This is going to be a crazy week, with at least four books going live. We start off with The Sphere of Time by Steve Simons:
This is a science fiction story that is suitable for children and adults alike. It tells the story of John Latham a scientist and Engineer, who thinks he has found a way to travel through time, space or even another dimension. However, he is not sure unless he can test out his ideas. John is lucky enough to come across a wealthy man who puts up the money to try out John’s idea. But the crux of this book is, if he succeeds in getting there, wherever there actually is, what will he find when he gets there? Will he create situations that affect his own existence in the future? Would he be able to get back to his own world, universe or time? Or would John be trapped forever in that place and time that he so desperately wanted to travel to?
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June 5th, 2008 at 6:20 pm
Interesting idea, I’ve always been fascinated with the Bermuda triangle and what exactly is going on there.
June 5th, 2008 at 8:35 pm
I enjoyed this book very much. I would love to hear a second tale of travel. The limiting factor of the Bermuda Triangle as the location of the black hole does pose a problem… Maybe the second book could be to the future? Perhaps to help explain the mysterious ship? A group charged with keeping time travel secret until such a time as humanity is ready… Just an idea.
July 30th, 2008 at 4:56 am
I’m enjoying the book. The only problem is the song. Although it is lovely, there’s so much of it playing so often that it’s now grating on my nerves. Maybe next time you could use it less after the first few episodes or not as the transition sound between scenes. Alas, I can and do forward through it so that makes it better. No offense to the singer–it was great the first 10 times I heard it.
I do thank you for your hard work and for making the book available on Podiobooks!
August 9th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
I agree with the comment about the song, I had to stop listening to it as it was so annoying after a while!
October 11th, 2008 at 1:39 pm
I only could stand 1 and a half episodes with that horrible singer/music before I stopped listening. Get rid of the music and I would listen to more of the book even though the reader/narrator didn’t sound that great. Compared to Basil Sands, Nathan Lowell, Richard S. Tuttle and Scott Sigler, who have books on Podibooks.com I have listened to, I would have to rate this book as poor.
December 1st, 2008 at 8:29 am
I’m really enjoying the story so far, I like the method of time travel and I like the characters and the conflict, however I need to agree with everyone else about the song, it’s too long in the intro. I don’t mind it during the scene changes but I’ve found myself fast forwarding till about 1:30 just to skip the song. (Which I like, BTW, but I tend to listen to two or three episodes in one sitting so hearing it that often is tedious.)
January 10th, 2009 at 8:24 am
Unfortunately the person reading this story lacks appropriate expression and seems to have a great deal of difficulty reading puntuation. Separate sentences or speaking characters are somtimes read as one line with no pause or change of expression. At other times, single sentences are read as though there is a full stop placed strangely in the middle. This so severely impairs the flow of the story, I won’t be listening to the end.
March 20th, 2009 at 10:53 pm
Hi Folks,
Thanks for the feedback. Noted especially comments about the music. Taken a different approach this time, hope you like it.
The feedback spurred us on to have another go. TSOT was my first outing as a writer, so the characters were rather flat and 2-d, as i’d concentrated too much on the story line. As for th poor guy who read it, this was his first outing too on a project so long, he was only uused to doing short peices of material.
So I hope you’ll forgive us our shortcomings and give it anoither try with the second book in the series, “The Sphere of Travel (TSOT2)”. This about to be published as I write this blog entry. So watch out for it. Again feedback most welcome.
All Best Wishes
…Steve Simons
July 8th, 2009 at 6:59 am
I am about 50% through the book at the time of writing.
I really like this book. I felt like others that the narration wasn’t all that great but the story is interesting and I quite like the song.
I can understand how the song might have been annoying to some…especially if you didn’t like it , but I liked it so much I actively sought out a way to purchase it.
I would have suggested that the episodes were too short and always found myself wanting a bit more.
Oh well that’s episodic content for you