The Great Symmetry, by James R Wells
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Exoarchaeologist Evan McElroy has made a discovery about a long-extinct alien race. But his sponsors realize they can make huge gains if the new findings are kept completely secret. Step one of their plan is to kill the entire research team - starting with Evan.
As Evan flees for his life, his trajectory awakens a long-buried struggle. The Infoterrorists, who believe all ideas are screaming to be free, have waited years for the right moment to take on the seven great families that control all of civilization. This could be their opportunity. Or it could be time for millions to die.
The Great Symmetry, by James R Wells- Amazon Sales Rank: #28254 in Audible
- Published on: 2015-10-29
- Format: Unabridged
- Original language: English
- Running time: 585 minutes
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful. A Science Fiction Thrill Ride with a great cast of Complex Characters with Rich and Clever World-building. A great read! By Chanticleer Book Reviews At the dawn of the 24th Century, seven corporations or “families” known as the Sisters dictate every aspect of human life. The Spoon Feed spits out the latest curated news while Marcom, a marketing communications group, composes “The True Story,” their version of reality for public consumption. Tight control of information is necessary for total corporate domination of all planetary enterprises and the Sisters are willing to go to extreme measures to maintain their stranglehold on humanity.Driven by a thirst for new information, exoarcheologist Evan McElroy makes a discovery that takes him outside of the perceived safety of the True Story and hurls him into the nearest glome, a wormhole-like space portal, where he runs for his life.His discovery, an ancient artifact from the extinct Versari race, contains data with the potential to dismantle the control of the Sisters and destroy the carefully crafted society they’ve created. A discovery worth killing for.From the first sentence to the last, “The Great Symmetry” is a science fiction thrill ride. Opening with Evan in the crosshairs and missiles of Affirmatix (a family of companies within the Sisters), he is forced to take a leap of planetary faith. Evan sends out a final coded message then, with the artifact safely tucked into his EVA suit, he steps out of his runabout craft and propels himself into deep space to escape obliteration by the Affirmatix.With a dwindling oxygen supply his only hope is that expert pilot and longtime friend Mira Adastra will decode his message before death or Affirmatix takes him. But Affirmatix is already targeting all of Evan’s known associates and Mira has had her own run-ins with the Sisters. It’s only through the unlikely help of Evan’s ex-partner, Kate DelMonaco, that any of the three have a chance to make it out of Evan’s giant leap alive.In this stunning debut novel, James R. Wells has assembled a great cast of interesting and complex characters embedded in a well-planned dual narrative. Pitting the infoterrorists – seekers of reality and truth – against the corporate, profit-before-people decision makers of Affirmatix creates a dynamic “good versus evil” scenario that allows for a deeper understanding of the motivations that drive each side. The shifting narrative also enables the reader to travel between unique environments that reveal rich and clever world-building components.With its Kafka-esque view of an escalating, dominant corporate presence, James R. Wells’ “The Great Symmetry” echoes the timeless social messages of truth, freedom and sacrifice embraced by science fiction greats like Ray Bradbury, Robert Heinlein, and the author's own great grandfather H. G. Wells. Its powerful premise gives voice to the perils and challenges of our current society and reminds the reader that even the smallest person can change the world. A great read!
15 of 16 people found the following review helpful. like freedom from tyranny and freedom of information By Bard Bloom In a galaxy held together by scattered one-way jump points ("glomes"), andruled by seven tyrannical corporations, an archaeologist finds a map of allthe glomes in the galaxy left by a million-years-gone species. This is a bitdestabilizing.The book came out a bit preachy. Preachy in stuff I generally agree with,like freedom from tyranny and freedom of information. But J.R. Wells < H.G.Wells when it comes to making the preachy palatable.The drama works nicely, escalating from a rather amazing one-person escape toa solid scene where one world will either be destroyed or saved. Thesecondary villains are sensible, believable people with good motivations. (Theprimary ones are a bit one-dimensional.)The social details get pretty nice. E.g., the corporations initially got49-year rights to use a space thing. But they extended it by tricks: e.g.,if you sign up for a consumer discount card at a grocery store the corporationowns, you also give them another 49-year right to the space thing (for yourpurposes). Clever and plausible.One character swears by Klono. Wells knows his SF history!Good storytelling, adequate characters, some plot contrivances. Three glomesout of five — this book is better than about half the books I finish.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful. This one goes in my top 5 of new Science Fiction with debut authors. By J.L. D. The Great Symmetry by James R. WellsI picked this one up from the author's post on Kboards. I checked it out and ran through the sample offered and decided I wanted to read it. I'm glad I did because it’s a good story in more ways than I had expected.It starts with Exoarcheologist Evan McElroy, who has made revelatory discoveries about an ancient race, the Versari, a long-departed alien race; and he is expecting this will round out his academic credentials. But Evan's sponsor, the Affirmatix family of companies, see everything as risk and opportunity and that vision will call for the death of everyone on Evan's team. While out in space checking out his theory about a new glome (most glome exit points are unknown until they send probes through and even then if they are too far our in space it might be a while to confirm); Evan is certain that he know the exit point of this new glome based on knowledge from an artifact. While finding the glome he also finds himself under attack from the family and he must make a rapid series of decisions. His decisions leave him in a known area of space waiting to float endlessly and uselessly in orbit until he dies.This alone was a draw into the story as we see the oxygen level running out and the story of what it is he has discovered is slowly revealed.But then we switch below to the Kelter the world which Evan calls home and the place he has sent an enigmatic message for an old friend Mira Adastra, who owes him. He also left behind an ex-girlfriend Kate DelMonaco. And these three Mira, Kate, and Evan would seem to be the primary characters in the story. But there are more.In this universe information is of high value and the seven great families have kept it under lock and key for decades. One place on Kelter, the Untrusted Zone, Infoterrorist, who believe information should be shared, have been held at bay by an uneasy truce. Now Arn Lobeck has brought the force of the Affirmatix Family into Kelter space in pursuit of Evan to suppress the knowledge Evan has. With him he has brought a mix of Contract Professionals of which Sonia and Ravi are two who are meant to advise him.This novel is a complex thriller with the threat of a world destroying battle formation known as D6 and while this thread takes a back seat most of the way through as a reader I found that this thread contained the story of the two most important characters.James R. Wells creates some complex and real characters in this story. And the struggle that Sonia and Ravi go through and how it leads to their heroic and yet less than heroic actions will determine the outcome of the most threatening feature of Arn Lobeck's plan. And intermixed within all of this is the political landscape that surrounds the more powerful members of the great families.This one goes in my top 5 of new Science Fiction with debut authors.I think this is a Great SFF and should even satisfy some of those Simon Pure Science Fiction readers. There are some aspects of the ancient race that might look mystical but for the most part the science within the story stays fairly sound. Definite recommended reading and it will be interesting to see how Mr. Wells follows this one with book 2. J.L. Dobias
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