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Many Deaths in the Multiverse #1
The Blackout
Our modern society is broken. After centuries of war, terrorism and rampant nationalism, the human race has divided itself into a myriad of exclusionist groups that look upon each other with fear and distrust. Yet they have one thing in common, an oppressive Corporatocracy which has covertly ensnared the global population in virtual slavery for their own financial gain.
High above the Earth, an Australian research group named ANZAR have discovered a way in which they can free the world from the system that enslaves it, unify the human race, and (hopefully) reunite their founders with the wives that were cruelly taken from them fourteen year earlier. Using experimental technology, two Professors make a dangerous journey that will alter the lives of everyone on the planet.
It doesn't go to plan.
After having gone missing for ten days, the Professors' empty machine reappears in orbit around the Earth. Before it can be retrieved it is surrounded by thousands of glowing spheres which appear through a doorway in space and encircle the globe. Millions die in the global disaster which would become known as The Blackout. With ANZAR’s research blamed for the attack, and the military on their way to shut down their labs, the Professors’ sons flee into the maze of alternate realities in which their fathers had vanished.
Determined to arrest the scientists as ordered, Captain Kyle Ferine commandeers a second ANZAR machine and leads his team of hardened soldiers in pursuit of the fleeing ANZAR scientists. As the two groups come into contact and are forced to rely on each other for survival, Ferine has to decide whether he will place the ANZAR scientists under arrest or act as their protectors as they struggle to find the missing professors, search for a way to save the Earth, and survive the horrors that await them on each layer of the Multiverse.
High above the Earth, an Australian research group named ANZAR have discovered a way in which they can free the world from the system that enslaves it, unify the human race, and (hopefully) reunite their founders with the wives that were cruelly taken from them fourteen year earlier. Using experimental technology, two Professors make a dangerous journey that will alter the lives of everyone on the planet.
It doesn't go to plan.
After having gone missing for ten days, the Professors' empty machine reappears in orbit around the Earth. Before it can be retrieved it is surrounded by thousands of glowing spheres which appear through a doorway in space and encircle the globe. Millions die in the global disaster which would become known as The Blackout. With ANZAR’s research blamed for the attack, and the military on their way to shut down their labs, the Professors’ sons flee into the maze of alternate realities in which their fathers had vanished.
Determined to arrest the scientists as ordered, Captain Kyle Ferine commandeers a second ANZAR machine and leads his team of hardened soldiers in pursuit of the fleeing ANZAR scientists. As the two groups come into contact and are forced to rely on each other for survival, Ferine has to decide whether he will place the ANZAR scientists under arrest or act as their protectors as they struggle to find the missing professors, search for a way to save the Earth, and survive the horrors that await them on each layer of the Multiverse.
388 pages, Kindle Edition
First published December 14, 2012
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October 28, 2022
Good premise from an antipodean angle with America as the bad guys. Pity it was let down by bad writing and editing. Took a hell of a long time for anything real to happen and then it ended before we got to find out anything about any multiverse locations. I shan't be reading the sequel.
November 1, 2017
Great start to an amazing series. This book gives you action, suspense and a cracking storyline edged with a real depth of humanity.
June 3, 2018
Epic sci-fi adventure will take you to places you never imagined. Fast-paced and action-driven, but filled with relatable characters. A deeply human story.
November 17, 2024
This is the first in a series and to sum up how I feel about this book, I don't care one bit what happens to the characters in the subsequent books. I hated this.
This book started with a prologue of a future event which this book didn't even get to. The books in the series are a single novel, but spread across three books. Set in the future it's about time travel and as such it needs to make things clear to the reader, which this book doesn't. Plus there are many things that just don't make logical sense in the future world of 2048. It was a pain to read and I think it needs a good editor to rip it apart.
The idea is good, just badly executed.
This book started with a prologue of a future event which this book didn't even get to. The books in the series are a single novel, but spread across three books. Set in the future it's about time travel and as such it needs to make things clear to the reader, which this book doesn't. Plus there are many things that just don't make logical sense in the future world of 2048. It was a pain to read and I think it needs a good editor to rip it apart.
The idea is good, just badly executed.
January 23, 2019
Aussie sci fi
Amusing story about travel to other time/dimensions. It has an interesting world in which the characters act but they themselves need to be fleshed out a bit better.
Amusing story about travel to other time/dimensions. It has an interesting world in which the characters act but they themselves need to be fleshed out a bit better.
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