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Thursday, 12 June 2008 |
Unholy Domain: Where Science and Religion Go to WarReviewd by Stuart Nachbar
Dan Ronco’s Unholy Domain is a science fiction story that is very much a mix between George Orwell’s 1984 and Philip Dick’s Minority Report.
 Unholy Domain
I loved the movie Minority Report, so I was anxious to read Domain, and it did not disappoint. While the author is a technologist himself, he doesn’t get the reader lost in technical and computer jargon; that is often a distraction with similar “intelligent” science fiction novels that assume the reader already knows most of the science before he opens the book. His descriptions of robots and PeaceMaker, the killer app were quick and to the point and made me want to continue reading the story. |
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Thursday, 12 June 2008 |
A New Terrorist Threat in Our Midst, Mike Hogan
Review by Lauren S. Smith
We've heard of bombs on planes, suicide bombers, anthrax and car bombers. A new fictional thriller puts an incredible and unheard of spin on terrorists and what they might be up to that will make the hairs on your neck stand up. The Ovary Wars, written by Mike Hogan, effectively documents a type of bloodless terrorism targeting - American women.
In Hogan's book, American women are becoming permanently sterilized by a method unknown to everyone except an evil foreign power. As the nation's population dramatically declines over a four month period, the American economy begins to collapse and chaos ensues. Everyone is puzzled why women can't become pregnant and are discovering that they've become sterilized by a process they had no part in.
A deadly type of silent terrorism, originating from an unknown, but lethal power, is obliterating America's future - and no one knows how. From a state of overpopulation to almost non-existent, births become so rare in America that new form of crimes are being committed - drugs are rampant, baby-selling becomes a popular black-market affair, female immigrants are selling their eggs and ruthless criminals are selling fertility lists.
As America falls into the greatest and deadliest depression the world has ever known, people become desperate and would do anything to find a way out - even commit murder. In The Ovary Wars, terrorists have found the perfect way to destroy a population - prevent them from being born - and it seems as if their plan is going to work.
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Monday, 05 November 2007 |
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Lauren Smith: What is your book about? The cover describes it as "Mormon cyberpunk."  Hunting Gideon
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