Description
In this latest SciFi thriller by Martyn Rhys Vaughan, author of Hideous Night, The Cave of Shadows’ and Quantum Exile, Doom of Stars opens in a stricken landscape with humans reduced to surviving on the edge of existence.
Kalli is a member of a tribe struggling to survive in a world which suffers extreme climate changes—swinging from ice to fire.
But for Kalli it is worse—she is told that it was one of her own family that brought about the disaster which will soon end the world.
Yet she has in her possession a mysterious sphere which holds the answers to what happened to bring such disaster upon the Earth. Of how lust for wealth and power in the near past brought catastrophe upon humankind.
The sphere holds the record of how those events unfolded—but does it offer hope of a way to escape the “Doom of Stars?”
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The Prairies Book Reviews –
The fully realized characters, fast-paced narrative, and imaginative SF elements keep the pages flying. Vaughan’s intelligent prose transforms the familiar dystopian setup into a twisty, unsettling roller coaster full of intrigue and apprehension. This is a page-turner.
BookView Reviews –
Meticulously crafted, fast-paced, and richly imaginative, the novel makes for a necessary read for both lovers of YA and adult dystopian fiction.
Chelsea Hauth-Reedsy Discovery –
Fabulously written end-of-the-world tale of survival, with
brilliant female characters leading the story.
Jessica_bookreviews –
‘Greetings! Dear readers. I recently came across this marvellous science fiction by Martyn Rhys Vaughan, and I must say that this is really fantastic in every way. The storyline is just so gripping and the plot is perfectly created.Turn the pages to witness the dystopian situation, an era of great apocalypse.’
Jon Gower for Nation.Cymru –
It’s a hoary old chestnut to suggest that writers create their own worlds but in the case of Martyn Rhys Vaughan that is certainly the case and then some. He is an intrepidly bold adventurer in the realms of speculative fiction, who can take the reader along with him to extraordinary places, offering glimpses of a what-might-be future of ruined metropolises and a climate out of kilter and of an earth doomed to hear the sounds of humanity’s sand-timer running swiftly out of so much as a grain of hope.
John Derek –
So, it is a matter of sifting through the mediocre and drab to find something slightly different. And this is one of those books.
This book has a twist because not only is it post-apocalyptic, but it is on the verge of the complete cataclysmic end of the human race. Entering the already dystopian future the author paints, you have to admire the skill in which he immediately draws the reader into the narrative. 4 out of 5 Stars. Net Galley reviewer.