Nethereal (Soul Cycle) (Volume 1), by Brian Niemeier
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Nethereal (Soul Cycle) (Volume 1), by Brian Niemeier
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A woman like no other who longs for acceptance. A precision killer inspired by the dream of his captain. The last member of a murdered race, fighting to avenge his people against the might of the Guild…and the dark powers behind it. The Sublime Brotherhood of Steersmen holds the Middle Stratum in its iron grip. Jaren Peregrine, last of the Gen, raids across fringe space with Nakvin—her captain’s best pilot and only friend, apprentice steersman Deim, and mercenary Teg Cross. Hunted by the ruthless Master Malachi, Jaren and his crew join a conspiracy to break the Guild’s monopoly with an experimental ship. But when its maiden voyage goes awry, the Exodus flies farther off course than its crew could have imagined.
Nethereal (Soul Cycle) (Volume 1), by Brian Niemeier- Amazon Sales Rank: #688248 in Books
- Published on: 2015-06-10
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: 8.00" h x 1.39" w x 5.25" l,
- Binding: Paperback
- 616 pages
About the Author Despite formal training in history and theology, Brian Niemeier has chosen to pursue a writing career. His journey toward publication began at the behest of his long-suffering gaming group, who tactfully pointed out that he seemed to enjoy telling stories more than planning and adjudicating games.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful. A powerful debut novel. I'll be following this author's career with interest. By Russell S. Newquist I recently finished Nethereal, the debut novel from Brian Niemeier.I'm going to come right out and admit it: I bought this book because of its cover. First, that cover is all kinds of awesome. Second, it's a cover that screams out, "I am a science fiction novel and I'm not afraid to announce that to the world."I'm not a fan of the recent trend in genre fiction towards bland, generic covers that try to hide the fact that the books are genre. I bought Game of Thrones back nearly twenty years ago when it was still printed with the original paperback cover of Jon Snow and his direwolf Ghost. I'm not afraid to admit that I bought that book for the cover, too.In both cases, it was a good choice. Nethereal is a strong debut novel. The characters are interesting. The setting is interesting. The plot bogs down just a bit in the middle, but otherwise moves at a brisk pace. Most importantly, you'll want to know what happens next to these characters. The most frustrating thing for me in reading this book was that I was so busy that I had to read it in short segments. I kept getting angry that I had to put it down to do other things.One other aspect of the book that I found very interesting was the way his world paralleled the nine circles of hell in Dante's Inferno. I have a strong suspicion that the rest of the series will continue the parallels with The Divine Comedy, and I'm quite curious to watch it unfold.Five stars for this debut effort. I'll be watching Brian's career with interest.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. Abandon preconceptions, all ye who enter here! By Jeff Duntemann There are starships, but these are not your father's starships. There are space pirates, but not the space pirates you were looking for. There is Hell, but it's not...quite...Dante's Hell. Magical firearms, trapped souls, epic space battles, startling images, touches of Persian dualism, wise-ass demigods, necromancers, a zombie chicken, and a marvelous swipe at the bloodthirsty 14th Century Bishop Henry Despenser of Norwich.And this is the author's first novel. I'm hardly an expert, but I was extremely impressed.What's key here is the richness of the author's creation. This isn't just an imagined future. Earth is nowhere to be seen, past or present. Brian has created an entire cosmos with its own rules, exotic physics, and even more exotic metaphysics. Half-sentient FTL starships are guided by telepathic pilots who are more partner than master--and can be eaten by the mysterious Wheel if they break the complex rules of steersmanship. The gulf between life and death that we experience here is paper-thin in this ancient cosmos long abandoned by its own gods. Half of your crew might actually be dead men--and you have to look close to tell which is which.The plot is difficult to discuss without giving too much away. There are constant twists and turns, which sometimes expand to a Byzantine complexity that may be the book's primary (though not critical) flaw. One of the few remaining members of an immortal race searches this strange cosmos for clues about his father's fate and the titanic starship his father designed, on a mysterious mission that eventually takes Jaren Peregrine and his peculiar crew to the center of Hell itself. Strap in and enjoy the ride. I've never seen anything quite like it in my 50-odd years of reading SFF.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful. I enjoyed this book By Joseph Moore In a nutshell: I enjoyed this book, the writing is good, the characters memorable, the images and ideas suitably fantastic for space opera. It's only $4.99 for the Kindle, what are you waiting for?Brian Niemeier's first book, Nethereal, is the story of the adventures of 4 friends, two humans and two not-so-humans, who live as pirates in a world ruled by the evil Steersman's Guild. Jaren, the half human, half Gen captain, seeks revenge on the Guild that exterminated his race, but has been forced to live as a pirate on the fringes of the Middle Stratum; Nakvin is a human-looking renegade Lady Steersman of unknown origin who pilots Jaren's ships. She took in Jaren as a boy over 100 years ago. She is now his best, perhaps only, friend; Teg, quick-witted muscle-for-hire who, despite his professional aloofness from the causes he is hired to protect, has become devoted to Jaren's quixotic adventures, and Deim, a young Steersman being trained by Nakvin, who falls in love with a very peculiar girl. Together, they adventure around the Middle Stratum and to Hell and back.Nethereal is an exercise not so much in world-building as in universe-building. Niemeier creates a universe only superficially related to ours, and then explores the differences. This universe is laid out with great care throughout the book, so I won't spoil it by describing it here - part of the fun here is not knowing what is going on until later events reveal it. The Nethereal universe is intricate and imaginative, and provides an engaging backdrop against which the drama and personalities unfold.After much travail and derring-do, the story's climactic battle is mind-blowing - and a good set up for the next book in the series. Nethereal is well worth the read.A couple caveats: I suspect I'm not exactly the target audience for this book. I'll confess I'm not much for super-cool mind powers, which abound here. The advanced enough science/indistinguishable from magic deal seems like so much hand-waving when what you really want are Merlin-equivalents in your sci fi. This is just a personal quirk, traceable, perhaps, to my never having played RPGs - an obvious shortcoming on my part. I know many people enjoy this kind of stuff, but for me it takes some getting past. But given that, the magic/technology is well done.One other curiosity, also just a personal thing: much of the action takes place in a Hell unique to the Nethereal Universe, but roughly structured after the Nine Circles in Dante's Inferno. Now, I'm as big a Dante-freak as you're likely to find outside a university Dante department, so, naturally, I'm mapping Dante's Hell against the Nethereal Hell - and, I ended up reading the book three times, and couldn't make sense of it. Sure, there are points of contact and shared imagery, but I ended up thinking it was just for drama and color - I could not find any of Dante's sophisticated sense of morality, which is the true structure of his Hell, in Nethereal's weird and evocative afterlife. But again, rare is the reader who will find this an issue.So, all in all, a fun read. Go buy and read this book!
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