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Thunder Mountain #2
Monumental Summit: A Thunder Mountain Novel
USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith returns to his Thunder Mountain universe with Monumental Summit, a science fiction novel of the new times in the Old West.
Bonnie and Duster Kendal, two of the world’s great mathematicians, hire historical interior designer April Buckley and architect Ryan Knott to design and furnish a huge lodge to the year 1900 standards.
Only problem: The lodge can’t be built. It can’t exist. Yet, somehow it does because they’ve built it before.
USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith published more than a hundred novels in thirty years and hundreds and hundreds of short stories across many genres.
He wrote a couple dozen Star Trek novels, the only two original Men in Black novels, Spider-Man and X-Men novels, plus novels set in gaming and television worlds. Writing with his wife Kristine Kathryn Rusch under the name Kathryn Wesley, they wrote the novel for the NBC miniseries The Tenth Kingdom and other books for Hallmark Hall of Fame movies.
He wrote novels under dozens of pen names in the worlds of comic books and movies, including novelizations of a dozen films, from The Final Fantasy to Steel to Rundown.
He now writes his own original fiction under just the one name, Dean Wesley Smith. In addition to his upcoming novel releases, his monthly magazine called Smith’s Monthly premiered October 1, 2013, filled entirely with his original novels and stories.
Dean also worked as an editor and publisher, first at Pulphouse Publishing, then for VB Tech Journal, then for Pocket Books. He now plays a role as an executive editor for the original anthology series Fiction River.
For more information go to www.deanwesleysmith.com, www.smithsmonthly.com or www.fictionriver.com.
Bonnie and Duster Kendal, two of the world’s great mathematicians, hire historical interior designer April Buckley and architect Ryan Knott to design and furnish a huge lodge to the year 1900 standards.
Only problem: The lodge can’t be built. It can’t exist. Yet, somehow it does because they’ve built it before.
USA Today bestselling author Dean Wesley Smith published more than a hundred novels in thirty years and hundreds and hundreds of short stories across many genres.
He wrote a couple dozen Star Trek novels, the only two original Men in Black novels, Spider-Man and X-Men novels, plus novels set in gaming and television worlds. Writing with his wife Kristine Kathryn Rusch under the name Kathryn Wesley, they wrote the novel for the NBC miniseries The Tenth Kingdom and other books for Hallmark Hall of Fame movies.
He wrote novels under dozens of pen names in the worlds of comic books and movies, including novelizations of a dozen films, from The Final Fantasy to Steel to Rundown.
He now writes his own original fiction under just the one name, Dean Wesley Smith. In addition to his upcoming novel releases, his monthly magazine called Smith’s Monthly premiered October 1, 2013, filled entirely with his original novels and stories.
Dean also worked as an editor and publisher, first at Pulphouse Publishing, then for VB Tech Journal, then for Pocket Books. He now plays a role as an executive editor for the original anthology series Fiction River.
For more information go to www.deanwesleysmith.com, www.smithsmonthly.com or www.fictionriver.com.
266 pages, Kindle Edition
First published March 10, 2014
About the author
Dean Wesley Smith
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Edward Taft
Dee W. Schofield
Sandy Schofield
Kathryn Wesley
Dean Wesley Smith is the bestselling author of over ninety novels under many names and well over 100 published short stories. He has over eight million copies of his books in print and has books published in nine different countries. He has written many original novels in science fiction, fantasy, mystery, thriller, and romance as well as books for television, movies, games, and comics. He is also known for writing quality work very quickly and has written a large number of novels as a ghost writer or under house names.
With Kristine Kathryn Rusch, he is the coauthor of The Tenth Planet trilogy and The 10th Kingdom. The following is a list of novels under the Dean Wesley Smith name, plus a number of pen names that are open knowledge. Many ghost and pen name books are not on this list because he is under contractual obligations not to disclose that he wrote them. Many of Dean’s original novels are also under hidden pen names for marketing reasons.
