Vaz

Name: Vaz
Brand: Tantor Audio
Availability: InStock
Author: Laurence E. Dahners
ISBN: 9781515972051

Author: Laurence E. Dahners

Series: Vaz #1

Narrator: Stephen R. Thorne

Unabridged: 7 hr 52 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/09/2016

Categories: Fiction, Science Fiction

Synopsis

Vaz is the story of Vaz Gettnor, a socially impaired, yet scientifically brilliant man. Despite his inability to relate to others, Lisanne married him in admiration for what she perceived as shy intelligence. However, she's been disappointed by the way he's settled for working as no more than a glorified lab tech with a low salary. Adding to their problems, Vaz and Lisanne have two teenagers who are typically surly, embarrassed by their parents, but whom they want to send to college—if only they can find the money. When Vaz is fired from his job as a researcher, but then discovers a means to achieve "cold fusion," a technology which could solve the energy crisis and their financial difficulties, virtually no one believes him, least of all his family. In fact, the only people who do believe are the ones who are trying to steal the technology from him . . .

About Laurence E. Dahners

Laurence E. Dahners is the author of numerous science fiction novels, including the Ell Donsaii series and the Vaz series. Laurence works as an orthopedic surgeon who teaches at the University of North Carolina Medical School, Department of Orthopaedics. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, and enjoys composing and recording music as well as painting.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Mark on March 27, 2015

Vas is my Hero! Geek to the rescue! A very enjoyable read. Highly entertaining! I found the characters to be well developed, well at least the "Gettner's". I easily can recommend this book.......more

Goodreads review by Shane on October 09, 2015

Three and a half stars. I was looking for an Ell Donsaii fix and figured I should go to the source. I like Dahners' style and especially his 'what if' approach to the bounds of real science. This hit all those marks. Where it missed for me was in the character development (there just wasn't any). Th......more

Goodreads review by Lukas on August 01, 2022

Oh wow, I did not expect to enjoy this book quite so much :D The humour in it was quite wonderful and I was cheering Vaz throughout. Short and wonderful :)......more

Goodreads review by Dan on March 17, 2024

Quite good!......more

Goodreads review by Angel on September 14, 2019

Interesting story with some issues Generally I enjoy Dahners’ books. Completely aside from his atrocious comma usage and a tendency to make his MCs all-powerful, which his characters and storylines normally manage to overcome, this one has some issues. While Dahners does reasonably well at portrayin......more