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Jackie Paper creates a music sharing app that plays the exact right song based on how the user feels. The app becomes wildly popular, but Jackie has a secret. The app secretly places calls to aliens.

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Jackie Paper creates a music sharing app that plays the exact right song based on how the user feels. The app becomes wildly popular, but Jackie has a secret. The app secretly places calls to aliens.

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The Empty Spaces is a high-tech love story about chocolate, marijuana, aliens, smartphones and the Beatles.

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The Empty Spaces is a novel that connects the business of chocolate with the pervasiveness of smartphones, their connection with marijuana, a failed IPO, songs of The Beatles and dashed hopes of becoming president. But mostly, aliens.

The Empty Spaces takes place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Washington, DC and Ann Arbor, MI.

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File Size: 496 KB
Print Length: 351 pages
Publisher: Rawcow Group; Second eBook edition (September 28, 2011)
Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
Language: English
ASIN: B005QM1VK0
Text-to-Speech: Enabled

X-Ray: Not Enabled

Lending: Enabled
Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #666,373 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Best first novel! October 1, 2011

By Thomas B. Severn

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I found this book when a friend told me about the smartphonewars blog and I have to say I love it. Funny, engaging, sexy, filled with the novel equivalent of mental link bait. I hardly believe this is a first novel.

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5.0 out of 5 stars For a 1st Novel: Well done. Worth your time. March 14, 2012

By cek

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I 'discovered' Brian S. Hall on twitter after he argued with me about a point I made in a blog post about the smartphone industry. I had no idea who he was; just assumed he was yet-another mobile app developer with an opinion. Then I discovered his blog and found some of his posts about the tech industry interesting; he's a good writer.

One day he mentioned in a tweet to me something about "his SF book". Whah!?! What SF book? He pointed me at the Amazon listing.

I read a LOT of SF and I tend to read everything I can by any author I like (e.g. Peter F. Hamilton). See the books I read in 2011 here: [...]

I love finding authors I haven't heard about. I really love being at the 'ground floor' of a future star author's career. So I usually give them one chance. Thus, I ordered The Empty Spaces for my Kindle.

As long as his writing continues to improve, I will read EVERY SF book he writes from here on. As a first novel The Empty Spaces is REALLY GOOD. Sure, it's a bit wordy and repetitive in places, and a bit predictable, but the story idea is solid and inventive, character development is strong (if overdone), and he does a nice job of educating the reader about stuff they probably didn't know (in this case chocolate). Sometimes the educational-back-story reads a little bit like the authors own personal research notes, but that is a minor flaw and something Brian can easily improve on.

None of my criticism should sway you from buying and reading this book; I write them mostly for Brian's benefit. I'd be shocked if you don't enjoy it.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Smartphone fiction October 3, 2011

By George W. Kiersted

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As a follower of the smartphone wars blog, it is great fun to see Brian S Hall's ideas about the smartphone revolution in a work of fiction. Nicely done.

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5.0 out of 5 stars GOOD BOOK

I read the synopsis, brief as it was, and thought: "Wow, this guy sounds a little bit like me and my writing. I have to check it out!! Read more

Published 17 months ago by Bonnie Prince Richard

4.0 out of 5 stars well worth a read

I found myself easing into the story from the very beginning. Some novels take some effort to get into, but this felt like I was rolling easily downhill from the very beginning. Read more

Published 18 months ago by elliot noss

1.0 out of 5 stars Blog blackmail

I like his blog. Bought the book right away as a way to say "thanks for the blog". Only now he says he won't write for his blog until he sells 1000 copies or gets 5 positive... Read more

Published 19 months ago by Jerry L. Harrington

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› Visit Amazon's Brian S. Hall Page

Brian S Hall writes about technology, immortality and food in both his fiction and non-fiction. His work appears in numerous websites, including in Europe, Africa and the US.

He is an expert on how the "smart social mobile web" is remaking markets, industries, business models and lives around the world. No person on Earth writes more about the power-shifting, economy-transforming, culture-altering power of smartphones. He is a graduate of the University of Michigan.

His personal site is: www.brianshall.com

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