tech� and the “kids� NEVER get it back! Woot! Let’s show those pesky super X smart kids the door and teach them a lesson!
Alien invasion? So what! “Kids� don’t need to be messing around with tech above their age level as a teenager is too stupid (forget the savants creating super tech as this isn’t Dexter) to be trusted with super tech.
Just turn everything over to the military, it will work out and keep those idiot “kids� and their sticky fingers from touching everything.
I’m 41% into this one and I really hope that the “kids� invention gets ripped off by the cagey professor/ business man. I want it turned into a multi-zillion profit zone just to teach the clueless “kids� that came up with the idea about patents and NDA etc.
Every story Dahners writes is about the genius X “kid� that comes up with world changing technology and usually the tech is stolen or about to be stolen.
I want this story to take a turn where the bad guy cagey businessman steals the tech� and the “kids� NEVER get it back! Woot! Let’s show those pesky super X smart kids the door and teach them a lesson!
Alien invasion? So what! “Kids� don’t need to be messing around with tech above their age level as a teenager is too stupid (forget the savants creating super tech as this isn’t Dexter) to be trusted with super tech.
Just turn everything over to the military, it will work out and keep those idiot “kids� and their sticky fingers from touching everything.
June 8, 2021
Dahners, Laurence E. A Pause in Space-Time. Stasis No. 1. Kindle, 2019.
A Pause in Space-Time begins a series of novellas with a lot of promise. It develops a straightforward hard science fiction premise: A college science student creates a circuit that can send an object unchanged into the future. No return trip is possible, but it creates a stasis field with unusual properties as it travels forward. It was fun to think along with our hero as he tries to design experiments to discover what those properties are, I was pleased that the story avoids some obvious tropes. For instance, there are no years-long trips into the future as in Heinlein’s Door into Summer. Our protagonist is an impoverished student who needs to raise money to treat two different kinds of inherited anemia, including sickle cell. He hopes to market the stasis field to someone with the resources to scale it up. But it turns out to be hard to find an honest buyer. The novella already has six sequels, and I am curious to see where Dahners goes with the story. Four stars.
A Pause in Space-Time begins a series of novellas with a lot of promise. It develops a straightforward hard science fiction premise: A college science student creates a circuit that can send an object unchanged into the future. No return trip is possible, but it creates a stasis field with unusual properties as it travels forward. It was fun to think along with our hero as he tries to design experiments to discover what those properties are, I was pleased that the story avoids some obvious tropes. For instance, there are no years-long trips into the future as in Heinlein’s Door into Summer. Our protagonist is an impoverished student who needs to raise money to treat two different kinds of inherited anemia, including sickle cell. He hopes to market the stasis field to someone with the resources to scale it up. But it turns out to be hard to find an honest buyer. The novella already has six sequels, and I am curious to see where Dahners goes with the story. Four stars.
December 19, 2019
Wonderful Story
I have read everything written by this author. This story of a young, poor, but brilliant young man entering college on a scholarship got my attention from the start. He meets a young woman who is instrumental in the success of his project to create a formerly unknown material. When it becomes obvious this is a stunning new discovery that will yield unimaginable wealth others try to become part of their project by whatever means is required......legal or not. Very interesting. Kept me enthralled to the very end. Cannot wait for the next part of this story.
I have read everything written by this author. This story of a young, poor, but brilliant young man entering college on a scholarship got my attention from the start. He meets a young woman who is instrumental in the success of his project to create a formerly unknown material. When it becomes obvious this is a stunning new discovery that will yield unimaginable wealth others try to become part of their project by whatever means is required......legal or not. Very interesting. Kept me enthralled to the very end. Cannot wait for the next part of this story.
April 27, 2020
Love it
Just an entertaining story. The idea is that as you shift someone forward in time you create a stasis field that lasts until the time travel is up. Really it's more like a time suspension than a time travel. What's inside the stasis experiences no succession of time, but outside, there's a little box formed that can be moved around without interference until the appropriate time expires. The box, which can take any shape, is frictionless and indestructible. The uses of an indestructible box are enormous, and that cause our inventor some problems. So experiencing some of these problems is the theme of the book along with a cute love story.
Just an entertaining story. The idea is that as you shift someone forward in time you create a stasis field that lasts until the time travel is up. Really it's more like a time suspension than a time travel. What's inside the stasis experiences no succession of time, but outside, there's a little box formed that can be moved around without interference until the appropriate time expires. The box, which can take any shape, is frictionless and indestructible. The uses of an indestructible box are enormous, and that cause our inventor some problems. So experiencing some of these problems is the theme of the book along with a cute love story.
February 11, 2021
It was a short and inexpensive book on Amazon Kindle so I decided to give it a try after a friend recommended it. I like time travel novels, and this has an element of that, but at least in the first installment, it's been more about the material properties of the stasis field that is created around a mass that is being sent forward in time. For me, this was a new and very interesting twist. An object that has virtually no mass yet is incredibly strong and a perfect insulator, but disappears entirely at a set future time.
I rated it 4 stars because of the very promising premise, but the character development and dialog is weak seems a stilted. I'll keep going on the series.
I rated it 4 stars because of the very promising premise, but the character development and dialog is weak seems a stilted. I'll keep going on the series.
February 8, 2021
What if you could lierally stop time, as in "freeze" it, in a small area?
The stasis stories are all about the question and some of it's fascinating answers. I just reread this great beginning to the "Stasis Stories" so that I could refresh myself on the basic concepts in the series before continuing on to read the rest of the series. I am really chomping at the bit now to read the next book in this series. I highly recommend this story. Read it, you'll be glad you did. As always, Laurence Dahners delivers!
