Fata Morgana, Steven R. Boyett
Fata Morgana, Steven R. Boyett
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Fata Morgana

Author: Steven R. Boyett, Ken Mitchroney

Narrator: MacLeod Andrews

Unabridged: 12 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/13/2017

Synopsis

An epic novel of love and duty at war across the reach of time.At the height of the air war in Europe, Captain Joe Farley and the baseball-loving, wisecracking crew of the B-17 Flying Fortress Fata Morgana are in the middle of a harrowing bombing mission over eastern Germany when everything goes sideways. The bombs are still falling and flak is still exploding all around the 20-ton bomber as it is knocked like a bathtub duck into another world.Suddenly stranded with the final outcasts of a desolated world, Captain Farley navigates a maze of treachery and wonder—and finds a love seemingly decreed by fate—as his bomber becomes a pawn in a centuries-old conflict between remnants of advanced but decaying civilizations. Caught among these bitter enemies, a vast power that has brought them here for its own purposes, and a terrifying living weapon bent on their destruction, the crew must use every bit of their formidable inventiveness and courage to survive.Fata Morgana—the epic novel of love and duty at war across the reach of time.

About Steven R. Boyett

Steven R. Boyett’s (steveboy.com) novels include the fantasy classic Ariel, Elegy Beach, and Mortality Bridge. He wrote a draft of Toy Story 2 for Pixar/Disney, and created the groundbreaking online music series Podrunner and Groovelectric. He has been a professional martial arts instructor, paper marbler, advertising copywriter, proofreader, writing teacher, website designer & editor, chapbook publisher, and DJ who has played in major cities and at Burning Man. He lives in the San Francisco Bay area.Ken Mitchroney’s film and television credits include director, head of story, director of photography, and storyboard artist on The Lego Movie, The Ant Bully, Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc., and many more. His comic book work includes Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Adventures. He is an official artist for the Ed “Big Daddy” Roth estate and illustrator for the Oakland A’s. He has been a professional race-car driver, and is currently on the team restoring Ward Kimball’s vintage locomotive collection at the Southern California Railway Museum. He lives and works in the San Francisco Bay area and Los Angeles.

About Ken Mitchroney

Ken Mitchroney’s (facebook.com/Ratfink) film and television credits include director, head of story, director of photography, and storyboard artist on Storks, The Lego Movie, The Ant Bully, Toy Story 2, Monsters Inc., The Annoying Orange Show, Mighty Magiswords, and more. His comic illustration includes Ren & Stimpy, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, Myth Conceptions, and creating the influential Space Ark. He is an official artist for the Ed “Big Daddy” Roth estate, and official illustrator for the Oakland Athletics and at one time the Baltimore Orioles. Mitchroney has been a professional race-car driver and pinstriper, and restores and runs vintage locomotives. He is currently involved with the restoration of the Ward Kimball collection at the Southern California Railway Museum in Perris, California. He lives and works in the San Francisco Bay area and Los Angeles.

About MacLeod Andrews

MacLeod Andrews is an actor, voice actor, and Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator who earned the prestigious Audie Award for best narration in 2018. He has starred in a number of independent short and feature films and is a member of the Rising Phoenix Repertory Company in New York City.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tadiana ✩Night Owl☽ on September 04, 2017

99 cent Kindle sale, Sept. 4, 2017. 3.5 stars for this 2017 SF novel, kind of a throwback, reminiscent of Golden Age SciFi. Final review, first posted on Fantasy Literature: It’s 1943, at the height of the air war during World War II. US Air Force Captain Joseph Farley and his crew of nine men fly a......more

Goodreads review by Arah-Lynda on June 07, 2017

Fata Morgana:  A Fata Morgana is an unusual and complex form of superior mirage that is seen in the narrow band right above the horizon.  It is the Italian name for the Arthurian sorceress Morgan le Fay, from a belief that these mirages, often seen in the Strait of Messina, were fairy castles in the......more

Goodreads review by Bronagh on May 19, 2017

I received this book for free via Netgalley in exchange for a fair review This WWII meets sci-fi story is very much in the tradition of H Rider Haggard and Edgar Rice Burroughs’ John Carter series, and indeed draws on a theme going much further back in legends and sagas. You can also point to similar......more

Goodreads review by David on December 17, 2017

The B-17 "Flying Fortress" really wasn't much of a fortress - it was an aluminum tube with some guns mounted on it, a bomb delivery system with the bare minimum equipment to keep its crew alive in order to reach its target and (hopefully) make it back. The hundreds of air raids on Germany were the st......more

Goodreads review by Tammy on June 21, 2017

The nitty-gritty: An exciting time travel adventure that is, at its heart, a love letter to the B17 Flying Fortress bomber. It’s been six years since Steve Boyett published Mortality Bridge, and so I was thrilled to find out he had a new book coming out this year, co-authored by his good friend K......more

Quotes

“Action, adventure, cool speculative events, well-drawn characters, and an ending that sticks the landing: Fata Morgana pushes all my happy buttons.” John Scalzi, New York Times bestselling author

“Gripping adventure stuff: a perfect updating of a classic mode of science fictional storytelling, modernized without losing any of the charm of those old, glorious war novels.” Cory Doctorow, New York Times bestselling author

“With Fata Morgana, Steven Boyett and Ken Mitchroney have created a work that defies categorization, unless that category is ‘engrossing, brilliant storytelling.’ They breathe life into the past and the future, in a book that manages to be both thought-provoking and thrilling. I loved it!” Jan Burke, New York Times bestselling author

“The twists, turns, and adrenaline never stop flowing in Fata Morgana. You will be transported to another world in more ways than one. Easily one of the hardest-hitting science fiction books of 2017!” Nicholas Sansbury Smith, USA Today bestselling author of Hell Divers

“So gripping and real it felt as if it were logged just minutes after landing. Fata Morgana is squarely in the ranks of the most classic and ingenious science fiction—a masterwork of purest cinema, relentlessly charming and inventive to the end.” Chris Sanders, director of Lilo & Stitch and How to Train Your Dragon

“Amid harrowing yet realistic descriptions…readers are treated to a loving character study of the crew of the Fata Morgana, a B-17 bomber about to face its first combat mission…During a run over Zennhausen, the bomber passes through a strange portal in the air. Germany is gone; World War II is gone; the world as they know it is gone…Boyett and Mitchroney have the sense to forgo Hollywood predictability, so the ending’s perfect. A worthy adventure.” New York Times Book Review

“Authors Boyett and Mitchroney deliver a well-grounded, gripping action thriller, with a fast-moving plot and inviting, evocative characters…The authors deliver equal parts suspense, romance, danger, aerial combat, and science fiction. All of this makes Fata Morgana an exhilarating, haunting, and memorable read.” New York Journal of Books

“An epic and original science fiction novel of love and duty at war across the reach of time, Fata Morgana is an extraordinarily entertaining read from cover to cover and unreservedly recommended.” Midwest Book Review

“[Steven Boyett and Ken Mitchroney are] a match made in literary heaven.” East Bay Times

“A war story and a romance that spans space and time…The mix of SF, action, and romance is all there…There’s a lot to engage readers who enjoy their SF mixed with alternative history.” Library Journal

Awards

  • Library Journal Audio-in-Advance Pick
  • io9 Pick
  • Audible.com Bestseller
  • Foreword Reviews INDIES Book of the Year Award
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