Larry Wasion is an author to watch. This book is a real page-turner, and I hope Mr. Wasion releases more like it soon!
“An original take on time travel and teleportation. Until reading TELEPORTER I didn’t realize the two technologies could be so intimately linked. Excellent book. I am sure the rest of the series will be as sweet.”
I grew up in the house of a major science fiction fan (My father). He had always been an avid reader, and just a walk through the house would show that. There were books everywhere. Unfortunately, I never caught the reading bug as he did. Since I always looked up to my Dad.
I always wished I had. But my brain rarely works like that. I read The Hobbit in high school, and the Lord of the Rings trilogy after the first movie came out. That’s pretty much been my library of novels I finished. All that being said, I am also a huge science fiction nerd, and I LOVE time travel stories, which is what initially caught my eye about this series. So, I had a few extra dollars after selling a vehicle and figured, heck, why not, and bought the series, hoping it drew me in enough to read them through.
Well, I recently finished the first book and am halfway through the second now, and have to say I’m hooked. The story is fun, the characters are great, and all of the time-travel science seems plausible. With a concept like time travel, the science has to be good to be believable, as opposed to fantasy, where magic is involved, which, while I love it, always seemed like a convenient thing whenever something unexplainable was happening, so it’s kind of a copout. Anyhow, I’m rambling. Ultimately, this series so far is fun with fun characters and good science. Keep up the good work, Mr. Wasion.
Time machines seem to have only a few possible structures: a chair with a clock behind it, a fancy bunch of clocks on their own, a DeLorean car, or a miniature rocket ship. Larry Wasion has outdone them all with a time machine that’s a chair, all right a beat-up double-wide recliner, patched up with old leather grabbed from a dumpster. This one doesn’t even have a clock, although it does have a hidden control panel.
What’s most intriguing about Wasion’s time chair is that it lands in the clutches of one owner after another, few having sufficient knowledge of what they’ve accidentally acquired. They’re a motley bunch, including a mad scientist (“mad” as in enraged), a boneheaded thief, a heroic but down-on-his-luck private eye, as well as smart women and others who learn or already know what the chair can do, but don’t plan to tell anyone else. Each turn of ownership results in disaster or near-disaster, driving the story to higher anticipation.
Every one of these characters (and there are many more in this book) is unique, fascinating, and remarkably believable. One of the author’s great strengths is his ability to conjure up unusual but deeply persuasive characters. Part of that ability must come from his own high-tech experience in a career that depended on advanced work in outer space, the depths of the oceans, and the South Pole.
Wasion was a science fiction fan for years, but this is his first novel. His spectacular scenes with fascinating characters and his almost persuasive technical explanations, as unreal as they may be in fact, make this work extraordinary for a first timer. Is it perfect? There are flaws — a ragged beginning, a too-complicated conclusion — but the nucleus of this fast-paced story is far better than average. That, and the promise of what’s going to come, make Larry Wasion’s first shot at science fiction a five-star victory.
(Paul is co-author or Arthue C. Clarkes, Venus Prime.)
I received Larry’s series of books for Christmas (purchased by loved ones on Amazon). I must confess – I am his second-youngest brother – so I know a thing or two about the author’s background and childhood. And I can clearly see how the influences in his life as he grew into adulthood have affected his imagination as much as his vocational experiences. I can read the influences from his love of science fiction, as well as his love of comic books
(the morphing motorcycle reads like it came out of a Marvel superhero comic), with a little of his love of secret agents sprinkled in here and there. As for the book itself – riveting. I found myself invested in the characters – all well thought out. I can almost hear Larry thinking, “What would this character do with this time machine? How would (s)he react in this particular situation?” What really impressed me is that, though the time chair is the central “character,” he seems to have treated it as more incidental to the lives of the characters – the characters are more central to the story than the chair. So, it’s more about how the chair impacts their lives than it is about the chair itself. I really like that!
I’m not nearly as much of a reader as Larry was/is, but when I had to put the book down to resume my own life, I really wanted to know what would happen next.
And now I want to know what happens next – so on to the next book…
Just finished book four – what an amazing story! I could hardly put it down! So imaginative and detailed and thrilling and engrossing. I loved it. I’m amazed how you came up with all this stuff. Is it from lying in bed at night or all the years of sci-fi that you read bubbling in your brain, creating new stories? In any case, I thought it was wonderful. The story just drew me in… what a great piece of writing. Best I’ve read, really up there with Heinlein, better than Azimov to me. U should be proud of your accomplishment, my friend. Can’t wait for book five