The stasis stories are all about the question and some of it's fascinating answers. I just reread this great beginning to the "Stasis Stories" so that I could refresh myself on the basic concepts in the series before continuing on to read the rest of the series. I am really chomping at the bit now to read the next book in this series. I highly recommend this story. Read it, you'll be glad you did. As always, Laurence Dahners delivers!
August 23, 2021
I am a time travel junkie so I picked this up thinking it was a time travel book but it must be in latter books because there was no time travel in this one. I will reserve final judgement until I read book 2. That being said this was an entertaining story and a pretty short book. I am glad I read it but I would market it more as a slightly sci-fi adventure thriller. I will read the 2nd book and possibly revise this review once I have. He sells them now as a two pack so maybe reading the first two together is important.
July 13, 2022
I discovered this book by chance as a ‘you may also like� due to enjoying other time travel stories, so I decided to give this a try. I found the premise really interesting as it wasn’t actually about time travel as such. I thought the characters were believable, and I liked the fact that it was set in the near future, meaning that many aspects of life were as they are now. On the whole it was a good story, well thought out and cleverly delivered. My only gripe was that I felt that some of the characters are a little stereotyped, and this was frustrating for me as a reader, as everything else in the story was well done. Despite the slightly clichéd main female character, I did really enjoy the story.
July 5, 2021
It has the bones of a good book, but everything is overt and on the nose. There is no subtly. The world isn't built, there is a small bubble around the characters that you see and the rest is a blank void. Stephenson and Weir build deep universes that include the hopes, dreams, and fears of millions of people. Dahners only communicates about 4 or 5 people.
Over all I enjoy the story, but it is missing so much of that which makes a good book.
Over all I enjoy the story, but it is missing so much of that which makes a good book.
May 26, 2025
A little slow starting but great Story
As I said in the title, this book was a little slow starting but once you get through the first chapter or two, it really picks up so stick with it. Just like all Lawrence Danner’s books this one connected to other series that Mr. Danner has written with a couple of references to the Kahn Academy, etc. so you might not pick them up if you haven’t read his other works.
As I said in the title, this book was a little slow starting but once you get through the first chapter or two, it really picks up so stick with it. Just like all Lawrence Danner’s books this one connected to other series that Mr. Danner has written with a couple of references to the Kahn Academy, etc. so you might not pick them up if you haven’t read his other works.
December 13, 2019
Another Winner from this author!
I only have one objection to this Novella...the author didn't have several more follow up novels. Seriously, this is without a doubt one of the best writers whose work I have ever read. Pick any series he has penned and read it. You will not be disappointed!
I only have one objection to this Novella...the author didn't have several more follow up novels. Seriously, this is without a doubt one of the best writers whose work I have ever read. Pick any series he has penned and read it. You will not be disappointed!
December 19, 2019
Dahners hits another home run
I'm sad having to wait for the next story. Characters may be somewhat predictable, but it's nice to know good guys and bad guys without effort. Spoiler alert: the bad guys always get what they deserve in the end. Non-traditional good guys and gals come out on top. Thanks!
I'm sad having to wait for the next story. Characters may be somewhat predictable, but it's nice to know good guys and bad guys without effort. Spoiler alert: the bad guys always get what they deserve in the end. Non-traditional good guys and gals come out on top. Thanks!
May 8, 2020
This reads like it were real!
If I didn't know this was fiction, I would think that this is a true story! Life is not QUITE this simple but it makes the story fun. It reminds me a bit of a story I read maybe FIFTY YEARS ago about Danny Dunn and the Anti-gravity Machine. Different story. Same idea. Lots of fun.
If I didn't know this was fiction, I would think that this is a true story! Life is not QUITE this simple but it makes the story fun. It reminds me a bit of a story I read maybe FIFTY YEARS ago about Danny Dunn and the Anti-gravity Machine. Different story. Same idea. Lots of fun.
February 11, 2021
Despite this short book following Dahners' usual formula, it didn't compare well to the Donsaii series. The protagonist lack much agency. It could be better described as low-energy assertiveness. The antagonist is also a little enemic, given that he's simply off his meds.
The technology is interesting and I'll be reading the next book to see it explored in more detail.
The technology is interesting and I'll be reading the next book to see it explored in more detail.
February 20, 2021
I find a part of the storyline so irresponsible -that is annoying as hell.... - litter the universe with indestructible objects, without a way of marking them "expired by... "
quite predictable storyline - feel good story built around a possibly novel idea of timespace - looking forward to read next in series.
quite predictable storyline - feel good story built around a possibly novel idea of timespace - looking forward to read next in series.
July 8, 2024
Amazing story, great writing.
Dr Dahners has worked some great writing here. I devoured this book in one day and have already purchased the entire series. The stasis concept is very well developed and his characters really come to life for me. I’m confident you will like this book.
Dr Dahners has worked some great writing here. I devoured this book in one day and have already purchased the entire series. The stasis concept is very well developed and his characters really come to life for me. I’m confident you will like this book.
July 9, 2024
Not worth my time
To be honest, I didn't finish reading this book, While it sounded promising, I ultimately found the author's political propaganda to be too distracting and off putting. In my view, a work of fiction should strive to be balanced and objective rather than promoting a particular ideology.
To be honest, I didn't finish reading this book, While it sounded promising, I ultimately found the author's political propaganda to be too distracting and off putting. In my view, a work of fiction should strive to be balanced and objective rather than promoting a particular ideology.
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