Maybe I'm old fashioned or something, but it seems to me that an awful lot of people on here are handing out one-star reviews at the drop of a hat. It's actually impossible to give no stars at all, so one star basically implies a book with no redeeming features. And to my mind at least, it implies a reader who has absolutely no respect or consideration for that book's author and how much time, effort and love he or she has poured into their creation. It's like being slapped in the face by a stranger, and I can't say that I like it.

I've been thinking about this a lot over the last few days, and I don't think I've ever come across a book that had no redeeming features. Not a single one. And I'm almost 55 years old. So I assume that the people who do give one star reviews do so quite a lot and see things from an entirely different perspective to me. Books that - in my opinion, at least! - are worse than mine, have crossed my path, but I didn't think any of them were bad enough to earn less than 2 or 3 stars out of 5. Conversely, I have seen films, TV shows and even [heard] records that would be struggling to earn one star. I remember how sick and angry and cheated I felt when I played those records by Hawkwind, Soft Machine, and Tangerine Dream 2 or 3 times each back in the 80s, and I try to visualise somebody feeling that way after reading my book. It just doesn't add up. In my opinion, either they didn't finish the book, probably giving up before they got to the crucially important 3rd of the 20 extremely diverse pieces it contains, or their expectations of it as a whole were entirely unrealistic. Either way, that has to be at least partly my fault. At the end of the day, to my knowledge, there is nothing else like my KILLING TIME LEGACY SERIES out there. This is only the first in a series of 5 books. I'm laying foundations, creating a new world. It's a shock, a surprise. Maybe, just maybe, it's ahead of its time. And there will always be people who are simply not prepared for it.