Ed Charlton – Science Fiction

Sci-fi the old-fashioned way

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Reviews

Thanks for your kind words all who have left reviews!

Read It Twice!

Ivy Noelle reviewed The Problem With Uncle Teddy’s Memoir
A fast paced work of metaficition that calls to mind the golden age of science and speculative fiction.

Read it twice — the first read will show you a fun mystery, the second will reveal the book’s true powerful metaphors about war, memory, and freedom.

Intelligent science-fiction

Amazon Customer

ABLE– Episode One of The Able Serial
August 10, 2017

Format: Kindle Edition

A rare and very fine example of intelligent science fiction and space opera.

This is really good science fiction slash space opera. Amusing and intelligent but let us not forget that first contacts (planetary contacts) are a delicate business. Things can easily go wrong. Is Jim Able up to the task?

The internet-like messaging is brilliant. However, it may require an above average intelligence to fully appreciate.

If you loved Douglas Adam’s A Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, you’ll love Ed Charlton’s Able (Episode One).

…it had to end!

Patricia O’M reviewed The Problem With Uncle Teddy’s Memoir.

The problem with “Uncle Teddy’s Memoir” is that it had to end!

I thoroughly enjoyed reading this elegantly written novel that is part science fiction, part mystery, part romance and part adventure – and I loved all the parts.

Through all the twists & turns, I never saw the ending coming. I’m not usually a science fiction buff but as soon as I finished it, I wanted to read it again.

Hard to put down…

Rainer Naus, on The Problem with Uncle Teddy’s Memoir
December 8, 2017
Format: Kindle Edition

The unique format at the beginning was an easy read into the story. Once into the memoir it was hard to put down.

I enjoyed it!

Fun, funny, quick read.

Format: Kindle Edition

Tongue-in-cheek sci-fi

Fun, funny, quick read. It’s an affectionate space opera parody — not as gratuitously silly as Douglas Adams or as crude as Red Dwarf, but that’s the sort of thing. Stainless Steel Rat is the closest reference I can think of.

It’s not a complete story; this is ‘episode 1’. It raises more mysteries than it resolves and ends on a ‘to be continued’. Hope episode 2 will follow soon.