The Goddess Awakens

Name: The Goddess Awakens
SKU: B0DKS248LN
Price: 4.99 USD
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Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Author: David Witt

Magic VS Tech

by David Witt

★★★★☆4.02 confirmed internal ratings

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About the Book

When a mysterious enemy attacks her peaceful world with advanced weapons, Geeja, the Goddess of Uwan, fights back with her dragon-riding warriors. But she is gravely injured and forced to transfer her essence into Susomi, a loyal follower. Her sentient planet’s magic saves her, but the process goes awry, and Geeja falls into a deep slumber for two millennia. She awakens to find her world ravaged by technology and pollution, and her ancient foe still alive and powerful.

Can she recruit allies to restore the balance of nature and defeat the evil that threatens the universe? Or will she have to face the harsh reality that her world has changed forever?

Book details

AuthorDavid Witt

GenreScience Fiction & Fantasy

LanguageEnglish

ASINB0DKS248LN

Rating4.0 / 5

StatusLIVE

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2 confirmed reader reviews.

4.0

An imaginative mix of magic and technology

There is a struggle out there between magic and technology, concealing a deeper tale of ecology and industrialization. The novel carries a touch of Dune – the Uwans resemble the Fremen, the Imperciums the Harkonnens. The sentient planet and her goddess echo the symbiosis between Dune and its sandworms. Magic here is the spice: limited in supply, powerful, and precious.The geography is vast, rich with exotic names and settings in an original, multilayered world – or rather, several sentient worlds. This ambition comes at a cost: the reader’s memory is constantly challenged, and the absence of a map doesn’t help. One must keep track of Nafportonians, Blongarians, and so on. Then there are the Ancients, an advanced technological race that once governed the twelve worlds but vanished long ago, leaving behind a warning: “Worlds were destroyed by dangerous machines that initially offered the hope of better lives.”Severely wounded by the Impercium invaders, Geeja, the Goddess of Uwan, falls into a healing slumber. The world she awakens to two thousand years later is industrial, polluted, and far from the pastoral paradise she once knew. Contradictions abound. She must fight not only to free her planet but to find a balance between magic and technology. The narrative often shifts back in time – sometimes by millennia – which can make it difficult to follow.The cast is large: smugglers, holy warriors, emperors, and gods. They clash and cooperate as their ambitions intertwine, all driven by the same truth: “It is my world’s experience that knowledge is addictive. You will be thrilled by what we give you, but a time will come when you want more.” Technology, the novel suggests, is neither good nor evil – it depends entirely on how it is used.This is an ambitious work of imagination with an intricate plot. Readers must decide what fascinates them more: the author’s creative worldbuilding or the unfolding story itself. Two higher planes – the realm of the Ancients and the Truise Dimension – are briefly mentioned, perhaps as an opening toward the next novel in the series.

4.0

Future Shock for a Goddess

Awakening two thousand years to her devastated planet, Geeja the goddess of Uwan, is unable to cope. Determined to restore her planet, with whom she communicates directly, she enlists anyone who will help, including a couple of rogues with a starship (yes, sometimes a god DOES need a starship) and several of the gods of other planet to defeat the evil overlord. A great premise, with a lot of characters, and a timespan jumping between eras of ten thousand years.