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Dining Out With The Gas Giants (Dining Out Around The Solar System Book 3) Kindle Edition

by Clare O'Beara (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
4.6 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
COFFEE CRISIS – IMPORTS FROM MERCURY
Donal and Myron are journalists who’ll go anywhere for a story. This summer, as tempers flare and riots are sparked in London’s heat, they get a lead they can’t resist.
STUDENTS VS DRONES
Not all the off-world immigrants are friendly. For every gas giant native who works in ballet or hospitality, there’s one who plots a takeover.
RIOT AT THE DOME
Place hacking, augmented reality and student protests are all in a day’s work for the London’s Eye reporters. But when the trail leads to Rio and the Argentine Andes, have they finally bitten off a story too big to chew?
LONDON SKYBRIDGE IS FALLING DOWN

This is a standalone novel within the series 'Dining Out Around The Solar System'.
In a future where giant corporations run countries, all British Space Mines has to fear are journalists and hackers.
Donal and Myron are their worst nightmare.
When people from offworld races open ethnic restaurants in London, they meet a lot of opposition.
Donal and Myron are their best friends.
The London's Eye zine has vacancies.
What do you think happened to their other reporters?

"If you enjoy suspense stories with science fiction twists, I believe you will find Dining Out Around the Solar System by Clare O’Beara to be your five-star cup of tea."
D.S. Kane, author of Swiftshadow, DeathByte and Greynet in the 'Spies Lie' series.

This book is a standalone read and follows DINING OUT WITH THE ICE GIANTS.

By the Amazon No.1 Bestselling author of MURDER AGAINST THE CLOCK and MURDER AT IRISH MENSA.
Clare O'Beara won the Arkady Renko short story competition held by Simon & Schuster in 2014 and judged by Martin Cruz Smith.
"Please congratulate Clare O'Beara for me for her clever short, short story 'London Calling.' I appreciate that she treated Arkady kindly, taking his age into consideration, and managed to cross the finish line with a different sort of twist."
- Martin Cruz Smith.
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    Dining Out Around The Solar System
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A totally believable, both historic and futuristic London. With all its problems. And a mining shuttle and import/export arrangement from the other planets that's taken over Stansted... It's addictive, compelling, and probably the best put-together future world in existence. - Jemima Pett, author of The Princelings of The East series and The Viridian System series.Well-researched and thoroughly enjoyable science fiction... The last third of the book involves a hair-raising adventure in the Andes.- Kathleen Rollins, author of the Misfits And Heroes series.

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Clare O'Beara is a tree surgeon and expert witness, and a former national standard showjumper. She has been elected Chairman of Irish Mensa and Director of British Mensa Ltd. She was also appointed National Representative to Mensa International. She has served on the Royal Dublin Society Forestry And The Environment Committee. She lives in Dublin with her husband and cats. Clare is an award-winning writer of fiction and non-fiction, whose journalism work has been published in more than thirty countries. Her credits include Mensa Magazine and Mensa International Journal. 2013 - first prize for Print Journalism in Ireland's National Media Awards. 2014 - won the Arkady Renko short story contest held by Simon & Schuster and judged by Martin Cruz Smith. 2020 - Second, Dublin Business School Create Contest.
Clare contributed a story to A Pint And A Haircut (Lon Dubh, 2010), an anthology in aid of Concern's Haiti fund. Clare reads extensively and reviews books for Fresh Fiction.com.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B0150KLQIE
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Clare O'Beara
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  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 5, 2015
  • Edition ‏ : ‎ 1st
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 5.5 MB
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 394 pages
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1910544075
  • Page Flip ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Book 3 of 4 ‏ : ‎ Dining Out Around The Solar System
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Clare O’Beara is a tree surgeon and expert witness, and a former national standard showjumper. She has qualified in multimedia journalism, data visualisation, media law and ecology, and writes on environmental themes. She has served on the Royal Dublin Society’s Forestry and the Environment Committee.

Clare is an award-winning writer, award-winning blogger, and award-winning photojournalist, whose journalism work has been published in more than thirty countries. Her credits include Writing ie, The Register com, Mensa Magazine and Mensa International Journal. Editor of Dublin Business School’s Inside DBS blog and Sustainable College blog.

