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Autumn Rangers (Paperback)

by Elliot McGucken (Author)
4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)

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From artificial intelligence, to classical architecture, to Dante's Inferno, to NASCAR, this thriller thunders across the rugged American landscape in a '69 Stingray Corvette.

Ranger, a US Marine, is on the run from Special Forces agents and Silicon Virtue Inc.'s corporate army. Autumn, a beautiful folk rocker, is on the run from a failed marriage to a hipster metrosexual drummer.

Together they become Autumn Rangers as they blaze a trail from Charleston to Los Angeles, crossing the Great Divide and bursting on through the postmodern fog to glimpse an American renaissance every bit as noble as the United States Constitution. And always just behind, the Dark Riders give chase on their tricked-out Harleys.

Silicon Virtue stole Ranger's MIT Ph.D project APRIL while Ranger was MIA. They are using APRIL--an AI computer--to build WMDs. As Ranger strives to revive APRIL's moral soul, he also finds himself trying to win Autumn's heart.

Filled with plot twists and a surprise ending which in retrospect made sense all along, Autumn Rangers reads faster than a day at the Lowes-Motor Speedway.

From the Author
Turn up the Beethoven, Eminem, Tift Merrit, & Kid Rock, and rock out to this Great American Novel. Keep Shakespeare, the Bible, and Dante's Inferno close by for reference. The US Constitution will also help.

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Product Details

  • Paperback: 482 pages
  • Publisher: Classicals & Jollyroger.com LLC (January 1, 2005)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 193015125X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1930151253
  • Product Dimensions: 9.6 x 7.4 x 1.2 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.com Sales Rank: #701,336 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome, Spellbinding American Epic, January 3, 2005
Autumn Rangers is a spellbinding American epic.

So often when Hollywood wants to portray nobility, heroism, and classical values, they must turn back the clock to pre-WWII, as in Saving Private Ryan, Braveheart, and Titanic.

Well this book has a classical hero--Ranger, and it is set in the contemporary era. He undergoes a Hero's journey to win the heart of Autumn and to save APRIL, his AI research, from being used to build WMDs by Silicon Virtue, and there's a huge twist towards the end which I didn't see coming. However, Ranger is no pacifist--he is a marine fighter pilot who is shot down by weapons made by Silicon Virtue.

I found it interesting that my first instinct was to compare Autumn Rangers to my favorite movies, but that is because it reads more like a movie with its gripping plot and strong character than a contemporary novel.

I love all the old Spaghetti Westerns, and it appears McGucken does too, with plenty of references to Sergio Leone, Clint Eastwood, and Doc Holiday.

Rock on.
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10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The past is prologue & the classic is contemporary., January 8, 2005
An awesome book which begins in the middle East when Ranger is shot down in his F-22 Raptor while providing air support for grounds troops, and then travels west to Los Angeles where Ranger must rescue APRIL from Doom Mountain. Along the way he meets up with the Jennifer Garner of American lit--Autumn West, and they fight it out as they fall in love in teh contemporary context where manhood and womanhood have been deconstructed. This book speaks on so many levels. On one had, it's the Odyssey--about a hero who returns home only to find the yipyop "yuppy hiphop" hollywooders partying on down, trying to win what is his--the heart and soul of APRIL--AI technology he invented while at MIT which Silicon Virtue Inc. is using to build RoboClones and RoboDrones. But Ranger alone can string the bow, and he's on the warpath to protect and defend APRIL's honor. And along the way, he meets his match in Autumn West, a mysterious folk singer who's mastered the martial arts and drives a midnight blue '69 stingray corvette. Oh there's so much more--I loved it and coudl not put it down, and yes, there's the unifiying twist at the end.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars The First New Renaissance Man, April 18, 2005
The baton of literature has been passed to the next generation. The man that:

William Wordsworth [If the time should ever come when what is now called Science, thus familiarized to men, shall be ready to put on, as it were, a form of flesh and blood, the Poet will lend his divine spirit to aid the transformation, and will welcome the Being thus produced, as a dear and genuine inmate of the household of man.];

C. P. Snow [The clashing point of two subjects, two disciplines, two cultures--of two galaxies, so far as that goes--ought to produce creative chances. In the history of mental activity that has been were some of the break-throughs came. The chances are there now. But they are there, as it were, in a vacuum, because those in the two cultures can't talk to each other.];

and Aldous Huxley [To the twentieth-century man of letters science offers a treasure of newly discovered facts and tentative hypotheses. If he accepts this gift, and if, above all, he is sufficiently talented and resourceful to be able to transform the new raw material into works of literary art, the twentieth-century man of letters will be able to treat the age-old and perennially relevant theme of human destiny, with a depth of understanding, width of reference, of which, before the rise of science, his predecessors (through no fault of their own, no defect of genius) were incapable.];

have been waiting for, has arrived--the first new renaissance man!

This action thriller was written on four levels:

the literal ("He saw the green flash as he faced the sunrise through his high-tech aviation mask, cruising along at Mach 3 in his F/A-22 Raptor. Off in the distance, he thought he saw the tiny dot of the stealth enemy plane--she was fading on and off the Raptor`s advanced radar.");

the symbolic ("A golden sunbeam shot on through a break in the clouds. He saw a rainbow--a double rainbow-- solid, arching through the shimmering air.");

the universal ("It would possess the inextinguishable need to create beauty, to impose a higher order upon the orderless universe, to rebel against the second law of thermodynamics.");

and the literary allusion level ("Like Captain Ahab, the entire ship of her soul tacked against Nature and sought the ungraspable phantom of life--the mind of God.").

On a scale of 1 to 5 this novel is a 10. We may never see a work of art this good for the rest of our lives.
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5.0 out of 5 stars great read!!
i liked the underlying theme about how it's one person who invents and another who exploits and abuses the technology. Read more
Published on June 25, 2006 by Kelly

1.0 out of 5 stars Misogyny disguised as philosophy
The most I felt from this book is disappointment. Disappointment that a potentially talented author used what could have been a compelling story as a means to spew out his twisted... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars great read
time flew by as i became engrossed in this journey.

i loved how autumn, beatrice, and april were unified in the end! but i will not spoil the plot. Read more
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Ranger's character, with all his views on women, seemed sexist, outdated, and way too conservative... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars Semper Fi from the USMC!!!
God bless!! Loved the partiotic, heroic tone and tenor!! Welcome to the Canon!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Rock on McGucken!!!
Loved it! Couldn't put it down! Finally a novel that kicks *)$#%*#$ and $*)$#*@#)*!!!
Published on May 19, 2005 by ss

5.0 out of 5 stars Semper Fi!
As a US Marine with a background in computers and AI, I greatly enjoyed this.

It was good to see a contemporary novel with a hero Marine. Read more
Published on April 16, 2005 by David

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