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Project ULF: Reacquisition
The highly anticipated sequel to Stuart Clark's landmark Science Fiction thriller: Project U.L.F.
- GenresScience Fiction Fantasy
410 pages, Kindle Edition
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Stuart Clark
90 books44 followersStuart Clark was born in England in the sleepy little town of Ashford, Middlesex. To those not intimate with British geography, that can more simply be described as Greater London.
Science, particularly Biology, always interested Stuart and after school, he went on to Bristol University where he graduated with a BSc in Microbiology.
He worked for two years as a technical author for a large scientific publishing company before deciding that he really wanted to go back to University and do a Masters degree in Science Communication, which he completed at Imperial College, London.
After years of intermittent study and work, Stuart decided to take a sabbatical and spent almost two years experiencing the sights and sounds of Australasia and South-East Asia. He spent a year of that time living and working in Sydney, Australia.
When he’s not working or writing, Stuart spends his time scuba diving and attempting to play golf.
Stuart emigrated to the United States in 2005 and now lives with his wife and daughter in New York.
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Science, particularly Biology, always interested Stuart and after school, he went on to Bristol University where he graduated with a BSc in Microbiology.
He worked for two years as a technical author for a large scientific publishing company before deciding that he really wanted to go back to University and do a Masters degree in Science Communication, which he completed at Imperial College, London.
After years of intermittent study and work, Stuart decided to take a sabbatical and spent almost two years experiencing the sights and sounds of Australasia and South-East Asia. He spent a year of that time living and working in Sydney, Australia.
When he’s not working or writing, Stuart spends his time scuba diving and attempting to play golf.
Stuart emigrated to the United States in 2005 and now lives with his wife and daughter in New York.
Source: shelfari
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August 16, 2016
Ecoterrorists infiltrate Chicago's alien zoo and release the worst of the worst from their cages. Bug hunts ensue.
This is a sci-fi reader's dream. Take the most terrifying collection of alien monsters you can imagine, unleash them into an unsuspecting high population center, and give it all a good shake.
Things I liked a lot:
* The reacquisition teams were a mix of pros and trainees, so the alien encounters varied
* Clark has a great imagination for monsters
* Mild spoiler: Not all of the monsters end up recaptured
Some things I had a problem with:
* Blind woman with psychic powers... ugh
* While the monsters were diverse, their behavior largely wasn't. They're all unstoppable killing beasts. Would have been good to have mixed it up a bit (the massive Bladder Beast of Uxl unexpectedly laid low by a swarm of Chicago's mosquitoes or something).
* The final encounter with the last alien... In the entire extended Chicago metro area, that monster happens to arrive at THAT particular place at THAT particular time... Eh.
* Although the story takes place at least 100 years into the future (humanity has mastered the tech of FTL and has colonized multiple planets), there are still references to solidly 20th century concepts: pens, paper clips, keyboards, televisions, rubber bands, etc. I'm skeptical much of these will be common in 20 years, much less 100. Also, much of the action depended on the characters being isolated and out of communication (how could it not), but operating in downtown Chicago in the far future, that was hard to imagine.
Nonetheless, this is not a book where those kinds of details are important. This is a story about cool monsters eating people. And soldiers hunting those monsters down, and getting eaten instead. Good stuff.
This is a sci-fi reader's dream. Take the most terrifying collection of alien monsters you can imagine, unleash them into an unsuspecting high population center, and give it all a good shake.
Things I liked a lot:
* The reacquisition teams were a mix of pros and trainees, so the alien encounters varied
* Clark has a great imagination for monsters
* Mild spoiler: Not all of the monsters end up recaptured
Some things I had a problem with:
* Blind woman with psychic powers... ugh
* While the monsters were diverse, their behavior largely wasn't. They're all unstoppable killing beasts. Would have been good to have mixed it up a bit (the massive Bladder Beast of Uxl unexpectedly laid low by a swarm of Chicago's mosquitoes or something).
* The final encounter with the last alien... In the entire extended Chicago metro area, that monster happens to arrive at THAT particular place at THAT particular time... Eh.
* Although the story takes place at least 100 years into the future (humanity has mastered the tech of FTL and has colonized multiple planets), there are still references to solidly 20th century concepts: pens, paper clips, keyboards, televisions, rubber bands, etc. I'm skeptical much of these will be common in 20 years, much less 100. Also, much of the action depended on the characters being isolated and out of communication (how could it not), but operating in downtown Chicago in the far future, that was hard to imagine.
Nonetheless, this is not a book where those kinds of details are important. This is a story about cool monsters eating people. And soldiers hunting those monsters down, and getting eaten instead. Good stuff.
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