DANIEL B ROYER
SCIENCE FICTION & FANTASY AUTHOR
DANIEL B ROYER
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
DANIEL B ROYER- Thank you so much for giving me a moment of your time. To give you a peek of my past, let me first tell you where it all started. Just to be honest, Superman has been in my wheel house since I was old enough to watch television. I was the fifth son of a six boy family, reared in a small town called Bay Village, nestled close to Lake Erie in north-east Ohio. After 17 years, I departed from my parents new home in New Orleans, LA. to start a life of my own.
After graduating high school I chose to join the 101st Screaming Eagles, where I attended four adventurous, military schools. Shortly after my time in the service, I began a life of fatherhood, raising three wonderful children. It was after raising my children I pursued the goal of writing science-fiction. Using my extremely creative ability to write passionately and descriptively, paired with my insatiable desire to research all means of Science-fiction, led to the development of ABEN ALMIGHTY SCI-FI SERIES.
KIRKUS REVIEW
ABEN, BOYALMIGHTY
by Daniel Royer ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 27, 2019
Brisk, entertaining supernatural romp.
A13-year-old boy becomes a superpowered defender of planets throughout the universe in Royer’s debut novel, which launches an SF/adventure series.
When a new family moves to his North Carolina neighborhood, Aben Egole meets Nastera Roshen, a girl his age. She wastes no time in showcasing her supernatural abilities by teleporting Aben to planet Zonda. Nastera is there to recruit Aben to the Astroknights, a group that protects planets from foreign invaders. She furthermore activates his dormant powers, which stem from his mother, Marlya, who’s been MIA for nine years. Aben learns that not only is his mother an alien, but that she’s alive and well, safely residing on her home planet. Aben subsequently develops and hones such abilities as telepathy and flight. Soon joined by his father, Col. Ivory Egole, the teenager and his fellow Astroknights embark on missions to help others, confronting winged creatures and more. These missions play a part in creating the universe’s first alliance, the Fortress of Planets. An alliance, however, may not be possible as long as tyrannical Imperial Gen. Warnod and his warships remain a perpetual menace. Consequently, a battle between the Astroknights and Warnod may be unavoidable. Royer begins this novel full-tilt as Nastera introduces herself and then teleports Aben by the very next page. The novel covers a wide range of characters, planets, and subplots, including Astroknights’ training or undergoing specific missions. As such, action scenes are sometimes over too quickly. Nevertheless, myriad abilities are on display, like shape-shifting and invisibility. And while Aben harnesses incredible skills (e.g., creating a vortex), he’s a mostly relatable teen protagonist. He, for example, is not invulnerable, as he doesn’t win every confrontation, and Aben can be impetuous, putting himself at unnecessary risk by going off on his own.
Brisk, entertaining supernatural romp. (dedication, author bio)