Review: Decent Writing, Horrid Sci-Fi (Spoilers)
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 11 18, 2011
The foundation of any Sci-Fi work lies in the science; not in the theoretical or imagined, but in what is real.  Without that basis, the rest is hard to digest.I'm only about 20% into this novel, and already the sheer nonsensical nature of the science is causing me to lose interest.The anomaly is said to be stationary in space, yet in a fixed position on a planet that travels through space at about a tenth the speed of light on six different planes of movement?  All this planetary movement, and the anomaly somehow manages to be in perfect sync with variable-axis planetary rotation (All the objects within the sphere line up with their original positions once every 24 hours), while pointing at another point in the universe, which is also moving on multiple planes?Also, even if you could somehow determine what direction a sphere "pointed to", you cannot possibly determine any distance *at all* based on a single azimuth.Even if the author somehow missed all this from public schooling, he should have at *least* bothered to Google a fact or two...