#BookReview: Cyber Viking Omnibus by Marcus Sloss
I stumbled upon this book when Amazon recommended it to me, but I was glad that I did. I wasn’t sure what to expect when I found the Cyber Viking Omnibus, but these four books were a lot of fun. I liked how the author, Marcus Sloss, used the portals, it was in a way that I’d never seen before. Shockingly, I also found that I enjoyed the post-apocalyptic cyberpunk genre. I’ve never dove into this space, but once I did, I was left wanting more.
Speaking of genres, this series was also a novel in the harem lit space, meaning that there were alternative relationship dynamics. This love story had one man and his many wives, and it was a bit steamy, but outside of that it was still a captivating men’s adventure story. We open this series to aliens arriving to destroy our human space tech, anything AI adjacent, and our satellites. This initial strike caused local militaries to make futile counterstrikes. The response of the alien mothership in orbit was to decimate the first-world nations, and then they unleashed the gates.
So, what was the Cyber Viking universe about? This world was a bit darker than my usual preference, with the main character existing in a world devastated by an alien invasion. However, even with that bit of a depressing setting, the series was a lot of fun to experience. It had everything in this: hot girls, a fun harem dynamic, and all of the alien combat that you could ask for. So, join me on this crazy adventure and dive into the deep end of crazy!
The Story
At its core, this is a story about survival in the face of overwhelming odds. It’s the story of one man building a castle from where he can defend his people. It’s the story of a man preparing the base from which he can sally forth to war and pillage for the goods and slaves he’ll need to build a prosperous future for the folks of FOB Mansion.
This is the story of Eric Yang, a combat veteran of the Saudi-Arabian War, who struggled to reintegrate back into society once he’s discharged. While his service freed him from the mistakes of his past, he was left with the literal and figurative scars of the sacrifices he made for God and country. He’s motivated and dedicated, refusing to let his disability define him, though it wasn’t without setbacks.
While not all of his scars from the war are visible, Eric was given a cybernetic arm to replace the one that he lost after a bad injection from prison doctors. There are a few scars that mar his face, giving him an intimidating vibe, and gray hair that he shouldn’t have at 30. And that cybernetic hand? Even scientists in 2032 considered that tech to be futuristic.
During an isolated semester at Denver University, his academic course of study is disrupted when he receives a cryptic and dire warning from his friend using a top-secret source. He’s told that the asteroid barreling toward Earth is, in fact, an alien spacecraft with hostile intent. He’s forced to scramble and form a plan on the fly so he can protect his hearth and home. He starts to consolidate his friends and resources into one location and forms his post-apocalyptic team to ride out the end of times in advance of the alien’s arrival.
Now, let’s move past the premise and talk about the larger series. It was well written, and I was saddened when I read the ending epilogue in this Omnibus. I wanted to spend more time in this awesome world, so I pestered Marcus Sloss to return to the universe. I think I might’ve come on too strong; they mailed me a restraining order! But hey, that’s not a no, right?
Jokes aside, any book that has you this invested is plotted out to perfection. This concept (read plot) for a first contact scenario was unique. It was the same unique premise for how the use of portals in this universe. I’ve honestly not read something like it before and I’ve read hundreds of science fiction novels. Maybe even thousands of them? But these take on the concepts were new for me. My only regret was not thinking of it first.
In this paradigm, the aliens show up to quarantine humanity, claiming that we were ‘too violent.’ Nothing new there; it’s one of the standard first-contact science fiction tropes. However, this time, the alien’s solution showed them to be even more aggressive than the races they trapped. They created a brutal gladiatorial system, putting portals that randomly linked all of the quarantined worlds together. Then, the alien overlords watched these trapped races slaughter each other for survival. To make it more violent, these gate makers guaranteed that their enslaved races had their technology stripped from them by monitoring motherships in orbits.
Clearly, I think that these aliens are evil and hope to see them get their comeuppance in a follow-on series. Any being who can sit and watch that kind of chaos and carnage, the destruction that they cause, isn’t benevolent. More than half of the world’s population is killed in the opening gambit. The world got darker and more intriguing from there, but it kept me on my toes and reading.
Now, let’s discuss the pacing… it was extremely well executed! The story progressed in a logically coherent manner, with appropriate interspaced lulls in the action for spicy time, character development, and world-building. Sure, the sex was not as prominent here as it is in some of the other Marcus Sloss books I’ve enjoyed, but I was not left feeling cheated. These scenes picked up in later books, but they were still less frequent than his other books.
