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Mindspace
 On the frontier, life is tough for a transspace pilot stripped of his license to fly. Contracts go to guildsmen who play by the rules ... and Jack DiFalco broke those rules. He's on the wrong side of both the law and the guild. His crime was mindspacing: playing the high-tech games that are changing the future -- gaming not in VR, but in the "mindspace" where player merges with machine. Some don't make it back out. Kieron Charig is a transspace navigator. He graduated flight school with Jack, but has no patience for the game, or gamers. Mindspacing is the crux of his trade -- ships are flown in a symbiotic relationship, where the mind/machine interface is dangerously blurry. Kieron works there, and scorns to play there. Like all transspacers, he fears the consequences. He will pay a terrible price while Jack is plucked from the gutter and thrust into scenes more exotic than games. But success is costly. Jack will pay with skill, courage, even sex. For Kieron, every moment is a battle to preserve his humanity. Hope pivots on Max Gorodin, director of aerospace giant Jabalpur Industries. Max's own struggle is about personal and corporate survival: his security is compromised, his enemies seem invincible. Jack is his dream come alive ... Kieron is the gift he never expected. With this pair, Max's predicament might turn around, but both men must forfeit everything -- and Max soon discovers falling in love is life's ultimate complication. Exotic gay SF from long-time favorite Mel Keegan.  Read the first 10% of this novel right here, in PDF format
(Caveat: material in this free sample is not suitable for juniors. Consider yourself warned!) Length: 95,000 words Rated: adult (sex, violence, language) Publication date: May 2010 Publisher: DreamCraft Price: $6.99 - ebook; $15.99 - paper (NEW LOWER PRICE) Cover: Jade
READER REVIEWS: MINDSPACE REVIEWED BY B.E.M When I got this one I hadn't realized it was set in the same universe as the narc and hellgate stories, so it was a big surprise to meet some familiar ideas and places and histories ... but when I told this to a mate of mine and he said, "it's another sequel is it?" I told him NO IT ISN'T! And I think its a very important thing to say about [MINDSPACE] in case people get the book and expect to read about Jarrat and Stone or all the beautiful characters out of Hellgate. It's NOT A SEQUEL!!! If it was, Jarrat and Stone would be getting pushed along in wheelchairs because this is like 100 years after hellgate, so it's 300 years after narc. So my mate asked, "what's the deal?" The deal is, it's a whole new book and I for one hope it turns into a whole new series -- you can see at the end of it, Mel Keegan could write dozens of stories about these characters and [this scenario] because it's like a tv show. In fact, I should BE turned into tv show!! But I know it would never get made because everytime any show/movie tries to have gay characters there's always a big stink, and who's going to spend a gajillion bucks on a show that's going to raise a big stink??? So I guess we have to be satisfied with the book ... and it's a GREAT book. What's the deal? It's a long time into the future and technology has exploded from the narc stories. The frontiers have gotten pushed back, humans are on new worlds, they have new problems, this time it's not the drug Angel it's banned/deadly VR games that you play in the "Mindspace." And sh--!!! You can see how YOU would get addicted to this. So the hero was arrested and sacked from his job for getting caught doing banned stuff -- but it turns out, it was really lucky that he'd been doing it, because ... wellllll, that would be telling. You HAVE to hread this if you love big SF stories, or games, or gorgeous studs getting it on, and if you liked the narc and hellgate stories it really makes you smile when you realize where you are!! The thing that surprised me most was where the love story went. I thought it would be going "this way," and it went "that way" instead ... shows you how you can't guess where Mel Keegan is going. He always finds ways to surprise you. |
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