Chains of Loss: Hero's Chains, Book 1
Robert Sier
English
ASIN: B0092YZM94
ISBN: 1480036536
256 pages
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He spent yesterday collecting space debris to sell.
He woke up this morning crashed on an Earth that shouldn't exist.
He has no idea how he got there, what he's doing, or what the bloodthirsty orcs who are screaming for his death are saying.
He's a prophet's pawn, a potential savior, an average guy cyborg of a 35th-century stellar colony.
He's Derek, and he really wants to know what's going on.
Reviewer:
"Cyborgs versus Orcs.
That’s what I tell my wife that this book is about whenever she asks. Nanites, power suits, superhuman strength and intelligence versus hordes of raging orcs armed with crude weapons and dark magic. Okay, that’s not completely accurate. There’s only one cyborg, at least until the assimilating begins, and while there are plenty of orcs, most of the fights are against the same one. So, maybe “cyborg versus orc” would be more accurate.
Still, with a premise like that, there’s a lot of fodder for great stories, once you consider what else would be in a world that produces orcs and cyborgs: AIs and computers and starships, vampires and wizards and necromancy. And what happens when you combine them: orcs who can sense radio signals, flying humans created by technology? Robert Sier has managed to find a place for all of these things in his book, and the only question is with so much material, where do you begin."
-Donald Crankshaw, Black Gate Magazine, March 1, 2013
http://www.blackgate.com/2013/03/01/self-published-book-reviews-chains-of-loss-by-robert-sier/