Like all of the best stories, this one wasn’t all action, and it wasn’t all sex. But if I broke it down, I’d say this was 40% world-building and base-building as they struggled to adapt to their new reality. Then another 40% of this book was action, as they fought the new aliens, or we got flashbacks of Eric’s wartime jaunt through Saudia Arabia. Finally, the remaining 20% was the sex and romance between the women in Eric’s harem. I felt like this was a perfect ratio, and it left me wanting more when the end credits rolled. What more can we ask from any novel?
Next, I figured we should talk about the prose of this series. This omnibus book was well-written and a lot of fun to dive into. The prose was clean, and the storytelling was top-notch. The author, Marcus Sloss, gave a master class on how to tell a story in a conversational authorial voice. He told a story that was expertly paced, with enough pauses in the right places for the naughty scenes and to balance the action-oriented aspects of this story. This novel was the overlap of expert wordsmithing and a compelling story with characters you’ll learn to love!
Moving on, let me reiterate that I really loved this series. I enjoyed this book enough that I bought even more of the books Marcus Sloss wrote! And yes, I bought those books in their e-book and audiobook forms. I hope he doesn’t spend it all in one place! I was surprised that I liked this; cyberpunk isn’t a genre that I normally enjoy. Well, I haven’t enjoyed it in the past, but if this is the genre, I’m in! Seriously, I might have to do a deep dive into this genre of storytelling!
Why did I enjoy this story? I loved seeing what an enhanced humanity might look like, though this was beyond the sciences as we earthlings understand them. I like stories that make me think, and in this one, you have to consider the true nature of humanity. It forced you to contemplate when we stop being homo sapiens sapiens and morph into something else. Not exactly what you’d expect from the harem genre, but there it is. Seriously, it was fun to consider what we might become as we fight for survival in a strange new reality.
They tell us that we shouldn’t judge a book by its cover. Hogwash! How else are we supposed to judge a book by how well it catches our eyeballs? So, the cover of this novel caught my peepers and sucked me in long enough to read the blurb. I liked the cyberpunk image on book one, and it made me search for and buy the Omnibus. That first cover let me know what to expect, which is the role of the cover art. I think you’ll love the image on the Omnibus, too; the picture is of what I took to be Nancy and a kick-ass weapon. It had all of the cool gizmos added to the image to set expectations, and I enjoyed that.
Okay, let’s dive deeper into this novel! I loved that this was a progression story where we watch ‘the community’ grow and thrive despite the insanity of the alien invasion. We watched the residents of Forward Operating Base, or FOB, Mansion adapt to this new portal system where death lurks around every corner, survival isn’t guaranteed, and the future looks bleak. We watched them build up their base and their military forces. It was a lot of fun to experience both of those since it reminded me of all of the town-building games that I’ve spent hours playing on my mobile phone. I will say that after reading this series, I felt motivated to up my prepping game. Alas, that’s an article for another post!
Next, we consider the portals themselves. This was one of the most unique parts of the universe where this story exists. In many of the novels I’ve read, the ports were simple gates between two worlds. Sometimes they were permanent, and sometimes they were called into existence. But in this world, the gates are linked to ever-changing planets filled with violent aliens. They’re cube constructs, with four doors opening at a time, creating chaos. The gates can be locked to one location for a short period of time, but only if you control it and can hold the button down.
These portal structures cause aliens to invade and fight, desperate for the resources to survive. This creates a very hostile, Viking-esque culture where people go to war so they can thrive through conquest. Sometimes, rarely, these aliens come to trade goods and resources. But this unpredictability means that the characters have to endure a Russian roulette of death. They don’t know what aliens they’ll have to deal with as they struggle to survive.
After a week of these open portals to the various war hellscapes, the galactic prisoners get a few days in the marketplace. This was a cool way to introduce new technology and races, as well as show the larger galaxy. The story is very earth-focused, so the market times allow the reader to experience the larger world. The way the AI interfaces with the universe and runs the system was another aspect of the way portals were used here that I thoroughly enjoyed.
In conclusion, my thoughts on these portals, they were the hook that kept me reading. I loved how the author used these in this series! It was a new take on this concept, which kept the series feeling fresh. I loved that he created a system where the locals couldn’t easily counter them by boxing in that doorway to hell. Instead, they have to face these threats and try not to become enslaved to other stronger races.
