B E SCHAFER BOOKS

B.E. Schafer is the pen name of Blake Schaefer.

He has had a long interest in writing and has had a deep love of horror and sci-fi.  Ever since reading his first Stephen King novel at the age of twelve. He was hooked.  At the age of 15 he was introduced to many other types of fiction and non-fiction books by a teacher of his.  He notes many influences in my life.    King, Koontz, Steinbeck, Faulkner, Rice Bradbury and many more.

 He grew up and was educated in Southern Indiana.  He has lived in Illinois and the St. Louis Metro area.  He now resides in Indiana with his wife, six children, two dogs and two cats.  He is the Evansville Books Examiner for the Examiner.com where he writes about local and national authors as well as book reviews. SIX TOES is his firts novel.  His Short story Vultures 2112 has been selected for the Sci-fi talk.com  anthology available now on Kindle. The sequel to SIX TOES is set for release in June.

 

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from Cordon Publishers

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Review of SIX TOES BY READER VIEW

Six Toes

B.E. Schafer

Cordon Publications (2009)

ISBN 9780982208380 (Amazon)

Reviewed by Ron Standerfer for Reader Views (03/10)

 

It.s another ho-hum day in the small Midwest town of Solitude. The list of missing people continues
to grow and now includes the town.s only “lady of pleasure,” plus a group of Japanese businessmen
in town to inspect an old factory; a dog is found in a back alley horribly mutilated and apparently
eaten by a pack of vicious animals; and residents are beginning to pack up and leave with fear in
their eyes, muttering that “those people at Lost Island” were the cause of all this. Oh, and let us not
forget the town.s latest arrivals: two men horribly scarred and mutilated; one a former resident who
is returning to practice medicine; and the other, a hairy, one-eyed man who prefers to skulk and
slither around in the night and whose hands strongly resemble a pair of sharpened claws.

 

How do all these things fit together? The clue, of course, is Lost Island, a former military facility
that was engaged in a super secret research project involving genetics and gene splicing until it was
destroyed by a fire eight years before. There were two researchers on duty when the fire broke out
and they were presumed dead, along with a population of cats and other research animals. Oddly
enough, the list of research subjects also included five sub-teen children who mysteriously
disappeared just before the fire. As it turns out, the five children, now teenagers are living in
Solitude, facing excruciating mental and physical challenges that more than likely can be attributed
to their experience at Lost Island---a time in their lives they cannot remember. As you probably
already guess, the town of Solitude.s latest arrivals are the two researchers presumed to be lost in the
fire. When it is revealed that the two men are mortal enemies, that.s when the pace of the story
picks up; and when it is apparent that the one-eyed man displays distinctly animal characteristics and
quite possibly is not from this world, that.s when the plot thickens.

 

“Six Toes” is B.E. Schafer„s first novel and in it he spins a fine yarn that moves along at a fast pace
and keeps the reader on the edge of his seat. In fact, the way he seamlessly combined the two genres
of horror and science fiction into one story line reminds me of some of Stephen King.s early works--
-and that.s not a bad place to start. Book II of Six Toes, “The Legacy” is scheduled to be published
in the spring of 2010.

Below Exerpt of Review by Readers Favorite

THREE STARS 

The setting is the small town of Solitude in southern Indiana along the banks of the Ohio River. Dr. Richard Melton, research scientist, had been working on genetic engineering. His research began with various animals. He was uncomfortable when the government brought in cats for the experiments. He's always hated cats. Then they brought in the humans for testing. He cared for the children.

Sam the adult male had begun to make him uncomfortable. The man/animal was out of control. For years he had worked on the project. He wasn't totally comfortable with it but once the government had taken control he had little choice. Then someone had started an investigation. He had carefully formulated a plan to protect the children. He gave them a serum so they would forget their past. They might remember many years later but by then it wouldn't matter. As Melton continued with his plan he was attacked by Sam. The facility caught on fire. The firefighters found one man alive, when asked his identity he managed to say, "Dr. Richard Melton."

The children had been taken to parents that would love them and raise them. It was years later before the memories began to surface. They suffered severe migraines and seizures. The memories began to haunt them. They knew they were transforming, but what did that mean?

B.E. Schafer is a talented author. His plot is rather complex and involved. When I'm reading science fiction I want to read a good solid plot. It does not have to be filled with scientific facts. Schafer's work reminds me a little of Dean Koontz.

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         Deep within the small Midwest town of Solitude strange things are happening to the children. Twenty plus years of secrets are about to come out.

        Alexander Prower and his brother Wyatt are having dreams that seem to be theirs, but aren’t.  Alex feels as if he is somehow changing.  From experimentation gone awry and young adolescent hormones on the run, to discovering their true destiny, the children of Solitude are forced to fight for their very lives and come to terms with the fact that their lives will never be normal.   The children must seek out who they really are, and just what it means to be human in a world of ‘crazy animals’.