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Awakening: A Near Future Sci-Fi Thriller by [Randal Sloan]

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What would you do if you awoke from a coma with not memory? Especially when you discover you now have something special.

Not only must she deal with total memory loss after awakening from her coma, Miranda Summerlin discovers that as the first patient treated with nanites, she has been given special mental and physical abilities. Attending the nearby Space Academy, she uses her newfound mental genius to work on cutting edge astrophysics. Joining the school shooting competition team after discovering she excels at it, Miranda intends to keep her skills low key, but when terrorists attack the school, only she can prevent it. As far as school goes, Miranda struggles as she has drawn unwanted attention from the star of the girls' soccer team. But Miranda will soon be faced with more difficulties as her growing skills are required to face her true nemesis, a rogue Organization that wants her nanites. She will need help to escape their agent. In the process, she will discover her true identity, but her rescue may come at a great cost.

The first in the Near Future series, Awakening is a near future sci-fi thriller in a world that combines science that just might be possible with psychic visions and an evil Organization that is backed by an unknown power.

BOOKS BY RANDAL SLOAN

Near Future Series - First Arc
Near Future Book 1: Awakening
Near Future Book 2: Aspirations
Near Future Book 3: Ascendancy
Near Future Book 4: Juliette’s Space Race
Near Future Book 5: Origins
Near Future Book 6: Alternate

Near Future Series - Second Arc
The Great Future Mashup*
Near Future Book 7: Transitions
Near Future Book 8: Journeys (Forthcoming)

Far Future Series - First Arc
Far Future Book 1: Beginnings
Far Future Book 2: Badlands
Far Future Book 3: Borjon
Far Future Book 4: New Earth
Far Future Book 5: Barriers

Far Future Series - Second Arc
The Great Future Mashup*
Far Future Book 6: Succession
Far Future Book 7: Empire (Forthcoming)

Young Wizards of Callidore Series
Young Wizards of Callidore Book 1: Dragon Fire
The Great Future Mashup*
Young Wizards of Callidore Book 2: Objects of Power

Near Future, Far Future & Wizards of Callidore
The Great Future Mashup

Bad Mage
Bad Mage Book 1: Emergence
Bad Mage Book 2: Old Magic (Forthcoming)

*The Great Future Mashup is shown in order of appearance in each series

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Near Future
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220 pages
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Publication date

August 28, 2015
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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B014LZJVJA
Publisher ‏ : ‎ NVision Books (August 28, 2015)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 28, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 4012 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 220 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #15,972 Free in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #46 in Technothrillers (Kindle Store)
- #186 in Science Fiction Adventure

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I am the author of two future Sci-Fi thriller book series that speculate at just what might be possible. Years ago when I started university studies, I was in a physics program, ready to split the atom and study the wonders of our awesome universe. But alas, I wound up in engineering for more practical reasons, paying the bills. From there I moved on to computers and software development, but I have always tried to keep up with scientific developments and space exploration. Some of those ideas that just may be possible led to the books you're seeing.

I have over the last few years tried a number of interesting things, such as writing an iPhone app, trading stock options, and building a therapy pool at my home, but now I have returned to my first love - writing, something I started in the fourth grade of elementary school. Although that book never made it past my handwritten pages, due to the power of self-publishing suddenly it's possible to share some of my joy of writing with you.

Join in with me as I envision the future. I hope you have as much fun with it as I do!!

To keep up with all that is going on, sign up for the Reader's List at http://randalsloan.com/nearfuture/ (just copy and paste into your browser). You'll get a newsletter to keep you up to date and more, including free stuff that hopefully will keep you wanting more.

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Priscilla

If Missy the Werecat series and Ell Donsai series combined

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 3, 2023

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Gives similar vibes to both these series I've read before and enjoyed.