Since I said that Eric was a combat veteran, let us dive in. His unit was intentionally left behind after America pulled out of its war in Saudia Arabia. To make it home and survive, he did dark deeds to stay alive. He built something of a reputation as a murdering monster, the true murder hobo of song and lore, and that becomes important as he leads his band of humanity into the new future. But Eric was more than that, he also cared deeply for the people entrusted to his care. He was a consummate leader of men (and women) and was loyal to the soldiers under his command. In return, he earned their undying loyalty as he kept them alive when their country abandoned them.
In addition to being a general badass from the start, Eric lost his hand and was gifted with a cybernetic replacement from the US Army. This gave him extra power and strength, which he used to his full advantage. We see these enhancements in a few of his other soldiers as well. Perci had her cybernetic eye, while Becky and Torrez had their enhanced legs. These assets were used to make them more combat-effective, above and beyond what a normal base human could do.
Through these enhancements, Marcus allowed us to dive deeply into the very nature of humanity. During the course of this story, we see humans with electronic and cybernetic replacements for lost limbs. These prothestetics interface directly with their brain and give them added strength and speed, limb-depending. At what point do these men and women become cyborgs? Where is the line where they cease to be humans? Even more deeply, what does it even mean to be human? Is it based purely on biology? You won’t get answers here, just the questions that force you to think. Then you get to factor in other things, specifically after the characters add in the virum to their bloodstream. At this point, the humans have a symbiotic alien living within them. Are they still human? Does the alien race living inside their blood, keeping them healthy and alive, negate their humanity? I know this is deeper than you normally expect in this genre, but the #haremlit continues to surprise me with the depth and complexity of the plot.
Oh, and I’d be remiss if I didn’t mention the reoccurring darkness and PTSD that haunt Eric. During this series, we watch as he struggles to deal with what he has to do to survive his Odyssey home after the government abandoned him. He doesn’t wallow in his painful past, instead pushing back the intrusive thoughts and memories of his wartime experience. However, he doesn’t pretend it never happened. I hate it when that happens in fiction; only a sociopath can do those things without remorse. Instead, Eric suffers the survivor’s guilt, the anguish over the dark deeds one does in war, and the consequences that modernity suffers when we go primal. And sure, he is maybe a tad psychotic… but in a way that keeps his people alive and thriving.
Those traumas are then compounded when Eric has to do darker things to keep his people alive during the alien invasion. We see him struggle to overcome these dark deeds he did for his community while struggling to retain his human decency. This was shown through his personal interactions with his unofficial daughter, Mary, and his best friend’s daughter and surrogate niece, Jasmine. Through his care of them and the women and children under his command, we see a man who was more than the vile things he did. Maybe it is my own combat experiences talking, but seeing the nuance here was something I needed, and it was a gratifying thing that maybe others wouldn’t pick up on.
Okay, now we can get random about parts of the world that I liked. This is the first world that I’ve seen where the main character gets a hand-up with his progression or base building from an outside source. Like I’ve said before, I’m a sucker for a town-builder game, so I loved that part of the Cyber Viking Series. In this case, we see Eric receive help from Perci’s mother. She started them down the road to success with as many supplies and weapons as they could acquire with the few days of warning that humanity had. But those plans were rushed, so we were able to watch them build the base together during those turbulent times. I loved that; it was fun as I imagined how I might do that in the same situation.
Now, let’s talk about the audiobook for this novel! This book was well put together and expertly done. The audiobook publisher, Royal Guard Publishing, this audiobook wasn’t up to their usual standards of excellence. Not sure how else to say this, but the audio production was subpar. This one is a bit harder to write nice things about. The narrators, Jack Douglas and Alexa Roosevelt, did an amazing job. Their accents and pacing were amazing. Some of the voices and accents made me chuckle and kept me engaged. However, there were a lot of audio issues in the postproduction. There were places where background noise came through or a random zipper sound. There were static and popping sounds and, finally, places where a line was randomly repeated. Oh, and a few places where they read the wrong word in a sentence; I counted a handful of those, and it could’ve been what was on the page in book one before secondary edits. Despite those issues, and they were frustrating, I kept listening because the story was engaging. If you’re an audio or die listener, then I suggest the Omnibus, so you get the most bang for your buck! I will say, in their defense, as the story progresses, I stopped noticing these issues. I don’t know if this is because the issues went away or if I just went ear blind to them.
