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The Watchers from within Moments, Revealed Kindle Edition

by Mark Paul Jacobs (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 51 ratings
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A chilling novelette from author Mark Paul Jacobs.
Jim Vedder, chief engineer at California’s FastTech Corporation, has developed the world’s fastest camera. But exploring the bizarre universe of the super fast, soon uncovers horrific entities that captivate the world’s conscientious. And FastTech is quickly, and somewhat unwillingly, drawn into a quagmire of politics, fate, and the unforgiving press.
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    December 22, 2010
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Mark Paul Jacobs lives in lovely Dauphin, Pennsylvania. He enjoys fishing the Canadian north, poker, and annoying his wife. He has authored two novels: How Teddy Roosevelt Slew the last Mighty T-Rex, a Historical Science Fiction tale set in 1914, and the hard science fiction novel: The Yaakmen of Tyrie, a powerful and mysterious tale of bravery, loss, perseverance, betrayal, and redemption.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B004H4XIQ8
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Mark Paul Jacobs (December 22, 2010)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ December 22, 2010
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1151 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 125 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars 51 ratings

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Mark Paul Jacobs

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Mark Paul Jacobs lives in lovely Dauphin, Pennsylvania. He enjoys fishing the Canadian north, poker, and annoying his wife. He has authored two novels: How Teddy Roosevelt Slew the last Mighty T-Rex, a Historical Science Fiction tale set in 1914, and the hard science fiction novel: Defenders of Tyrie, a powerful and mysterious tale of bravery, loss, perseverance, betrayal, and redemption. He is also quite proud of his awe-inspiring short story: The Day God Winked and his chilling novelette with the provocative title: The Watchers from within Moments Revealed, an almost universally well reviewed work for which he has written a screenplay suitable for an ‘Outer Limits’ episode. These and several other works are available through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Apple, Sony, and Smashwords.com. How Teddy Roosevelt Slew the last Mighty T-Rex and Defenders of Tyrie is available in paperback via Createspace.com. Mark is working on a movie screenplay tentatively called Stain which is a gritty murder conspiracy based in Central Pennsylvania similar to the movie ‘Fargo’ or ‘Reservoir Dogs’. Please enjoy his works and don’t be afraid to tell him what you think on his Facebook page, twitter account, or by email. And lastly, please take the time to leave him a review of his work; it doesn’t have to be long or long-winded, but it does make him feel that his hard word has touched someone’s life in some way. You can leave a review wherever his books are available.

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Lila @Someone Else's Stories
4.0 out of 5 stars Sunday Shorts
Reviewed in the United States on June 13, 2011
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Short: The Watchers from within Moments, Reveled (2010)

Author: Mark Paul Jacobs

My Story with: This is the first science fiction piece I read and reviewed. I did not pay much attention when I got it and did not realize it was a Novelette and not a Novel. I need to admit I was really happy with the results of this incident. It even inspired this Sunday Shorts.

My Short View: The story was fresh and partially credible in a time when new technology develops at a fast pace. The characters were simple and easy to remember, plus believable. Work and family relationships were developed into a conjunctional setting in which every word serves a purpose.

What I liked the most: How well the characters, especially Jim Vedder (protagonist), were developed.

I wanted more: of everything; a full novel or maybe a movie.

Who should read it: Anyone who enjoys science fiction. A great short to read between books.
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TheSonoranSasquatch
5.0 out of 5 stars Read in 2013, and again in 2023
Reviewed in the United States on February 13, 2023
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This is a story that has just stuck with me over the past ten years. I don’t know why I didn’t write a review before, but better late than never. So every now and again the plot came to my head, and I couldn’t remember the name of the book until today. It’s a short read, an hour at most, but the amount of character development and setting the author created is impressive. I’m going to truly spoil the ending, but the technology used together with the atmospheric anomalies… well it seems that this is something that could truly happen, and it’s terrifying to me. If you want a good short read that will stick with you for a while- 10 years in my case!- this is definitely the story for you.
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3.0 out of 5 stars Sorry for the spoilers
Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2013
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Lots of spoilers ahead.

It was interesting enough to keep me reading at least. The Watchers themselves were interesting to learn about. However, most of the story is just people speculating about the Watchers, which is not satisfying at all. There are some things which are just confusing.

1.) They are immediately assumed to be pure evil because they apparently look awful. I can kind of understand being afraid of them, but honestly some of the stuff in nature looks downright otherworldly. What's more, some of those otherworldly things are all around us, we'd never know, they are very capable of inflicting harm on our body. Yet, people do not respond to that level of panic as in the books. Look up African Millipedes for instance. That's horrific.

2) The science is questionable even for fiction. Mostly the conclusions the scientists come up with are kind of sketchy. The Superfast camera captures them primarily when they decide to sit still for long enough to be captured. To me that implies that they are capable of moving much faster than can normally be captured and are just sitting still. To the scientists it apparently implies they are transdimensional beings who control time and space. Of course this is what the story is building to, so in the end that's the more accurate assessment. But there are many aspects like that.

3) The story itself is not really horror, not really scifi. It's basically the ups and downs of a company who discovered something, while people react in a way I find strange. Then the world ends.

