Happy Thanksgiving! I am super excited to share this fantastic book with you today. The cover is awesome, the blurb is intriguing, and I LOVE the guest post written by J.D. Lakey! Check it out and tell me what you thought in the comments. Cheers!
The Best of List
by J.D. Lakey
Harlan Ellison - A Boy and His Dog: best short story turned
into a bad B movie
Ursula Le Guin – The Earthsea trilogy: best wizard story ever
C.J. Cherryh - The Faded Sun trilogy: best warrior-cult story
and a cosplay that nobody will ever guess.
Anne McCaffrey - Dragonsong: the best series of books that
made you want to own a tiny dragon
Joss Whedon – Firefly: best writing for a scifi TV series
Joss Whedon – Titan A.E.: best scifi animated movie that I
had no idea he helped write until I looked him up
Steven Moffat - Doctor Who: best Britsh Scifi TV series (best
doctor - Christopher Eccleston, the Ninth doctor, David Tennant, the Tenth
doctor, a close second)
C.J. Cherryh - Fortess in the Eye of Time. The best high fantasy
book where I have actually highlighted and underlined my favorite quotes
Patricia Mckillip - The Forgotten Beasts of Eld: best female
wizard protagonist plus talking animals and a dragon
Vonda N. McIntyre - Dreamsnake: best book based on a better
short story
Best series in the Stargate Universe: 1. Stargate Universe,
2. Stargate Atlantis, 3. Stargate SG-1 (scariest Stargate monsters: 1.
Replicators, 2. Wraith, 3. Goa'uld)
Ann Maxwell - Fire Dancer Trilogy: best trilogy that made me
wish I had written it
Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five: best movie and book that
made me want to read everything an author ever wrote featuring the author's
alter-ego, Kilgore Trout
JK Rowling - Harry Potter: best political satire disguised as
a kids book
Rockne s. O'Bannon – Farscape: TV series. best aliens,
sentient star ship, and crazy love story
Sheri S. Tepper - The Gate into Women's Country: the book
whose surprise ending planted a seed in my brain
Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaimon - Good Omens: what happens when
two of your favorite authors meld minds.
Issac Asimov - Caves of Steel: Everything you ever wanted to
know about robots
Robert Heinlein - Have Spacesuit Will Travel: The adventure
is everything
Philip K. Dick: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep: best
book title ever and then they made it into a movie that did not suck
Ray Bradbury – The Martian Chronicles: a prophet when it came
to Mars, the ghosts of Mars paid him a visit
Frank Herbert: Dune. Enough said
Honorable Mentions and Cautionary Tales:
George R.R. Martin - Game of Thrones. A 7 book series that
probably should have stopped at three
Phillip Pullman - The Golden Compass: a trilogy in which the
author had a psychotic break between book two and book three and ended up
writing himself into a deep, dark hole
“The premise of Black Bead is
wonderful, and it was a fun, short read I happily breezed through. It was
refreshing to read new sci-fi with an original plot, on a new planet.” Carly
Courtney, Sci-Fi Addicts.com
BLURB:
On a savage, outlying planet an
enclave of psionically-trained humans have built a utopian, matriarchal society
that lives in harmony with all life. Leaving behind the polluted and corrupt
world in which they lived, they colonized a new home far from the eyes of the
galactic empire. Shielded from the rest of the galaxy by the dangerous beasts
that inhabit their lush, forested world, the village lives a simple life under
their Home Dome. But their goal was more than just to live in peace – they
wanted to create the perfect human who could bring peace to the galaxy. Rather
than merely cloning themselves, they began to manipulate genes in order to
create a race of mutants with enhanced telepathic powers.
Under the direction of the ruling
witch coven, each child of the Windfall Dome is tested at a young age to asses
their abilities – a test which can plot the course for the rest of their lives.
Unfortunately, Cheobawn – the daughter of the ruling First Mother to the dome –
is marked with the Black Bead on her Choosing Day, a symbol of bad luck and
shame. It seems the child the mothers had placed so much hope in would not be
the future ruler they had hoped for. Yet there is something powerful about her
that the elders don’t understand.
Finally of age, Cheobawn is chosen
to join a pack to act as the psychic Ear on a foraging mission outside the
dome. She knows this is her chance to prove herself. But something sinister
stalks them and each member of the pack must draw on their unique strengths and
a lifetime of training if they want to survive to see another day.
In her visionary new series The
Black Bead Chronicles, author J.D. Lakey invites you to journey along with
Cheobawn, Megan, Tam, Connor, and Alain as they use their wits and their Luck
to unravel the mysteries of the deceptively bucolic life beneath the dome in
this coming of age metaphysical science fiction adventure.
AUTHOR BIO:
J.D. Lakey was born and raised on
the high plains of Montana under an endless sky and as far from civilization as
anyone in the twentieth century could get. There she explored the finer nuances
of silence and the endless possibilities of the imagination. The stories were
always there. The shifting of fortunes finally granted her the time to gather
all the stories and give them flesh.
An avid reader of science fiction
and comics, she currently lives in San Diego, California where she divides her
time between her writing, commuting on the I-5, and spending time with her
delightful grandchildren.
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