Review: Not worth a read
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 30, 2013
I tried to read Escape, but had to give up in less than a 100 pages.  I am sorry I did not get it as a sample first, but at least it was not a major expense.  Reading the other reviews, maybe I am missing something, but I tried twice, so I don't think so.What really turned me off as a long time reader of Sci-Fi and a person with a couple of engineering degrees, I know that you cannot take spaceships from the vacuum of outer space and plunge them into the depths of an ocean in a few microseconds without some very bad things happening to the hulls of those same ships.  Frankly, I don't care how advanced your  technology is, going from an outside pressure of 0 PSI to 30 PSI instantly will crush just about any pressure hull, especially those built for interplanetary or longer flight.  The stress  components are just to different.And what happened to the water that was in the location where the ships appeared?  One of the long held axioms of physicists is that 2 macro-bodies (quantum mechanics is different) cannot occupy the same physical location at the same temporal instance.  The usual result is explosive.So I rate this book as not worth a read based on this.