For more about the author and his books, visit. I haven’t read the zombie one, but the vampire one is a serious novel, not a joke like the titles imply. At least once he’ll even speak to you directly, calling you a freehead (because you have no implant).Īs well as the DarkTrench books, Kerry Nietz has also written Amish Vampires in Space and Amish Zombies in Space.

It’s like ThreadBare is talking to you, the reader, streaming to you a real-time account of what’s happening.

But the questions ThreadBare starts asking could land him in serious pain.įrayed is written in the first person, present tense, and that works for these books. In this society built on a form of Islamic law, their one bonus is they’re guaranteed entry to paradise because their chips block them from sinning – and from any other behaviour their masters forbid.ĭebuggers are gifted at asking questions, solving problems.

The protagonist, ThreadBare, is a debugger (human, implanted with a computer chip that lets him wirelessly interact with all the machines so he can fix them). (Now I want to go back and read that one for a refresher to what happened off-screen in this book.) Buy a cheap copy of Amish Vampires in Space by Kerry Nietz 0983965552 9780983965558 - A gently used book at a great low price. Chronologically it overlaps the last part of A Star Curiously Singing.

New to these books and not sure what to think? The book that started it all, A Star Curiously Singing, is free on most ebook platforms.įrayed is the start of the DarkTrench Shadow Series, with new characters. Algeria, Angola, Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Benin, Bermuda, Bolivia, Botswana, Brazil, Brunei Darussalam, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Cape Verde Islands, Central African Republic, Chad, Chile, Colombia, Comoros, Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast), Democratic Republic of the Congo, Djibouti, Ecuador, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas), Gabon Republic, Gambia, Germany, Ghana, Greenland, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Guyana, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Iraq, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kenya, Kuwait, Laos, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Macau, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Mayotte, Mexico, Morocco, Mozambique, Namibia, New Zealand, Niger, Nigeria, Oman, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Puerto Rico, Qatar, Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, Saint Helena, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Singapore, Somalia, South Africa, Suriname, Swaziland, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Togo, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, Vietnam, Virgin Islands (U.S.Fans of the DarkTrench saga will be pleased to return to that same, dystopian future Earth.