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Author: Elizabeth Lang | Website
Elizabeth Lang was born in Hong Kong and moved to Canada in the late 60s.
She spent many years in IT, mainly in the insurance industry, and started writing late in life, but once begun, she couldn't stop.
She was an avid reader from an early age. Science Fiction and Fantasy were and still are her passions, with occasional dips in the pools of Mystery.
Her home base is in Toronto, but she has worked in many places around the world. She loves traveling, learning about different cultures, and sampling their delectable foods.
She writes mainly scifi thrillers/psychological dramas, though she did accidentally end up with a scifi romance novel. She swears she has no idea how that happened.
Elizabeth writes some humour, mainly wacky stuff that comes to her mind in the wee hours of the morning when her brain refuses to acknowledge being attached to the rest of her.
She has also dabbled in a bit of poetry, but barely enough to get her toes wet.
Published Works & Book Reviews
Character Follies
SHORT, FUN AND COMPLETELY INSANE
What happens when a writer's characters come alive and insist on having a life of their own outside the story?
What if they think they have better ideas for the story than she does?
Fireworks and comedy ensues.
This is the journey of one writer and her characters.
The Empire
A finalist in the 2011 Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
"It will be interesting to discover which will make you beg. Will it be the pain or the pleasure?"
How do you tame a man without breaking his spirit?
The galaxy is under siege from alien invaders. The Empire is the only force that stands in their way, trading the freedom of its citizens for a tenuous security.
Amidst this chaos, Lt. Adrian Stannis is a brilliant scientist trying to stay out of the limelight. He hides on a research vessel plying the Outer Rim and finds peace of a sort with Kali Mirren, a psi-enabled humanoid. But his days of anonymity may be coming to an end. Someone has discovered his secret and is determined to make him pay for his treachery. He must finish the project he abandoned years ago, one the Council deems essential in its fight against the aliens, but things are never that simple where Adrian is concerned.
Is he more man than machine, or have years hiding behind a mountain of logic eroded his humanity? Can he survive the tangled web of political expediency and psychological manipulation that surrounds him? Will Kali be able to save him from himself, or is there a mystery surrounding him that may explode in their faces?
Everyone wants to know the truth, but will it set them free?
Reviewer: Laurie-J
Review: Oct 21, 2011
Genre(s): Romance, Adventure / Action, Dystopia, Thriller, Science Fiction
This novel builds an Intriguing and frightening glimpse of a possible distant future for human-kind. Individual rights are non-existent if your talents or skills are needed in order to supposedly protect the greater whole. I picked this book up, and then literally simply could not force myself to put it down until I finished reading it.
This story is disturbing. A brilliant man, Lt Adrian Stannis, suffer