Next, I wanted to go more in depth on the alien races. I loved the diversity and weirdness of the various alien races we experienced. Some of them were analogs of human animals, but others were just strange, and I was here for it. I expected some level of standardization, but the multitude of variations within a given species kept me on my toes. Those differences made these people, well-sentient beings, feel more real. I always hated it where alien races were monosyllabic, unifying idiosyncrasies. The creature was an X, so they all have Y traits and Z fears. This never rang true with me, and I love that the author didn’t do that here.
Speaking of those various alien species, we saw everything from giant flies to an army of deer men. We saw skeletal mounts, flying or floating slugs, and giant apes that would put Harambe to shame. And then we watched humanity eat the aliens for survival. I did wonder what said aliens might taste like and whether they would make good jerky. Seriously, do space cows make good steaks? Enquiring minds want to know!
Okay, now let’s talk about one major aspect of this series that really turned my stomach. It was the way they created the society at the end of this Omnibus. Every citizen was wearing an electric slave collar, marking them as property of their overlord. Those people traded their freedom for security, which strikes at the very core of what it means to be an American. I won’t go political on the topic; that’s not why we read this genre. However, I couldn’t see how the surviving Americans could happily trade their autonomy for safety, even in this new, desperate world. Especially as they bend the knee to a new monarchal overlord.
Even worse, these people acknowledge that Eric Yang has a tyrannical nature, but everyone is happy with it. Why? Because of the aliens, but when this starts happening towards the end of the book, the aliens are gone, and the next phase of the fight is hundreds of years away. While the decisive and commanding aspect of Eric’s personality helped him in combat, it is very maladaptive for daily civilian life.
Seriously, why would anybody voluntarily live under that sort of society? It goes against the basic human desire for freedom. I honestly don’t see how that is sustainable long term. Maybe in a follow-up series, we can see how this society does, indeed, break down. But the societal organization left me with a gross taste in my mouth. I definitely couldn’t envision living under that totalitarian rule; I am too much of a child of our American Founders.
In conclusion, the sex was written with just the right amount of spice, and the alien fights were a lot of fun. I really loved the various technological developments and alien races. There were too many aliens to count, and the author didn’t limit himself to earth animal analogs. There were some weird ones, but I don’t want to ruin the shock of your first exposure to them. Despite those strange aliens, the ones that I liked were the ones that tapped into Earth’s legend and lore. The giant great apes, the floating slugs, and the fairies were my favorites. For the strange ones, I loved the skeletal mounts that the salamander aliens rode. So, in a nutshell, this series was so good that it made me dive into the cyberpunk post-apocalyptic genre. Further, I went on to buy more of Marcus Sloss’ other books. My wallet hates me, but should be a few more hours of entertainment. What can I say? Buy these books and join me in my new addiction!
The Characters
The characters in this story were compelling and a lot of fun. Sure, some of these characters were a tad psycho, but in all of the best ways! And when it was in the worst ways, like with Captain Moostache, well… war is hell, and survival goes to the one most willing to fight until the bitter end. So, yeah, the PTSD-ridden main character was a bit of a sociopath, but in a fight, I want him on my side. Like with most harem-lit stories, the final product is better because of the group dynamic of the harem and the supporting cast. The story is told through the eyes of our main character, Eric Yang, but you never felt like you didn’t know who the supporting players were either. That takes skill, given the number of important players in this book. I’ll break down the individual characters, but overall, I loved all of the ensemble cast.
Captain Eric Yang, USA: He’s the main point of view character of this book. He’s a former soldier who fought his way home from the Saudia-Arabian War after his country, America, abandoned his unit to die when they pulled out of the conflict. Eric is a natural leader who is motivated to save those under his command, and I liked that about him. He’s tall, physically fit, and looks ruggedly handsome. Ladies love him and men want to be him, just what you want in a #HaremLit main character! When he was in Saudi Arabia, he earned the moniker of ‘Captain Moostache, the Pirate King’ because of the videos he made documenting his survival. His videos forced the government to acknowledge the soldiers from the penal unit that they abandoned. After the alien invasion, he forms a new society based on a merger of old and new, the Viking and modern military cultures blending them in a way that fits their new reality. Further, during the survival and rebuilding of their post-post-apocalypse society, he grows past the small unit leader he’d been. Instead, he evolves into a general leading armies and a political despot running nations.
