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Anomaly
SOME SECRETS SHOULD STAY BURIED.
An Above-Top-Secret project brings military brass, elite commandos, ice-drilling experts, and abducted scientists to investigate a 100-mile-long 'gravitational anomaly' half a mile under the West Antarctic Ice Shelf.
Their target: a spaceship buried for millions of years, home to a menagerie of alien and prehistoric horrors that could be unleashed on Earth and end every life on it.
An Above-Top-Secret project brings military brass, elite commandos, ice-drilling experts, and abducted scientists to investigate a 100-mile-long 'gravitational anomaly' half a mile under the West Antarctic Ice Shelf.
Their target: a spaceship buried for millions of years, home to a menagerie of alien and prehistoric horrors that could be unleashed on Earth and end every life on it.
- GenresHorrorScience Fiction
227 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 3, 2018
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October 18, 2020
3.5 Stars
Oddly enough I was recommend this book by my mother. Together we both share an obsession for horror, sci-fi and apocalyptic reads and even with all the low ratings I thought I’d give it a shot. To be honest I don’t have the highest of standards and I don’t mind strange, unusual and sometimes even storylines. Personally I think this would work much better visually as a movie on the sci-fi channel but even still I think the author explodes his mind on the pages of this story and throws out some truly creepy aliens and plot ideas. The start was very confusing and hard to fully grasp all the goings on, from the timelines to the setting. I didn’t always remember whose mind were we in, what creatures mind were we in, where were they-on the plane, the base or the ship? My small brain struggled with making sense of it all but I think that’s because there’s also initially a lot of characters involved. Eventually things smoothed out and even all the tidbits I felt I missed mattered none as practically everyone was annihilated. 😳 To think the scientific mission they believed they were all kidnapped/recruited for was all just an elaborate ploy by the cruelest man/Colonel Ash who was an alien junkie. I mean of anything I NEVER saw that coming lol. Like literally sucking the teat of a secreting alien junkie. Talk about disturbing and nowhere near what I was expecting. The book wasn’t horrible but it was very weird. Personally I can accept that as it is sci-fi. I did appreciate the vast array of aliens and the end especially as the last remaining human managed to save the entire (oblivious) world by getting the alien ship off the planet and careening into the vastness of space. I had to laugh at a few things though particularly how these scientists are supposed to be renowned for their questions and brilliance yet they rarely asked the right questions. Not one person thought how an alien race who captures other alpha alien predators and has a 28 mile long ship isn’t intelligent enough to have some form of stasis and are most likely alive on said ship. 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️ They are in the aliens gosh darn minds and no one seems to grasp how intelligent they are, I mean even Hollywood includes stasis in practically every science fiction/space travel film that exists! I always try to appreciate alien entertainment because if there really is life out there smart enough to travel here, already they are lightyears ahead of our intelligence and understanding of the Galaxy and would only ever be here for one of two reasons: they want the planet or they want us, given we’re inferior it’s unlikely we’ll be making friends lol. Guess none it of really mattered as they were all in the end just pawns in Ash’s game anyways. Gah that man, I really wish he had a slow and suffering death, he was absolutely nuts and such an asshole. But this does explain a lot of his behavior and attitudes, he was craving his next fix smh. And to think until I knew of his involvement with the aliens I really thought he was working for the US government to acquire alien weaponry. I mean that’s not hard to belive at all but I guess that’s been done a million times already, this not so much. Overall it wasn’t a bad read just mildly confusing at times but with a very interesting and insanely thought out plot.
