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Archangel Down: Archangel Project. Book One by [C. Gockel, Tom Edwards]

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Archangel Down: Archangel Project. Book One Kindle Edition

by C. Gockel (Author), Tom Edwards (Illustrator) Format: Kindle Edition

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In the year 2432, humans think they are alone in the universe. They're wrong.

Commander Noa Sato plans a peaceful leave on her home planet Luddeccea ... but winds up interrogated and imprisoned for her involvement in the Archangel Project. A project she knows nothing about.

Professor James Sinclair wakes in the snow, not remembering the past twenty four hours, or knowing why he is being pursued. The only thing he knows is that he has to find Commander Sato, a woman he's never met.

A military officer from the colonies and a civilian from Old Earth, they couldn't have less in common. But they have to work together to save the lives of millions--and their own.
Every step of the way they are haunted by the final words of a secret transmission:

The archangel is down.

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October 19, 2015
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"ARCHANGEL DOWN is a compelling sci-fi complete with satisfyingly high-tech gadgetry and high stakes political and social intrigue ... subtle humor pervades the book, often in the form of Noa and James's banter, and the vivid action sequences provide suspense and adventure. " -IndieReader

"This is a terrific science fiction selection that explores our human emotion. Anger, fear, self-doubt, love, and humor are on display as the colonists of a new world are forced to realize they are not alone in the universe." -Great Digital Books, "7 Great Books for Star Trek Fans"

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B016WS5FO4
Publication date ‏ : ‎ October 19, 2015
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 4419 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
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Print length ‏ : ‎ 436 pages
Lending ‏ : ‎ Enabled

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C. Gockel has been writing stories for her friends and family since the dark ages (i.e., before word processors existed.) A few years ago, she started posting those stories to the intertubes. She received emails, messages, and reviews from her fans telling her she should 'do this professionally.' She didn't; she is a coward and life as a digital designer, copywriter and coder is more dependable. But in the end, her husband's nagging wore her down: "You could be the next '50 Shades of Gray' and I could retire!" Unfortunately, the author writes science fiction and fantasy, and isn't particularly good at writing erotica. She is sad about this; she'd love for her husband to be able to retire and just work for her so she could nag him.

At the moment, Ms. Gockel is working on the next installment of the Archangel Project.

Ms. Gockel loves to hear from readers. She can be reached by email at: cgockel.publishing@gmail.com

Her Facebook page is: https://www.facebook.com/CGockelWrites

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Marvinator

The idea is to write a full story that people enjoy and want to see these same characters in another ...

Reviewed in the United States on March 14, 2018

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I would give this book more stars but it lacks a cohesive ending. The author thought that they'd get you to buy TWO books instead of one by only giving you half the story. After an incredible story and much ballyhoo in getting to the end, the book ends without resolution. Very dissatisfying after putting in so much time,. The idea is to write a full story that people enjoy and want to see these same characters in another adventure, rather than making two books out of one. Or wait, maybe the 2nd book won't end the story either!

129 people found this helpful

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Xstitcher

Have Sci Fi books flagged with sexual content or extreme cruelty so reader can choose to buy or not.

Reviewed in the United States on May 24, 2018

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The story was great until the end. The last few pages was all about explicit sex not Sci Fi. There should be a tag or something to indicate the sexual content of books so you can skip them if you want.

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PAR

A gritty, gripping tale!

Reviewed in the United States on February 6, 2022

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This is the beginning of a new military type series. We have two interconnecting characters. First we find Commander Noa Sato plans a peaceful leave on her home planet. She starts out but finds herself arrested and interrogated about a project called Archangel. She knows nothing of this project. Her interrogators dissatisfied throws her in jail. Our second protagonist is Professor James Sinclair who wakes in the snow, and is unable to remember the past twenty four hours. He awakes to find himself pursued and has absolutely no idea why. . The only thing he knows is that he has to find Commander Sato, a woman he's never met. A military officer from the colonies and a civilian from Old Earth, they could not have less in common. They find they must work together and their only lead is a final transmission… that says Archangel is down! An intriguing story that takes places in 2432, a time in which humans believe that are the only sanctioned being in the universe. Will they discover something different?

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Julie Blaskie

can Noa and her crew escape?

Reviewed in the United States on October 23, 2019

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I enjoyed this story as there are several things happening at once. While I had read a couple of books in this series out of order, I definitely liked learning more about Noa Sato... and I learned more about the origins of other characters as well!