During 2020 Clare created the Irish Lockdown series. A Pony For Quarantine was nominated for Children’s Multicultural Book Day by US educational site Wise Owl Factory; A Dog For Lockdown was chosen Best Middle Grade Book of 2020 by author/ reviewer Jemima Pett.

Clare independently publishes crime, science fiction and romance, and No.1 Best Selling Young Adult books; she works to make her books Carbon Neutral.

2022 - Winner, Journalism Relating to Health, National Student Media Awards.

2021 - Winner, Blog Of The Year, National Student Media Awards.

2021 - Nominated, EPA Award for Journalism Relating to The Environment.

2020 - Second, Dublin Business School Create Contest.

2014 - Winner, Arkady Renko Short Story Contest: Simon & Schuster. Judged by Martin Cruz Smith.

2013 - Winner, Print Journalism, Ireland's National Media Awards.

The MacGuyver for the Hugo Awards at Worldcon Dublin 2019.

Reviewer for Fresh Fiction.

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  • K. Rollins
    5.0 out of 5 stars Engrossing sci-fi tale
    Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2016
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    Like its predecessor, Dining Out (3) is a well-researched and thoroughly enjoyable science fiction tale. It follows Myron and Donal, two intrepid journalists from the London’s Eye zine, as they track down stories, including unusual sports, a missing young woman, ugly protests against Off-Worlders, and a mysterious connection between the Jovians, the Chinese, and South America. The last third of the book involves a hair-raising adventure in the Andes.

    This book delves deeper than Dining Out (2) into the effects of climate change and poor environmental practices, as well as the social unrest that will inevitably follow from them. Having spent time in South America, I find many of the predictions in Dining Out (3) easy to believe.

    What holds all of this together is the personal and professional friendship of Donal and Myron. While they come from different backgrounds, they have a deep and mostly unspoken bond.

    I also enjoyed the many references, from Lord of the Rings to Jean de Florette.

    This is a well-crafted, fast-paced story. A treat, from beginning to end. Highly recommended!
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  • JE
    4.0 out of 5 stars They enjoy a close friendship and share a moral conviction that ...
    Reviewed in the United States on February 2, 2016
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    This well researched, rather baroque story follows two London journalists, Myron and Donal, as they investigate juicy leads and get personally involved in the resolution of the problems that they unearth. Myron is a colorful gentleman of Jamaican descent, while Donal is an Irish hacker with a knack for history and trivia. They enjoy a close friendship and share a moral conviction that will put them through (almost) anything. Then there’s Angie, the benign and experienced editor who believes in them and will back their boundary testing, as opposed to Kipp, a rather inexperienced, rigid editor who stands in for her during Angie’s temporary absence.
    The London Millennium Dome is occupied by Jovians, odd-looking creatures from Jupiter with larger-than-life ambition. When Donal and Myron find themselves inside the Dome’s inner sanctum, they uncover a story that will take them South—both literally and figuratively.
    Packed with neat tidbits about London and its history, the story follows the brave journalists through a very wide variety of issues, from place hacking, quirky “alternative” sports, rat-infested wealthy mansions and the history of plague to hot political and social issues such as racial and ethnic discrimination, women’s rights, migrant worker issues, unemployment, predatory lending, climate change, greenhouse gases, corporate tax evasion, street riots, student protests, Italian mafia-led corruption, and challenges with water use—to name a few.
    The imaginative plot includes characters such as a couple of Saturnian Royal Ballet dancers expecting progeny that will hatch from an egg, Neptunians carrying people on their backs across the Thames, and an Argentine hydrologist who guides the journalists across Patagonia. A Stanstead-based space station sends poverty-stricken youths on secretive space-mining operations that promise to pay off their student loan but will deliver them back in a dire physical and mental state. We also follow the story of a young maid who disappears and whose whereabouts are of great interest to Donal and Myron. The resolution of this story is revealed at the end of the novel.
    ‘Dining Out With the Gas Giants’ will appeal to those who enjoy an educational, informative tone to a novel, like to follow a wide variety of issues within a book and are interested in current environmental and socio-political topics.
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  • Carolyn Wilhelm
    5.0 out of 5 stars Not all of the off-world immigrants have the best intentions, but Donal and Myron do!
    Reviewed in the United States on June 3, 2019
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    By now we are familiar with Donal and Myron and to what great lengths they will go for a story as journalists in this futuristic story set in London. A story about imports from the planet Mercury will have them doing just that. They also find out that not all of the off-world immigrants have the best intentions, causing them to take chances to get the story again. Then, student protesters cause a riot at the dome, which could be another big story for the two friends. They are by now considered the foremost off-world watchers.

