Suppose for a minute that the Aztecs or the Incas knew that Cortez or Pizzaro was on his way with the Conquistadors. They knew it weeks in advance and instead of welcoming them as gods, they met them with every weapon they had at their disposal. Don't you think history would have been different?" The Hive poses this very question for mankind, for what if we were forewarned that a hostile alien race was about to exterminate us? An unmanned probe built by Russia and the United States on its way to the outer planets crosses paths with an alien device that's been spying on us since the year 1908. This leads to the discovery of a fleet of insectoid aliens on their way to Earth. With three years warning, could we defend ourselves from an invasion by a horrific alien race? The Hive is hard science fiction set in the near future of 2019. The effort to defend the Earth uses actual technology tested in the US and Russia up until the 1970s but never put into production and proposed weapons programs currently under development. There is Political intrigue involving a duplicitous People's Republic of China, a self serving reporter and a horrific unstoppable enemy whose only goal is extermination of the "soft-life" (human beings) that inhabit the third planet of the sun. The Hive is the story of humanity at last finding common ground and unification in our struggle to defeat a technologically superior enemy. It is also a story about the triumph of the human spirit as seen through the eyes of American aerospace engineer, Colin Hewette, who had lost his fiancée six years earlier and Russian/Ukrainian radio astronomer, Marina Asamova, who find love against a countdown to invasion.
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Author and lecturer: You could call me the accidental author. While recovering from a bicycle versus SUV accident, I wrote my first novel, The Hive. The Hive invaded American and United Kingdom bookstores in February of 2009. After completing this book, I wrote RED MOON. I have an extensive background in astronomy. I am also a spaceflight enthusiast. I have good deal of expertise in both the US and Russian space programs. I reside in St. Augustine, Florida.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Damn I am sorry Chris.,
This review is from: The Hive (Paperback)
Seldom have I seen such effort, seldom have I seen so little success.
Whatever you paid to have this run up you should demand your money back. The story itself is OK, even good for a boilerplate space opera, BUT... One should have someone *CRITICAL* read ones' manuscripts before publishing. "Warrior cast" (no matter the alien version since this is in English), should have been "Warrior caste" Cast is not caste. There are transliterations REPEATED all the through the work that a first year copy editor would have red penciled inside of a minute. There is also the little matter of all those nukes popping next to all those circuits. Have you ever heard of EMP? The one time our military semi-accidentally popped one too high above the horizon FAR out in the Pacific it blew out most of Hawaii. I finished it in spite of the horrible therbligs such as those mentioned above. The story was OK but it is not a professional work. Be well.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
This book gave me "hives",
This review is from: The Hive (Paperback)
This is truly to sci-fi what the "Eye of Argon" was to fantasy.
See for context: The Eye of Argon Berman's offering is a decent story but poorly executed. Numerous mistakes in grammar and punctuation remind us that we're reading a book and prevent immersion into the novel. Deus ex machina abound. We find out that main character Colin is a deadly martial artist on the same page as when he is ambushed by Chinese assassins. The only redeeming portion was the climactic space battle near the end, after which the story falls flat on its face into a self-serving, melodramatic mush mire. To quote the protagonist's "Mary Sue" love interest: "Colin [sic, no comma] when I heard that half the alien fleet had gotten through and would attack us... I stopped taking my birth control, and these last hours we spent together... well, I think that small girl we had dreamt about may be here in about nine months." Otherwise, the book makes for a good doorstop or bookend, except that if you're going to use it as a bookend, shelve it with the spine facing in so that your friends won't tease you over having purchased such an awful book.
4.0 out of 5 stars
A great addition to the alien invasion genre,
By Shanna Fink (Pinellas Park, FL United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Hive (Paperback)
Chris Berman's The Hive is a great addition to the alien invasion genre. Original and intense, it kept me wanting to read more. Mr. Berman knows how to put the science in science fiction. Well thought out characters that you keep rooting for them against all odds. A must read for scifi fans. Review by R Patrick Widner.
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