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A Signal for Redemption by A. C. Meehan
A space ship orbiting a planet desperately tries to land and deliver its 3,000 passengers to safety, but the planet isn’t expecting them and isn’t technologically equipped to handle them, despite having been apparently ready for them.
It was clear that the book included a mystery: why was the spacecraft in orbit? Why did it take over a thousand years to arrive? Why had the inhabitants of the planets not advanced technologically beyond a simple feudal system? As I eagerly plunged into the book, the queries just kept coming.
A Signal for Redemption did not let me down. I was drawn into the story on the first page and motivated to keep reading. Even though I didn’t realise it at the time, the prologue offered many of the answers and lightbulb moments I was looking for in a book that had been carefully thought out and meticulously designed.
It’s not necessary to have a genetically modified psychic talent to grasp references to “Empaths” and “Psi ability” as the novel progresses. Meehan writes with such clarity and emotion that you can easily relate to the Psi characters. You are able to sense their intense feelings, including their crippling worry, tremendous bewilderment, and exhilarating joy. Those scenes are so exquisitely written, you’re in the heads of the characters, whether you wish to be or not.
The only thing keeping this book from getting five stars is the occasionally muddled rhythm of the narrative. There is no closure and the ending is sudden, leaving you a little out of breath and perplexed. I can only hope that this indicates that Meehan intends to continue the story in more novels since I really want to know what happens next.
The juxtaposition in A Signal for Redemption by A. C. Meehan is unusual. a crumbling feudal society that is at battle with itself and is ruled by a ruler whose ambition knows no bounds. A thousand years late, orbiting spacecraft from an earth (which may or may not have been destroyed), with few supplies. These two motifs ought to conflict, yet Meehan has successfully blended them together.
About The Book
Arriving a thousand years behind schedule, after a failure in the ship’s time-drive, the rundown and overcrowded vessel can no longer support the settlers who have called it home for generations. But, on arrival, the time-traveling colonists realize all is not as it should be on the planet’s surface.
The settlers expected a technologically advanced civilization, and are shocked to discover a bygone feudal society of swords, blacksmiths, and horse-drawn carriages. Missing the vital technology that they so desperately need, they have no way to land.
Piers must find others on the planet who share his psionic ability while navigating a dangerous world – one ruled by rebellious noble families on the brink of war. Finding the Empaths and channeling their collective psychic force is the only chance he has of guiding the ship to a safe landing. If he fails, those on ark ship will be doomed to a fiery end.
Piers knows that he can’t save the ark ship on his own, but, for the sake of the passengers on the Redemption he’s willing to do what it takes, or die trying.
The Review
A Signal for Redemption
9 Score
A C Meehan is a raconteur of seemlees ability. It was rocky for me personally at first, given I had zero context to fall back on, but you start learning as the story progresses to a point where you have difficulty putting it down and start to think about what actors and actresses would play which characters in a movie adaptation which would be wonderful! I highly recommend this new science fiction work from an extraordinarily talented story teller. Also, it is safe for younger readers as well. Actually refreshing not to have cussing and fornicating gratuitously thrown into the story to placate the troglodytes. A very respectfully written story I would recommend to a burly biker and His Holiness the Pope with equal confidence and enthusiasm. By leaps and bounds the most interesting work of pure fiction I have read in ages. Bravo!
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