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| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Split Second #1 |
| Characters: | Nathan Wexler, Jenna Morrison |
Douglas E. Richards
Kindle Edition | Pages: 365 pages Rating: 3.91 | 18158 Users | 1204 Reviews
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| Title | : | Split Second (Split Second #1) |
| Author | : | Douglas E. Richards |
| Book Format | : | Kindle Edition |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 365 pages |
| Published | : | September 1st 2015 by Paragon Press (first published 2015) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Time Travel. Thriller |
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A stunningly unique time travel thriller. The 27th bestselling Kindle book of 2017--out of almost 6 million titles. What if you found a way to send something back in time? But not weeks, days, or even minutes back. What if you could only send something back a fraction of a second? Would this be of any use? You wouldn't have nearly enough time to right a wrong, change an event, or win a lottery. Nathan Wexler is a brilliant physicist who thinks he's found a way to send matter a split second back into the past. But before he can even confirm his findings, he and his wife-to-be, Jenna Morrison, find themselves in a battle for their very lives. Because while time travel to an instant earlier seems useless, Jenna comes to learn that no capability in history has ever been more profound or far-reaching. Now, as Jenna fights to defeat the powerful forces arrayed against her, nothing less than the fate of humanity hangs in the balance. . . SPLIT SECOND is a roller-coaster ride of a thriller, one that will have readers pondering the nature of time, and of reality, long after they've read the last page. "Richards is a worthy successor to Michael Crichton." (SF Book.com) "Richards is an extraordinary writer," (Dean Koontz) who can "keep you turning the pages all night long." (Douglas Preston) Near Future Science Fiction Thrillers by Douglas E. Richards WIRED (Wired 1) AMPED (Wired 2) MIND'S EYE (Nick Hall 1) BRAINWEB (Nick Hall 2) MIND WAR (Nick Hall 3) -- New in 2016 SPLIT SECOND (Split Second 1) TIME FRAME (Split Second 2) -- New in January, 2018 QUANTUM LENS GAME CHANGER -- New in 2016 INFINITY BORN -- New in 2017 Kids Science Fiction Thrillers (9 and up, enjoyed by kids and adults alike) TRAPPED (Prometheus Project 1) CAPTURED (Prometheus Project 2) STRANDED (Prometheus Project 3) OUT OF THIS WORLD THE DEVIL'S SWORDRating Containing Books Split Second (Split Second #1)
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I really wanted to like this more than I did, and I think it's because the author thinks he's just a bit smarter than even his smartest readers, and it comes through in his storytelling. It wasn't exactly condescending, but there was a lot of, "are you still with me folks? Did my big brain lose you back there?" going on, even to the point of there being a fairly lengthy after-story section on what science in the book was real and what he made up. Yeah, I had that sorted out already, and I'm onlyI almost put the book down after the pointless anti-Islamic screed at the beginning of the book. That probably colored the rest of my experience, but I just didn't enjoy it.
No rating: did not finish.Wow, what crappy writing. Tell, don't show: long paragraphs of background information inserted into dialog between characters, sometimes entire chapters. A few action scenes here and there, but not enough to get me through all the explanatory dialog. People just don't talk like this, unless to themselves.Richards gets carried away with his explication: at one point he actually forces a character to define what another character calls a "ranch-style house": "Oh, you mean
Returning from a visit to her sister, Jenna Morrison is surprised when her physicist fiancé Nathan Wexler announces that he has made a major breakthrough, but before he can tell her anything armed men break in and kidnap them. They are taken to nearby Palomar Mountain with no explanation only for another group of men to ambush them on route. Nathan is killed in the crossfire, leaving Jenna to try and find out what earth-shattering discovery would lead two highly trained groups of black ops
I really wanted to like this book but it was just awful. I honestly haven't finished and I'm not sure that I'm going to be able to. I listened to the audio book (don't do it, the narrator is worse than the writer) and I will say I think that definitely influenced my inability to like the book. My dislike started with the author's ridiculous need to explain to us what a "thumb drive" is. My 75 year old grandmother knows what a USB stick is. Really? That needed explaining. He continues this way m,
This story provides a healthy dose of 'what-if' philosophizing about the consequences of backward time travel. It provided fodder to get me thinking about physical aspects I had not thought of before. While these time-travel scenarios remain hypothetical and exist only in science fiction stories, any book that causes me to think through logic problems this much is a win. It is one of the great things books are supposed to do: get you to think about different things in different ways. On the down
I'm trialling Kindle Unlimited. Actually, I'll tell the truth, my book Deadly Messengers is gathering quite a few page reads via Kindle Unlimited, and I wanted to have a nosy around what was on offer and why it was being read so much.This book Split Second by Douglas E. Richards kept being recommended to me by Amazon's algorithms and it sounded intriguing. I love techno thrillers, and since Michael Crichton's untimely death I haven't found anyone who can write a cracking adventure and throw in
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