The story is well written, and the characters are well developed. Yes, the story is complicated, but nothing is ever simple and falls according to plan, does it? Noa and the others are put to the test - and they learn to trust each other and work as a team. While it's a disparate bunch of people planning to escape, they are indeed held together by the fact that they have augments or artificial parts. They learn others like them are disappearing - forever.

I love reading the author's work as she does write a complicated, intricate story that eventually comes together! I enjoy stories that are like this - you do have to think and try to keep track of many variables... but there is satisfaction when they complete their mission.

In particular, I loved the character 6T9, and here I understand his love for Eliza - and her love for him. It may be unorthodox, but it is a bright spot in the story! Of course, Noa has her werfle again!

I can't say much more as I always feel you need to read the book for yourself. I definitely enjoyed this, and I look forward to reading more books in the series to find answers to questions that even Noa and James have yet to find the answers!

This is definitely a different sci fi story, and it's a good read! All I can say is, "More, please!"

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ChrystinP

Great start to a new series (to me)

Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2019

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There are actually six or seven books in this series, which is great. When I like a book or an author, I like to know that there are more options to read. This first book in the series was enjoyable, well-written, and NO spelling or grammatical errors that I found. Normally, if they're there, I find them. Nothing more annoying than an author who uses the word petal for pedal or grizzly for grisly. The trajectory of the book is believable and no stupidity where you're thinking "just how dumb is this character?"

All in all, fun time reading and I'll be reading the other books, as well as the other series. I also really like that all these books are available in an electronic reading format. I carry paperbacks with me, and also want to have electronic books available. I've found that going through the library is frustrating, as there may be one electronic book that is available in a series. I don't check out real books, as I need to be able to carry the book around for as long as it takes to read it. Deadlines don't work for me. If I can't obtain it electronically, then normally I have to buy the paperback version. I don't mind buying the paperbacks, but I like the option of having hard copy versions and cloud versions.

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Clinton Sites

Very interesting tale - leaves one wanting more

Reviewed in the United States on July 12, 2021

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I have read a following novel by the author that featured the Android 6T9, and am enjoyed to read this earlier one.

Though the story is set planetside where the majority of the populace are Luddites, there are many hints given about a much larger issue that may affect all of mankind.
There is so much background information given in flashbacks and asides that one realizes that the universe the story is set in is much different than normal.
Yes, it is a jail break (world break) / rescue attempt - but it has enough reveals that one is left wanting more.

The characters are fallible and relatable, the world interesting. The author has put a lot of work into the development of the characters and universe building that one is drawn in.
I need to get more by this author in this universe.

I did receive a copy in a book giveaway.

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Good spicy sci-fi full of mystery and humour with unique plot line.

Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2019

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Starts out in a concentration camp, rumours of an alien invasion, an escape by a half starved, weak, tortured prisoner(Noa) and her arrival of her rescuer, hero James. The former history teacher seems to have encountered a head trauma as memories of his past are pretty incomplete and far and few between leaving you wondering is the archangel really the hero of the hour or an alien with evil intentions. A Sexbot and the old lady who owns him, and, who's also related to our heroine provide a touch humour. A young toddler, his parents and a small group of students and retired crew members join the expanding group. An abandon pet, a furry little rat eater, attaches himself to James and Noa and will capture the animal and pet lovers attention and heart as he scurries along with them for a spectacular ending!

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Mr. Martin J. O'Donnell

Needs an editor

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 19, 2021

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Firstly the story had some interesting ideas and concepts about future colonisation. That's the good bit.

It should have been half the length, it was padded out and way too much "rolling eyes", "winking", once you've explained a concept you don't have to keep going back and explaining it again and again, we get it.

It seems technology hasn't moved on at all since the 20th century, detailed descriptions of box-sprung bed which was nice to sleep in - I mean, come off it! They have anti-gravity fields for crying out loud. Kept going on about "The Ethernet" and "plugging yourself in" all I could see was someone with a hole in their head into which you plug a cat-5 cable. 50 years ago we didn't even have the internet and basically the height of development is the internet, no concept at all of hundreds of years of development.

All the cultural references were made in relation to the 20th century films, music, books, quotations showing a distinct lack of imagination and creative thought it was just slung on in there.

Worst of all the ending just left you hanging - after ploughing through all that pain it was just a gimmick to sell another book. I'll be avoiding this I don't want to go through all that again. Dire!

