Angel Trails: Double Lives (Bk. 1) [Paperback]

Soma Vira (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1995 | Series: Angel Trails (Book 1)

In 2078, a space movie hero is frozen alive as a suspect in a murder.

His victim leaves his billions to a son no one knew exsisted. When the son arrives to

claim his inheritance, he is murdered. Will the hero b e proven innocent of the original murder, and defrosted? Is an alien deceiving his widow? Or is he really an angel? A totally unusual combination science fiction/fantasy/metaphysical.

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Review

Centering on cryonics, mystery, and romance, wrapped in spirituality, this book blurs genre boundaries as it charmingly takes us to our future. You will be enchanted. Soma Vira's characters are drawn with the skill of a master artist. You can almost hear them breathe. This is a journey that you will feel honored to take. Soma Vira's name will live on in the future. Because if ever there were an author for the future, Soma Vira fits the bill. -- Buzz Review, on-line Reviewer, 1997

Double Lives has a variety of interesting characters; determined Electra, enigmatic alien or angel Shadow, and the living spaceship home Mythila to name a few. There are also various subplots.... With most books the reader jumps into the shallow end of the pool. Some books cannonball the reader into the deep end. This was a cliff dive into largely unknown territory filled with past lives, fate, reincarnation, and karmic destiny. -- C.D. Creed, /Revue Web magazine, & copy; 1996

The spirit world lives in these pages, wound up in intercourse with far-flung technology, the resulting brew capturing the best of both worlds, or perhaps more correctly, swimming in the sea between. Angel Trails is the story of Electra Blockwell, an almost-widowed writer fighting against the oppressive bureaucracy that has frozen her husband in suspended animation -- Soma Vira's imaginative descendant of incarceration -- for a crime he did not commit. Electra's efforts to free the man she loves culminate in an artfully philosophic consideration of the place of the magical, some will read "the mystical," in a time and place where technological advances seem unparalleled. The story transports the reader to a world where spirits have a sense of humor and even human existence seems illusory and questions abound as to the scope of technology's impact in human lives. If spirits and shadows move amongst us, acting on our behalf, do we have the fortitude to trust them? Has our trust in the forms of the Earthly plane jaded us to ghosts who may come with truths to tell of loved ones and of ourselves? What if we believed, what if the door opened and our long-lost loved ones came through into our arms? What then?

The eminent German sociologist Max Weber made many interesting observations on the implications of the advent of modern life. To Weber the most interesting of these was the effect of increasingly bureaucratic ways of life on modern persons. Weber believed that bureaucracy deprived people of a sense of magic as a force in their lives. The best of what has always passed for science fiction reinvents a sense of the magical, and the worst of it portends only to the technological. In soma Vira's Angel Trails the author brings back to science fiction, and to readers as moderns in general, the magic we crave. Even here on Earth, it would seem, as well as Vacuum's Edge, the faraway world of Angel Trails, the more we submit ourselves to the straits of technology and bureaucracy the greater becomes the need for the magical in our lives and in our minds. Angel Trails may not change your life, but it is a good introduction to the work of an author who just might. -- R. DeLuarell, Dallas Texas, a Sci-Fi Fan

From the Back Cover

Accused of a poisoning, he's frozen alive until his wife can prove his guilt or innocence. And among all the questions are these: is his remarkable residence actually like a living, shape-shifting space station? And is an alien deceiving the frozen hero's wife--or is he really an angel?

The first science fiction-fantasy-mystery novels reflecting Asian/Indian thoughts and behavioral patterns, by a noted author who was born in India and launched her career there, and has subsequently written fast-selling novels for the American market.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 192 pages
• Publisher: Space Link Books (October 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0964605708
• ISBN-13: 978-0964605701
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,715,789 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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This review is from: Angel Trails: Double Lives (Paperback)

In 2095, a space movie hero is frozen alive as a suspect in a murder. His victim leaves his billions to a son no one knew existed. When the son arrives to claim his inheritance, he is murdered. Will the hero be proven innocent of the original murder and defrosted? Is an alien deceiving his wife, Electra? Or is he really an angel? It's difficult to catagorize this book by genre. I'd have to say it headlines under the Sci-Fi banner, but has a delicious mix of romance, mystery, spirtuality, and enchantment. Soma is an artist In the craft of creating charaters and she does so once again in this book. Soma has been called an "artist for the future" and I end to agree with that assesment. This book This was leads us into largely unknown realms filled with fate, reincarnation, and karmic destiny. Leslie Blanchard

Editor A Writer's Choice Literary Journal.