Mike Erikson is a teacher in a small New England town. He lives a quite life and knows practically everyone around. While his life is completely mundane, he prefers the peaceful calm of his uneventful surroundings. Though Mike is much more talented than your average teacher and could essentially do anything he wants, the lack of challenges or craziness keeps his overactive mind at ease. It is his unique set of skills that his friend is interested in, and bring him to offer Mike a job, and not for the first time, with DARPA.
There is a lot going on in this book and I feel like talking about 95% of it will spoil it one way or another, so I’m going to say as litle as can while till trying to give a good representattion. First, let me talk about the feel of the book. It has a very interesting tone. It has a modern day setting, in America. The DARPA project seems really interesting and I can see it being appealing to any science nerd, like myself. There is a lot of talk of the ind of things you might read about in a Michio Kaku book. There is nth dimension theory, wormhole physics, and other theoretical physics that interest the hell out of true nerd and sci-fi buffs alike. To keep it spoiler free, This DARPA research team came up with an amazing breakthrough and there is a lot of speculation from the government and scientists as to how. Mike is asked simply to observe.
Then we jump to the second half of the book. This is where it gets weird. The reader notices little things being… off. Then it happens a little more. Before you expected, you;re out of physics class and $#!% gets weird. It gets really sci-fi-y. It was a very fun jump that I did not expect. I actually knew almost nothing when I first read this, which added to my enjoyment immensely. Which is why I also will not tell you more than that. I fear I ma have said too much already. (Yes, I know this book has been out for a while and this is really late, but I’m sticking to this dammit.)
I thought that this book was a lot of fun. Very interesting for both my nerdy hard science side, and out there enough to awaken my deep SciFi/Fantasy side. I also wanted to bring up one other thing which I usually do not address: I loved the cover. It was very cool. After reading the book it was even more interesting. I do not know about the paperback that is out now, but the hardcover even had this great texture to it. I understand that this is neither here nor there, so back to the review. I gave it a 4/5 and would give a very strong recommendation.
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Disclaimer: I received this review copy through Blogging for Books in exchange for an honest review.