Nyxe

NYXE

A well developed science fiction tale ~ Review by Jennifer

If you didn’t get a chance to catch the box-office smash “Lucy” well, do not miss out on Nyxe; she could easily stand toe to toe with the aforementioned heroine. The author has a definite voice and this is not another predictable “impending doomsday” story.

Nyxe is genetically enhanced and awakens in a research facility after a post-apocalyptic catastrophe took place, and has been saddled with a huge task of rebuilding the world as we know it, with the help of an AI presence. I feel like people even in futuristic times of post-apocalyptic worlds, wish they could get back to nature, to simplicity; a world that seems more authentic and less automated.

Reminds me of why I have a good deal of respect for science fiction writers. It can’t be easy to create or build upon a world in an era that technically “hasn’t gotten here yet”. Read and enjoy.

"I was born in ruined ashes; a desolate, abandoned world my forefathers left behind as a gift of their legacy.

Armed with an advanced underground base and my trusty AI caretaker, my long dead ‘parents’ were courteous enough to leave me a message that I should rebuild the planet they destroyed. " ~ Nyxe (as seen on www.psiraise.com)

Book Description:

Nyxe... a genetically enhanced young woman awakens in an underground facility where she discovers a mission left behind by her forefathers – rebuild the earth.

After waking up nearly 400 years into the future at an underground research facility long after our world destroyed itself, Nyxe finds herself alone and abandoned. The only candidate left to rebuild our shattered world with the help of an Artificial Intelligence designated to be her caretaker.

Chances of her rebuilding our world alone though? Slim, maybe none. From the hardships of uncovering our dark history to the battles ahead in reconstructing a colony capable of sustaining human life – Nyxe, the girl once known as ‘Test Subject 17’ has her work cut out for her with no other option but to press on no matter how turbulent the storm gets.

Determined and sure yet still human – can this woman really be the only hope mankind has left?

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DECIDE

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Exceptional sci fi ~ Review by TrishFLReader

I have been reading more and more indie sci fi books as I am finding that there are some really original story lines out there. This is definitely the case with Bettina Melher's "Decide", the story a young girl who is catapulted into a race to save all of humanity. Set over 30 years in the future, the main character, Elizabeth, is cast through a series of events in which she discovers an object that will change the course of her life. I found this to be a great story, very original, with an interesting cast of characters that definitely pulled me and had me invested in their trials. A great read from start to finish.

Book Description:

Elizabeth Dart no longer dreams of the future, for she is haunted by demons of her past and plagued by childhood memories. She succumbed to her monotonous life in an oppressed world where freedom and choice do not exist. That is, until the day she discovers an alien object and her life takes a dramatic turn. Suddenly the future is all that matters – the future of mankind.

Elizabeth is not alone. She, amongst many others around the world, has been selected to ensure the continuity of the human race. The creators of the alien object warn the chosen ones of the impending destruction of Earth and tell them their only chance of surviving is to abandon their home.

In a race against time, Elizabeth must uncover the truth and decide whether the mysterious messengers can really be trusted.

With the help of her friends, Amelia and Dominic, Elizabeth embarks on a journey beyond human comprehension and learns that nothing ever is as it seems…

DECIDE is a gripping story about love, loss, friendship and ultimately the very survival of mankind.

DECIDE is a science fiction novel with a mix of action, drama, romance and suspense. A story that will keep you turning the pages until the end.

DECIDE

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Nine Meals

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Nine Meals is a bestselling book with over 160 reviews on Amazon.com

Do you love an intelligent tale about loss, survival, and the human spirit?

Nine Meals has got IT. A rich plot. Deeply developed characters you want to both hug and hide from (the apocalyptic setting is a character unto itself, no doubt). Dialogue to die for and narrative so evocative you don't dare skip a word. I gush every once in a while and I can't help it here. See if you can hang with me while I let it all out. ~ Excerpt of review by Christine

Book Description:

When the sun belched and the power grid failed, it was only nine meals until the end of the world.

Billy "Shep" Shepard always thought the apocalypse would come from an asteroid with a funny name, or a super bug, or a nuclear war, or even Yellowstone blowing its top. It came from none of those things. Instead it came from an angry sun in the form of the biggest Coronal Mass Ejection mankind had ever seen - and it slapped the human race back a century.

