Convergence Dandelion Trilogy Book 3 eBook Mike French
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The Convergence Project is a covert military/governmental science project that uses prisoners on death row to explore what happens to people as they die.
The experience of life flashing before your eyes just before death is a process called active retrieval where memories are being recalled and lived out again in the mind.
As the amount of time before death decreases, the brain exponentially increases the speed of playback and starts looping repeating over and over a lifetime’s worth of memories. Each playback makes the memories stronger and retains more detail.
Eventually an infinite playback speed is reached forming a memory singularity called a Convergence Point, where the ‘moment’ lasts for ever and the person effectively enters an afterlife of their own making.
Subjects are killed by lethal injection within an enhanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging Core, which brings on active retrieval and allows the brain activity to be imaged moments before the Convergence Point forms. The ‘near’ Convergence Points are downloaded into neutral clones who effectively decode the brain patterns back into memories. These Convergence Clones are subjected to psychoanalysis to try to gain an understanding of the death experience. The project has the added bonus of extracting information held deep in the subconscious of terrorists by using Convergence on them and then interrogating their Convergence Clone, which is recycled after use and reformed.
Convergence Dandelion Trilogy Book 3 eBook Mike French
Now a heads up, this book can easily be read as a standalone (I know because I did) but is part of “The Dandelion Trilogy” which also includes “The Ascent of Isaac Steward” and Blue Friday”. I would say that perhaps the initial start is a little confusing if you have not read what came before, but it soon comes into focus so was not an issue for me.Speculative fiction is always best when it gives you a thought process, something to have to wrap your brain around, and this most certainly did that. Blurring the lines between reality and alternate reality, with a bit of a love story in there and an extremely imaginative and compelling premise, this engaged my mind in a wonderful way. Admittedly it won’t be for everyone – but I’m someone who likes to test her reading mettle every once in a while with something a little out of the ballpark and this fit the bill perfectly.
Once I’d gotten used to the Vatican being in Kent, and various other little foibles, I was transported to a different world, one full of twists and turns and magnificent characters some of whom you will recognise (maybe!) and some very new – all involved in a beautifully complex and even more beautifully plotted story that plays on a lot of different aspects. Science, technology, religion and politics are all in here and mesh together really well to create a well rounded yet unique story.
Overall an excellent read especially if you are looking for something intriguing and a little bit off the beaten path.
Happy Reading Folks!
**Thank you to the author/publisher for the review copy**
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Convergence Dandelion Trilogy Book 3 eBook Mike French Reviews
Mike French's Convergence is the third novel of The Dandelion Trilogy (the other novels are The Ascent of Isaac Steward and Blue Friday). It is as interesting and fascinating as its predecessors.
Before I write more about Convergence, I'll mention that it can be read as a standalone novel. However, it's possible that readers will get more out of it if they're familiar with the previous novels.
Now that I've read all the novels in The Dandelion Trilogy, I can say that this trilogy has been a most pleasant surprise. It's a delightfully different and imaginative trilogy in which several different elements are combined in interesting and unexpected ways. The novels in this trilogy are well written and intelligent speculative fiction novels with just the right amount of tension to keep readers turning pages as fast as they can to find out what happens at the end of each novel.
Convergence is a surprisingly imaginative, disturbing, chilling, addictive and also humorous science fiction novel. Just like its predecessors, it's something different - it differs greatly from other speculative fiction novels that are out there on the market.
Convergence is an intriguing story about a future world where things are different from what they are now. For example, The Vatican is situated in Kent and Belgians have spaceships. The author's vision of the future is both refreshingly original and unsettling.
I won't write much about the plot of Convergence, because this novel is so extraordinarily written and full of twists and turns that I might write too many spoilers. The Convergence process described in the synopsis plays an important part in this novel (this process is used to gather information from people and terrorists) and its consequences also play an important part.
One part of the plot involves President Reagan and his lover, Batsheba. These chapters are wonderfully creative and satirical. I also enjoyed reading about Pete and Durram, because the author created a weird and compelling love story that's anything, but normal.
The cast of characters is diverse and quite extraordinary, because the author writes about President Reagan, the Pope and other characters. Reading about Reagan was funny (I think that all readers will enjoy reading about him). I have to mention that it's fascinating how captivatingly the author writes about the AI system called Covenant.
Mike French combines several elements from science and technology to religion and politics in this novel. It's intriguing how well and fluently he binds all these elements together, because it isn't easy to write this kind of speculative fiction. The author combines new techonology, clones, dreams, hopes, lust, sex, politics, religion and violence in a surprisingly exhilarating and uninhibited way. In less capable hands this kind of a unique combination of different elements might have been a total disaster, but Mike French has succeeded in combining all the elements perfectly and has created an exciting and addictive story.
