Evermore
Michael Casher
Lulu Press
ISBN: 1-4116-1977-3
Fiction, Science Fiction
Reviewed by Eugen M. Bacon

An all black cover, glossed and a magnet to fingerprints, may not quite isolate this first of The Evermore Trilogy from a shelf. But it does somewhat add intrigue. A saunter towards midnight in a derelict field outside Evermore, reminiscing with stars in boxers and a T-shirt, can bring surprises; Jack Rand knows. He also knows that the powers that summon him are way beyond him. Learned Elites want him aboard a high magnitude experiment…  Perhaps as much as they want Logan Masters, Vance McIntire and his wife, Helen. And though Karen Smitrovich has a different modus operandi from Jack’s nocturnal stroll (she jogs), her 3.00am run in jeans, no panties, one wallet in the back pocket and a tucked-in gun might quite hurt. But that is of no consequence for she too is to become part of a Creationism project on Fermia, also called Earth. She too is destined as another human subject for a cloning experiment that isolates creative free thinkers for Cosmo realism.
   
  The writing is clean, and Jack Rand has a few surprises. Technowise, overlooking lengthy expositions in the rest of the narration, the book is a dream for sci fi die hards: space invaders; visitors jumping star ship to wander about Earth on clandestine missions; alien clones with close to human physiology; matter-antimatter creatures impossible to kill… The entire concept of the Creationism project, Cosmo reality and the creation of life from pure thought process is rather fascinating. The novel carries fine concepts and has an abundant gamut of technospeak, artefacts and gadgets to add more than a tingle of anticipation or fulfilment to lovers of hard science fiction, who may also be thrilled to encounter an ending set up for a sequel.