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BOOK REVIEW: ASCENDANCE by Sadhna Shanker

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A glittering masterpiece & a must read for various reasons. BOOK: ASCENDANCE AUTHOR: SADHNA SHANKER Publisher: Rupa Publications India Publication date : 20 Apr 2018 Language: English Book length: 327 BUY:  AMAZON IN Blurb: The location is a planet in outer space inhabited by antagonistic species.  The night Seeni died, the fault line reappeared. The existing equilibrium between men and women, the antagonistic species that inhabit Elone began to crumble. If a clash happens, how long would it last? What would remain? Who? How many? Were they heading for a time like the last days on Earth?  As each side regroups along the Fence, Maya, a woman’s consciousness from twenty-third century Earth, reveals the past intertwined existence of men and women. Would knowledge of their shared past change the course for the future?  Delving into ideas of divergence, immortality and consequent new social constructs, Ascendance is set in a world that represents a possible and not a dys

BOOK REVIEW : THE LAST ATTRACTOR OF CHAOS by Abhinav Singh

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An astonishing scientific saga with a disguise of an edgy spy thriller    BOOK: THE LAST ATTRACTOR OF CHAOS AUTHOR: ABHINAV SINGH Publisher: NOTIONPRESS Language: English Book length: 332 BLURB: Trying to protect his pregnant wife, scientist Ashwin Rathore gets killed - unexpectedly and unwantedly. A deadly force lurks in the murk that wants her too, but why? Is it because she works for and with the military and Intelligence teams in the country, or is it because she knows something that no one else does? REVIEW: So basically the book is a spy thriller with a touch of some scientific theories. We can divide the whole novel into two parts, one is the spy story, the body of the novel and other one is the afterlife phenomenon and scientific theories, the soul of it.  In one word, the later part was just mind-blowing and amazing. The story deals up with some interesting physics theories as particle physics, quantum enigma, theory of chaos or Entropy and off course the but

Book Review : THE COIN by Sandeep Sharma

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"A mix bag of thrill,crime,mystery,brutality and sci-fi, which will entertain you surely." Book: THE COIN Author: Sandeep Sharma Publisher: Redgrab Books & Anybook Publication date : 25 Apr 2018 Language: English Book length: 164 Blurb:  “Who likes Sudden death?” That's the only question he used to ask before killing his prey. Random people are being abducted from the capital city, Delhi and are being killed mercilessly. Before killing, the murderer is reciting them a story, a story about a 9 year old child who saw the brutal side of the world at a very young age. All the stories are being recorded for the Police department to see. Raunak Upadhyay, the Police inspector who is handling the case, links the style of serial killing to the case he solved years ago. But the murderer of that case is in jail then who is following the footsteps? Does the murderer want to convey something? Whose story is being recited? Why the murderer is taking personal in