JACE OF
THE JUNGLE
A
Snapshot Novella
By Dale
Cozort
121 pgs
I’ve been
a big fan of writer Dale Cozort’s unique Snapshot books since the start. In
them he envisioned an all powerful race of aliens who could duplicate any part
of human history on our planet and duplicate it perfectly, molecule for
molecule. Imagine these god-like beings creating an exact duplicate of Argentina
in 1920, meaning everything in that country at that time would then exist in a
bubble…while the original Argentina would still exist here on Earth. Thus there
would be two, with the “snapshot” double now at the whims of these aliens,
where by they could attach that bubble to another that might contain France in
1955 and then allow the people in both bubbles to cross a zone tunnel and
interact.
Okay, so
yes, it gives us headaches too. The thing is Cozort is crafty enough to use
this world building to his story-telling advantage. In his latest Snapshot
Novella, “Jace of the Jungle” he totally goes all Edgar Rice Burroughs with a
young eleven year old white boy living in a hodge-podge Africa that features
ape-people, Roman Legions, lost cities and dinosaurs. See what I mean? This is
pulp-weaving and he pulls it off with so much fun and enthusiasm, this little 121
pg book is a tease appetizer leaving us wanting a whole lot more.
Like ERB?
Like romantic jungle adventures? Like action and adventure galore? Then what
are you waiting for? “Jace of the Jungle” is waiting for you.
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