In these grim times, people kill for food, water and weapons. They scratch out a feeble existence after "The Ejection." But not Shep. His biggest question each day in his underground bunker is "Cheese Ravioli, Beefaroni or SpaghettiOs?"

Shep soon discovers that nothing in this new world is guaranteed. He and Antigone, a girl he rescues, are forced to take a perilous journey across an unyielding landscape toward the one place rumored to be unsullied by the disaster. Along the way they must overcome hunger, disease, desperation and death while running from a man who wants nothing more than vengeance.

Excerpt of Part I - Chapter One

When Fletching Gets in Your Eye

(Kindle Locations 30-47)

Cheese Ravioli, Beefaroni or SpaghettiOs? That was the big decision to be made on this day. Well, on any day, really.

He was Billy Shepard – his friends, of which he had none anymore, called him Shep – and he had his pick of those and many others. Cans, hundreds of them, filled with all sorts of things like soups and broths, meats and SPAM, were stacked high in the pantry on shelves that ran the length of the wall in the cellar.

That pantry was his world now. His salvation. He stroked the coarse hair on his chin and contemplated his choice. It wasn’t one that should be made lightly. After all, the decision would determine his culinary selections for days. SpaghettiOs. Yes, SpaghettiOs it is. Can’t go wrong with SpaghettiOs. It was his guilty pleasure. It had calories. That was the most important thing. Life takes a lot of calories after the Ejection and he needed all he could consume.

He grabbed a can , stuffed it into the pocket of his tattered gray tracksuit jacket – he so loved it and couldn’t bring himself to get rid of it, even in the ragged condition it was in – and made his way up the narrow steps into his kitchen, which had seen better days. Everything had seen better days. The floor was warped and the linoleum cracked and peeled. The mustard yellow plaster walls were crumbling like dried-out and stale shortbread and the light that shined through the filmy window did little to make the room more attractive.

That was the point, though. The gangs didn’t raid the dank places, the dirty places, and the decrepit places. They raided the places that looked better than the squalor where they eked out an existence.

It was all about appearances now.

He wanted his house to look as if it was the worst place on the planet to be. He was doing a pretty good job of that, he thought.

NINE MEALS

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Prophecy of the Seven Bottles

Prophecy of the Seven Bottles

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“What a wonderful story of searching for one's purpose. Magical and compelling…I couldn't put it down.” -Excerpt of review by Diane Franzen

Guest article by: Paul Halston-York

Picture the book that changed your life forever: Now, mentally slide it over and ground yourself, because literary lightening is about to strike your virtual bookshelf--for a second time!

In his debut fiction novel, “Prophecy of the Seven Bottles,” Scott Troy Kovarik brings down the thunder like a best-seller by wiring together an electrifying tale of Indiana Jones-like adventure, Verne-esque science fiction, romance, comedy, and apocalyptic New Age thriller. Kovarik generates the real high-voltage through deep mystical teachings interlinked with brilliantly imaginative--if not prophetically decoded--Hopi, Mayan and Biblical prophecy. While relentlessly entertaining, the author expertly illuminates a path to finding one’s true purpose and claiming the vast spiritual power we sense, yet rarely grasp.

The saga begins when computer company intern Avery Cole has a lost time experience on a Seattle highway in 1985 and awakens with a strange device in his hand. When connected to the Internet, he discovers this bizarre hardware contains advanced alien software sent to help humanity endure a cataclysmic planetary transition. Cole returns to a California beach seeking closure and guidance and meets social media ninja Madi Blake. Soon, the two find themselves key players in a wild cosmic agenda for the salvation of humanity and the exposure of a precious secret sought for ages untold.

The author earns karmic points in the keeping-it-real column by disclosing that during the two-year writing process, he practiced a once lost, advanced spiritual science revived and taught by renowned Indian mystic, Paramahansa Yogananda, to which he credits the deep insights and guided tone of the book. “I did not write this book alone,” Kovarik relates. “I was a channel, a happy victim of a spiritual drive by, and I was transformed.”

Kovarik is also an accomplished musician with music on film and television, and a health and wellness consultant to the medical field.

See the video trailer on animoto.com

 

Prophecy of the Seven Bottles

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