Book Details:
Book Title: Finders Keepers: The Definitive Edition by Russ Colchamiro
Category: Adult Fiction, 310 pages
Genre: Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Publisher: Crazy 8 Press
Release date: October 17, 2018
Tour dates: Jan 7 to 25, 2019
Content Rating: PG-13 + M (A few f-bombs, and mild sex scenes + some casual drinking/pot smoking)
Book Description:
In the spirit of The Good Place, Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure, and The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, author Russ Colchamiro has gone back to the future to deliver his wildest, funniest novel yet–the updated Sci-Fi/Fantasy tale Finders Keepers: The Definitive Edition.
When a jar containing the Universe’s DNA falls from Eternity, bumbling backpackers Jason and Theo find their loyalties–and sanity!–put to the test. Unaware that a motley crew from another realm is chasing them across the globe to retrieve that radioactive vessel, these intrepid new friends are forced to contend with passion, responsibility, and their own mortality–and the fate of the Solar System, which hangs in the balance.
Traversing Europe, New Zealand, and the backbone of Eternity, Finders Keepers: The Definitive Edition ultimately asks one simple question: Is the life you’re living the life you actually want . . . or does the Universe have more to offer than you can possibly imagine?
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Russ Colchamiro is the author of the rollicking space opera, Crossline, the zany SF/F backpacking comedy series Finders Keepers, Genius de Milo, and Astropalooza, and is editor of the SF anthology Love, Murder & Mayhem, all with Crazy 8 Press.Russ lives in New Jersey with his wife, two children, and crazy dog, Simon, who may in fact be an alien himself.Russ has also contributed to several other anthologies, including Tales of the Crimson Keep, Pangaea, Altered States of the Union, Camelot 13, TV Gods 2, They Keep Killing Glenn, and Brave New Girls. Russ is repped by The Zack Company.
My ReviewDonald and Danielle decided to spend a little me time together on a new creation. But in their distracted state a container of Cosmic Building Materials (CBM) falls to earth. A pinch of this could literally destroy or build worlds so a lot of people go on the hunt for this missing jar.
On Earth we meet Jason and Theo, two backpackers from Europe and New Zealand that have gone on a trip across Europe. These two are complete opposites but seem to complement each other. They find the jar and not knowing what to do with it keep it. This leads to a crazy race to get the jar of CBM and one heck of an adventure.
This is a great, hilarious adventure. Jason and Theo don’t really seem like a great pair but that is what makes this a team as they cluelessly wander the world with such a powerful element tagging along with them. But you also have the scramble in Eternity as they missing jar of CBM is found. It doesn’t help that they think down on us.
This was a great story. It was funny and kept me reading to see what else Jason and Theo would get themselves into. I think anyone that likes fantasy and humor would love to read this story.
I received a complimentary copy of this book. I voluntarily chose to read and post an honest review.
Guest Post
The Backpacker’s Guide to Books, Pets, and Car Accidents
By Author Russ Colchamiro
My new book Finders Keepers: The Definitive Edition — a scifi backpacking comedy in the spirit of The Good Place, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, and Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure — has a strange connection to my … pets.
I’ll explain.
Almost 25 years ago, while I was away on a backpacking trip through Europe — the trip that inspired Finders Keepers — my cat, Alex, got walloped by a car and needed emergency surgery. He busted his leg in four places and broke his jaw.
He had a long, tough recovery (mostly while I was overseas), with a permanent hinge in his left arm, a slightly misaligned jaw, and some lost teeth. During his recuperation phase, he was forced to spend several months holed up alone in my bedroom, with my family checking in on him.
But using up any number of his nine lives, for Alex, it was like the accident never happened. An adventurer and trouble-maker through and through, after several months he was back to his full cool-cat self and lived a long, full life, including him traveling cross-country with me. Twice. (He since died, but that was in 2009, at the ripe old age of 18).
Alex, was indeed, the very best.
Fast forward to 2010.
I was attending NY Comic-Con to launch the original version of Finders Keepers (to clarify… my newest book, Finders Keepers: The Definitive Edition, is a re-issue of my debut novel that is shorter, tighter, cleaner, and updated to fit better with the sequels, Genius de Milo and Astropalooza).
Anyhoo, while I was at NY Comic-Con, my wife Liz was in New Jersey, visiting her parents with our twin ninjas (just two months old at the time), and our kooky dog Simon.
Well … while I was out promoting Finders Keepers, Simon decided that he was going to run out into the street and tackle a car, underestimating the power of a 4,000-pound vehicle, and the damage it could cause.
The result was that Simon suffered a badly broken leg (hmm… sounds familiar), with cuts and bruises all over him and enough staples throughout his body to put Frankenstein to shame (really familiar).
It took a few months, but Simon made a full recovery. Physically, anyway. He’s now almost 12, and crazier than ever.
But let’s recap:
Two pets. Two car accidents. Same book. The first pet accident occurred while I was out galivanting on an adventure that inspired Finders Keepers. The second pet accident occurred while I was promoting Finders Keepers.
So…what’s my takeaway? Should I not have any more Finders Keepers-related travel? Do I need to sit Simon down and explain the laws of physics to him? Is the Universe trying to tell me something more substantial I should already know?
I keep thinking there must be some cosmic meaning in these pet-related Finders Keepers misadventures of mine. If you happen to crack the code, I hope you’ll share. Because all these years later… I still haven’t figured it out.
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