The Superlative Stream
He crossed the stars to follow a song … so where’s the Singer?
Sandfly is free of the rules and free of Earth, but now there’s a new mystery to solve.
With his female companion, HardCandy, and a secret ship named DarkTrench, he travels across time and space to find the source and meaning of the transmission that changed his life.
When they arrive in the Betelgeuse system, they discover something the former crew did not—a planet. On it lives a civilization of humanoids that are technologically advanced, peaceful, and mystifying. Is their meeting an occurrence the Scriptures predicted? HardCandy thinks so. Sandfly is not so sure.
But what he most wants to know is why is he seeing things no one else can. And where is the song that brought them here—or its singer? Where is the Superlative Stream?
Book 2 in The DarkTrench Saga series.
With a more fantastic setting and a simpler plot than the first book in The Dark Trench Saga, The Superlative Stream goes bravely where I’ve never seen an explicitly evangelical novel go before. Unlike A Star Curiously Singing, it could be classified as a space opera (among other subgenres), evoking some of the wonder-lust and sense of scale. The darker dystopian feel from the previous book is downplayed here but is present in flashbacks and perhaps reinforced by theme. As one of the stereotypical ex-Evangelical (or reluctantly Evangelical) millennials, I was wary of the recurring conversion theme. When the big… Read more »
It is always neat when someone “gets” what I was trying to do, no matter how imperfectly. (Your remarks are the kind of thing I’d like to see show up on Amazon, where this book gets beat up compared to the other two.) Thanks, bainespal!
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