The Marvelous Effect

The Marvelous Effect is a best-selling science fiction novel by Troy CLE. It was published in May 2007. It is the first book in the Marvelous World series.

The novel tells the story of 13 year-old Louis Proof, an African-American native to East Orange, NJ who is a CLE. (Celestial Like Entity) , and how a race of CEs (Celestial Entites) called the "eNoli" (E-No-Lie) led by Galonius, try to drive the world into chaos. Louis's best friend, Brandon, his younger cousin Lacey, and the iLone (Ee-Lo-Ney) Timmothy, team together to free the world from Galonius's influence, as Louis masters his CLE abilities.

The story is heavily action driven being influenced by on the author's love of video games and action films. Surprisingly, the book rests upon a foundation of classical literature and the philosophy of Immanuel Kant and David Hume. The esteemed book reviewer Jared Stern, was extremly critical of this book, commenting that it, "resembled an early attempt at a movie script which was then made, instead, into a video game, which was then described to a friend of the author's and typed up verbatim. The upshot of this is that the book contains many superfluous exclamations, such as "Awesome!" and "Would he win?" The novel is also notable for being extremly gay."