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Slick Shopper

Worth reading the first book for the price, but it has it's flaws.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 19, 2017

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It's ok. As someone mentioned it's similar to Ell Donsaii. However the writing is more stilted and the characters are definitely one dimensional. Still, it's a decent story. I don't like when there's so many obvious falsehoods that need to be ignored. If they're pertinent to the story then it's understandable, but when they're not then I think you need to be aware that:
1) Gun silencers don't actually make guns silent. They're basically worthless.
2) Running a pool table is not hard. I can do it and it will not warrant a super viral video etc.
3) Guns themselves are not perfectly accurate. There will still be some variation even if someone is a great shot.
4) Ships must be very very very large to use centripetal gravity.
5) There are anywhere from 1.1 to 1.7 million oil wells in the US alone. A terrorist attack on one of them, or even a thousand of them, will not cause an oil shortage.
6) Our brains don't work because they are "quantum circuits"
7) Clocks are not magic! If you travel several months into the future with a clock you would have no way of knowing this without an outside frame of reference. You cannot look at a clock and say "the clock shows we are several months in the future!".
The list goes on and on.
I would give it 4 stars if things like this were researched and cleaned up and I would give it 5 if the characters and dialog were a little more realistic and fleshed out. I would honestly be a lot harsher if I didn't get the first book for free. I'm not continuing the series.
For the price I recommend getting at least the first book and seeing if you like it.

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PMSteve

I Hope the Characters Awaken

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 13, 2016

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Awakening is about a teen girl injured in a terrorist attack, sleeping in a coma for the next two years. She receives medical nanites to help repair her brain damage. When sh wakes, it's discovered that her mental aptitude has been increased because of the nanites, and other changes are happening as well.

As she recovers, she's told she is someone else, since her prior memories have been erased. Her Father and Uncle own a space based corporation that was the target of the terrorist attack, which is why they wanted the girl to have a different identity.

What follows is an adventure with a teenage semi-super hero. She's brilliant, a great shot and a martial arts master.

I really enjoyed this story. The story line is great. The author's execution leaves something to be desired. By that, I mean that the characters, as portrayed, are one dimentional and wooden. The dialogue is uninspired. Everything reads more like a police report than a novel. 'Just the facts, ma'am'. The author seems to be afraid to use contractions, even when the dialogue would read much smoother by doing so. If a computer could write dialogue, this is what it would be like.

The reader, at least THIS reader, found the progress of the story to be like reading an outline. In the instance of two teenagers falling for one another, their conversations are such that there is no flirtation or passion between the two. Again, uninspired.

Even though I enjoyed the book, I felt that it read like a first draft. There is much room for improvement.

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Evelyn

Awesome book!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 29, 2022

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Wow I loved this book! The characters are amazing! I can’t wait to read the next one! At the end of the book I just want more.

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Goody

Ell Donsaii LIKE/ A Really Good Read

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 23, 2016

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A scientist and a psychic have a kid who is injured and in a coma. So the scientist develops nanites to fix her which makes her stronger,faster,precognitive, and smarter than anyone. This Author will be GReat as soon more time is given for realistic growth and they allow the hero/MC to fail sometimes. Two years for military college and two years for monk training would be more realistic and a better story. IT WAS a little tough to get into this writers style of writing as second person, but it seams to be getting better the more that is written. And please give up the day job, because this is a story that needs to be at least 10 books more with 300 pages each going forward. THANKs, I was in a bookhole when I found this.

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Two Bears

Just loved the book.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 8, 2019

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Miranda Summerlin has been in a coma for two years when she regains consciousness with the help of nanites to repair brain damage.

The nanites give her some beyond normal abilities in martial arts, memory, shooting rifles etc

I highly recommend you read this. I posted no spoilers.

There was one big snafu the author fell into. When Miranda, Hernando and atheletes got on the plane escaping the violent Coup. Hernando started chatting with the tower in the local dialect. All employees in planes and airport towers MUST speak English because English is the most used language in the world; either as a first or second language

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Average Joe

Well put together Space Opera

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 1, 2016

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WELL DONE, A WORTHWHILE USE OF YOUR READING TIME in this genre. Few typos and grammatical errors, the quoted science enough to keep it interesting. As a whodunnit, the author unfolds the conclusion well after the reader has figured it out. However, the overuse of VR as in Virtual Reality was so overused that I hesitate to read the next time in the series in fear of being figuratively beat up by "VR" hundreds of times. We get it already, author Sloan. Really.

