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Mind-Surfer

Mark Leon

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Total reviews: 1 Average rating: 5.0 of 5

A journey through reality 5 out of 5 stars.
2 of 2 people found this review helpful.

I reccommend this book to anyone interested in Alchemy, consciousness, metaphysics, out of body experiences, lucid dreams, etc. I found this book in Half Price Books, and I couldn't put it down right from the beginning. Like another reviewer said, this book should be made into a movie, its pretty much asking for it. The book starts off slow, for about 4 pages, then things start to pick up, and your glued to pages right till the very end.

Editorial Review:

Coping with a dead-end job and a lackluster romance, computer programmer Lew Slack finds his world turned upside down when a mysterious stranger hands him a crystal, a woman he has never met claims to be his lover, and his cat disappears.

The Unified Field

Mark Leon

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Crystallized Thought 5 out of 5 stars.
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Considering the vast scope of this story and its attempt to describe nouons as particles of thought, the author did a brilliant job. The story fulfilled the aspirations of many writers of the science fiction genre-to extrapolate from what is known about a unified field theory and venture into the unknown and unknowable. What else could one expect?

The positing of a a grail made of nous, solid spirit, and nouograms, solid pictures of thought, demonstrates a template for using one's imagination. Using the term levity drive as an anti gravity device to sidestep Einstein's speed limit is also a step forward in breaking out of the serious mold most writers are burdened with. Resonators, the search for ultimate truth, contrasts of illusion versus reality, the broken symmetries upon which existence rests, stepping into the subatomic realms, the moon as an alien's spaceship-what a fantastic grab bag of ideas he threw into this one. The story accomplished what it set out to-freeing the reader from terrestrial space and allowing flight into nouspace or the noosphere, take your pick.

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Setting off for an adventure in the stars, the unusual Alan Fain and his hacker companion, Lew Slack, face history-changing circumstances involving the Holy Grail, Atlantis, and an alien goddess on a Texas ranch.

The Gaia War

Mark Leon

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better and more original than the 5th element 4 out of 5 stars.
1 of 1 people found this review helpful.

As I suggest in the title: the theme is comparable to the film "the fifth element": a beautiful woman is synthesized out of energy and some organics and she is there to save the world. But the book is writen very humoristic, and the writer has excellent creative ideas about how the world (and the rest) is built. The next book: Mind surfing, should be the next book to read. The book is writen in a way that a movie must be made from it, and in my mind i've already seen it. Beautiful!

Disappointing 1 out of 5 stars.
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After reading a review of this book I bought it in the expectation it would be a similar mixture to the fifth element. Instead its full of mystic mumbo jumbo that's not even interesting to read. The style of the writing is very simplestic, with heavy references to early books by the same author. Other readers seeking well written books on similar topics will be better off reading Greg Egan.

Editorial Review:

Stunned when his friend, Alan, creates a beautiful and charismatic superwoman who embodies goddess powers and a disdain for human life, computer hacker Lew Slack must save the earth from Gaia's destructive plans.