“TRANSMISSION is riveting, unexpected, and firmly rooted in strong psychological profiles backed with thriller and sci-fi elements: what more could readers wish for? (Just the quick publication of Book Two, Arrival.)”–Midwest Book ReviewThe #1 Bestseller!From #1 worldwide bestselling fantasy author Morgan Rice comes a long-anticipated science fiction series debut. When SETI finally receives a … finally receives a signal from an alien civilization, what will happen next?
A 13 year old boy, dying of a rare brain disease, is the only one able to hear and decode signals from outer space. SETI confirms it is a real signal.
What is the message? How will the world react?
And most of all: are the aliens coming?
“Action-packed …. Rice’s writing is solid and the premise intriguing.”
–Publishers Weekly, re A Quest of Heroes
“A superior fantasy… A recommended winner for any who enjoy epic fantasy writing fueled by powerful, believable young adult protagonists.”
–Midwest Book Review, re Rise of the Dragons
“An action packed fantasy sure to please fans of Morgan Rice’s previous novels, along with fans of works such as THE INHERITANCE CYCLE by Christopher Paolini…. Fans of Young Adult Fiction will devour this latest work by Rice and beg for more.”
–The Wanderer, A Literary Journal (regarding Rise of the Dragons)
Book #2 in the series—ARRIVAL—is also available!
Also available are Morgan Rice’s many series in the fantasy genre, including A QUEST OF HEROES (BOOK #1 IN THE SORCERER’S RING), a free download with over 1,300 five star reviews!
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I have read many of Morgan Rice’s fantasy books and have been generally impressed with them. That’s why I “followed” her on both Amazon and Bookbub and jumped at the chance when notified of this new book coming out. But now I just wish I hadn’t bothered.
From the description I thought this book would be science fiction. Which I guess it is, but it’s really more YA than anything else. Now I’m not against that, I actually read a decent amount of YA fiction. When it’s done well it can be quite entertaining, but done badly it becomes far worse than intolerable.
There is a trope in YA that is exceedingly common, to the point that people have often made fun of it for that reason. That being the scenario where the adults all act like idiots until the kids come up and show them the right way to do things. The problem with this trope is that it’s completely unrealistic, but at the same time if you’re trying to write a book where kids are the main actors and there are big global events to deal with then it’s almost unavoidable. So good YA authors and editors find ways to hide it so the reader doesn’t see it. But here instead, the author goes the opposite way and repeatedly bludgeons the reader with multiple occurrences of this same scene. Repeating it to the point where it almost seems like a parody. Almost, but the book isn’t funny enough to be a parody, unfortunately.
On top of that the adult characters in the story all feel like the same character there’s very little individual personality other than that they have different jobs. Compared to Rice’s other works, this just didn’t feel like the same author at all. I started to wonder if she let her kid write it for her.
At about two thirds through I was ready to give up on this book, I even came here and hovered over the review button for a bit. But I don’t do that, so I trudged on and read the rest. Hoping it would get better. Alas, it actually got worse! I can’t go into too much detail, because…spoilers. But for a book about SETI and decoding alien transmissions it just seems really cheesy to suddenly throw in zombie gas. Okay, she doesn’t call them zombies but there’s not enough of a difference to matter.
And then there’s a cliffhanger on top of that. Nothing resolves at the end, not even a subplot (not that there are any).
Definitely not recommended.
Two stars instead of one because I feel sorry for the author. And because at least the plot made sense, even if the writing was hard to stomach.
I find that I like pretty much everything I’ve come across of her’s.
I found the story entertaining, even though it was somewhat hinky. The 13 year olds were living the dream, being able to convince all the adults that they were wrong.
Although the novel seemed promising at first, to hurry the story along, the scientists quickly grew improbably short-sighted—stupid. No wonder a boy could order these adults around. The plot was not worthy of the writing.
good
Very good
The Master of Sci Fi a brilliant opener of a series. What Happens next?
Need the second of the series
It opens one’s mind about life problems
I enjoyed this book and am looking forward to reading the sequel.
Excellent science fiction.
Good Science Fiction
Didn’t like it, didn’t finish it.
This was a good book but I felt
Like it should have gotten to a better ending. It was obvious that you would need to listen to the next book for completion and I was just not ready to listen to a whole other book to get to it.
Well enough written but a disappointing cliff hanger ending aimed at forcing you to buy the next book(s) to find out what happens.
This book grabbed from the first page, I have bought the second and third books in the series.
Coming from an aerospace background, this book is extremely childish and unrealistic to me (not talking about the “aliens are real” part). I expected it to have more scientific background and explanations than what was provided. This book didn’t become a page-turner until the last 20 pages and the characters seemed under developed to me.
I enjoyed this book and look forward to the next.
Very good characters nice story had to find what happened etc good young adults book
It’s okay