Jeffrey Freedman
The Spark Anomaly
Print, Ebook, Audiobook
“...Indiana Jones [style] action/adventure... good, solid s/f… with characters we relate to and care about... Cathy and the housekeeping robots made me laugh out loud.”
- Star Trek novelist Margaret W Bonanno
Grieving the loss of her father, Cathy Fisher solves homework problems unaware that her solutions hold the key to saving the Earth
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Her professor, engineering adventurer Arnold Spark, searches the globe for the apocalyptic truth behind recent cataclysmic events’, aided by:
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Helen, a bereaved widow, who blames Spark for her husband’s death;
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Soona, a lonely lunar robot, who must escape her cruel human captors to solve a billion year old mystery on the comet Charybdis;
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“What happens when 2 earthquakes occur 42 minutes apart in Chili and China?”
Answer: The end of the world.
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In 1978 I attended an electronics tradeshow with my father and saw an Apple II computer displaying a collage of overlapping colored boxes. Every second or so, the computer added a new rectangle in a vibrant color display; much more impressive than the low resolution black and white graphics of Radio Shack’s TRS-80...