Dean has also written books and comics for all three major comic book companies, Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse, and has done scripts for Hollywood. One movie was actually made.
Over his career he has also been an editor and publisher, first at Pulphouse Publishing, then for VB Tech Journal, then for Pocket Books.
Currently, he is writing thrillers and mystery novels under another name.
Edward Taft
Dee W. Schofield
Sandy Schofield
Kathryn Wesley
Dean Wesley Smith is the bestselling author of over ninety novels under many names and well over 100 published short stories. He has over eight million copies of his books in print and has books published in nine different countries. He has written many original novels in science fiction, fantasy, mystery, thriller, and romance as well as books for television, movies, games, and comics. He is also known for writing quality work very quickly and has written a large number of novels as a ghost writer or under house names.
With Kristine Kathryn Rusch, he is the coauthor of The Tenth Planet trilogy and The 10th Kingdom. The following is a list of novels under the Dean Wesley Smith name, plus a number of pen names that are open knowledge. Many ghost and pen name books are not on this list because he is under contractual obligations not to disclose that he wrote them. Many of Dean’s original novels are also under hidden pen names for marketing reasons.
Dean has also written books and comics for all three major comic book companies, Marvel, DC, and Dark Horse, and has done scripts for Hollywood. One movie was actually made.
Over his career he has also been an editor and publisher, first at Pulphouse Publishing, then for VB Tech Journal, then for Pocket Books.
Currently, he is writing thrillers and mystery novels under another name.
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January 28, 2025
3.5 stars
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July 31, 2017Fun story but again the characters are too perfect.
September 12, 2017
They plan a mansion to be bult like it was a hundred years ago. Then they get to travel back in time and build that lodge. THen they fall in love. THen they reide horses. It was fine for what it was.
August 19, 2019
This novel Monument Summit was similar to Thunder Mountain in that we have two people who have no lovers and hadn’t for some years see each other for the first time and are amazed and blown away about how awesome each is to the other and immediately want to spend the rest of their lives together, within a two or three day period. My goodness!
The goal is to build a lodge back in 1900. The trick is for Duster and Bonnie to convince the couple, Ryan and April, that they need to come back in time and help them build it. Ryan doesn’t believe this is possible but designs it anyway for the “rich eccentric clients.”
The story has no tension, no antagonist. Just flows along from start to finish without hardly any drama or conflict. Dean Wesley Smith has a habit of saying ‘flat’ in many of his sentences. “’I was flat amazed…” “I just flat didn’t believe it.” What’s ‘flat.’
Final Thoughts:
Story and plot quite bland and flow along and quite forgettable. Ryan and April constantly in the throws of love and stay that way for many years. Yikes. Well at least they got a house built. Enjoy!
The goal is to build a lodge back in 1900. The trick is for Duster and Bonnie to convince the couple, Ryan and April, that they need to come back in time and help them build it. Ryan doesn’t believe this is possible but designs it anyway for the “rich eccentric clients.”
The story has no tension, no antagonist. Just flows along from start to finish without hardly any drama or conflict. Dean Wesley Smith has a habit of saying ‘flat’ in many of his sentences. “’I was flat amazed…” “I just flat didn’t believe it.” What’s ‘flat.’
Final Thoughts:
Story and plot quite bland and flow along and quite forgettable. Ryan and April constantly in the throws of love and stay that way for many years. Yikes. Well at least they got a house built. Enjoy!
October 24, 2024
Book 2 of Thunder River series. Can be read stand alone or series. It does recap book 1. I enjoy this series for its time travel aspect. We have 4 couples involved in this one. The story has good flow. I found it easy to jump into. It was a quick read for me.
January 29, 2019
Flat characters, lots of filler.
May 5, 2022
The series is getting more interesting with every book completed in the series. Liked this one, and now the later books in the series I already read make more sense. Looking to more.
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