Kindle friends, take a look at today’s featured novel, Jimmy Stu Lives! by Kent McDaniel. It has a 4.7 star rating with 15 customer reviews. A page-turning sci-fi read with a futuristic view of religion and politics that will keep you involved until the end.
A Little About Jimmy Stu Lives!:
Ten minutes before the televised Easter Sunday service for Nashville, Tennessee’s three-thousand-strong Church of the Living Lord, Reverend James Stuart Sloan finds himself unable to come up with a sermon. Despite the urging of his car-salesman second-in-command to add some pizzazz to today’s sermon, Jimmy Stu remains uninspired.
Over the years he has gradually lost his faith, and after suffering a heart attack and the passing of his beloved wife two years earlier, Jimmy Stu finds himself staring down the long and lonely road to old age and death with nothing to comfort him, not even his once unshakable belief in God and the hereafter. With that fear in mind and with minutes to spare, an idea comes to him. And so he preaches about the familiar story of the resurrection of Christ, then segues into a resurrection plea of sorts for himself – calling on his followers and viewers everywhere to help fund his cryogenic preservation so that he might continue to do God’s work in the far future.
More than a hundred years later, Jimmy Stu wakes up, as if from a long dream – and the real nightmare begins…
About the Author:
Kent McDaniel lives in Chicago’s Rogers Park neighborhood, where he spends a lot of time playing music, writing prose, and walking around. The prologue for Jimmy Stu Lives! appeared in the January 2011 issue of Rambunctious Review as a short story. Kent’s short stories have also appeared in Downstate Story, Chaffin Journal, Palo Alto Review, Iconoclast, Allegory, M-Brane SF, and Wild Violet. He publishes the zine Dumbfounding Stories for Southern Fandom Press Alliance, a venerable bastion of southern science-fiction fandom. He’s a member of The Writers, a critique group in Glencoe, Illinois, and belongs to The Chicago Writers Association, for which he reviews books at their Windy City Reviews site. Look for Kent on Facebook and visit his blog at… http://kentmcdanielwrites.wordpress.com/
What People Are Saying About Jimmy Stu Lives!:
“Jimmy Stu Lives evokes our nightmares of where the United States could be in those one hundred plus years in the future, the technology, the mindset, but most of all a government functioning without separation of church and state.” –Liz
“I found this book to be both entertaining and thought-provoking with engaging well-developed characters.” –MacSchu
“The plot is full of twists and turns leaving the reader anxiously waiting to see what will happen next. Kent McDaniel has written a wonderful novel, easy to read, and difficult to put down. Personally, I’m waiting for the next installment.” –M. Hynnes
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