I loved the way Mike French wrote about the end of the world. His way of writing about the problem that the project created was genuinely fascinating. The orb/sphere that the reasearchers were unable to control seemed to swallow and devour the world and a new eden formed inside it. This kind of an end of the world feels very refreshing when compared to other kind of visions of the end of the world.
I like the author's prose and writing style. It's great that he effortlessly combines science fiction and modern literary prose (I've always liked good literary prose, so it was a pleasure to read his prose). One of the best things about his prose is that at times he's deliciously sharp and sarcastic and surprises his readers with unexpected happenings.
Mike French has created a surprisingly complex story that opens up bit by bit. I appreciate this kind of storytelling, because it shows that the author knows that readers have brains and they're capable of using them to figure things out.
Mike French writes boldly about sex. His descriptions of sex are among the most memorable descriptions ever in modern science fiction, because he describes things as they are and doesn't try to write about sex in a vague way. There are other authors who have also written boldly about sex, but Mike French's approach to sex feels fresh.
It's nice that the author has a quirky and twisted sense of humour, because it adds a cool touch of satire to the story. His humour is sharp, but also sophisticated.
Convergence may not be to everybody's liking, but I don't see any reason why it should be, because truly fascinating and original novels rarely are to everybody's liking. This novel is a totally different kind of a science fiction novel and that's a good thing, because not every novel has to be an almost exact clone of other novels. I have nothing against normal science fiction novels, but a bit weirder and more challenging novels like Convergence are pearls among pebbles, because they require more attention from the reader. Reading this kind of novels is rewarding.
If you want to read something totally different, enjoy reading good prose and love imaginative science fiction, you should consider reading Convergence, because it's all of these things and more. It's a partly surreal, but fulfilling reading experience that leaves you wondering how the author has come up with a story that's satirical, surreal and imaginative.
Excellent and imaginative science fiction!
Speculative fiction is often like brain gym. The author will often ask the reader to go above and beyond what they deem possible, credible, doable.
To get the bigger picture and a better understanding I think it would be advisable to read the first two books in the trilogy.
The beginning is a little bizarre if you have no previous information on the story. It could have done with a short re-cap or prologue at the beginning.
Pete and Durram play the most important parts and each scenario seems to feature one or the other. Even they have difficulty distinguishing between reality and an alternate universe.
In the midst of it all there is the love story between Pete and Durram. Reality becomes blurred and it doesn’t help that often neither the reader nor Pete can distinguish between the real and fake Durram.
The President gives in to the wiles of Bathsheba,and she plays her puppet on a string like a the violinist with an instrument. Interesting that Reagan has been chosen for this particular role, given the history of the man.
Kent is known not only for pirates coves, but also for being home to the Vatican and His Holiness the Pope. In this case it is more like the mafioso overlord overlooking the demise of society and forcing his views upon others.
You might have to sit back with a packet of chocolate digestives and a pot of tea with this one. It may well tax your brain just a tad, then again isn't that the whole point of speculative fiction, to venture into places quite extraordinary.
I received a copy of this book courtesy of the author and Elsewhen Press.
Now a heads up, this book can easily be read as a standalone (I know because I did) but is part of “The Dandelion Trilogy” which also includes “The Ascent of Isaac Steward” and Blue Friday”. I would say that perhaps the initial start is a little confusing if you have not read what came before, but it soon comes into focus so was not an issue for me.
Speculative fiction is always best when it gives you a thought process, something to have to wrap your brain around, and this most certainly did that. Blurring the lines between reality and alternate reality, with a bit of a love story in there and an extremely imaginative and compelling premise, this engaged my mind in a wonderful way. Admittedly it won’t be for everyone – but I’m someone who likes to test her reading mettle every once in a while with something a little out of the ballpark and this fit the bill perfectly.
Once I’d gotten used to the Vatican being in Kent, and various other little foibles, I was transported to a different world, one full of twists and turns and magnificent characters some of whom you will recognise (maybe!) and some very new – all involved in a beautifully complex and even more beautifully plotted story that plays on a lot of different aspects. Science, technology, religion and politics are all in here and mesh together really well to create a well rounded yet unique story.
Overall an excellent read especially if you are looking for something intriguing and a little bit off the beaten path.
Happy Reading Folks!
**Thank you to the author/publisher for the review copy**
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