Cripple-Mode:Series by J.L.Dobias
Cripple-Mode:Hot Electric by Jerry Dobias is a Science Fiction Fantasy targeting the broader definition of Young Adult; from middle to high end. The completed manuscript is 250,000 words and bears some resemblence to the Juvinile Science Fiction novels of Robert Heinlein and has been described as bearing some resemblence to Frank Herbert's Dune.
Travis Lucia Hamilton-McQueen is a teen caught up in a strange circumstance. She has awakened from a coma to find everything out of control; her memories have been overwritten with another person's and she's battling to get her life back. It is no help that her Grandfather is a suspected mass murderer; her father is a convicted killer; and she is a clone who has apparently been bouncing illegally in and out of JumpSpace, which makes her a suspected terrorist. She suspects she is fitting into the family just fine. However there are more urgent issues because she's brought along a rider and eventually she'll discover she has three parasites sharing her body. Several agencies, including those responsible for engineering her existence, are interested in what she hosts. No one wants to share and everyone is willing to sacrifice the host if it comes down to that.
Travis will have to fight in order to live long enough to attempt to figure out who she is in a universe that will not allow time for someone to find herself.
Cripple-Mode:Hot Electric is the first novel of a trilogy followed by the second Cripple-Mode:Electric Touche and the third is presently under way with the Working title of Cripple-Mode:Spooky Action.
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Cripple-Mode:Electric Touche(Book2)
Travis Lucia Hamilton-McQueen is a teen trapped in circumstances over which she has no control. She's awakened from a coma to a life out of control and she's trying to focus towards getting it back. It's no help that her Grandfather is a suspected mass murderer, her father is a convicted killer and she's a clone suspected of being a terrorist because she's been illegally bouncing in and out of JumpSpace. The issue of control consumes her in the light of the revelation that she may be harboring not one but three parasitic entities inside her head. Someone expects her to do their dirty work and they won't take no for an answer.
Cripple-Mode:Electric Touche(Book2)
Travis Lucia Hamilton-McQueen is a teen trapped in circumstances over which she has no control. She's awakened from a coma to a life out of control and she's trying to focus towards getting it back. It's no help that her Grandfather is a suspected mass murderer, her father is a convicted killer and she's a clone suspected of being a terrorist because she's been illegally bouncing in and out of JumpSpace. The issue of control consumes her in the light of the revelation that she may be harboring not one but three parasitic entities inside her head. Someone expects her to do their dirty work and they won't take no for an answer.
Cripple-Mode:Hot Electric (Book 1)
Travis Lucia Hamilton-McQueen is a clone and a suspected terrorist. Neither of those by her choice. When she recovers from a coma, she finds she suffers from a fugue amnesia state that involves the construction of a whole other life's memories. Things become compounded when those memories prove to be those of her genetic father. Her grandfather is a fugitive, her father's a convicted felon and she's fitting nicely into the family; while inheriting thier problems. And there are the entities that live in JumpSpace who are pulling her in and out of JumpSpace like a puppet on a string. She's a survivor; living in deep space among enemies she doesn't know. She must uncover what skills she has to survive and learn who and what she really is and why she was created. She'd like a normal life, but that's not going to happen: besides there's no thrill in normal.
Cripple Mode: Hot Electric" is a futuristic and compelling sci-fi novel of space travel and cloning which will leave readers in awe of the writer's imagination combined with technical knowledge.."
The book itself, the story, is an epic one. Action-packed sci-fi with incredible characters and scenarios, imaginative futuristic technology, all gathered in a well-written package means that this is the kind of book you can read for a while but will always come back to in order to find out more. What happens next?
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