"Junkyard Cats" by Faith Hunter

[Lynn McGuire]

"Junkyard Cats" by Faith Hunter
https://www.amazon.com/Junkyard-Cats-Faith-Hunter/dp/1622681754/

Book number one of a four book novella science fiction series. I read
the well printed and well bound POD (print on demand) trade paperback
published by Lore Seekers Press in 2023 that I bought on Amazon. I have
ordered the other three books in the series.

The book is set in the not so distant future, probably 2060 or so. In
2043, thousands of Chinese Mama bots advanced into Seattle in 2043,
creating and deploying Warbots to kill the population. The Mama bots
self replicate and spread across the USA, killing off most of the
population with their warbots, starting "The Final War".

Shining Smith has just bought an old scrapped Tesla warplane for her
West Virgina junkyard but she finds an old friend dead in the cockpit
when she broke the military seals. And, the plane is infected with
bicolor ants, a nanobot enhanced ant that a crazy person introduced to
the USA to eat all of the dead bodies. Shining is one of the few known
survivors of a bicolor ant swarm, who infected her with their nanobots.
And she is a survivor of The Final War that started when she was 12.
But her old friend is a warning that danger is coming.

The author has a website at:
https://www.faithhunter.net

My rating: 5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars (4,587 reviews)

Lynn

[Lynn McGuire]

Post by Lynn McGuire
"Junkyard Cats" by Faith Hunter
   https://www.amazon.com/Junkyard-Cats-Faith-Hunter/dp/1622681754/
Book number one of a four book novella science fiction series.  I read
the well printed and well bound POD (print on demand) trade paperback
published by Lore Seekers Press in 2023 that I bought on Amazon.  I have
ordered the other three books in the series.
The book is set in the not so distant future, probably 2060 or so.  In
2043, thousands of Chinese Mama bots advanced into Seattle in 2043,
creating and deploying Warbots to kill the population.  The Mama bots
self replicate and spread across the USA, killing off most of the
population with their warbots, starting "The Final War".
Shining Smith has just bought an old scrapped Tesla warplane for her
West Virgina junkyard but she finds an old friend dead in the cockpit
when she broke the military seals.  And, the plane is infected with
bicolor ants, a nanobot enhanced ant that a crazy person introduced to
the USA to eat all of the dead bodies.  Shining is one of the few known
survivors of a bicolor ant swarm, who infected her with their nanobots.
And she is a survivor of The Final War that started when she was 12. But
her old friend is a warning that danger is coming.
   https://www.faithhunter.net
My rating:  5 out of 5 stars
Amazon rating:  4.5 out of 5 stars (4,587 reviews)
Lynn

From another board: "The “Junkyard Cats” book is WEIRD. I think I
like it but I’m not sure yet. Are all romance writers working off the
same basic plot? I guess that’s sort of the definition of “genre”
writing. They have to go to pretty extreme lengths to make their story
stick out…. it kept me up an extra hour last night anyway…"

Yes, “Junkyard Cats” is weird. I did not mention the dark matter WIMP
engines for the space ships. Or the Bug aliens that forced The Final
War to stop. Or the fact that Russia used WIMP bombs on Germany and
tore a hole in the stratosphere, losing much of the water from Earth to
outer space. Or that Shining has a crashed Bug space ship.

BTW, the nanobots are freaking me out. The fact that Shining Smith is
infected and shedding nanobots all over the place is a horrifying
concept. And she has infected her junkyard cats who use the nanobots to
communicate to each other and her.

So to me, this is a science fiction book, not a science fiction romance
book. I am reading book #2 in the series now.

Lynn