Willow Hanks: She is the first member of Eric’s harem, a pink-haired, blue-eyed college girl who finds her man to be sexy. Eventually it returns to blonde, but I still pictured her with the funkadelic colored hair. She has the girl next door figure until the space magic gives her the best breasts that virum can create! She’s the daughter of a soldier who died in some previous American conflict and left her wanting to make a difference. She was desperately in love with Eric and motivated to make him happy. But more than that, she wants to do more than hide behind others. Instead, she wants to become a fighter, grabbing her future by the short and curlies and making it her biotch. When she realized that Eric had a relationship with Perci before her, she encouraged their throuple to keep everyone happy. In the end, she, too, falls for all of her harem sisters and starts something beautiful with her family. I really loved watching her evolve into the Amazonian warrior she became as the series evolved. She made a good mother and wife for Eric Yang, the main character. I loved her; she was my third favorite after Perci and Sammie.
Persephony ‘Perci’ Growlen: She’s a veteran of the Saudi Arabian conflict, where she served as a sergeant under the fake name of Persephony Morrison. She was a petite woman with minimal curves until corrective surgery gave her breasts to die for. During her time in the Army, she worked in S1, where she managed paperwork. She’s the daughter of Linda Growlen, the president and owner of G-Corp. Then, her mom becomes the American president, giving Perci the connections to help the team survive the post-apocalyptic invasion. The G-Corp she created is an analog of all of the big tech companies rolled into one oppressive conglomeration. She’s desperately in love with Eric and has moved literal mountains to make him happy, even if he was happy without her. In the end, she comes to an agreement with Willow, and they start a throuple that meets all of their needs. She’s the senior wife and shepherds all of his women and becomes a natural leader on the administrative side of geopolitics. Like all of the surviving earthlings, she grows a set of DDs when the virum gives her the ideal body and rejuvenates her health.
Staff Sergeant Nancy Lavaun, USA: She’s a veteran of the Saudi Arabian conflict, where she served as a staff sergeant and was one of Eric’s angels of death. She was a medic in his unit and used those skills to keep her people alive during the events of this series. She is a shameless flirt and starts to make a play for Eric but briefly ends up going in another direction. In the end, she comes back to Eric and joins the harem. I really liked her character, but I felt like she was underutilized. In the end, there were so many people in this series, and Nancy got lost in the sauce. She’s a loving woman who desperately wants kids, but reality has continually prevented the conception. She, too, suffers from survivor’s guilt and struggles to adapt to life after combat. But her knowledge of medicine and willingness to do the hard things made her invaluable to humanity’s survival after the gate builders came and decimated earth.
Jill: She is the widow of Jarod, the germaphobe. Her husband was trapped in Australia when the aliens arrived, and the couple was cut off from each other. She’s slightly older than Eric’s other women, but with the help of virum, she regains her youthful vigor. She’s the mom of Mary and one of Eric’s concubines. I really thought that she’d become one of the wives since they shared children, but that wasn’t in the cards. I liked her, but she didn’t get the screen time I felt she needed to become more fleshed out as a character.
Mary: She’s the three-year-old daughter of Jill and Jarod, who was unofficially adopted by Eric Yang during the events of the alien apocalypse. She’s a vibrant young girl whose character continually reminds us of Eric’s humanity. Well, their relationship is what shows the readers of his human decency. He was an affectionate and loving father to this child, not of his loins, and it was beautiful to watch.
Daphne: She’s an alien of the Crixxi species, which are described as analogs to cat girls. Basically, they’re humanoids with a very feline vibe to them, which was fun to engage with. She has bushy black fur on her hips, with green stripes. She has two sets of ears and an adorable, bushy, green-tipped tail. Her top ears are almost owl like, and the dual sets allow her to hear extremely well for near and far distances. Her extra ears were a fuzzy gray, and her hair was a deep brown. Her eyes had a yellow shine to them, standing out among her new human community. She is the leader of her tribe, and her race is matriarchal and highly war-like. They continually engage in tribal fighting, warring for control of everything in their home worlds. Her race also uses the virum to keep them healthy and breedable, reproducing more of the symbiotic creature that lives inside of the user on their internal zinc deposits. She also happens to briefly become one of Eric Yang’s mates, and I enjoyed interacting with this cat-girl species!