Oddly enough I was recommend this book by my mother. Together we both share an obsession for horror, sci-fi and apocalyptic reads and even with all the low ratings I thought I’d give it a shot. To be honest I don’t have the highest of standards and I don’t mind strange, unusual and sometimes even storylines. Personally I think this would work much better visually as a movie on the sci-fi channel but even still I think the author explodes his mind on the pages of this story and throws out some truly creepy aliens and plot ideas. The start was very confusing and hard to fully grasp all the goings on, from the timelines to the setting. I didn’t always remember whose mind were we in, what creatures mind were we in, where were they-on the plane, the base or the ship? My small brain struggled with making sense of it all but I think that’s because there’s also initially a lot of characters involved. Eventually things smoothed out and even all the tidbits I felt I missed mattered none as practically everyone was annihilated. 😳 To think the scientific mission they believed they were all kidnapped/recruited for was all just an elaborate ploy by the cruelest man/Colonel Ash who was an alien junkie. I mean of anything I NEVER saw that coming lol. Like literally sucking the teat of a secreting alien junkie. Talk about disturbing and nowhere near what I was expecting. The book wasn’t horrible but it was very weird. Personally I can accept that as it is sci-fi. I did appreciate the vast array of aliens and the end especially as the last remaining human managed to save the entire (oblivious) world by getting the alien ship off the planet and careening into the vastness of space. I had to laugh at a few things though particularly how these scientists are supposed to be renowned for their questions and brilliance yet they rarely asked the right questions. Not one person thought how an alien race who captures other alpha alien predators and has a 28 mile long ship isn’t intelligent enough to have some form of stasis and are most likely alive on said ship. 🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️🤦🏽♀️ They are in the aliens gosh darn minds and no one seems to grasp how intelligent they are, I mean even Hollywood includes stasis in practically every science fiction/space travel film that exists! I always try to appreciate alien entertainment because if there really is life out there smart enough to travel here, already they are lightyears ahead of our intelligence and understanding of the Galaxy and would only ever be here for one of two reasons: they want the planet or they want us, given we’re inferior it’s unlikely we’ll be making friends lol. Guess none it of really mattered as they were all in the end just pawns in Ash’s game anyways. Gah that man, I really wish he had a slow and suffering death, he was absolutely nuts and such an asshole. But this does explain a lot of his behavior and attitudes, he was craving his next fix smh. And to think until I knew of his involvement with the aliens I really thought he was working for the US government to acquire alien weaponry. I mean that’s not hard to belive at all but I guess that’s been done a million times already, this not so much. Overall it wasn’t a bad read just mildly confusing at times but with a very interesting and insanely thought out plot.
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
March 6, 2022
Am I the only one who noticed that most of the characters were named after actors and characters from Alien/Aliens?? Quite off putting as I kept imagining these people/characters while reading the story.
February 27, 2020
If you go into this book thinking it will be on par with The Thing, you'll be horribly disappointed. Either the publisher and editor of this book. Eed to be fired immediately. And if the book was self-published, the author needs to proof read his material before sending it out. Multiple spelling errors, grammatical errors, several times a character's name was listed as "OTHER SEAL", and at one point, a character who had died was asking questions two pages later. I really wanted to enjoy this book, but the mistakes were too glaring to ignore. Multiple times the narrative switches to a different character ala Game of Thrones, but then gets bogged down in techno babble and useless background information.
Once the action finally kicks off in the book, about 65% of the way into it, you have to pay very close attention to what is going on. The author skips over descriptive sentences so many scenes are extremely confusing as to what is going on and how you got there.
The ending sequence is extremely confusing as well. The "good guy" is continually transported through different parts of the ship with very little explanation. All of the secondary characters die in ways that are unexplained, aside from a group in the ice station (because somehow acid blobs from Venus know how to hunt people and take out load bearing pylons. Makes sense to me). At one point the main character manages to survive being on the surface of Antarctica, despite having large amounts of frostbite all over his body. He then manages to make his way back to the alien ship, find the exact spot where he needs to be to save the world, and survives long enough to do it. Either the author made the character Superman at the end or it was the moviest ex machina I've ever read.
I've read three books by this author now. The first was a B on the normal grading scale, the second was a D, and this one went full F. It wasn't an infuriating novel, but there was a lot of untapped and underutilized potential. Honestly, save your time and money, watch The Thing, and don't bother with this novel.
Once the action finally kicks off in the book, about 65% of the way into it, you have to pay very close attention to what is going on. The author skips over descriptive sentences so many scenes are extremely confusing as to what is going on and how you got there.
