Telonaut – Book 1 of the Televerse Series

matt tyson

ISBN: 9781535163972

2016

364 pages

Sero Novak’s current age is forty-six years. However, he was born one hundred and seventeen years ago. For the remaining sixty-nine years, he was just a code, a spider map, on a permaDrive, waiting for a body.

Currently, he occupies his eleventh human body.

Sero is the main auditor of Telonaut, whose responsibility is to evaluate the space colony of NineDee. As an auditor, he lives on a humid planet while assessing construction progress and meeting the residents and their aspirations.

Attitudes have changed substantially in recent centuries. In the 20th century, people hoped that their children would have a better life. People worked hard so that their children could have a better life. Everyone competed to have more than their neighbors. This philosophy just didn’t work with so many people losing out in a competitively structured society and after the final global financial crisis, the world fell apart.

Life had to change. People came to believe that in order to be successful; teamwork would be fundamental for the good of all and thus the Race was born. Cooperation rules now, instead of competition.

Through that cooperation, society builds wonderful new things, one of which is the idea of ​​being a colonist on an alien planet. The creation of a new civilization revives hope and dreams.

New planets bring new challenges. Human beings remain flawed even though people do their best for the good of all, at least most of the time. Finding a new environment and different life forms is exciting.

Through technological advances, Sero is connected to the rest of humanity through NeuroVision’s memory technology for all to witness his experiences, for human society to live the adventure with him, or so it seems.

Sero partners with a teenage girl who calls this colony home. Prid’s relatable character is inquisitive and diligent as he assists Sero with his explorations into colony life, and adds humor in strenuous and dangerous situations, a nice contrast to his personal journey of development through grief over loss and loss. resilience.

Being science fiction, the lessons about humanity, society, ethics, are evident, as well as the consequences of altering the natural balance of an environment. Throughout the adventure, the experience develops that every action has an equal and opposite reaction, even if it takes a bit of time.

Author Matt Tyson has written this dystopian adventure while working with a volunteer program in Africa with his family who now reside in South Africa. He earned a BA in Genetics and an MA in Bioinformatics from the University of Liverpool in England and the novel contains a lot of credible and detailed scientific background on how a future society might come together.

Telonaut possesses a winning combination of excellent character development, constant uncertainty about when the characters are safe, adventures and dangerous situations, along with the introduction of new life forms, forcing the reader to question options for survival. everyone in a futuristic environment. using scientific advances in a seemingly utopian situation.

With each page, the reader is with Sero looking at the new worlds of both NineDee and Future Earth. Join Sero’s journey, through the eyes of him as Telonaut’s main auditor.