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Kevin

Not bad

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 15, 2020

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Like the book reminded me a little between Laurence E. Dahners and Mackey Chandler. Wish book one was kindle unlimited

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Kindle Customer

Nanotechnology as it's finest

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on July 25, 2017

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Great book. However it seemed to flounder a couple of times. The heroine has survived a missile strick and has been subjected to nanotechnology. How will it affect her? Taking into account that the world seems to be battling a common enemy. What will happen to her father? A terrific read similar to several I have read but more sympathetic to the views of a young girl.

Marc

yeah, nah!

Reviewed in Australia 🇦🇺 on March 6, 2019

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The book reviews sounded interesting, and the first book got me hooked enough to start the second book, but yeah, nah, not worth finishing.
Overall the story was awkward and forced. It didn't ever really capture my imaginiation apart from the basic idea (outlined but never really filled out) in the first book. All the eastern meditation BS was off putting and didn't add a thing to the initial concept, which was a tech based heroine, not a monk wannabe. The character was too OP too quickly to relate to her struggle on any emotive level, which really killed the whole thing for me. The story could have been helped a lot if it dwelt more on her learning to cope with the tech. But that never happened to any real depth. So in the end it became boring and I could not be bothered to finish it

Kelly Novak

A YA book. I think a male or female 12 to 17 year-old would probably like it

Reviewed in Canada 🇨🇦 on October 15, 2016

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Awakening: A Near Future Sci-Fi Thriller

"Awakening: A Near Future Sci-Fi Thriller" is book 1 or a series of at least 2 books.

This is a hard book for me to rate. I thought it was a sci-fi book with a female protagonist, a genre I really like. And the premise is a premise I should really like.

But the book didn't click for me. The suspense wasn't there. It felt like it was dragging, getting bogged down in minor things.

Well, of course. I got 3/4 of the way through, but now I've just realized it ks a Young Adult book (aka a teenager's book). That is why it is not clicking for me.

I'm not sure what a 12 to 19 year-old would think of it, but I think they'd be able to relate to it. The plot is really good. The grammar, spelling and sentence structure is good. The character development is okay. The romance is "will he won't he kiss her" cute. The suspense is about not knowing anyone in a new class or about adults finding out a secret. I think a male or female 12 to 17 year-old would probably relate to that and they'd probably like it. I think I would have back then, and maybe I'd have rated it 4 or 5 stars, I just don't know.

I think the excellence of the premise and plot are what caused me to not see it was a YA book until I was so far into it.

Mr Author, Randal Sloan, if you read this, could you do us up an adult version of it? You could keep the heroine almost the same, except a little more mature. Make the romance a bit steamier ("nerd steamy"), but don't let romance take over. A little more descriptive regarding action.

Vovchara

seen better..

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on July 16, 2018

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As another reviewer already noted, there are strong parallels between this story and Ell Donsaii series. But there is also one huge and in my opinion important difference. Mystical mumbo-jumbo. And where the Author of Eli's story understands scientific implications this one is making a mess. Adding visions and time travel doesn't help.
And although I enjoyed it despite shortcomings, I have a strong "premonition" the Author will escalate in following books. When any relation to science and good storytelling will be abandoned completely. Just to raise the stakes. Instead of using the world building and made up science, it will be ALL about made up science with a strong emphasis on mysticism.

Ein zukünftiger Leser

Nice entertainment

Reviewed in Germany 🇩🇪 on July 4, 2018

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Although it does have more than one thing in common with the Ell Donsaii and the Vaz series by Laurence Dahners.

However, volumes 2 and 3 will get decreasing ratings. The slip off too much into a phantasy phsychic quagmire. Which does not help the plot, or the suspense, or anything else. Sorry, that's an all too easy way out for an author it the plot threatens to peter out. And tibetan monk premonition second sight mumbojumbo does not really go well together with spaceships.

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