Review: Another thought provoker by Cantrell
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 21, 2011
If you are the good or bad guy, do you do whatever it takes to prevent atrocities? In T3: Rise of the Machines, future leaders of the human resistance were offed by a terminator long before they were knew anything about war. In Lost, Benjamin Linus received a fatal gunshot wound at the age of 12, but because he was not yet the man he would eventually become, he was given the necessary treatment to survive. So do the ends justify the means? Is doing bad for the greater good wrong? These are the indirect questions The Epoch Index compels you the think on when you finish the book.Slightly longer than most of Cantrell's other short stories, but yet still short and easily finished in under an hour, this is another great Cantrell read. My only issue was the amount of information given for how "perfect" everything had to be for Ranveer. How he never waited, everything was tailored to his ultimately petty yet consistent needs. Fortunately this is mostly covered in the first chapter and I felt that it did not really lend to rest of the story. He's an unapologetic assassin on a mission that comes from an unlikely source at an unimaginable time with an unforeseen connection. Yet again, this story will make you think long after you finished it.