Reddit mentions of Solitude: A Post-Apocalyptic Thriller (Dimension Space Book One)

INDIE PUBLISHER WATCH:

• Buying Time By Joe Haldeman, Narrated By Eric Vale for Novel Audio -- Haldeman's 1989 novel: "From Hugo, Nebula and World Fantasy Award winner Joe Haldeman, the best-selling author of The Forever War and Forever Peace, comes a thrilling sci-fi story that examines a world where time truly is money, and what happens when they both run out. More even than space travel, the Stileman Process has altered 21st-century life. The most complex of medical miracles, it ensures that every 10 years or so, the ailing aging body can be restored to youthful vigour and health. There's a catch, of course: the cost. Every 10 years or so, you have to come up with £1,000,000 minimum to repeat the procedure or die."
  
  
• Ghost Walk written by: Brian Keene, narrated by: Chet Williamson for Crossroad Press -- "There are all kinds of legends about the forests of Central Pennsylvania, and in this sequel to Dark Hollow, the truth about those legends is finally revealed."
  
  
• Baker's End: Gobbleknoll Hall, Baker's End: The King of Cats, and Baker's End: Tatty Bogle by By Paul Magrs, Narrated By Tom Baker, Katy Manning, Susan Jameson, David Benson, Eve Webster, Diane Morgan, and Stephen Critchlow for Bafflegab -- "Former Doctor Who star Tom Baker stars as himself, Tom Baker, in a series of bedazzling audio adventures from the pen of Paul Magrs (Doctor Who, The Brenda and Effie Mysteries): Baker's End." A "full cast" radioplay style of production with sound effects.
  
  INDIE AUTHOR WATCH:
  
  
• Solitude: Dimension Space, Book 1 written by: Dean M. Cole, narrated by: R.C. Bray and Julia Whelan -- Well, well, well. If you're gonna do "The Martian" meets "Interstellar" you might as well go all-in and cast Bray, am I right? "Earth's last man discovers that the last woman is stranded alone aboard the International Space Station. Can humanity's last two unite? Separated by the gulf of space, the last man and woman of the human race struggle against astronomical odds to survive and unite." The production is pretty free-flowing back and forth between the narrators, a bit jarring, but interesting... A quite good Whispersync deal at $0.99 Kindle plus $1.99 Audible add-on, though that is a "Countdown" deal for 4.5 more days, at which time the Kindle price goes back up to $3.99.
  
  
• Cyclops Road written by: Jeff Strand, narrated by: Joe Hempel -- "Evan Portin is at a sad, scary place in his life. While taking a long walk to compose himself and figure out where to go from here, he encounters a young woman being mugged in a park. When he tries to intervene, he discovers that she doesn't need his help. At all. Her name is Harriett. She is very, very good at defending herself. Everything she owns is in a large backpack. She's never seen a cell phone. She's never been in a car. She's never really ventured into the outside world. And she says she's traveling across the country to slay a Cyclops."
  
  
• Eden's Gate: The Reborn: A LitRPG Adventure, Book 1 written by: Edward Brody, narrated by: Pavi Proczko -- I've been told that "LitRPG" is a new subgenre of fantasy, one to really keep an eye on. There's another book -- but not yet audiobook, hence its appearance in the "most missing" list, also out this week. They're not "related" in the sense of any kind of shared world, only in this genre categorization of "LitRPG". Here's the pitch for Eden's Gate: "When Gunnar Long is transported into the first fully-immersive virtual MMORPG, he finds himself in a new world filled with magic, mystery, and adventure. No more 9-to-5 job. No more studio apartment. No more reality TV. Finally, he's in a place where he can call home, a place with people he can call friends. But as more people want to trade their real world lives to get inside Eden's Gate, the government of the outside world wants the "game" shut down at all costs. Gunnar must learn to survive, grow in power, and find a way to send a message back to his old home. 'We're fine. We're alive. Eden's Gate is real.'"
  
  MOST MISSING:
  
  
• Kokoro by Keith Yatsuhashi (Angry Robot) -- "Masterfully combining fantasy, science fiction and Japanese mythology, the sequel to Kojiki takes us into the heart of a war that spreads across the worlds."
  
  
• EverRealm: A LitRPG Novel by Jake Bible (Severed Press) -- As I mentioned in the "Eden's Gate" writeup, the "LitRPG" refers to a genre, not a shared world. "In the 23rd century, the world is at an end, and a group of gaming and programming friends decide that their only way to survive is to discard their bodies and send their minds into the quantum matrix of a virtual gaming world. They have created the Domains and there they plan to reside forever. Except, the nightmares of reality have followed them into their new quantum dimension and those nightmares threaten to destroy it all."
  
  
• The Best of Gordon R. Dickson, Volume 1 edited by Hank Davis (Baen) -- "The Best of Gordon R. Dickson, Volume I, gathers together fourteen stories, predominantly from the first half of legendary science fiction and fantasy writer Gordon R. Dickson’s career, ranging from the early 1950s through the 1960s, including tales dragons, dolphins, aliens, werewolves, mutants and humans trying to make sense of an infinitely bewildering universe."
  
  
• The Best Science Fiction of the Year: Volume Two edited by Neil Clarke (Night Shade Books, 624 pages)
  
  
• Fiction: Marlena by Julie Buntin (Henry Holt) -- Coming to audio from Blackstone on April 18: "An electric debut novel about love, addiction, and loss; the story of two girls and the feral year that will cost one her life, and define the other's for decades."

there's a book about this, Solitude: Dimension Space