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The Synchronicity War Part 1 Kindle Edition

by Dietmar Wehr (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Book 1 of 4: The Synchronicity War

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This four part series is now available on Amazon both individually and as an omnibus edition, which is available in Kindle Unlimited. Be aware that Part 1 has a cliffhanger ending. After almost a century of peaceful exploration and colonization of space, the United Earth Space Force stumbles across a shockingly xenophobic alien race that has more and better armed ships and refuses all attempts at contact. As the outgunned Space Force is driven back in battle after battle in what appears to be a war of extermination, one officer experiences precognitive visions that help him blunt the enemy onslaught but he can't control or predict when they occur. With the Senior Brass convinced that he's a tactical genius, he's given more and more responsibility and is terrified by the belief that Humanity's Fate will be determined by a battle with himself in overall command. This is Volume 1 of a military SF series about desperate space battles and the men, women and Artificial Intelligences, who fight and die in them. Categories: Space Opera, military SF, space fleet, galactic empire, alien invasion, colonization, first contact, hard science, adventure

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About the Author

Dietmar Arthur Wehr is a 59 year old Financial Manager who is finally pursuing his dream of writing SF for a living. His website's motto is "Long Live Space Opera!" His interests include history, science, free energy, New Age spiritualism, steampunk cosplay among others.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00EZB3WJQ
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Dietmar Arthur Wehr; 4th edition (December 28, 2013)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 28, 2013
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1203 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 286 pages

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- #217 in Space Opera Science Fiction (Kindle Store)

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A USA Today bestselling author, Dietmar's professional background is finance and accounting. At 59, he began working to become a professional author and is now writing the kind of space opera and military SF that he has always loved to read. Sample novels and chapters are available through Kindle Unlimited in his megabook, Galactic Visions of Military SF & Space Opera Volume 1.

If you're looking for a technothriller, check out Dietmar's entries into that genre. The Hunt For Seawolf 4—which takes place in the late 1940s and '50s and involves atom bombs, orbiting satellites, and nuclear-powered submarines—is now available as an audiobook. Whiskey Kilo One Is Down is set in the near future when the U.S. and China risk nuclear war over a mysterious satellite that has been orbiting the Earth since the early 1950s. His technothriller series, The Battle for Mars, is now complete with three novels that can be read individually or in an omnibus edition. His latest book is The Star Pilot Blues. Links to all his books (including books available on other retailer sites) and audiobooks can be found on his website. (dwehrsfwriter dot com)

He's grateful to those who have posted favorable reviews of his work and encourages those of you who like his books, to click the Follow button. Long Live Space Opera!

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Steven

visions of success

Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2024

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This book is great! The story is very visual and militaristic, which I think is the writer’s intent. This reminds me of Starship Troopers. I want to meet the enemy and see what the human race is facing. I like the direction the author went with AI. Good story.

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Br1an0n3

Solid read. Recommend

Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2014

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I gave this book a well deserved 4 stars. I can only feel good about assigning 5 star ratings to books that have expanded me in some bigger way than did "The Synchronicity War, Part 1". 4 Stars are solid entertainment, good reads with a mix of interesting people, settings, situations and certainly creativity on part of the author. (5 star system is broken and needs a fix, but for now its what we got).

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I found the book to be engaging, and the character development to be pretty well done, and I continue to like the saga of the attacking aliens that we know just about nothing about until much later in the series. I have to say that the book started slow for me from a 'literature' perspective, meaning that this novel, like a lot of the self-published sci-fi books I've read, feel more-or-less like fleshed-out outlines of bigger works that were in the mind of the author. I think this book could have used another 100+ pages of detail and character development within the settings, the state of the future earth etc... At the end of the day, this book left me wanting more and not just in the sequels, but MORE in each of the books. I know that the extent of the content is ultimately an authors decision and it is sure a heck of a lot easier for me to say write another 100+ pages than it is to actually do it, but that is what I think brings a novel from 4 stars to 5 stars: The depth of the detail. (spoiler alert here:) For example, Victor Shilo's love interest. Good and bad things happen within this relationship. Hopes, expectations...dare I say love? And there is virtually no internal character development of Shilo's feelings on the matter. His hopes dreams and expectations etc...I don't want a romance novel, but love interests are a really good place to see what a character is made of. Very little depth here and from most of the other characters in different situations but similar regards. Keeping in mind that Mr. Wehr obviously knows his stuff, he writes quite good tech filled SciFi and descriptions of spacecraft and machine interfaces and sets up an interesting interaction with Artificial Intelligence. Lovely stuff there. I'm reading book 3 as I type, so I have committed and recommend you do the same.

