Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by The Purple Booker.
Anyone can play along! Just do the following:
• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!
This is my choice of the day:
Starship Alchemon by Christopher Hinz
79% “Captain, I am registering a series of Level One power spikes,” Jonomy said. “They are emanating from the dreamlounge. One of the pods has been activated. I do not believe it is a false reading caused by the invader. Since Hardy is the only crewmember unaccounted for, it must be him.”
It wasn’t exactly the best time to go dreamlounging. “Do an interrupt, tell Hardy he has to get to the bridge.”
BLURB: Far from Earth, the AI-guided vessel Alchemon discovers a bizarre creature whose malignant powers are amplified by the presence of LeaMarsa de Host, a gifted but troubled Psionic.The ship is soon caught in a maelstrom of psychic turbulence that drives one crewmember insane and frees the creature from its secure containment. Now Captain Ericho Solorzano and the survivors must fight for their lives against a shrewd enemy that not only can attack them physically, emotionally and intellectually, but which seeks control of their sentient ship as a prelude to a murderous assault on the human species.
I haven’t read anything by this author before, and I liked the premise. I’m waiting for something a bit different to occur – and so far it hasn’t. But this, being an Angry Robot publication, I’m sure it will…
I do love sentient ships😁 Sounds like fun!
Yes… it’s not a sentient ship with much of a personality – it’s a rather techie ship… This is quite a hard sci fi tale:)
I like the sound of this new to me author too! Great choice!
It is certainly a classic space opera adventure:)
Hope something different happens for you soon. My Teaser is from more of a chick-lit type book this week.
Thank you, Laura – so do I!!!
Lovely share, Sarah! This book has definitely drawn me in!
Thank you, Jennifer. To be honest, I’m not sure that this one would be your cup of tea – it’s quite techie and a bit lighter on the characterisation – but I did enjoy the way the author wrapped it up.
Thank you- I really appreciate that, Sarah. ♥️
There are definite “Alien” vibes here (and I say that as a compliment), only the “monster” preys on thoughts rather than flesh… Very intriguing! Thanks for sharing 🙂
Thank you, Maddalena. Yes… it is a monster that preys on the mind.
Great choice/great teaser. I passed on the teaser this week. School is very demanding.
I’m sure it is! I’ve been thinking of youx
I’ve been reading your posts, but not taking the precious minutes it would take to comment. Mea Culpea!
You’re up to your eyes… No worries, I completely understand.
Sounds like you had a good time with this one – not sure if it would be for me although I like the idea of a sentient ship.
Lynn 😀
No, I don’t think it would be for you, either. It is very straightline sci fi.
Well you know once an alien gets loose, there’s bound to be some fun chaos. 🙂
There is a fair degree of chaos, but not a whole lot of fun. A lot of hard sci fi takes itself VERY seriously…
Oh boo!
Indeed…