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Title: The New Madrid Run by Michael Reisig ISBN: 0-9651240-1-0 Publisher: Clear Creek Press Pub. Date: October, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.71 (49 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Quite simply, the best adventure novel I have read in years
Comment: This is a high adventure story that could (and may) happen! A story of a castastrophic occurance that is plausable and even predicted by some scientists due to an alignment of the planets in the near future, this book details with amazing clarity the struggle of survival by a small group of people who banded together to travel to a safe haven where they can start their lives over. The book will hold your interest. In fact, you may find, like me, that you will probably lose some sleep because you just can't put it down! The story had me envisioning every situation as it unfolded and I constantly had to " find out what happened" before I could put it down. This is a "must read" book that screams to be made into a movie...
Rating: 2
Summary: Don't bother
Comment: Don't bother. If you're expecting a tense, insightful sci-fi/apocolyptic fiction, read elsewhere. If you're looking for the Old West meets cliche Hollywood action, this is more your speed. Story predictable, characters flat and stereotyped (strong silent type, hot blonde, Japanese sensei, drunken southern boat pilot, mute boy, silly Latino etc.), plot mildly tense at rare times. Not very insightful or reflective for a cataclysm book. Good for NBC movie of the week, not for good reading.
Rating: 4
Summary: Quite A Ride!
Comment: This novel is based on the theory by Richard Noone that an alignment of the planets on 5-5-2000 will shift the earth's rotating axis and possibly cause massive earthquakes and tsunamis. Well, obviously that has not happened (yet), but who knows what disasters await us in the future, man-made or not.
Nevertheless, this story is a fascinating account, how the survivors meet, and how they managed in a hostile world after the loss of civilization. One of them, Carlos, will have you laughing a lot. Travis Christian is the principle character, and with him as with the others character development is excellent. Travis was an owner of a charter air service in the Florida Keys before the catastrophe, and attempts to lead a group of survivors out of harms way. At times (most of the book) the story will have you turning the pages to see what happens, as I found myself caring for these characters. If you like action, there is plenty of it here.
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Title: The Rift by Walter J. Williams ISBN: 0061057940 Publisher: Eos Pub. Date: 04 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Earth Abides by George R. Stewart ISBN: 0449213013 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 12 September, 1986 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank ISBN: 0060931396 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 April, 1999 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Lucifer's Hammer by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle ISBN: 0449208133 Publisher: Fawcett Books Pub. Date: 12 May, 1985 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Shiva Descending by Gregory Benford, William Rotsler ISBN: 0812516907 Publisher: Tor Science Fiction Pub. Date: 15 March, 1992 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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