Review: Alternate Earth Science Fiction Adventure
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 12 20, 2012
It did not take long for me to get into this book, but it took me on a wild ride. I enjoyed the book greatly for its ambition in offering alternative explanations for paranormal events, world government failings, and a host of other topics which are included in the story. It starts out reading like a rather pastoral story about a man named Tom who is fond of going out into nature. I was nearly lulled into thinking this would be a fairly routine story about a man's adventure in the wilds of the Southern Hemisphere. The descriptions of the flora and fauna of the New Zealand country side were quite enough to keep me reading. The very subtle hints of what was to come went nearly unnoticed until the main character was thrust into a fantastic world. Then I'm thinking this is sort of a lost continent type story which would have been fine with me. It is, however, much more compelling and suspenseful than merely that.In the course of the adventure, the author takes us on something like a virtual geographic tour and if I decide to read this book again I have resolved to do it with google earth open on a laptop near me. The adventures in this book span the globe and take the reader many places they may never had heard of.The book also takes the reader along on a fictional geopolitical and historical adventure. I didn't know how well researched some of these aspects where, but I found I didn't care as I was taken far enough into the fictional world to suspend my disbelief. One minor quibble was in the area of the fictional President of the United States who as describe was too young to hold that office. This will no doubt be noticed at least casually by the American reader. Though in this book, a president which is only 32 is not in anyway important to the much bigger story.