THE AFTERLIFE OF ALICE WATKINS: BOOK ONE - Softcover

Scotney, Matilda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0648319105 ISBN 13: 9780648319108

Publisher: Off The Planet Books, 2018

Synopsis

Finalist in 2019 Readers' Favorites Book Awards - Time Travel.
★★★★★ "A revelatory work of fiction" K C Finn for Readers' Favorite
You don't always go to heaven when you die. Alice didn't. She ended up on a space station orbiting Saturn five hundred years into the future. And she'd never even read a science fiction novel! Saturn Station. The year 2513. A young woman sleeps, her life suspended; perfectly preserved in a mysterious sarcophagus. For four centuries, her very existence has baffled science.Then she woke up...and the real mystery began.Time’s attention must have been elsewhere the moment old, grey, unsophisticated Alice Watkins died in her armchair a few days before her birthday in November 2016.It still wasn’t minding what it was doing on Saturn Station in the year 2513. Dr Jim Grossmith, one of the most eminent scientists of the age has devoted his career to The Sleeping Beauty Phenomenon, guarding the beautiful, red-haired young woman who sleeps peacefully, in a mysterious sarcophagus, her life perfectly suspended, her body preserved in a strange fluid. The woman, cocooned in her protective shell has defied scientific analysis for almost four hundred years. History recorded little, only that she is Dr Alexis Langley, a noted scientist of her time.When the sarcophagus opens and vanishes without a trace, leaving the young woman in his care, Jim Grossmith eagerly awaits the day when she can tell him the manner of her preservation. A strange science, lost in the annals of the past? Alien technology?But as he learns her story, Jim Grossmith finds himself faced with an even deeper mystery. He is certain the physical form of Dr Alexis Langley emerged from the sarcophagus, but as for anything else...

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Review

 

★★★★★   "A bizarre journey of weird science that delighted and vexed on every page. Author Matilda Scotney weaves a fascinating tapestry of strange occurrences. The elements of space and time are well placed amongst the author's vivid descriptive techniques, bringing the Saturn Station to life in full glory. I also especially enjoyed the development of such quirky lead characters who aren't afraid to ask bold questions about the nature of time, life and death. The plot twists suddenly, keeping readers interested, and there's certainly plenty more to come from this revelatory work of fiction. 

Overall, I'd definitely recommend The Afterlife of Alice Watkins to weird science fiction fans everywhere". K.C. Finn for Readers Favourite.

Edition details

• Publisher: Off The Planet Books
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0648319105
• ISBN 13: 9780648319108
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 433