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Inception (Project Saucer, Book 1)

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The amazing Projekt Saucer books are the most fascinating story ever writen about flying saucers. The whole story consist in five books : Book 1 INCEPTION (1991), Book 2 PHOENIX (1995), Book 3 GENESIS (1980), Book 4 MILLENIUM (1995), Book 5 RESURRECTION (1999). Just like George Lucas, Harbinson wrote Eposide 3 first, in 1980, and then the others. If you want to read just one book, read this one, GENESIS. Those books are quite hard to find, but they are all available on www.amazon.co.uk. These five books, representing about 3000 pages written over 20 years are a must-read foranyone interested in flying saucers.

I absolutely love this book. Gripping, and thoughtful. Harbinson knows his stuff...anyone familiar with the Nazi aeronautical industry of the Second World War won't be able to put it down.

The second book boasts one of the most fantastic feats of plotting I've ever seen. He managed to get almost every single post WWW2 documented UFO sighting...and put it together into a coherent and scary tale.

I was starting to wane a little by the third book in the series, and the ending is a little ridiculous...but these first two books are little known classics. Snap 'em up now. They're fantastic.

This guy not only did his research on both science and UFO-lore psuedopscience, but writes a mean story, to boot.

I originally read W.A.Harbinson's Projeck Saucer series back in the 90s. My paperback copies got lost long ago so I was pleased to find this available on Kindle.

Harbinson gives a very human explanation for UFO's and is set against the backdrop of WW2. The blend between fact and fiction is done superbly and a thrilling yet disturbing story emerges.

Wilson is the main character. An emotionless genius who uses and manipulates everyone around him not for personal gain but for the pure advancement of science (think of the Mekon but in human guise!).

For me the most interesting and intriguing sections of the book detail Wilson's time in Nazi Germany as he brilliantly manipulates the Nazi regime and Himmler in allowing him to build a "flying saucer". The casual way Wilson and the Nazis use human slave labor to achieve their goals is disturbing but for some reason that is shadowed by the character of Ernest Stoll. We see his descent from his early post student days as a loving husband and an enthusastic engineer who a keen interest in rockets to a debauched SS officer whose guilt eats away at him and in turn fuels his sadistic desires.

The story itself moves forward at a fast pace but does suffer from Harbinson's desire to information dump as much as possible. Pages of text are devoted to this. It does not seem that Harbinson does this to show you how much he knows but is genuinely interested in educating the reader. Later books in the series also suffer from this and at times makes it a bit of a plodding task to get through the book.

Overall this book is as good as I remember and puts a very different spin (pun intended) on the UFO genre. The kindle price of $3.99 is a bargain and at this price you will not be dissapointed.

Inception was an excellent novel to read. The novel is the first part of a five book series called the Projekt Saucer series, which revolves around the premise that UFOs are hi-tech aircraft constructed by a megalomaniacal genius called John Wilson.

Set over a large span, from 1930-1947, Inception takes the reader through the stories of the emotionless American scientific genius John Wilson, who moves to Germany to work for the Nazis, and will become the series' main antagonist; emotionally damaged SS officer Ernst Stoll, whose poor decisions have ruined his marriage; and American pilot turned lawyer Mike Bradley, who goes on an obsessive, years long quest to find the enigmatic Wilson.
The story reads like a historical novel, with numerous historical events and characters getting prominently featured. The story is not 100% historically accurate, but as it is intended as a work of fiction (albeit fiction based on facts), a little creative license is to be expected.
The characters and the plot are all developed quite well throughout the story. The story does a good job of grabbing reader attention, and I for one found it hard to put down whilst reading it, as I was always eager to see what would happen next.

I very much enjoyed reading the novel Inception, and look forward to reading the other novels in the Projekt Saucer series as well.

......Just awesome.

Ok this is Sci-fi, but its down to earth sci-fi, a tale of fiction sprinkled with just enough factual references that makes you think, "Wow this could have actually happened".

Ok hands up i put myself in the category of sci-fi lover, but in truth i have never found a 'sci fi' book that hasn't just bored the CrXP out of me. Most of the ones i have ever bought or acquired have ended up either down the back of a sofa or added to the pile of other books bought but never read.

This book on the other hand just gets you from the start and just wants you to read more.

Great story, believable characters, and no little green men!!!! Brilliant!!!

At first I loved it. Early in book, that is. Obviously well researched, includes alot of real information, but just isn't really plausible or believable the way first rate fiction is. The more I read, the more it grew tiresome and boring, and I stopped 2/3rds of way through second book.

Too many long information dumps masquerading as dialogue.

Don't need a character or concept re-explained EVERY time they are revisited in a scene.

The plot also begins to lag, becoming little more than one group of researchers discussing sightings (which are told about and discussed, but rarely shown, we rarely get to experience sightings, just hear dudes relate oodles of details in boring non-fiction manner, as opposed to being there and living through them with characters), and Wilson at antartic base, designing futuristic gizmos which are supposed to be made plausible by information dumps. But they are so far-fetched, rather than scrupulously real in a Crichtonesque or Clarke way, that they just become tiresome and boring.

Over the long haul, the writer's consistent overexplaining, characterizing speech rather than letting the words themselves convey mood, information dumps, consistent telling of events rather than letting reader experience them, just results in something hackneyed and not truly believable, like a hasty Cussler novel (not a fan, but I read 2 in a pinch).

The dialogue bears revisiting. It rarely crackles with tension and confrontation, but rather tries to imitate an Encyclopedia.

The more mundane characters are developed extensively--almost too much. The more eccentric ones, like Wilson, that are harder to believe, gradually become caricatures you don't really believe. After page upon page of info dump, major plot developments like killing 2 fairly significant minor characters, happen suprisingly fast, in a bad way, not being truly believable, or letting tension build. He drags on at the wrong times, and speeds through things at the wrong times.

I was really excited by this book when I heard about it, and in the end felt cheated.

I read this book a few years ago. Once i started to read this i could not put it down, quite simply, the best sci-fi book ive ever read.
Books 1-4 are absolute classics, book 5 is total rubbish, almost like someone else wrote it.

The premise is certainly interesting, that UFOs are the creation of a brilliant, if ruthless, man and not extra terrestial in nature. Harbinson also keeps the book moving swiftly along.

I stuck with the series until mid way through the second book but in the end couldn't stomach it any more. It just got too silly. By the time the severed head (which had lived for 12 years from the early 50s) made ESP contact with an ESP soldier via a psychic and projected his vision onto tv screens I'd had enough.

Science fiction I love, science coddswallop I don't

I thought the book was frighteningly believable, did this really happen ?? Well worth the read. Wanted to know how the Nazi's ended up in South America ?? Then read on.

The strength of this book may not be its scope
but the characters are much more sincere and
loveable than any you`re likely to come across
in a long while.