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Zephyr VII Kindle Edition

by Warren Hately (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
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"I absolutely loved this book. The author is whip smart and dissects this genre like a surgeon" --Joe Gazzam, screenwriter, author of Uncaged.

"It’s a skilfully-written superhero fantasy resonant with emotion. Expect to feel your soul move as the swaggering narrator bears comic and often poignant witness to the vagaries of a life both bizarre and very like our own" --AA Attanasio, author of the Radix tetrad and The Dragon and the Unicorn series.

"The book deconstructs the superhero in the most entertaining, cynical and interesting ways" --Michael Ivan Lowell, The Suns of Liberty series.

Zephyr is an ongoing serial that has been favorably compared to Watchmen and similar classics. Like the comic books to which it owes a debt, Zephyr is episodic with an open narrative.

It's 2016 on the eastern seaboard of the United States. The place is Atlantic City: a sweeping longitudinal metropolis rebuilt following widespread devastation in 1984. Superhumans are not only real, they're human. All too human, as Nietzsche would say.

Zephyr is an alt.superhero adventure influenced by post-literary writing and Sturgeon's law. The style is cynical, cinematic and systematically against standard expectations of the genre. Imagine if Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho was about costumed vigilantes rather than stockbrokers and you have half the idea.

Zephyr tells the story of a major, if somewhat jaded superhero in an alternate universe where New York City has been abandoned and the Beatles were a superhero team. Zephyr is a regular guy, but with powers, and it's easy to wonder if his life might have been better without them as supervillains and other problems that only superhumans can deal with derail his efforts handling life.

“At some level, I think you understand that,” Twilight says. “So what else is really going to destroy Zephyr, the six-million light globe whatever-the-fuck that was back then? Some big fist fight with a baddy? Uh oh.”

In Volume 7, Zephyr returns to his native parallel following the exploits of Zephyr V and VI, finding his arrival catapults him into the middle of a global media spin. Using his adventures offworld as a cheat guide to his home parallel throws up some unexpected consequences, and meanwhile there's the everyday business of saving Atlantic City if not the world from a moon-based machine invasion, and himself from an assassination attempt and the fallout from the unsolved murder of former teammate-turned-FBI agent Annie Black. Central to the changes rocking Zephyr's world are the decades-late return of his father, the parahuman resistance fighter Strummer, who triggers the reappearance of an old foe which finally brings the numerous threads in Zephyr's life to an epic and dramatic conclusion.
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  1. Book 7 of 8
    Zephyr
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    262 pages
  3. Language
    English
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  5. Publication date
    August 1, 2017
  6. Reading age
    15 - 18 years
  7. Grade level
    12 and up
  8. File size
    1496 KB
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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B074HFVMRD
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 1, 2017
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 1496 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 262 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    4.4 4.4 out of 5 stars 25 ratings

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4.4 out of 5 stars
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James Robert Smith
5.0 out of 5 stars Top-notch!
Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2018
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I really have grown to admire Hately's superhero chronicle. It is great modern pulp! I have no idea why an enterprising publisher hasn't picked these up to present as mass market books. Their loss.
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Ms Austen
5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best superhero book series out there
Reviewed in the United States on February 25, 2018
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One of the best superhero book series out there. Mr Hately's prose and writing style are clear stand outs and the book it's self reads like a comic book.
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Jonathan Moss
5.0 out of 5 stars Amazing.
Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2020
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These books are incredible. A must read.
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Coley Hitt
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book! You should buy!
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2018
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Great book! A great addition to the series! I can not recommend enough.
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jenb
5.0 out of 5 stars There are few super hero genre works of comparable quality
Reviewed in the United States on August 8, 2017
This installment almost serves as a satisfying ending for the Zephyr series, and there is room for another installment, if it comes. Having read through the series twice now, and serving as a beta reader for the past few installments, I continue to marvelat Mr. Hately's talent. There are few super hero genre works of comparable quality, and in my experience so far, no others of such quality that are written for adults. If you are this far into the series, I think you know what I mean. If you haven't started the series yet, please keep in mind that this author has adapted a stream of consciousness style for many scene descriptions, and his novels are organized to be front loaded with single sentence paragraphs and even pages. If you read through to where the dialogue starts, I think you will be glad that you did.
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Roger S Wilbur
5.0 out of 5 stars Great Series and a Great Book
Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2018
The author is very talented, the series as a whole is great and keeps me wanting more. Cant wait for the next book in the Zephyr series!
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Søren thomsen
5.0 out of 5 stars Tough start, but THEN...
Reviewed in the United States on August 16, 2017
I very much enjoyed this phase of the Zephyr-saga. The first dozen pages or so had med winded for a bit, but once the memories of the plot from the previous installments came back to me it was an absolute page-turner. Hately REALLY has a way with words and has no qualms inventing his own refreshing and laughter-inducing metaphors. An, apparently, unknown gem of a book and series.
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WebbSlinger25
5.0 out of 5 stars Just an amazing book!
Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2018
He's back and kicking ass again! I agree with some other people that this would have been a satisfying end to this series, but I am happy there's more to come.
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Kevin Cain
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome set of books
Reviewed in Australia on September 1, 2020
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So I’ve just finished this book, and can’t wait to start Zephyr 8 already! I’m beyond hooked, the story is so outlandish, the destruction and mayhem so epic.
Super heroes, and super villains, with ideational tech!
Multiple parallels, time travel, an occultist antihero, (not a villain, just not a hero... allegedly), and big names like the Beatles, Sting, etc who are also superheroes....
a great read, and the prose has improved dramatically over the series, to become almost unputdownable! 5 stars from me.
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ニコラス ジョルダノ
5.0 out of 5 stars Best one yet
Reviewed in Japan on July 30, 2020
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Wow, this Zephyr really lives up to the fullest potential of the series. Everything moves along at a quick pace, lots of reveals and status quo changes, quite a few loose ends or other things that have nagged at me at resolved (or brought back and built upon), and Zephyr himself feels more and more like a guy I want to buy a beer for. Thoroughly enjoyed this one.
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