4 people found this helpful

F.R. Jameson

Gripping space opera

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 26, 2019

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A now imprisoned senior member of a space-fleet breaks out of her prison, but during her escape bumps into a man with an uncanny resemblance to her ex-husband. This man has strange abilities, to the point of being super-powered. But can he be trusted? And is he even human?

When I’m in the right mood, I’m a sucker for space opera, and what I really enjoyed about this one was how damn hard it worked to be likeable. Yes, there’s the distant planet, a new religion and a world in turmoil, but there’s also compulsive characters and pretty good jokes.

It’s all written in a breezy style which makes it hard not to go with it; there are enough 20th century cultural references to makes one chuckle, but not be irritated by, and there’s a sex robot (called, ahem, 6T9). Now no one ever put a sex robot into a book without making it the focus of cheap gags. And there are cheap gags aplenty, but what’s amazing about them is not how many different ways Gockel manages to raise a chuckle, but that simultaneously she makes him a real character. This is a sex bot you have cheap gags with and also care about.

Undoubtedly those in the hard sci-fi camp should give this a miss, as I’m not sure how well its science would hold up. But if you’re climbing on board for the distant worlds and the adventure story, then I think – like me – you’ll have a good time.

5 people found this helpful

Gail Cook

Galactic Fleet pilot teams up with History professor

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on July 5, 2021

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I received a copy of this book from the author.

Noa (a pilot with the Galactic Fleet) has been imprisoned and is desperate to escape the concentration camp where the women have to share a bed and a blanket with two or three other women, stacked in bunk-beds four levels high. She wants to take her bedmate, Ashley with her but Ashley’s augmented legs have been ripped out of her body by the guards.

James can’t remember what exactly has happened to him due to the fall. He gets flashbacks of memories of before the fall but is struggling to piece it all together. He manages to do all sorts of things that he has no knowledge of learning to do and can run exceptionally fast and lift great weights.

Together Noa and James must find a way to connect with the galactic fleet and ask for their assistance to free the people of Luddeccea but without their ethernet connections they decide that they are going to have to leave the planet’s surface. But how to do that without a ship and crew, that is the question.

As the first book in the series I am left wanting to know what happens next. It is well written and all of the incidences, that cannot possibly be true to life here on Earth in the 21 century, are well explained and described so as to make you suspend your belief and simply enjoy the story.

AN

Good points but a few imperfections too

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on December 7, 2018

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I am normally not a fan of Science Fiction because most of the time the science is too fiction. But with C. Gockel's books I found them very often explaining magic or like in this case future based on very real scientific grounds, just taken a little step further. And I like that.

This story is 400 years into the future and comes with lots of advanced technology but it's still comprehensible.
I actually got into this series through the short story “Carl Sagan...” and I hope he will play a bigger role in the next book in this series. I think without that insight, I might have lost interest in the story because some points of this book disappointed a bit: first the permanent repetition of James feeling “compelled” and Noa feeling apprehensive about James. They got to know each other more and more throughout the story but this point in their relationship didn't move on.
Also the quotes from movies from our time did make me wonder when Noa had the time to watch them all.
My major problem though was that I wasn't sure on which side I am. All these augmentations in humans, I sympathised with the Luddecean traditional way but of course not with their methods.
Also there is a lot about racism and accepting differences in this book.
I will definitely read the next one because although not a major cliffhanger but too much open ends to not continue the series....

2 people found this helpful

Emilija Stalaza

Great concept but lost steam

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 12, 2019

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I really enjoyed the concept behind this book - the idea of augmentations and their controversy - when does human become machine and vice versa. I also thought it was clever the way religion and a cultish group of fanatics created a colony and how this then impacted on the plot. It creates a great sense of place, history, and culture with some truly unique people and stories to go along with it.

I also really enjoyed the fast pace of an escape from a detention centre and the chase of authorities, as well as the mysteries around the main character's brother's fate.

I did feel though that the story ran out of steam. The prep for the last portion of the plot took so long that the tension waned. I also felt that the book didn't quite fulfil its promise. It ended in an odd place. We neither have an answer to the mystery of James' nature, nor the knowledge of whether they are free of pursuers and able to escape for good. We also didn't get a true idea of what the archangel project is, only some clues. For me that meant the story ended without true satisfaction and I'm not sure I'll read the next book in the series.

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