Furnace Joseph Williams Books
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On a routine escort mission to a human colony, Lieutenant Michael Chalmers is pulled out of hyper-sleep a month early. The RSA Rockne Hummel is well off course and—as the ship’s navigator—it’s up to him to figure out why. It’s supposed to be a simple fix, but when he attempts to identify their position in the known universe, nothing registers on his scans. Nothing at all. The vessel has catapulted beyond the reach of starlight by at least a hundred trillion light-years. Then a planetary-mass object materializes behind them. It’s burning brightly even without a star to heat it. Hundreds of damaged ships are locked in its orbit, but before the scanners go offline, the crew discovers there are no life-signs aboard any of them. As system failures sweep through the Hummel, neither Chalmers nor the pilot can prevent the vessel from crashing into the surface near a mysterious ancient city. And that’s where the real nightmare begins. Joseph Williams is an author of horror and science fiction living in Farmington Hills, Michigan. He has previously released four short story collections and four novels. For more information, visit www.JosephWilliamsFiction.com.
Furnace Joseph Williams Books
It was interesting and reminded me of another series that I am reading. It did get rather long and I was wondering when it was going to end.Product details
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Furnace Joseph Williams Books Reviews
All action, all the time. That’s how Joseph William’s novel, Furnace, reads for nearly every page of the book. First Lieutenant Chalmers, the narrator of the book, is tossed onto an unfamiliar ship with unfamiliar people, then lured to take a shortcut that results in their spaceship unexpectedly arriving at a planet so far beyond our universe that there are no stars in the sky.
Chalmers is chucked into a blender of a planet with an abundance of vicious aliens, when he is suddenly sent on a seemingly suicide mission on the surface of the planet by his crazed captain after their crash landing. The author’s writing is superb, particularly landscapes and situations; his descriptions of some of the aliens on the other hand come off as somewhat ‘off-the-mark’.
Chapters are vibrant and exciting. So much so that I regularly had to stop reading (usually to walk off the anxiety while getting a snack or cold beverage) because they were simply too intense and stressful. Readers are sure to connect with the main character and many of the situations he is placed in, and will rally and cheer for him in every horrendous situation he finds himself in.
On the opposite side of the spectrum, the first monster/alien/demon that Chalmers encounters gets regularly described as a clown or clown like in the book. I found the description both off putting and out of place. Each time the description was used, it removed any fear that the author was trying to build and replaced it with indifference for the creature that ends up playing a fairly large role in explaining the catastrophe which befalls Chalmers.
There also seemed to be some inaccuracies in the book or instances that just weren’t explained well enough to make complete sense in my layman’s mind. In one instance, a crew member’s head is exploding because of the planet’s atmospheric conditions. In the next instance, the main character tangles with the clown, which violently shatters the face shield on his helmet, but nothing happens to the character. Even after a second read of those portions of the book, in an attempt to get clarification, I could not figure out why each of the occasions resulted so differently.
Furnace reads very linearly. With so much action packed into every chapter, I would have personally benefited from and enjoyed a parallel story line or several flash backs of Chalmers previous experiences instead of only hearing his internal dialogue during the nonstop exhilaration. A change in pace would have been well received and would have likely broken up the book to allow for longer timeframes of reading.
If you like books that are filled to the brim with the main character being tossed into impossible situations and escaping repeatedly by the skin of their teeth, this book is perfect for you. If you are like me and you enjoy action but need it delivered to you in manageable bites, you will relish your time with Furnace, but will want a second book standing by to break up the unrelenting tension. -- **Reviewed by Jonathan Huls**
There is hardly a let-up in disaster after disaster to the point that one becomes numb to them. The first-person narrative tells us not to worry, since the hero survives. The reason for the actual problem is quasi-religious and more a fantasy story than science fiction. If you like gory, horror scenes with lots of profanity, this is your book, otherwise forget it.
Generic by all accounts. Dull from start to finish. There is a severe lack of description and action is frustrating to follow.
Spoiler free I actually enjoyed this one quite a bit, despite the three stars. I liked the premise of a starship's crew, used to terrifying aliens and unusual situations, forced to confront actual horrors. There were a few things, however, which impacted the experience enough for me to remove stars.
Firstly, the beginning feels rushed. The description says that the ship emerges surrounded by complete blackness. No stars, even unfamiliar ones, are visible; for all the crew knows, they aren't even in our universe anymore. Well, that's about as much time as the actual story spends on it as well. I would have enjoyed more time spent with the realization of this and ensuing incredulity/horror/despair before sending the crew into the furnace. However, this phase passes so quickly that I found myself thinking "Wait, already? Weren't they just in space?" as the crew readied to explore the planetoid.
Secondly, the ending feels rushed too. A better explanation comes with spoilers below, but without them all I can say is that once again, I found myself a little surprised to find conclusions reached, reveals made, and the story over.
Finally, the reveal of the nature and reason behind the horror Chalmers experiences was rather disappointing to me. The rest of the story had given me hopes that it would be something original and intriguing, but it was something all too familiar. After the reveal, the story did lose some of its appeal, because it was only ((familiar thing)) all along.
Spoilers from here
Specifically, the reveal is that the planet, Furnace, is hell. Literal, Judeo-Christian Hell. The book implies that either Earth was the planet from which the arch monster (i.e. Satan) was banished, or his power is great enough to infect Earth across infinite distance. This might not disappoint everyone, but I find Hell to be a bit played out. I don't think most people who believe in a literal Hell find it *that* horrifying (probably at least a little because they don't expect to be going there, but I digress).
I find the ending rushed in that the Satan figure essentially lets the survivors go; the main character believes that he has a plan and allowed specific members of the crew to survive so that the ship would return to human space (which is plausible as reality, rather than Chalmers' damaged mind, in context). Unfortunately, we aren't given any reason this could be true or would be true; while the reader and Chalmers are intended to understand that the crew was released on purpose, we also seem to be intended to take it on faith.
Overall, I thought this was an engaging and original sci-fi horror piece, one which didn't sacrifice horror for science fiction or vice versa. Unfortunately the book does suffer from rushing through the beginning and ending as well as a reveal that isn't quite as intriguing as it might have been.
It was interesting and reminded me of another series that I am reading. It did get rather long and I was wondering when it was going to end.
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