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Kaleidoscope: Josiah West Series, Book One Kindle Edition

by C. T. Christensen (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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It’s the 22nd century. Technology has allowed humanity to move out into the solar system in great numbers. Of course, humans being humans, the need for some form of law enforcement went with them. Prominent among the organizations charged with that duty is the United States Federation Navy.
The U.S.F.N. is composed of five divisions. The First Division is the largest and maintains order from Mars inward. Like all human endeavors, it has its share of accomplishments and failures. The primary subject of this story is one of the smallest cogs in the mechanism that is Division One and is well acquainted with both accomplishment and failure.
Josiah West comes from a Navy family, and he is the first in his family to graduate from the Navel Academy and become a commissioned officer. The handsome, 190 centimeter, blue-eyed Ensign has gone from the heights of being sixth in his class down to the level of a bilge rat as he does his time in the bowels of the huge First Division Fleet Support Ship Maxim Caldwell and avoids being noticed by the ship’s command structure.
Now, he is nearing the end of his five year commitment. He is still an Ensign, but his insignificant career has not been a personal waste; having access to the best equipment in the Navy with no upper level supervision was like, as he describes it, “being held hostage in a candy store.” He has worked hard, if unnoticed, but is tired, burned-out, and looking forward to returning to his family’s business.
Well…maybe not.

WATCH FOR JOSIAH WEST SERIES, BOOK TWO DUE OUT IN EARLY SUMMER 2015

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Josiah West Series
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September 14, 2014
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C. T. Christensen was born in Chicago, Illinois. Today he resides with his wife in a nearby western suburb. Following his time in the Air Force as a Weather Observer--including two years at Elmendorf AFB in Alaska where he experienced the great Alaskan earthquake--he spent a few years traveling. His trek included a couple of years in Australia where he worked as a slag skimmer and assayer for Mount Isa Mines, Queensland. A lover of hard science fiction since grade school, he particularly enjoys such authors as Peter F. Hamilton--who he credits with the ability to see colors the rest of us can only dream of--David Weber and Philip Jose Farmer. These days he spends most of his waking hours writing and the rest of his time thinking of new stories and developing plot lines. Kaleidoscope, his first full length novel, and his earlier short stories are currently available and you are invited to visit www.ourwriteplace.com for up-to-date news and release dates for his future flights of fancy.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00NL8Q3FY
Publisher ‏ : ‎ www.OurWritePlace.com (September 14, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 14, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 820 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 223 pages
Page numbers source ISBN ‏ : ‎ 1508637792

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C. T. Christensen was born in Chicago, Illinois. Today he resides with his wife in a nearby western suburb. Following his time in the Air Force as a Weather Observer--including two years at Elmendorf AFB in Alaska where he experienced the great Alaskan earthquake--he spent a few years traveling. His trek included a couple of years in Australia where he worked as a slag skimmer and assayer for Mount Isa Mines, Queensland.

A lover of hard science fiction since grade school, he particularly enjoys such authors as Peter F. Hamilton--who he credits with the ability to see colors the rest of us can only dream of--David Weber and Philip Jose Farmer.

These days he spends most of his waking hours writing and the rest of his time thinking of new stories and developing plot lines. Kaleidoscope, his first full length novel, and his earlier short stories are currently available and you are invited to visit www.ourwriteplace.com for up-to-date news and release dates for his future flights of fancy or check him out at Facebook.com or Goodreads.com.

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I just finished the book as a KU. I went back and bought it. Now I am going to go buy the sequel. I recommend you do the same/

Reviewed in the United States on March 12, 2016

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Like JEM said: flashbacks to the Sci-Fi of yore. I can't remember being thrown around so much emotionally since Heinlein or Spider Robinson who learned from him.
The pattern the writer followed is a classic one: Show a major event then show what leads up to it, then follow with the aftermath. I haven;t seen such a good example of it since John Campbell quit editing Astounding.
But I rave... I just finished the book as a KU. I went back and bought it. Now I am going to go buy the sequel. I recommend you do the same/

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Four Stars

Reviewed in the United States on December 7, 2015

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This was a fun and enjoyable read. I will be getting the second in this series very soon.

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A MUST READ SELECTION * * * * * FIVE STARS

Reviewed in the United States on May 11, 2018

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"Kaleidoscope" book 1 of the Josiah West Series is a great
book and what I hope to be a great new series.

A MUST READ SELECTION * * * * * FIVE STARS

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M. Urso

Promising, but left me flat

Reviewed in the United States on June 27, 2015

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Story starts out overly techy. Then gets in sync with the reader. All of a sudden shifts again and becomes hard to follow.

Reviewed in the United States on September 29, 2014

If you'd like an exciting military sci fi short, this fills the bill. Four stars only because the timeline of the events strained the possible. Will read the series.

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Ruth Casey May

Great Book!

Reviewed in the United States on October 25, 2017

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This book was fantastic! I don't normally read this type of SF, but this author grabbed me and sucked me in before I knew what hit me! Great read!

Reviewed in the United States on September 21, 2014

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I can't say how much I really enjoyed the story. Great characters, and a great storyline. The only thing I found wrong with it was that it was just too short.

Looking forward to the next book in the series, which I hope will be longer and soon.

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JEM

How much fun do you want from great read?

Reviewed in the United States on December 19, 2014

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A throwback to the sci-fi of yore. Thank you and please give use more and often. We are waiting for the next phase of Joseys heroics.