Everly: She’s an 18-year-old alien of the Crixxi species, which are described as analogs to cat girls. Basically, they’re humanoids with a very feline vibe to them, which was fun to engage with. She has bushy fur on her hips, with two sets of ears and an adorable bushy tail. Her top ears are almost owl like, and the dual sets allow her to hear extremely well for near and far distances. Her extra ears were fuzzy and matched her hair. Her eyes had a purple shine to them, standing out among her new human community. She is the leader of her tribe, and her race is matriarchal and highly war-like. They continually engage in tribal fighting, warring for control of everything in their home worlds. Her race also uses the virum to keep them healthy and breedable, reproducing more of the symbiotic creature that lives inside of the user on their internal zinc deposits. She also happens to become one of Eric Yang’s wives and I enjoyed interacting with this cat-girl species! I just wish we got more of a description of her coloring like we did with Daphne.
Sammie: She’s a mounamine woman, which means that she is an alien mouse girl. She works directly for Eric Yang and is in love with him. She was brought on to help with the raising of the young but ended up becoming Eric’s right-hand woman as they manage the community. She also interfaces with all of the others of her species. She was a naturally submissive woman who was said to have a gentle innocence about her. Like all of her kind, her racial characteristic was that she wore a bow tie, which interfaced with the G-pad system and allowed her to communicate with her contract holders. For all that, she was small in stature; she was very curvy and just Eric’s type.
Longoria: She’s a faerie woman, which in this world means that she’s an alien race that resembles the fairies of our earthly lore. She’s one of Eric’s women and was a lot of fun, though the capacity of her wings was never fully explored. Well, at least not during the spicy times. And even during the other times, we don’t see her flying nearly enough. We did get a description of her wings, which were an array of vibrant colors with smooth skin that seemed to glow from their glossy sheen. She’s just over 5 feet tall and delicately built. She comes to earth on a slave contract and is then freed by Eric as he builds his inter-species community.
The World
What’s not to love about the world-building in this novel? First, it was helped by being basically our modern reality with a few tweaks because it is set in the near future. With that said, the world-building was expertly handled by Marcus Sloss. He clearly knows how to tell a compelling story set in a world that feels real and lived in. Everything was extremely fleshed out, and I could picture the scenes he described. Maybe it helps that I’ve been there in desert hell in real life while I served in Iraq. That allowed the scenes of the main characters’ time in Saudia Arabia something I could visualize. That said, I think you’ll be able to see the action and setting in your mind, too.
The other setting for this novel was the area around Aspen, Colorado, so I could easily picture it with the aid of a quick Google search. That said, that wasn’t necessary to envision the setting… it just helped me take it to the next level. While there were a lot of details, the author didn’t info dump all of his world-building up front. Instead, he fed it to us in drips and drabs around the compelling combat scenes and the romance with Eric Yang and his women. Seriously, he was the perfect drug dealer of the literary crack I crave. He expertly strung me along and left me wanting more. I know that sounds toxic, but trust me, this story was anything but. It was an exciting thrill ride from start to finish.
Politics
This world has plenty of internal politics, though it isn’t the main point of the story. Since it is a near-future world, the geopolitical shenanigans don’t tie to our status quo. The story does touch on the issue of gun control. In this adventure, the parts of the world with strict gun control laws were decimated by the alien invaders. Only those bastions where guns were prevalent survived and thrived. In addition to that, there were minimal comments on the political chaos in African and Chinese politics. None of that was a big deal, but it was there.
Content Warning
This is a steamy book with several naughty scenes that will fog up your windows and give you heart palpitations. This is not family-friendly, so be warned before you buy this novel! Oh, and there is a fair share of curse words, so if an F-Bomb or ten bugs you… skip this novel!
Who is it for?
This is a harem book for people who like cyberpunk post-apocalyptic novels with cool technology and awesome aliens. Oh, and for readers who aren’t easily offended by smut, vulgar words, or violence. This is my first novel in the cyberpunk space, so I couldn’t really compare it to anything else.
Why buy it
Do you love conversational prose? Are you a fan of aliens? First contact novels? Cool portal fiction? Awesome technology? Do you like naughty harem books? Then buy this book!
Seriously, click the links and buy this book! I loved it, and so will you!