Teleportation series continues

Remove that element and Gould’s novel remains a strong story with believable characters dealing with issues many readers of all ages can relate to – parenting and coming of age.

The Albuquerque author’s storytelling ability has brought an array of fans, young and old, to his award-winning work.

	“Impulse” by Steven Gould Tor, $25.99, 368 pp.

“Impulse” is the third in a series.

The first was “Jumper,” which was named to the American Library Association Best Books list in the Young Adult Division.

It was also made into a 2008 feature film.

The second in the series was “Reflex.” Teleporting was an element in those earlier novels in the series.

“There’s an emotional reality to them because everyone of them was in some sense based on my own life,” Gould said in a phone interview.

At the start of “Reflex,” he said, there’s an argument between the lead characters Davy and Millie about when to have kids, with Davy doubting his ability to parent.

Davy’s father wasn’t much of a parenting model.

“I was going through that with my wife, when to have kids,” Gould said. “Now we have two daughters, one in college, one in high school.”

And he and his wife have been dealing with their daughters’ experiences and tribulations.

In “Impulse,” Davy and Millie have a daughter, Cent, who wants to pull away the bonds of parental protection.

Also coming into play is the backstory of her father, who in “Reflex” was captured and tortured.

Davy doesn’t want his torturers, or the government, to know where they are.

The family lives in isolation in Canada 60 miles south of the Arctic Circle.

“As a result he is struggling to control his fears by controlling his daughter,” Gould said.

“He has no choice but to let go. … The point is where you’re raising children you have to give them more autonomy and you hope you model nondestructive behavior and that they will perpetuate that.”

The author said he hadn’t intended for “Jumper,” “Reflex” and “Impulse” to be in series.

But that’s what has happened.

“It has been my most popular set of books to date,” he said.

Now Gould is working on the manuscript for what is to be the fourth in the series.

It will be mostly about the character of Cent.