The ending sequence is extremely confusing as well. The "good guy" is continually transported through different parts of the ship with very little explanation. All of the secondary characters die in ways that are unexplained, aside from a group in the ice station (because somehow acid blobs from Venus know how to hunt people and take out load bearing pylons. Makes sense to me). At one point the main character manages to survive being on the surface of Antarctica, despite having large amounts of frostbite all over his body. He then manages to make his way back to the alien ship, find the exact spot where he needs to be to save the world, and survives long enough to do it. Either the author made the character Superman at the end or it was the moviest ex machina I've ever read.
I've read three books by this author now. The first was a B on the normal grading scale, the second was a D, and this one went full F. It wasn't an infuriating novel, but there was a lot of untapped and underutilized potential. Honestly, save your time and money, watch The Thing, and don't bother with this novel.
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January 4, 2020
Interesting premise, poor execution
Part of the reason for my rating is the multiple errors in the book. Several places used "OTHER SEAL" as a placeholder for the name of one of the characters. Words missing in many places as well.
I also found the use of multiple narrators confusing, and felt it led to the book being tedious at times.
I love this genre, and hopefully the author will improve in telling his stories.
Part of the reason for my rating is the multiple errors in the book. Several places used "OTHER SEAL" as a placeholder for the name of one of the characters. Words missing in many places as well.
I also found the use of multiple narrators confusing, and felt it led to the book being tedious at times.
I love this genre, and hopefully the author will improve in telling his stories.
February 26, 2021
Aliens on steroids
The idea of a gigantic spaceship with its own weather and inland sea immediately made me think of Arthur C Clarke's " Rendezvous with Rama". Although this book takes an entirely different approach to the discovery. The storyline is good with believable and very human characters. An easy but fun read with good scientific references.
The idea of a gigantic spaceship with its own weather and inland sea immediately made me think of Arthur C Clarke's " Rendezvous with Rama". Although this book takes an entirely different approach to the discovery. The storyline is good with believable and very human characters. An easy but fun read with good scientific references.
May 10, 2018
A FINE TALE OF LAST NAMES IT IS.....
Hello, this was a really good story. Pay attention to the last names of the characters and the story becomes even more of a hoot. Good job. Thanks.
Hello, this was a really good story. Pay attention to the last names of the characters and the story becomes even more of a hoot. Good job. Thanks.
January 4, 2025
A Good SciFi Story, but with Piss-Pour Writing Skills and a Disjointed Plot
This book quickly gets into a stupid ‘reality’ where a senior Military Official consistently makes it clear to a bunch of Academic Scientists, that they are to ask no questions, and he will enforce this with immediate violence. What?!? How utterly insane a proposition! (But, to be truthful, I am a Reader with a Scientific/Engineering background, who ALWAYS asked a bunch of questions during my educational and working career.)
The format of this book is also strange, as the first half jumps from one reality to other, different scenarios … both are probably connected, but The Author makes no effort to chronologically fit these periods together, which is quite confusing to The Reader.
The SciFi aspects of the story are OK and appropriately bewildering, but the Military-side of the tale continues throughout with the brute-force tactics enforced by the guy in charge — and, realistically — it’s hard to believe this could occur in a real-life scenario, or foster the kind of relationship one would want with scientists trying to investigate and understand a strange, alien spacecraft.
And, beware — toward the last quarter of the book, The Author seems like he dove into a Thesaurus, and started throwing out one unusually descriptive word after another, whose only purpose is to make The Reader think The Author is so highly educated and adept with the English language — but, in reality, the writing in this book is a farce … it’s poorly edited in many places (such that words that don’t matter are juxtaposed in multiple sentences), and The Author’s throwing of million-dollar words into simple paragraphs, just confuse The Reader, and doesn’t help in understanding The Author’s writing. (Ugh!)
This book quickly gets into a stupid ‘reality’ where a senior Military Official consistently makes it clear to a bunch of Academic Scientists, that they are to ask no questions, and he will enforce this with immediate violence. What?!? How utterly insane a proposition! (But, to be truthful, I am a Reader with a Scientific/Engineering background, who ALWAYS asked a bunch of questions during my educational and working career.)
The format of this book is also strange, as the first half jumps from one reality to other, different scenarios … both are probably connected, but The Author makes no effort to chronologically fit these periods together, which is quite confusing to The Reader.
