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Veronica Phoenix: Phoenix Series Book 1 Kindle Edition

by Jim Proctor (Author), Cynthia Shepp (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition

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Carl Wilkins, a successful man with a thriving business, loses everything and has to start over from scratch. His dogged determination quickly deteriorates when he finds that even his reputation is gone. With barely enough money to buy a cheap bottle of booze, and no prospects for employment, things look bleak until he receives an unusual job offer from a stranger who turns up just as Carl hits rock bottom. The perilous space salvage job is more than just a chance to rebuild his broken life. It is also a chance to strike back at SACOM, the people who ruined him. Carl, the best space salvage operator in the star system, bets his life that he can complete the job. Setting out in the Phoenix, a specially modified space freighter, Carl begins a dangerous mission to find and collect missing cargo pods from the dense asteroid belt. Struggling to remain alive in the belt while avoiding detection by SACOM ships, Carl learns that he may have as much to fear from the people who hired him as he does from SACOM. His chance to rebuild his life turns into a desperate race across the galaxy in hopes of finding a safe haven where no one will ever find him.

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27 February 2015
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Language ‏ : ‎ English
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 290 pages

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Jim Proctor has worked as a research engineer and scientist for more than 42 years. An avid reader of science-fiction and fantasy since high school, he began writing his first novel around 2009. He also enjoys writing short stories, and loves a good plot twist.

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Great read.

Reviewed in Australia on 6 March 2015

Great book! I'm not going to spoil this one because I could say too much here. But this goes way beyond what I first though. This one did indeed keep me up reading last night and I almost came down and fired up the computer to put this review on. A man with apparently everything going for him is conned. The cost is incredible and only his interaction with a program in the old freighter, Veronica Phoenix gives him a hope in hell. Great read with a real twist at the end.

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Brian Kitchen

Great Sci-Fi

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 10 January 2017

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I had read and thoroughly Jim Proctor’s Novella ‘Made in the Stars’ and on the strength of it, got ‘Veronica Phoenix’ the first book in the ‘Phoenix series to read. I was not disappointed and thoroughly enjoyed it. The storyline was very good, as was the main character, Carl Wilkins, a successful businessman who loses everything and has to start all over again from scratch. I won’t spoil the book for potential readers by giving the plot away, but will only say that I was engrossed in it. I can thoroughly recommend the book and am very much looking forward to reading the ‘Search for the Phoenix’, the second book in the series

Jeremiah

Satisfying Space Adventure

Reviewed in the United States on 8 October 2016

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Veronica Phoenix is a science fiction story with a healthy dose of some of my favorite ingredients: adventure, suspense, greed, and love.

The Protagonist, Carl, is easy to like and Proctor's development of this character was outstanding. That isn't to say he doesn't have some flaws, but don't we all?

World building in the book was simple, yet creative, and completely believable and easy to understand, and therefore very satisfying. Some sci-fi books have you lost in the minutiae and checking back to review what was what...did not experience that at all.

Space travel was fun. I particularly enjoyed the role of AI in the novel.

It's science fiction with realistic human interactions and dilemmas. Underlying is a life lesson that makes the ending very satisfying.

Nice work, Mr. Proctor!
5 Stars

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Kerry L. Reis

Corruption and Betrayal in Sci-Fi Space Tale

Reviewed in the United States on 31 August 2017

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After a SACOM fleet of spaceships fend off an ambush by Xetian spaceships out beyond the asteroid belt, Carl Wilkins’ salvage team is hired by a SACOM department to head out and recover valuable pods and materials from the damaged ships at the ambush site. However, he is unaware that he is heading off with false information and a shady contract, which winds up killing four of his team and sets him up under a false conviction that closes his business and leaves him bankrupt. So when Carl is hired under suspicious circumstances to fly a Phoenix spaceship to secretly recover valuable material still trapped on the damaged ships, he decides on a different course of action. This sci-fi galactic space tale of intrigue creatively focuses on character introspection and interaction, from corrupt machinations to empathetic emotions, in order to drive its engaging plot. The scientific conceptualizations are strong enough to maintain a realism to the action in space. However, some elements are lightly explained or over-coincidental to make them appear to be forced plot elements, but they are not the main force in a very engaging science fiction story of action, corruption, and redemption.

Rebecca Pavia

A good, easy read.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 29 June 2015

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Sci-fi isn't my first choice in books, so I started this one with an expectation that I wouldn't find it easy to read. However, I can now say that I might consider this genre more often.
This wasn't so technical that you had to have a degree in astrophysics to read it. The characters were easy to get to know, the world easy to understand, and the plot easy to get in to.
I struggled a bit through the first chapter as the pace was quite fast and a little jumpy. However, after that I found myself hooked and keen to see what happened to the main character; a man I found myself sympathising with very quickly. The author made me invested in his life - and that's always a winner for me.
Overall, a nice, comfortable book to read and as I said, one that just might make sci-fi go a little higher up my reading list.

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Jon Messenger

Surprising complexity in an inanimate character

Reviewed in the United States on 14 March 2016

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Jim Proctor creates a unique and complex science fiction tale in Veronica Phoenix, one with all the complexity of a political drama mixed with strong elements of a murder mystery. The characters are intricate and well developed; this point is best proven through the titular character of Veronica, who is nothing more than an AI program. Yet, despite being a set of codes and predictable responses to inquiries, Proctor creates a brilliant tete a tete between her and the human protagonist. The book's third act takes an unexpected but enjoyable turn. When I heard he was writing its sequel, I wasn't sure where it would go considering the ending of book 1, but that just intrigues me all the further to pick up the next book.

Exceptional work and I look forward to book 2!

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