At the most, perhaps it would even be a good book.Īllow me to insert the cliched third person omniscient foreboding here: little did I know what was in store for me.Īfter a modicum of research, I found myself buying not one, but three books by Wolverton (The Sum of All Men, Nightingale, and On My Way to Paradise, of course). A local author with some renown, his son in need, and climbing medical bills? At the very least, I would help fellow human being in need, discover a new author and pick up a new book. Further, according to Correia, Wolverton was something of a 'godfather' to fiction writers in Utah (coincidentally, where I'm at), shepherding over 200 writers to publication.Īll Correia asked is that folks would buy Wolverton's latest book (preferably through a link to Amazon that would maximize Wolverton's take). Wolverton's son had been in a longboarding accident and was in a coma. Larry Correia, the author of the larger than life Monster Hunter International series posted on his blog that Dave Wolverton, an author I had never heard of, was in dire straights and needed help. I found On My Way to Paradise almost completely by accident. Sometimes the best books are found entirely by accident.

I know for a fact, however, that people who read science fiction because the want an exhilirating combination of intelligence and adventure will love every page of this book.' Orson Scott Card, The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction I suspect that we may someday look back on On My Way to Paradise as the first stirring of one of the great American writerse of our time. 'I believe that this novel will be remembered as the first book by the finest science fiction writer of the 1990s. Many fine words that have won Hugos and Nebulas pale beside this book. The book is so mature in its sensibility and so strong in its artistry, so deep in its invention that most of us who write fiction would be proud to have such a novel as the culmination, not the beginning, of our career. 'I hesitate to tell you that this is Dave Wolverton's first novel. In a world of death, he dreams only of life-and the freedom to love once more. Jacked into training machines that simulate warfare, Angelo 'dies' a hundred times.and is resurrected to fight again. Fleeing the assassins who seek him as well as Tamara, Angelo seizes the only escape route available: to sign on as a mercenary with the Japanese Motoki Corporation in its genocidal war against the barbarian Yabajin. and calls down disaster, for the woman called Tamara is also a woman on the run, the only human with the knowledge that will save Earth from the artificial intelligences plotting to overthrow it. In a world of ever-worsening crisis, Angelo Osic is an anomaly: a man who cares about others. Here is a powerful first novel, at once disturbing and compelling-the chronicle of one man's odyssey of self-discovery within a world at war.

On My Way to Paradise by Dave Wolverton