Overall, I recommend this book. I do wish it was a bit more epic, but hey there's always Mr. Wehr's next series which I will definitely be buying. A good, solid 4 star read. Thanks Mr. Wehr.

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LT

Great story, fun to read, gets you hooked, ... until the end of part 3...

Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2014

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I don't like short stories very much. And too often just when I get absorbed in following a TV program it gets cancelled. So I stumbled across part two of this series, found part three available, and thought I was in for a great ride. I hope the author can get past the kind of advice creative writing teachers and successful authors give to new comers that kill too many good stories. Arthur Conan Doyle spoke of his desire to kill off Sherlocke Holmes many times during the production of his character's many adventures. The thing is, some may think it great art to build up a character and then cast it aside, but like a movie with a let down ending, it means that most won't care to watch that show or read that book again. So while I rate this 5 stars, book two goes through another great read, only to exterminate all of mankind by the end, but then throws in a great reprieve. The author talks about his admiration for David Weber and his Honor Harrington series, which I've read at least three times in its entirety and hope for more from David Weber there. Then Mr Wehr tells us he is going to cut off what to me is his best story line yet with the next installment (#4.) I just finished The Synchronicity War, Part 3 last night and I'm still fuming about him killing off two A.I. characters we had really gotten to know and trying to figure out a few things: (1) Is humanity just too stupid to live in this series? [One pet peeve: It seems like so many Sci-Fi authors think the command center of a battle starship needs to be in the front and the most vulnerable spot because naval ships have commanders with binoculars or in sailing days a telescope to "eyeball" what was going on around them.] And (2) why would sentient super-computers not have extra protection like any other incredibly important piece of battle equipment. Or (3) is it just an escape for the author to jettison the work of keeping up or exploring the interaction he's developed.

I have also enjoyed David Weber's Safehold series and Eric Flint's 1632 series, John Ringo's Posleen War, Kildar, and Citadel series, and many others. And all of those I've read several times. This has that potential. And I hope the author rethinks his "four and done" plans. And I hope it turns out to be a series I can enjoy again and again. But right now, having just finished part 3, I'm not happy with the time I invested in the story and the characters so far. Maybe the lesson Dietmar Wehr is teaching is that you can't really change history and humanity and the lead characters will all get wiped out again. If that's the case, while understanding that is a perfectly valid point, it will be "once and done" for me as a reader, I think.

There is a group that like valiant, hopeless, "Greek Tragedy" style stories. But I don't think it is as large as the groups that have "bought into" the other series that I gave as a few examples.

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Doug Hornby

Very good

Reviewed in Canada on June 17, 2020

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Page turner. Good plot, characters, writing, very well done. Lookin for more from this author. Only work of his I have read so far, want more, much more.

Chandan

Three Stars

Reviewed in India on June 22, 2016

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More like 3.5. It's ok, but just didn't click for me. Worth a try though.

Amazon Customer

Good first book in a new unverse

Reviewed in France on September 13, 2015

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It's fast paced book that reads quickly and is hard to put down. I particularly like the universe that the author constructed, it has enough aspects to be developed for the mini-series. On the other hand, the author is not very good at conveying the characters' feelings and personal interactions. I find the description of battles a little fast and dry.

Tomcat21

Synchronicity war part 1

Reviewed in Italy on July 29, 2015

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Wonderful and thrilling insight as to how mankind will see and combat other inhabitants of the universe in the near future

James C Rocks

The Iceman Cometh

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 18, 2015

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Not to put too fine a point on it, I absolutely loved this book. Military science fiction (the author refers to it as Space Opera which I think of as something slightly different) is a difficult beast to get right and there are few authors who have achieved it IMO (Jack Campbell, Ben Slythe and Scott Gier are my favourite modern authors) I think I can now add Dietmar Wehr to the list.

This first book was truly excellent with nice pacing and battles placed almost strategically at the right point and, as the reader, I not only got truly involved with the story but came to care quite deeply for several of the characters my favourite being Iceman (I won't say who he is for fear of spoilering).

This book was free on Amazon and I would recommend it wholeheartedly to anyone who likes this genre or science fiction in general and, on that note, I'm off to download part 2. When I read a book like this I can honestly say I'm happy to pay for the next instalment .

As a wannabe author myself, having written a military space fiction novel to first draft, I can only say, "Bravo Mr Wehr, more please!"