Dead Forever: Awakening
Kindle edition 99 cents --
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0034G6628
Death is temporary, we'll be back. In a conformist society that reincarnates, insurgents are eliminated by erasing all memory of past lives, and the mind-washed rebels are banished to a lonely corner of the galaxy. The hero escapes the dead forever process but remains stricken with amnesia, to begin a quest to awaken his memory, then confront the enemy. But first, he must overcome his lust.
Awakening begins the Dead Forever series, followed by Apotheosis and Resonance.
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Praise for William Campbell’s Dead Forever Trilogy:
“Rarely has an author tackled the question of reincarnation and explored the nature of consciousness and memory in such an unusual and imaginative way.”
M. G., United Kingdom
“This story will make you wonder about those odd thoughts that pop into your head, and those dreams that have no apparent meaning. It will make you look forward to that next sense of deja vu, and when it happens you’ll wonder what it really represents.”
R. R., Georgia
“Lots of suspense and excitement! Well defined characters! And while it was pure fiction, I could see some parallel with today’s worldwide problems. In short, I enjoyed reading the story and found the basic concepts of life and death very thought provoking.”
R. F., California
“This book had me captivated from the very first page. I had a hard time putting it down and I think about it even now that I’m done with it. I thought about it whenever I wasn’t reading it. I would love to live like these folks, hell, maybe I already do and I just don’t know it.”
S.O., Oregon
“The book is one mindwarp of a story. Like an epic that wrings your brain out like a sponge, making it fresh and new. I give it six stars on the five star rating system.”
B. C., Fukushima, Japan
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Book one, Dead Forever: Awakening -- Amazon Review February 2010
Are you Dead Forever?
By Bliss Stillness (Tokyo, Japan)
This book is brilliant! You, the reader, are plunged literally "head first" into the mind of an unexceptional loser. However through a remarkable turn of events this ordinary nobody is catapulted into an unordinary adventure to reclaim and rediscover his extraordinary self. Through the course of the book this pessimistic, cynical guy grows on you partly because his inclination for joking and poking fun, and partly because he starts growing up and out of his former mold and into a whole new order of being. Add to that a likeable cast of friends/comrades who help him, indeed prove indispensable, along his journey, and an insipid enemy force that will stop at nothing to prevent his interference in their treacherous conspiracy.
Things I really like about this book are the oddball, sometimes foreshadowy, dream sequences that open most of the chapters, and the first-person writing style which allows the reader to be fully, intimately inside the mind of the main character. At times he bites his tongue with people he's talking to, but his mind doesn't stop talking and he persists to think up all sorts of thoughts, from sarcastic to observant to slapstick, revealing a colorfully comedic character. I also like the creative sci-fi elements, the ideas and musings about consciousness, past lives, reincarnation, God, heaven and hell and in particular the actual story that takes place, but I don't dish spoilers so get out there and read this book!
In the end it's quite obvious that it ISN'T the end of the story and I'm really looking forward to seeing where the story goes from there! Can't wait.
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Kindle edition 99 cents -
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0034G6628
No DRM, text-to-speech enabled. Hardcover and paperback also available from Amazon. More e-book formats at Smashwords:
http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/8981
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