    And we know we will be learning some scientific information along the way because the author teaches us a few things in each book. Politics, science, problems mirroring our own are told through story.

    I am happy there are several books in this series as I enjoy them so much.
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  • MacQueen
    4.0 out of 5 stars Good Book!
    Reviewed in the United States on January 17, 2016
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    Once again, Clare O'Beara makes us think.

    I'm only going to get into a summary a little bit because you can read that above. We find ourselves again following the reporting lives of Donal and Myron as they cover a variety of cases and deal with things in their own lives. They live in a London that is inhabited by aliens from all sorts of planets, although I shouldn't say 'aliens' because that's considered racist. Whoops. Even though their world is so very different from ours, they are dealing with many of the same things. Racism, terrorism, student loan debt, women's rights in the workplace, etc. You can draw parallels that don't say sad, but true things about our society.

    Donal and Myron are great. They even had me laughing out loud at times. My favorite was when they were talking about ties and how they are a phallic symbol. To wear one, they had to make sure no one they were with would be offended. The humor throughout the book is subtle at times and just weird at others but it's all hilarious.

    I don't know, maybe this deserved 5 stars because the writing is very very good. But it did drag on for me. Maybe it was too long and some of the middle needed cut. I'll say it's a 4.5 because it probably doesn't knock off an entire star for that. I just have a hard time giving 5 stars to any book that doesn't grip me from beginning to end. It sure was entertaining though. The kind of book I needed at the time.
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  • eppingstrider
    5.0 out of 5 stars addictive, compelling, and probably the best put-together future world in existence
    Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 2, 2019
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    I’m very fond of Donal and Myron. Donal is an Irish citizen in London, brilliant and hypersensitive in many physical ways, as well as emotional ones. Myron is a laid back BritishJamaicanAfrican with a large family network, most of whom don’t intrude much. Together they are a crack journalistic team working on the London’s Eye, from an office on the Thames in the Canary Wharf area of East London. It’s a modern, fast-moving world, where ‘alien’ is a racist term and people are getting overheated about aliens taking their jobs. Students are getting overheated about nobody having jobs to give them so they end up deep in debt. And everybody is getting overheated because, well, you know, climate change.

    Ms O’Beara takes us with them through their humdrum lives, picking up leads here, ideas there, and gallivanting over roof tops and into private property long abandoned in search of a story. It’s a pattern regular readers are familiar with, but for a long time it seems like the story is going nowhere, just a series of vignettes that demonstrate what a really, really clever world Ms O’Beara has built. And seriously, the level of detail, and the depth of the sociological, psychological and environmental science that’s gone into this is terrific. And it’s in London. A totally believable, both historic and futuristic London. With all its problems. And a mining shuttle and import/export arrangement from the other planets that’s taken over Stansted.

    This is home. I feel totally at ease with it, even with the strange denizens of the other planets who have come to make their livings here. The only problem was that for two-thirds of the book nothing much happens. We go everywhere with Donal and Myron, we meet a lot of people, uncover a lot of small stories, and we wonder whether anything is going to happen. It does, of course. That is the style of these books. All these things that the journo pair have been working on come together in the most bizarre way, and all that has gone before makes sense.

    But I did get extra itchy with this one. I know I’d felt the same about the first one, which I read last year. I think the second one is shorter, and possibly has a more compelling main theme. But having got to that two-thirds point, it all starts to unravel, all the dangerous stuff happens, and it’s nearly midnight and I ought to go to bed. I go to bed… and just have to finish it off!

    It’s addictive, compelling, and probably the best put-together future world in existence. With added cute and blobby aliens, and great gadgets. And Jovians in the Dome. What’s not to like?
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