Archive for the ‘SciFi’ Category

      This is an end to the world as we know it story. In this case the U.S. is hit with an EMP pulse from space.  It ends in a second our technology and way of life. There is no transportation, no refrigeration, no delivery of food or medicine, no communication and no help on the way.

       Even though I don’t believe we are as helpless as Mr. Forstchen portrays, this is certainly a thought provoking book. He does an excellent job of showing how dependent we are on fragile technology, how dependent each of us are on the complex web of our economic systems, and how we are blind to how quickly the damage would spread through the community.

            There was a lot in this book to make you think. There seems to be a lot of stories, movies, TV shows on how terrorist can easily do us harm, how much we have to loose and how badly we might act in the face of real adversity.

        MY QUESTION - Where are the stories, movies and TV shows showing how we will end terrorism? How we will work together and rely on each other and our government to cope successfully when disasters happen? Where are the stories that think well of us as a community and society?

                                   This is not a story about the Frankenstein monster but about the monster Frankenstein. Just what kind of gall and arrogance does it take to believe you can create life in your own image and likeness? How much more is needed to believe you can do a better job than God?

            Mr. Koontz takes on these questions and does a very credible job answering them.  The Frankenstein monster, now more than two hundred years old is in little evidence. The hero and heroine are two New Orleans cops. These two very real and human characters are caught up in the bizarre plan to wipe out the human race and replace us with “New and better people” cooked up in Dr Frankenstein’s lab.   

            This is not a light hearted, try and scare you for fun, story. This is a very serious comment on how we are wiping out the old, and filling it with the new. It is a story about heedlessly ignoring out humanity and being blind to the consequences of our planning the future. I especially like the way Mr. Koontz details how unintended consequences can bite you …..Well just about everywhere.

            This is the first in a trilogy that becomes a series I highly recommend This is a very good read, a well written story and has something important to say. Thank you Mr. Koontz.