10 Years To Doomsday

What a fantastic cover eh?

A medieval type of warrior, clad in armour, sword on his side...and shooting a laser at a rocket ship! WTF?!

It's like the two authors got together and one said, "I want to write a fantasy type book with Kings and sword fights." The other author said, "I want to write a space opera type book about Earthlings helping a society develop really fast and fight off some evil aliens."

They must have been desperate for some money and decided to put their stories together and write a book in half the time.

Sounds like a bust of an idea doesn't it?

Well, surprisingly it beat the odds and turned out to be a well written tale of galactic proportions, along with a great twist at the end.

10 years to doomsday is one of those countdown type of stories. In this tale, a medieval era planet is the target of an aggressive alien race that will attack them in about ten years. It's up to us Earthlings to help this puny world develop, or else the evil aliens will gain a foothold in our universe and use it to set their sights on us next.

This victim world is an interesting place built on a religion that praises the Mother figure. There are castles and Kings, sword fights and joist matches, and other common medieval era things. This world may be a bit backward, but they are an inventive people, and once let loose with a few high tech inventions they quickly turn into a space age civilization (and soon they are even more powerful than us Earthlings)...you see where this is going?

I won't totally spoil the ending, but it isn't a nice one for us Earthings if that is what you are looking for.

Sad Robot

I do have to say this book was easy to read. The writing was crystal clear. No, slogging through artistic or dense passages. I'm not saying it was simple, like see Spot run, or anything like that. Don't put words in my mouth - Chester and Michael were not simple writers. They were just good. Okay?! Geez, calm down.

They also sound like quite a pair. Here is the author bio page. What a fun sounding duo, which totally added some hot sauce to this book.