Sci-fi has not been my thing of late. I have read some of it, and found it to be wanting. This though is different and imaginative in many different ways, including the fact this penned by a husband and wife team, not too shabby. Wait, it is Sunday, the end of the work week for me. I get no time off as usual, and I have my posting schedule set for the coming week, so I suggest you check out my Goodreads homepage; it has the novels, graphic novels, self-published novels and digital shorts I will posting on for the week. If you are not my friend there, or on Twitter or Shelfari, please become my friend, I am a very lonely guy. Also The G-Zone has a great line-up again this week and Saturday we are doing another Improvised Digital Short Story. This month’s theme is Girls vs. Guys. It is going to be fun. Also I was lucky enough to guest post on Vincent Zandri’s Vox; check it out, here is the link: http://vincentzandri.blogspot.com/2011/04/g-zones-giovanni-gelati-u...

 Back to the self-published novel at hand, what is between the covers?

“When you fall asleep on the subway you can wake up to some out of this world experiences.

When we get to the surface it is not dark so now we are totally confused. We couldn't have slept all night and most of the day on that train. The crowds during the morning rush would definitely have woken us up. While we are looking around for Tim to recognize where we may be we hear what sounds like someone screaming for help. It sounds like it is coming from a couple of blocks over so we head in that direction. By the way there are cars all over the place but no people on the street. This is starting to get kind of spooky. When we turn the corner we see three young men running. They are being followed by a young lady who is apparently the one yelling for help because following her are four other young men who look like fugitives from a punk rock concert. I don't stop to analyze the situation because the punks are gaining steadily on the young lady who is yelling at the guys running in front of her.

When Jon and Tim boarded the subway to visit Tim's family they had no idea what kind of life changing adventure they were going on. They will need all the training that they have had as Navy SEALS to survive in a world that is familiar yet totally different.”

Interesting plotline, good characters, and a deep sense of family values made this a good read for me. Some people like to point out different things about self- published work like this, mostly negative but that is not my gig. I would prefer instead to highlight the best parts of this heartfelt and honest work. The characters have a very nice deep sense of not just themselves but their values. For me, too often authors go a different route and make this type of stuff way too dark, foreboding and just downright unpleasant. Instead the Vought’s take the high road and present to us an alternate, alternate world, one where the characters are not in Kansas anymore and need to make the best of it. The positive mental attitude displayed is one that I enjoyed and has caused me to look forward to the next installment in the series. I want to read how far these poor people thrust into a new time and alternate reality can go and do. Makes one not want to fall asleep on any kind of vacation break. I personally don’t want to wake up on 2^nd Earth, this first one is fine for me.

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