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Border Crosser
In a galaxy gone insane only a madwoman would fight for freedom.
Eris is a charismatic spy with a violent borderline personality and emotional amnesia--she doesn't remember her loyalties. This allows her to pass from world to world without mental scanners detecting her long-term intentions, making her a "border crosser."
The Asylum cabal has artificially amplified Eris's condition so that she'll cause interstellar chaos for the limited time she survives. When Eris discovers the Asylum's manipulation of her, she sets out to find its hidden leaders and destroy them.
From decadent old Earth to the frontier estates of Mars, Eris hunts her first quarry, the Asylum's architect of genocides. But when her chase leads her out to the stars, she discovers still deadlier dangers from humanity's past and her own. As she fights these galaxy-spanning nightmares, Eris must also struggle to recover her own mind.
As Eris would say, "The only thing necessary for interstellar evil to triumph is for brilliant and sexy killer me ever to stop, darling."
Eris is a charismatic spy with a violent borderline personality and emotional amnesia--she doesn't remember her loyalties. This allows her to pass from world to world without mental scanners detecting her long-term intentions, making her a "border crosser."
The Asylum cabal has artificially amplified Eris's condition so that she'll cause interstellar chaos for the limited time she survives. When Eris discovers the Asylum's manipulation of her, she sets out to find its hidden leaders and destroy them.
From decadent old Earth to the frontier estates of Mars, Eris hunts her first quarry, the Asylum's architect of genocides. But when her chase leads her out to the stars, she discovers still deadlier dangers from humanity's past and her own. As she fights these galaxy-spanning nightmares, Eris must also struggle to recover her own mind.
As Eris would say, "The only thing necessary for interstellar evil to triumph is for brilliant and sexy killer me ever to stop, darling."
- GenresScience Fiction
322 pages, Kindle Edition
First published September 15, 2020
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Tom Doyle
12Ìýbooks68ÌýfollowersTom Doyle is the author of Border Crosser and the AMERICAN CRAFT trilogy. He writes science fiction and fantasy in Washington, DC. He has won the WSFA Small Press Award.
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February 19, 2021
Sometimes You Really Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover: Border Crosser by Tom Doyle
Paperback, 383 pages | September 15 2020 | Ring of Fire Press
I'd reviewed a few things by Tom Doyle, starting with American Craftsmen (2014), a story about a unit of paranormal operatives for the US government that goes back to George Washington's time. The other day he reached out to me to see if I wanted to take a look at Border Crosser, his latest book.Ìý I'd really liked American Craftsman, so even though I'm as buried in books not yet published as ever, I said, sure...I'll take a look.
The cover very nearly stopped me. Don't get me wrong. I'm up for occasional glam gals in spacesuits with guns and explosions, but the level of cheese here made this a hard sell. Still, I'd promised, so when a copy arrived at my Kindle, I thought I'd give it a quick look, then get back to stuff I needed to read.ÌýYou probably know how that goes.
Border CrosserÌýhas a lot of problems, but not being a good book isn't one of them.
Paperback, 383 pages | September 15 2020 | Ring of Fire Press
I'd reviewed a few things by Tom Doyle, starting with American Craftsmen (2014), a story about a unit of paranormal operatives for the US government that goes back to George Washington's time. The other day he reached out to me to see if I wanted to take a look at Border Crosser, his latest book.Ìý I'd really liked American Craftsman, so even though I'm as buried in books not yet published as ever, I said, sure...I'll take a look.
The cover very nearly stopped me. Don't get me wrong. I'm up for occasional glam gals in spacesuits with guns and explosions, but the level of cheese here made this a hard sell. Still, I'd promised, so when a copy arrived at my Kindle, I thought I'd give it a quick look, then get back to stuff I needed to read.ÌýYou probably know how that goes.
Border CrosserÌýhas a lot of problems, but not being a good book isn't one of them.
November 12, 2021
Well, this reads like hardcore early cyberpunk, cranked up to 11, and with a dash of Heinlein at its core. That may sound good to some readers, but wait, there’s more.
The driving force of this book is the author’s relentless obsession with sex, sadism, and the amorality of the protagonist, and Eris is easily the most unlikeable protagonist I’ve seen since my recent re-read of . This is the kind of attention craving character who honestly deserves to be ignored. Her expletive-filled “too cool for you� first person narration was almost enough to make me stop reading, and her over the top exploits come across as nothing more than Doyle’s ever-escalating attempts to shock the reader.
The sad thing is that all this was unnecessary - there was a solid story beneath all this phantasmagorical pornographic violence, with musings on AI and identity, and plenty of throwaway lines demonstrate that Doyle really knows his SF material.
Unfortunately not enjoyable, at least not for this reader.
The driving force of this book is the author’s relentless obsession with sex, sadism, and the amorality of the protagonist, and Eris is easily the most unlikeable protagonist I’ve seen since my recent re-read of . This is the kind of attention craving character who honestly deserves to be ignored. Her expletive-filled “too cool for you� first person narration was almost enough to make me stop reading, and her over the top exploits come across as nothing more than Doyle’s ever-escalating attempts to shock the reader.
The sad thing is that all this was unnecessary - there was a solid story beneath all this phantasmagorical pornographic violence, with musings on AI and identity, and plenty of throwaway lines demonstrate that Doyle really knows his SF material.
Unfortunately not enjoyable, at least not for this reader.
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