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You are gifted with the most powerful ability in the universe, and you can use it to save the whole human kind from imminent destruction. But in the process, you may destroy the whole universe, including the human kind. What will you do? Oblivion Threshold by J R Mabry and B J West, the first book of The Oblivion Saga series, is woven around this matter.
A group of aliens, who are almost invincible, are coming towards the earth while destroying the human colonies and space ships, with which they come across. Our protagonist, Captain Jeff Bowers, who only accepts individual missions, after his team getting killed in an operation named ‘Catskill’ (This is offered as a free book along with the first book. It is a short book with only 17 pages and can download via the link given. If you are a one who wants every minor detail about a book, like me, I recommend you to read this book, Operation Catskill), is assigned to spy on alien activity. But during the mission he dies, and mysteriously been resurrected by another set of aliens. And with that, he is gifted with an ability to shrink the space between objects and move them as he wishes. His superiors try to use this ability to survive from the alien attack, but the power is too dangerous to handle. What will they gain with it? Will they succeed or will they destroy the whole universe?
This is a sci-fi thriller, and my copy came with only 142 pages. It was divided into 10 chapters, prologue and epilogue.
First of all, the reader has to orient himself to the setting of the story. The time period is far away into future from current time, so as the science and technology. Humans have inhabited the space up to several light years. In that background, an action packed, thrilling story is imparted.
Though the main picture is so, few aspects of human relationships and romance is discussed a bit as well, but with no disruption to the main theme of the story. Though it carries fictional scientific matter, some real scientific details are also included as necessary. One such example is, mentioning that the damage of electricity is determined not by the voltage, but by the amperage.
Besides those noteworthy facts, there were many more things that I liked about this book. It was written in very simple language, which facilitated an easy and a quick read. Each and every scene was connected with no gaps so, could keep up with the story with no effort. Scenic descriptions were superb, and the experience was more like watching a movie, rather than reading a novel.
Arguments were nicely built, covering all aspects of the arguments. The theories which are found in science fiction like the ‘fourth dimension’, were discussed using appropriate dialogues, without any disruption to the flow. Finally, the book was end at the most suitable point (Though I felt that it was too short) and the epilogue gave me the undeniable urge to read the next book as well.
The proof reading was done very well and no errors were noted.
The only thing, that made the understating of the book a bit rough at the beginning was, the selection of names of characters. All main characters had names starting with ‘J’ (Jennings, Jo, Jeff), and I was bit confused with character identification till I read few pages.
So, with all that, I give this a rating of 4 out of 4 stars. I recommend this book to all sci-fi lovers, including younger readers, since it had no sexually explicit content.
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