The SciFi aspects of the story are OK and appropriately bewildering, but the Military-side of the tale continues throughout with the brute-force tactics enforced by the guy in charge — and, realistically — it’s hard to believe this could occur in a real-life scenario, or foster the kind of relationship one would want with scientists trying to investigate and understand a strange, alien spacecraft.
And, beware — toward the last quarter of the book, The Author seems like he dove into a Thesaurus, and started throwing out one unusually descriptive word after another, whose only purpose is to make The Reader think The Author is so highly educated and adept with the English language — but, in reality, the writing in this book is a farce … it’s poorly edited in many places (such that words that don’t matter are juxtaposed in multiple sentences), and The Author’s throwing of million-dollar words into simple paragraphs, just confuse The Reader, and doesn’t help in understanding The Author’s writing. (Ugh!)
October 30, 2020
This was...not good.
Honestly not a ton redeeming in this. Weirdly poor editing in terms of using the wrong names. Really bizarre choices in how characters acted and developed. I guess the author wanted some tension by going all GRR Martin on the characters, but most of them had no relevance. The attempt to make it somewhat realistic balanced against the fact that NOTHING is getting built in the height of winter in Antartica.
I'd pass on this. My journey in Amazon cryptozoology stories has NOT gone well so far. Never thought Sci Fi would be the FAR better genre.
Honestly not a ton redeeming in this. Weirdly poor editing in terms of using the wrong names. Really bizarre choices in how characters acted and developed. I guess the author wanted some tension by going all GRR Martin on the characters, but most of them had no relevance. The attempt to make it somewhat realistic balanced against the fact that NOTHING is getting built in the height of winter in Antartica.
I'd pass on this. My journey in Amazon cryptozoology stories has NOT gone well so far. Never thought Sci Fi would be the FAR better genre.
November 26, 2020
Alien horror
Not sure how to review this novel, there where parts of that made me angry, especially one officer’s behavior towards the civilians in this story but in the end it made some kind of sense, there is also a major use of brackets meant to give extra information and spice the dialogue but I found it confusing and tiresome. The storyline isn’t bad and it is worth killing time reading it but there is better books in the genre
Not sure how to review this novel, there where parts of that made me angry, especially one officer’s behavior towards the civilians in this story but in the end it made some kind of sense, there is also a major use of brackets meant to give extra information and spice the dialogue but I found it confusing and tiresome. The storyline isn’t bad and it is worth killing time reading it but there is better books in the genre
January 18, 2020
Would have given this book -10 stars if possible
Book is horrible never even finished it. Don’t waste your time or your money! Had stopped reading this book, but picked it back up to give the author the benefit of the doubt and try and finish the story. It doesn’t get better it just gets worse.
Book is horrible never even finished it. Don’t waste your time or your money! Had stopped reading this book, but picked it back up to give the author the benefit of the doubt and try and finish the story. It doesn’t get better it just gets worse.
August 18, 2022
Had a lot of mixed feelings for this one. I did like the plotline, but unfortunately the author decided to name nearly all of his characters after characters from the Alien movies. This was very distracting. At the ending of it, it felt like the author was tired of it and just decided to stop. Pity.
February 6, 2020
A good start but it withers
The general idea of the book is good, and some of the characters as well. But I ended up finishing it to know,how things panned out rather than because I was enjoying it.
The general idea of the book is good, and some of the characters as well. But I ended up finishing it to know,how things panned out rather than because I was enjoying it.
January 4, 2022
Excellent bone chilling read on mystery of organization secret mission under the ice
I like how Ancient alien stuck on feeling addiction hooking on all aliens life to sustain the hunger of lust.
I like how Ancient alien stuck on feeling addiction hooking on all aliens life to sustain the hunger of lust.
July 20, 2022
The first 75% of the book is excellent. But then either the editor told the author it was too long or the author got bored because the remainder seemed rushed. Disappointing. The editing also got worse.
February 20, 2020
Didn't finish
The book was so jumbled I didn't know what where or who was who. It was not cohesive, and working recommend
The book was so jumbled I didn't know what where or who was who. It was not cohesive, and working recommend
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