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Quantum Tangle (Targon Tales - Sethran Book 1) Kindle Edition

by Chris Reher (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Dropping out of sub-space into the wrong galactic sector, Sethran Kada wakes up with a headache and an extraordinary alien aboard his ship. She implores him to help stop the abductions of her people, a newly evolved species emerging from sub-space. Their dangerous potential has caught the attention of rebel factions as well as the ruling Commonwealth. When contact with her kind turns pilots into casualties, the Governors fear an imminent invasion engineered by their rebel enemies.

Pursued by Air Command, Seth heads deep into rebel-controlled territory to recover the stolen entities and keep this deadly weapon from falling into the wrong hands. Things get personal when his alien visitor begins to transform his mind and his life, turning the rescue mission into a fight for survival for all of them.

Quantum Tangle is part of Chris Reher’s Targon Tales series but does not intersect the other stories. Sethran Kada previously appeared in The Catalyst and also in Rebel Alliances.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00IPZSWWU
Publisher ‏ : ‎ (February 12, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ February 12, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 784 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 235 pages

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Books by Chris Reher

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The Targon Tales - Nova:

Sky Hunter

The Catalyst

Only Human

Rebel Alliance

Delphi Promised

The Targon Tales - Sethran:

Quantum Tangle

Terminus Shift

Entropy's End

Sci-fi Fantasy:

Flight to Exile

Space Opera is people. There it is.

Space opera has fabulous space ships, fantastic planets, laser weapons and epic battles. We’ve discarded the idea that future astronauts wear spandex suits and silver lipstick, and now our heroes get to wear real clothes. They have adventures and super technology and they meet aliens and save the galaxy again and again.

But when I look at the science fiction stories that have appealed to me the most, I see that they focus on the characters. Their plights, faults, idiosyncrasies are what give life to the backdrop of planets and space ships. I suppose you could place Han, Leia, Luke and Anakin in a contemporary setting right here on planet Earth and the dynamics would still work. It’s still a fun story without the lightsabers. But not the other way around. Without the characters’ story, a big chunk of Star Wars would lack considerable luster.

So that is the route I’ve taken with my stories. The absolute freedom of escaping Earth’s gravity and inventing things (always keeping within the realm of probability, of course) is why I love science fiction. I can make it rain mercury if I want to. I think I do, actually, somewhere.

But it’s the people in these stories—not too alien, not too perfect, not always happy with their lot or each other—who give meaning to the mercury rain and the space elevators. The people, for the most part likable people, are what turns science fiction into space opera. (Well, and space guns. Must have space guns.)

For my space operas, I’ve taken the problems of our human condition to see what we’d do with them in outer space. Most fascinating to me are the grey areas between good and evil and how we assign those qualities.

The Targon Tales is an action-packed space opera collection of related but self-contained books revolving around a hundred-year-old conflict between a colonizing Commonwealth of allied planets and those who rebel against it. In struggles like these, can there really be a “good guy” and a “bad guy”? The main characters, having chosen sides, must find ways to hang on to their ideals while working within a system that doesn’t always play by its own rules.

At times violent, sometimes light-hearted, the collection takes us to the many worlds of Trans-Targon to meet species who seem oddly similar as their shared DNA offers an ongoing mystery. But the similarities that bring them together are also at the root of the trouble between them all.

Please visit my web site at www.chrisreher.com for info about my books and some of the (non-fiction) science behind some of the concepts used in the stories.

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D. A. Frank

Excellent! Quintessential Sci-Fi!

Reviewed in the United States on March 18, 2023

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Wonderful writing, great and well-developed characters in a marvelous sci-fi world kept me engrossed, delighted and satisfied throughout this scintillating read. Very innovative and creative science fiction!

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Sacha V

Interesting topic and a great read

Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2016

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This is the first part of a trilogy that I picked up for free on Amazon and I'll definitely be picking up the second book.

Our MC Seth has jumped through sub-space and awakes in the wrong location. Most scientists believe sub-space to be devoid of anything, but Seth soon realizes he picked up a sort of hitch hiker and it's in his brain.

This entity takes the shape of a female that's appealing to Seth and tells him that there are others of her kind that have been picked up and she needs to find the one entity that binds them all, without it they will cease to be so Seth, being a good guy decides to help.

Along the way, Khoe, the entity in his head accidentally causes Seth to kill a military officer marking him as a wanted man, an act for which Khoe is really upset about. Another entity has taken over a pirate and it's exactly the opposite of Khoe and is bent on bringing all of its kind to real space and will kill anyone who gets in the way. Seth enlists the aid of a much smarter race who are also telepaths, to discuss Khoe and how he might employ his skill set to help track down the prime entity that Khoe seeks.

Although there are quite a few characters introduced it's handled in such a way that isn't overloading and delivers only what needs to be to tell the story while developing the main characters. It's well done and leaves you wanting to go on more adventures with them.

I have a couple of issues though. First, the dialog, while well written, sometimes uses no contractions where they should be which isn't how people talk. In those instances it comes across as stiff. The other issue I have (and I fully admit this is probably petty to many) is the fact that this is a science fiction book, emphasis on science and there is a place in the book while Seth is talking to these telepaths and Khoe shoes herself to them. In her natural state she exists merely as particles and they ask her if , before occupying Seth's brain, she understood anything about race or gender to which she replies no. There are a number of different race of beings in this story so this is a valid question. She chose to present herself as a female, which is a sex. Sex and gender are not interchangeable words and they mean two entirely different things. One is scientific and one is not.

