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Windows of Heaven #4
The Tides of Nemesis
Humanity is a race with amnesia. Amnesia is born out of psychological, physical, and spiritual trauma…
In Book IV of The Windows of Heaven, the End begins with angry portents in sky and earth.
The Tides of Nemesis unleash the first part of the global trauma that gave the human race its amnesia. One man, one family, and a dying world face a “perfect storm” of asteroid bombardment, global war, civilizational collapse, and a mysterious, rock-splitting radiant force coming up from deep below ground. Yet not even a cataclysm that rips across an entire solar system can reduce humanity to the Stone Age on its own—not without careful planning…
A’Nu-Ahki’s great ship of rescue is finished, and waits in the Valley of Akh’Uzan, where gods, titans, and men converge in a final battle for mastery over the planet that will someday be called, “Earth.” Still, all is not as it seems, and it becomes increasingly apparent that even so great a global catastrophe is merely a prelude to something even more disturbing, and perhaps even more wondrous…
In Book IV of The Windows of Heaven, the End begins with angry portents in sky and earth.
The Tides of Nemesis unleash the first part of the global trauma that gave the human race its amnesia. One man, one family, and a dying world face a “perfect storm” of asteroid bombardment, global war, civilizational collapse, and a mysterious, rock-splitting radiant force coming up from deep below ground. Yet not even a cataclysm that rips across an entire solar system can reduce humanity to the Stone Age on its own—not without careful planning…
A’Nu-Ahki’s great ship of rescue is finished, and waits in the Valley of Akh’Uzan, where gods, titans, and men converge in a final battle for mastery over the planet that will someday be called, “Earth.” Still, all is not as it seems, and it becomes increasingly apparent that even so great a global catastrophe is merely a prelude to something even more disturbing, and perhaps even more wondrous…
382 pages, Paperback
First published October 11, 2005
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August 23, 2014
As I read this fourth installment of the Windows of Heaven series, I thought I knew how it was going to end. After all, we know the Flood happened.
But the Flood wasn't told in such vivid, sorry, and painstaking detail. The kind of nuances that shows just how bad it was. I am more the willing to entertain that the effects of the Flood would probably have looked like what Powderly suggests.
There's a passage in the book that is ominous. The count by days begin with the 'evening and the morning' with such a somber tone. Anu Ahki gathers his family to the Baroque of Aeons (the Ark) and the people see him but continue to disbelieve him. The weather is changing. The only thing I didn't agree with was the raining before the actual Flood but it's nothing to get worked up about.
Powderly spends exhaustive detail on combining several creation models at different intervals in the story. I found this very important for the thinking skeptic to consider creation models of the effects of the Flood and how it happened. I kinda breezed through them, not because they were boring but I believe you.
Another aspect of the story I enjoyed was the realism of Noah and his family while in Baroque of Aeons. For one thing, they left people that they loved behind. That's got to be hard for anyone to deal with. You tell a person a truth, and they don't believe you. Then when what you say comes true and they are lost, it must be painful. For another, they were stuck in ship for quite a while. It wasn't smooth sailing. I appreciated the realistic view of this time. Of course, it may not have happened this way but again, I think it does a pretty good job at exploring the situation.
Lastly was the end. Oh my gosh, the end where it all begins to come full circle. And I'm not talking about Anu Ahki although his part as it ends is quite dramatic and somber at the same time. Wait till you get to the end!
But the Flood wasn't told in such vivid, sorry, and painstaking detail. The kind of nuances that shows just how bad it was. I am more the willing to entertain that the effects of the Flood would probably have looked like what Powderly suggests.
There's a passage in the book that is ominous. The count by days begin with the 'evening and the morning' with such a somber tone. Anu Ahki gathers his family to the Baroque of Aeons (the Ark) and the people see him but continue to disbelieve him. The weather is changing. The only thing I didn't agree with was the raining before the actual Flood but it's nothing to get worked up about.
Powderly spends exhaustive detail on combining several creation models at different intervals in the story. I found this very important for the thinking skeptic to consider creation models of the effects of the Flood and how it happened. I kinda breezed through them, not because they were boring but I believe you.
Another aspect of the story I enjoyed was the realism of Noah and his family while in Baroque of Aeons. For one thing, they left people that they loved behind. That's got to be hard for anyone to deal with. You tell a person a truth, and they don't believe you. Then when what you say comes true and they are lost, it must be painful. For another, they were stuck in ship for quite a while. It wasn't smooth sailing. I appreciated the realistic view of this time. Of course, it may not have happened this way but again, I think it does a pretty good job at exploring the situation.
Lastly was the end. Oh my gosh, the end where it all begins to come full circle. And I'm not talking about Anu Ahki although his part as it ends is quite dramatic and somber at the same time. Wait till you get to the end!
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