#BookExtract ‘Recoil’ by J.T Nicholas

Today, I am thrilled to be bringing you a sneak peek at brand new Titan Books release, ‘Re-Coil’ by J.T Nicholas.

Released in paperback and ebook  today, this is an exciting debut that I am very much looking forward to reading, so let’s check it out!

About the book…

Out on a salvage mission with a skeleton crew, Carter Langston is murdered by animated corpses left behind on this ship. Yet in this future, everyone’s consciousness backup can be safely downloaded into a brand-new body, and all you’d lose are the memories of what happened between your last backup and your death. But when Langston wakes up in his new body, he is immediately attacked in the medbay and has to fight once again for his life—and his immortality. Because this assassin aims to destroy his core forever.

Determined to find his shipmates and solve this evolving mystery, Langston locates their tech whiz Shay Chan, but two members are missing and perhaps permanently killed. Langston and Chan are soon running for their lives with the assassin and the corporation behind him in hot pursuit.

What Langston and Chan ultimately find would signal the end of humanity. What started as a salvage mission just might end up saving the world.

Book Extract

”The rational part of my mind insisted on telling me that residual electrical
energy in the brain could stimulate the ocular muscles and make the eyes
of the corpse snap open. It had less explanation for the fact that the same
coil, which had until that moment been firmly strapped into its
acceleration couch, had pulled itself up and was floating in the
microgravity. It moved gracelessly toward me, limbs that should have
been long frozen reaching out to pull it past the seated heads of its fellow
corpses, still locked into their own acceleration chairs. Its hands closed on
the back of one of those chairs, and it pulled, launching itself forward,
arms stretched out before it, fingers reaching.
The coil flew at me like a missile, the steadily increasing tug of the engines
hardly slowing it. My conscious mind was still trying to catch up, to
process what was happening. That didn’t stop instinct from kicking in,
and my hands came up, even as I twisted my body at the hips and
shoulders and knees, presenting as thin a profile as possible while my feet
remained locked to the deck. The outstretched hands missed me by
inches, and the rest of the coil continued to float past.
I dropped my hands down, slamming my suited forearms into the coil’s
back as it passed, imparting a new vector that sent it careening first to the
deck, and then bouncing off toward the overhead. The force jarred me,
not just my arms, but put a terrible pulling strain on my ankles as the boot
magnets competed with the action/reaction force of the strike. I once
again pulled free from the deck, but only just, floating a few inches off the
ground.
“Persephone,” I gasped. “Are you seeing this?” I received no response.

“Persephone, do you copy?”
 Silence.
Sarah, where the hell is Persephone?
My agent’s voice echoed in my mind. The Persephone’s Net has gone
offline. Insufficient signal strength to ascertain any additional information.
What?
 The Persephone’s Net has…
I interrupted the agent with a
quick Cancel query. I managed to reorient myself back toward the front
of the cabin, using the chairs to pull myself back down to the floor. The…

coil… was still flailing up near the overhead, its movements too jerky and
spasmodic for microgravity. Which was alarming in and of itself—the
blow to the back would have incapacitated a normal person. Of course, so
would being suitless in vacuum. Normal had gone right out the airlock.”

Thoughts?

I’ve got chills!

So if you are fan of science fiction this should definitely be on your radar-go check it out!

About the author…

J.T. Nicholas is the author of the upcoming science-fiction novel Re-Coil and the neo-noir science-fiction series The New Lyons Sequence. When not writing, J.T. spends his time practising a variety of martial arts, playing games (video, tabletop, and otherwise), and reading everything he can get his hands on. He currently resides in Wilmington, North Carolina with his wife.

Twitter @TitanBooks @JamesTNicholas