This is my stop during the blog tour for True Calling by Siobhan Davis. This blog tour is organized by Lola's Blog Tours. The blog tour runs from 15 till 30 November, you can view the complete tour schedule on the website of Lola’s Blog Tours.
True Calling (True Calling #1)By Siobhan Davis
Genre: Dystopian/Science Fiction/Romance
Age category: Young Adult
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Blurb:
Planet Novo, nestled in space twelve hundred miles above the surface of the Earth, is the new home of 17-year-old Cadet Ariana Skyee. Confused by the government-sanctioned memory erase and distressed at her impending forced marriage and motherhood, Ariana’s plans for the future are thrown into complete disarray.
As the traumatic events within her family life enfold, Ariana grows increasingly alarmed at the authorities apparent pre-occupation with her and feels progressively more isolated and alone.
Her growing feelings for fellow Cadet Cal Remus intensify as the recently announced pageant, ‘The Calling’, gets underway. Struggling to comprehend the continuous, inexplicable dreams of the mysterious Zane, discovering the past helps shape her future, with devastating personal consequences.
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10's List
Technological
and/or Medical Advancements you’d like to see in your lifetime
Firstly,
I’d just like to say that this is an awesome topic, and I’d like
to thank Ashley for setting me such a cool challenge. Writing this
list has been very thought-provoking, and involved some interesting
debate in the Davis’ household! When you start thinking about
technological and medical advancements, it is amazing to realize how
much society has, and will, achieve over the course of one person’s
lifetime. Awe-inspiring. Here is my ten cents worth:
10.
Self-drive
cars with centralized tracking systems:
This one is the easiest to predict, and we are already moving towards
this goal. Think no more taxi’s (sorry taxi drivers – I think it
is time to start retraining), no need for designated drivers and no
restrictions on bringing your car with you on a night out.
9.
Early
medical detection:
In True
Calling
being supremely healthy is of vital concern to the new government, to
ensure the continuation of humanity. Medicets (specialist robots) and
the Vita chip implants monitor individual health on a daily basis.
This is something I’d like to see in my lifetime, as there is so
much needless suffering that could be prevented. There’s no
question that breakthroughs in genetic engineering will help us treat
or eliminate a whole range of diseases in the future.
8.
Fingerprint
and Retinal ID
as standard to help eliminate identity theft and remove the need for
cash and credit cards when shopping.
7.
Everyone
is a Fashion Designer:
Customizable computer programmes that allow us to create our own
clothing range; that would be pretty cool, right? Imagine you could
log into your computer and plug in what you want - colour, material,
texture, style, size. Uploading your image would enable you to view
how the end product will look. Then you just click a button, and your
design is manufactured and shipped.
6.
Family
Robots
will become the new family pets, only much more useful as they attend
to our needs, rather than the other way around. I am already
salivating at the prospect of more time to write, and never having to
clean the oven/shower/toilet again.
5.
Automated
exercise:
I’d like to be around when they develop a machine/robot/computer
that exercises my body while I sleep. You are starting to see a
pattern here, yeah? It’s not that I’m lazy, more that I aspire to
be lazy—so I can sit at my desk transcribing the stories from my
head, and not have to worry about anything else in my life because
modern day living already takes care of that.
4.
Targeted
Medical Programmes:
Individual genetic code is harnessed to customize medical programmes
that a) cure individual illnesses and b) help prevent genetic illness
passing from generation to generation.
3.
Extend
our lifetimes:
Stem cell research is apparently making great progress, and it is
quite possible that we will be able to increase our lifespan. I’d
like to be around to meet my great-great grandchildren, but only if
this life extension programme can also halt the aging process.
Because who’d want to look at a 150-year-old face otherwise?
2.
Commercial
space travel:
I really want to holiday beyond this world, and I can think of
nothing more incredible than looking down at Earth as we rocket to
our 5-star holiday village in outer space. Epic.
1.
Eat
all you want without gaining weight:
I am pinning all my hopes on this one!! He, he!! I am hopeful that
some super drug will be created, or genetic modification programme
developed, which allows me to stuff my face and remain a
skinny-minnie at the same time. Super shallow, I know, but I am
nothing if not honest.
About the Author:Siobhan Davis is the author of YA science fiction romance series True Calling.
A self-diagnosed ‘teenager forever’—at least when it comes to books, music and movies; Siobhan is totally addicted to teen fiction and superhero/blockbuster movies. Siobhan loves baking, crime novels, shoes, bags, make-up, anti-wrinkle cream, anything pink, Kelly Clarkson, Katy Perry, and Robert Pattinson (definitely Team Edward).
Siobhan has forged a successful corporate career, in Human Resources, over the last twenty years.
A member of the IWI writers group, Siobhan resides in the Garden County of Ireland with her husband and two sons.
Contact Siobhan at: www.siobhandavis.com
You can find and contact Siobhan here:
- Website | Author blog | Book website | Facebook | Twitter | Google + | Goodreads
There is a tour wide giveaway for the blog tour of True Calling.
The giveaway is open international. These are the prizes you can win:
- Paperback copy True Calling
- 3 e-copies of True Calling
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