4) I find the ending downright odd. The creatures motivations or nature is never really explained except that it's alluded to that they're evil because they kind of look evil. And then in the end some things happen and then the main characters apparently all decide to commit suicide with their children. I found that the most unsettling part of this book. That a supposedly sane and reasonable set of characters decide things they don't understand are occurring and are scary, so they decide to kill themselves and their young daughter. Apparently I genuinely did not grasp the terror of the story.

In the end very little is explained, most of the interaction feels very artificial, with an ending that seems to come out of nowhere. I give it 3 stars because I read it through the end, at least curious about what might happen and because the description and speculations on the creatures were interesting.
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Beverly P.
4.0 out of 5 stars Good short story that makes you think
Reviewed in the United States on October 24, 2013
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I really enjoyed reading The Watchers from within Moments, Revealed. It's very creepy to think that there could be unseen creatures sharing the planet with us, and the ending makes you consider how you would behave if something like that ever actually happened. Since it's a short story and there isn't much time to get to know the characters, there is just enough of a backstory given that makes you want to know more. This story is very fast-paced, and I liked the use of a timeline rather than regular chapters. It also made me want to keep reading rather than thinking, "Oh, I'm at the end of this chapter so I'll take a break." Thank you, Mr. Jacobs. I'll definitely be reading more of your work.
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Ann F.
5.0 out of 5 stars Chilling short story, very taut
Reviewed in the United States on June 6, 2011
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This story reminded me of Asimov and Bradbury, both of whom regularly produced short stories that could as easily have been expanded to novel length. Jacobs' story here only briefly touches the science, business, and political aspects and the societal impact of the discovery in order to bring it to its inexorable ending, and frankly I would have liked to see more, but it also works very well as presented. I was very pleased to get the sense that the scientific details had been thought through and that the brevity was for the sake of brevity, rather than brevity for the sake of hand-waving the pesky details away!

The characterization does suffer a little from the brevity (also a failing for Bradbury and Asimov) but it is not the primary emphasis. The plot is very well-structured and this was literally a page-turner (page-clicker?) as I was eager to see what was next.

Highly recommended.
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L Enright
4.0 out of 5 stars A Scary Vision
Reviewed in the United States on January 18, 2011
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After reading this very well-written about a scary possibility for our reality, you might want to think twice about adjusting the focus on your camera next time you're taking a picture. "Watchers..." is a science-based look into what could be there waiting for us in the world if we could but see it. And when science finally figures out a way to see it... Well, you have to read that for yourself.

I thoroughly enjoyed this one and highly recommend it to all who like a quick read, one that has a basis in science (but is not too technical), and one that bases its horror in the unknown.
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b roberts
5.0 out of 5 stars wow! scary idea
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 28, 2014
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this should not be a free book! its way too good. so saying, im very glad it is, as yet again thanks to ebooks i have discovered a writer new to me, who is exciting and original and i cant wait to get stuck in and explore everything hes written. I have already reviewed 'the day god winked' (best book title ever!), which i read after this and if you havent read that yet.....what are you waiting for?! this one is even better as its more 'my kind of thing', with its slight paranormal/science feel. its shorter than i expected with a very long excerpt from a novel taking up much of the download.
(described as hard sci fi, i didnt much look at this as definitely NOT 'my kind of thing!'.)
But back to this brilliant short story. Im so glad the other reviewers on here and amazon.com seemed to like this as much as i did. its a real mind bender that could make me seriously paranoid/neurotic without my medication! haha. I love all things parallel world, alternate reality etc as we really dont know do we?! quantum scientists can theoretically prove that we dont exist! Or that we are figments of our own (or someone else's) imagination! Or perhaps one day someone will open a box in another dimension and we'll all turn out to be dead, along with our quantum cats! (sorry, im going off a bit now!) Anyway, this is as terrifying as your imagination can make it. The writing is so good you forget you are reading and get totally immersed in the action. no need to say anymore, just buy it, surely we cant all be wrong!
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trev
5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting idea, loved the story...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 30, 2014
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I enjoyed this book, I liked the simple idea behind it, and who knows what we'll really invent that could expose as yet unseen menaces all around us? Our eyes cannot see infra red photons yet a simple digital camera monitor can if you point it at the end of a tv remote control... same with orbs, their interaction cannot yet be explained. This story builds nicely and then leaves you with the feeling that it is not entirely out of the realms of possibility. It is a reasonably short story, and all in all I found it to be a very enjoyable read...
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Mrs. M. A. Ellis
1.0 out of 5 stars good summer read
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 3, 2011
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although a bit far fetched It held my attention I Couldnt put it down story based on a camera witch took very fast pictures although unseen with the naked eye the camera was able to capture pictures of beings. i wont say anymore or it will spoil it . all in all a good read .may not be everyones cup of tea if you dont like sci fi.
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5.0 out of 5 stars A really odd piece
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on February 14, 2014
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I wasn't sure about this piece at first, but I was quickly captivated. The idea is very real in it's execution. Not sure about the physics, but that's academic to be honest. The ending disturbed me and I loved the characters, so if you like odd sci-fi, this is for you!
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