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Welcome back, Seth!

Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2014

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Sethran Kada makes his first appearance in Chris Reher's feature- and creature-rich world in 'The Catalyst', as well as another appearance in 'Rebel Alliances'. And in both of these instances, he played the badass that he rightfully is, and he certainly doesn't disappoint in Quantum Tangle either.

But things are different this time. He's tasked to assist a being that has managed to connect with him in remarkable ways, and during a simple mission of data retrieval in relation to this being, unfortunate events occur that puts Seth firmly on the wrong side of Air Command. What's a badass to do? Fight his way through impossible situations to his goal, of course.

In the previous books, we only see Seth through Nova's eyes as an untrustworthy ex who's most likely a dirty rebel because he deals with rebels. And even though I felt that wasn't the case, I am pleased that this book has confirmed things. I would have liked a tad more depth into Seth's characters as to why he does what he does, how he came to be this way, but Chris Reher's motto is "Action, action, ACTION!" and, per usual, the book is brimming with it! Chases, gun fights, and extraordinary and powerful abilities exhibited with the help of the new entity.

Seth loses trusted alliances, but also regains it in others he wouldn't have thought possible. And then there's the new being that has manifested as a female. And Seth's feelings towards her is very complicated. It was enjoyable to read his interactions with this new entity and to learn more about the remarkable connection they shared. The ending was definitely a surprise. And while a part of me feels it ended on a satisfying note, another part wonders: what would have happened if things had gone otherwise?

Give Quantum Tangle (and all of the other Targon books by Chris Reher) a go. It's definitely entertainment at its finest! :D

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Samantha

It hooked me in to the story in the first chapter

Reviewed in the United States on January 23, 2021

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It took me a few months to finish this book, but that’s not against the story itself. I just have no energy lately to really do anything.

On with the review, I’m usually not that into sci-fi, I can’t get invested in the story really. It’s mostly over explained to build up the worlds and the terms, so the story ends up suffering when it needs to just focus on the story and explain when it’s warranted. Which is what this author did.

It hooked me in to the story in the first chapter, which sci-fi stories rarely do for me. This was a pretty good read that had a lot of action, mystery and even a little bit of romance. Now, I will admit, the blurb threw me a little because it does sound like it should be classified as a romance, but the story has only little tidbits of it, kind of…giving the story a little boost instead of holding it up all together.

Now, a thing that I didn’t like was that the villain of the story hardly got any screen time, I tended to forget about him and that part of the plot more often than not. Enough so, that when it got to the confrontation of the main character and the villain…I didn’t even really know it was the villain Sethran was going up against. It was anti-climatic.

That’s the reason for the 4 stars instead of 5. I think the story could have been better had there either been no set villain or had spent more time on that set villain. I feel like, even if it hadn’t taken me a few months to get through the story, I would feel the same because the villain has no…power behind him. There’s no sense of urgency with him while there is with other things.

All-in-all, I would recommend this to fellow readers, especially those who are like me and aren’t that big into sci-fi.

Thank you for reading my review.

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Taigur

Quantum Tangle

Reviewed in Canada on February 5, 2021

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A good read with a flowing story line. I enjoyed it thoroughly. Too bad the review must be 20 words

Hoener, Birgit

Great start to a good sci-fi series

Reviewed in Germany on July 24, 2019

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Sethran, preferring to call himself a "privateer" instead of rebel, pirate or any of the other not so nice names, inadvertently seems to have attracted a new species; unfortunately, this ...entity... has taken residence in his head. When they find out that others of the new spaces are abducted and are to be used for evil purposes, they decide to come to the rescue.
This book had everything a good book needs: very good storytelling, a good plot, lovable and hateable characters, and lots of humour, and tension, with enough plot twists to keept me glued to the pages. There were very few spelling errors, which is always a bonus for me.
I think I found a new author and series to follow!

Kumar

This is next level sci-fi stuff... Must read...

Reviewed in India on July 2, 2017

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I read a hell lot of sci-fi but this is beyond my imagination's imagination. I know what hyperspace is, but life forms, that too intelligent life forms can even exist there, its really very very interesting. If I remember right, there were few tv series which might have shown something close to this but definitely not this. This is next level stuff. Oh I am glad to have found this book and read this. The author is a piece of work, I mean it. He had to research and verify with our current limited knowledge & understanding of physics and then frame the entire thing. Hats off.

Thank you very much.

PerfWise

Adventure, well-considered

Reviewed in Australia on November 26, 2017

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Count yourself lucky to get into the very real people, near-people and aliens in this very nicely composed set of thrills, twists and turns. I have just finished this book and the next and purchased the 3rd; no doubt I will read everything this author offers. Fully funtional futures are hard to find; I'm really enjoying this one.

Timberman

Great story, good characters

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 30, 2015

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Great story, good characters, and in my opinion well written.
I really enjoyed reading this book, so much so that I immediately bought the next book in the series, read that in two sessions and then bought the next book and read that in one session.
They do say that time flies when you are having fun..

I have only read the Sethran Kada books, I am a bit worried about getting equally hooked by the other episodes of the Targon Tales.