Review: Fantastic Voyage
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 14, 2011
Titanic 2012 is another fantastic book written by author Robert W. Walker. In 1977 George Lucas created Star Wars using ideas he took from the 1950s Flash Gordon serials and combined them with other filmmaker's styles such as Akira Kurosawa, then added in a little mythology, and history to create the greatest sci-fi adventure of all time. Robert Walker has done the same here for the story of the Titanic. Walker has taken the story of the Titanic and added a little Clive Cussler (Isaac Bell), Steve Alten (Jonas Taylor), Michael Crichton (Sphere, Prey), Ridley Scott (Alien trilogy), and John Carpenters (The Thing). Combing all these types of characters and story line together have made for a fascinating telling of why Captain Smith and his crew hit the iceberg that sunk the Titanic.The story line starts out in 1912 and jumps back and forth between the time just before the launch of the Titanic to the year 2012 and the 100th anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic and a mission to send divers in for the first time to explore the sunken ship and recover as much of the artifacts as possible. The book moves along at a steady pace until about the last 150 pages where it picks up speed like the titanic itself heading for a giant iceberg. Being this was a work of fiction, I was able to overlook some of the historical mistakes that were pointed out by others.Overall this is a great story that makes you wonder if the sinking of the Titanic was really an accident. If you believe in the possibility that Lee Harvey Oswald didn't act alone and there was another shooter on the grassy knoll, or if you believe that the govt. covered up what really happened at Walker Air Force base in the summer of 1947 in Roswell New Mexico, then you might just believe that maybe the Titanic was sent to the bottom of the Atlantic on purpose.