Tales of Anyar

Destiny's Crucible, Book 5

By: Olan Thorensen

Narrated by: Jonathan Davis

The Destiny’s Crucible series chronicles the incredible adventure of Joseph Colsco, a college student of no particular importance who is thrust into an unimaginable fate by an accident that couldn’t happen - but did. Cast naked on the planet Anyar, he forges a new life for himself and rises to prominence and responsibilities he would otherwise never have imagined. However, much is left undone and uncertain.

For fans who finished the first four installments, many questions were left unanswered and many stories left untold. This collection of short stories and novellas addresses some of the questions, expands previous books, and points to future directions. The anthology begins not on the planet Anyar but on Earth, with the aftermath of the improbable accident that starts Joseph Colsco on his new life.

©2018 Olan Thorensen (P)2018 Podium Publishing

Not what you would expect

Don’t approach this book expecting any form of coherent structure or answers to any outstanding questions. Expect fragmented story lines to be brought up and then dropped with no explanation. Plan for retelling of scenes from different perspectives without adding new information.

Wish there was more in this series!

Tremendous world building. An absorbing tale of possibility. Narrator was perfect for this story. Bravo

This is the definition of great SiFi

If you are a fan of destiny's crucible then you are going to want to read this book.

Takes to tease

Solid followup to the stories from books 1-4. I was mildly disappointed there were no short stories dealing with some of the past events on Anyar. It would have been interesting to hear a few short stories from the time prior to Joseph Colsco coming to the planet.
As it stands it was a wonderful treat to tease more of the world and a little taste of what happened to other passengers on that fateful flight to Chicago.
As always solid narration.

rehash events.

With how good the last one was, I had high hopes for this. it also started good with going into different peoples stories, but then we go back and get different peoples points of view going over the major events from the last book. That makes it seem like a good amount of this book was stuff that got cut from the last one with how long it was. That is a bummer because of how short this one was.