Telekinetic

A Hyllis Family Story #1

By: Laurence E Dahners

Narrated by: Christopher Lane

Telekinetic is the first of a series of post-apocalyptic stories featuring the Hyllis family.

The collapse of civilization has reduced their people back to iron and horsepower. The Hyllises tend to inherit “tele-talents” such as telekinesis and teleportation. Tarc Hyllis’ mother (and his grandfather before her) could “feel” things with their talent. They became healers because they could feel inside their patients, which frequently let them diagnose the underlying causes of an illness. Having made a diagnosis, unfortunately, there was often little they could do to treat a problem.

Tarc’s father can “push” objects with his mind, but, because he can’t feel inside anything, he doesn’t know where to exert force in order to help to treat his wife’s patients. Tarc’s just gaining the ability to do both of these things. The combination of these two powers will let him both diagnose a physical problem such as internal bleeding, and then stop that bleeding by applying pressure inside the patient. His mother finds this development extraordinarily exciting. She has too often had to watch her patients die for lack of an effective treatment. Then some strangers show up to scout the town where the Hyllises live. They plan and initiate a violent takeover. Could Tarc’s powers, weak as they are, play a role in resisting this invasion?

It turns out he can guide a knife after it’s thrown...

©2014 Laurence E. Dahners (P)2020 Creative Texts Publishers, LLC

action-packed

I really enjoyed this book wonderful riding and a great narrator in Christopher Lane. I highly recommend this this book

i loved this book

I really like the series I really hope you enjoy it the next book is even better

What a great find this series.

Not every post apoc has to be road warrior. Great world building and character based story style. was waiting for a preorder and grabbed this and already bought book 2. finished in 2 days. Solid read and really loved the first chapter and setup to how the story and world got made. clever.

well written, well read

I thoroughly enjoyed this well-thought-out book, very good character growth and plausible realism surrounding the telekinetic idea.

Great Listen!

I love the books! This audio book really makes the story come alive! Great narration! Can’t wait for the next one!!

Loved it.

I have read stasis series and vaz. Loved both. The voice and style is different in the voice and I loved it. Can’t wait to get the next book

Laurence Dahners gets to a new level of writing

I've always enjoyed Laurance Dahners' writing. Most of his books are an easy read with a fun sci-fi concept introduced. The writing in the past has been good but not great but the subject is enough to keep me interested.

That said, this is the first book that I have read where I believe his writing gets to a new level. I can't quite put my finger on it, but the writing is better than ever before.

Can't wait to read the rest of the series!

Good book, it was a little bit slow at first

but once you learn the main characters it gets moving. it is truly believable the way that the town folk act.

Pleasant surprise

I always enjoy a book that is a little bit different, The way in which the MC used his telekinetic powers were quite unique. The story was a bit thin but all in all it worked. However, I do think that it was a bit short and probably should’ve been combined together with the next book in the series. Look for it on sale or two for one.

Post-pandemic Family w Talents

I thoroughly enjoyed this book. In a society knocked back a couple hundred years or so and with limited local governance only, this family has to fend for itself against the town's invaders. Luckily they all have some talents that can help them survive. The boy's growing mastery of his talent turns out to be critical to the town's survival. And, his mother is a doctor and is teaching the boy how to use limited options available to them to care for patients. Surprisingly, the medical knowledge was presented accurately -- so many authors don't get it right AT ALL and it makes me wince to read. But Dahners gets it right.