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Title: The Fourth Domain
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Manufacturer: Paradox Publishing
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| The Fourth Domain by Paradox Publishing Out of bubble gum | This novel is about 153 Kindle pages, and reads
quickly. The author doesn't spend time describing
clothes, or open with a weather report. In fact here
is the start:
Dr. Moreau was caught one hundred meters from ground
zero in a nuclear explosion, thereby absorbing 5000
rem. It didn't kill him. Of course there was a trick
involved. Later he was shot, clubbed, then
disemboweled. Most folks believe that finally did him
in, but strictly speaking it didn't. Life and (after
a fashion) leaving it wouldn't have been so
complicated if there hadn't been two women involved.
Neither of the women who made life difficult for
Moreau was Atalanta Schöntod. That was hardly her
fault. Schöntod's gift was to make men suffer, and
she tended to her calling with enterprise. She
provides as good a place to begin as any...
The novel is about a misunderstood and mistrusted
outsider thrust into a position where his actions have
enormous consequences. Here is a scientist channeling
his angry inner young man, who believes some people
need killing and doesn't mind doing it. (The title of
my review is from the line "I come to kick rear and
chew bubble gum. I'm all out of bubble gum.")
Occasionally the author's other passion, science,
slows the book with exposition. There is a fair
amount of hard science, with more versimultude than
your typical science fiction book can muster. The
author seems less interested in the more speculative
(say wormholes) or often altogether made up science
than most sci-fi is. The book is set in an era when
the inner solar system has been colonized, with no
faster than light travel. But the consequences of
science that is likely to be real one day soon
fascinates. For example Neandertal DNA has been
sequenced, so why won't someone someday bring them
back? Or for that matter, clone Einstein, whose DNA
is in a known location? The possibilities and
controversies in genetic enhancements of humans is
another area explored. Essentially the novel follows
an attempt by those virulently against genetic
enhancement (with the twist that the defender of the
genetically enhanced is a superagent, the Dr. Moreau
of the opening paragraph, who is himself genetically
standard human).
The story may not be complicated, but it is a good
read, with emphasis on action, especially personal
combat.
| | The Fourth Domain by Paradox Publishing Good read, interesting characters, lots of action | | The novel mainly follows Adam Moreau, a superagent fighting to save the genetically enhanced settlers of a terraformed Venus. Since he is old Terran stock, he is a mistrusted outsider on his own world. There is a lot of action, mostly combat of one type or another. There is a lot of hard science too (the author is a scientist). I was a little worried early on about the number of characters, but the book quickly settled down, and mainly follows the main character. Some of the personalities involved are quite interesting. I particularly liked the ending, which was appropriately climatic. | | The Fourth Domain by Paradox Publishing Book Description | | A science fiction novel written by an active researcher in space physics. Action oriented, but with a hard science background. The novel follows enhanced agent Dr. Moreau on an epic journey across the solar sytem. The effect is a cross between hard science fiction, with an abundance of science fact, and a Zelzany-like universe of scheming superhumans. |
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