Review: Hate it!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 10 27, 2012
That was a lie. It's truly an engrossing story, the action, the characterization, the sort of political dilemma that had me turning over solutions in my mind. I wanted to yell at the people of new Winnabow, and weep for them at the same time. A work of soaring imagination in sci-fi terms as well. The cosmic engine at the North Pole was described in dizzying detail, alluding to mindbending implications about the nature of the universe, and the workings of the cosmos - of which we get a hint, enough to leave us wanting more. I suppose the one weakness of the story is the lack of scientific rationale for the origins of Armageddon. It is laden with aliens, but not a space opera - the mechanism by which the alien militias and fauna arrived to destroy civilization depends upon a cosmic, quasi-mystical process that confounds our traditional science-fictional notions of starships, warp drives, and interstellar empires. Really a very unique take on the Apocalypse.There is nothing really identical to it out there, but another unique perspective on the Apocalypse might be,Saturn's Childrenby Charles Stross, orApocalypse Doll: Rebootby Xavier Cecil.