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The Gryphon Stone (The Chimera Multiverse) Kindle Edition

by Thomas Watson (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

4.2 38 ratings

Part of: The Chimera Multiverse (2 books)

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Of all the worlds in the multiverse, Adrathea is the last David Render would willingly revisit. What happened there broke his heart and drove him to retire from the UN Multiverse Survey. To hang up his sword, and leave the service of the Alvehn.

But now Adrathea is in peril. An Alvehn device known as an empathy bridge – called the Gryphon Stone by the Adratheans – has been stolen. Without it, the centuries-old alliance between humans and gryphons is failing, and a bloody conflict looms. To prevent that war, the Gryphon Stone must be found and restored – quickly.

However much it pains him, Adrathea is a world to which David’s fate is bound by the most intimate of ties. He has no choice. Adrathea calls, and he must answer.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07773KKN2
Publisher ‏ : ‎ (November 5, 2017)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 5, 2017
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 1171 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 ‏ : ‎ 275 pages

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- #5,768 in Dragons & Mythical Creatures Fantasy (Books)
- #8,657 in Action & Adventure Fantasy (Kindle Store)
- #13,336 in Science Fiction Adventure

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I've always been a storyteller, and very early in my life found the written word to be my preferred method for telling tales. I grew up enjoying words for their own sake, with some of my earliest memories being of family members reading to me and teaching me to both read and write. Most of my childhood was spent in houses full of books, and reading inspired writing. The experience of reading stories, of having feelings and images conjured from my imagination merely by reading carefully arranged words, fascinated me. Somewhere, in a time lost to memory, reading inspired me to try writing my own stories - and that truly was a long time ago. Then as now, I wanted to see if my words could evoke emotions and images in the minds of other people. Have I succeeded in doing so? I have a certain amount of confidence in what I do but, really, success or failure in this regard is a call only readers can make.

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William R. Herr

High fantasy in a SF setting

Reviewed in the United States on May 21, 2018

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Thomas Watson has delivered a beautifully rendered epic fantasy, which isn't really a fantasy but rather a SF adventure. With not really magical swords, gryphons, dragons, and--listen, just roll with it. It all makes sense, and it's a fun, rollicking adventure.

Daffyd Outworlder was a child when rifts between realities began to.open, but he grew to be a special operative with the trans-reality police. He is pulled out of retirement by his old friend Trey, an alien from another universe, asks for his help. The mission? Save the world, of course. Not this one, but rather a suppressed society named Adrathea, several realities away, that is being usurped by Trey's evil cousin. As a bonus, this is the world where Daffyd lost his love and family to a time-slip. Together, the two travel to Adrathea and, with the assistance of a beautifully deadly island woman, try to recapture the eponimous Gryphon Stone.

Readers will quickly fall into one of two camps: a) "Not SF! Dragons and magic and crap!" or b) "Clarke's Law, totally SF!" I admit I pondered this for a while as a fun diversion, but in the end it doesn't matter. This is a story about a soldier drug by honor back to his battlefield of horrors,and his hero's journey to both restore order and conquer his own demons. The genre is unimportant, no matter how masterfully it is delivered.

This reminded me very much of McCaffrey's Pern novels, both in tone and scope, but with a healthy dollop of Niven. Everything makes sense, mostly, and those aspects which push the scientific envelope are treated in a logical manner. The focus is not so much the setting, which is lush and prosaic, nor the technology/magic, which is lovingly detailed, but rather the interplay between characters with vastly different perceptions. And this is as it should be.

The plot grabs you, and demands your attention. Be prepared to eagerly await the sequel. Regardless,

Buy this book. I did.

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dbayly

Satisfying Fantasy quest for adults

Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2019

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But it's really an SF book. The world building, well brade building, is done with skill , incrementally throughout an action packed quest, with lots of plot twists and some well developed characters . There is even a love element where grownups form a relationship without any teenage angst. I enjoyed it much more than I expected to and I hope there will be more of these characters to come.

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JessicaR

Would be helpful to read the previous book but not neccessary

Reviewed in the United States on June 15, 2023

No cliffhanger.

get comfortable in your reading chair and step into the time/space ...

Reviewed in the United States on February 5, 2018

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Attention all you lovers of the ascended masters of the sci-fi/fantasy genre there is a new star rising in the west. Tom Watson's prose is as steady as the beat of Gryphon's wings, as taut as a bowstring just before release and as endearing as two entwined lovers. Buy it, get comfortable in your reading chair and step into the time/space Rip leading to a world populated by marvelous characters and a full steam ahead plot. You won't be sorry but maybe the luminaries will start to look to the heavens, wondering who the new star is.

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Reeth

Writing fine--couldn't get into the character

Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2020

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Did not finish. Character didn't hook me at all. Perhaps if the original story had been included where he got shoved out the world the first time and lost his love. The recall just wasn't interesting enough for me to continue reading.

Reviewed in the United States on April 18, 2021

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Haven't ready many books in this genre. But I really like this book. Read all the way through very quickly. I recommend this book to any one!

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Frances

Great Characters, Great Worldbuilding

Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2017

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This science-fiction novel reads like a fantasy and reminds me of the fantasy novels I used to love but doesn't feel old-fashioned. I like the world, the hero, and his friends, and I hope Watson writes more in this setting. He's created a broader world than he reveals in this book and I'd like to learn more about it. And in case you were wondering, the author provides a believable reason that a man from the future would need to use a sword.

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Georgina Lambert

Very enjoyable, well written fantasy novel. The characters ...

Reviewed in the United States on May 10, 2018

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Very enjoyable, well written fantasy novel. The characters were well drawn and I hope to follow their adventures in a future novel.