The Remembrance: A novel [Paperback]

Robert Williams (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 14, 2002

It is a time in the far future, and the human species is on the brink of extinction. One of the last humans alive is Seth, an amnesiac with mysterious origins. In desperation he makes an unholy bargain with a powerful race of alien beings, hoping to somehow regain his memories and the lost history of humankind. What he discovers are echoes of humanity's ancient past, its stunning future, and a love that changed the fate of the world.

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About the Author

The Remembrance is Robert Williams' first novel. He currently resides near Lexington, Kentucky.

Product Details

• Paperback: 382 pages
• Publisher: iUniverse (March 14, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0595220932
• ISBN-13: 978-0595220939
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,094,513 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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19 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Readable Science Fiction, April 9, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: The Remembrance: A novel (Paperback)

I started reading this book, and I did not want to put it down. The Remembrance is a book that has a well developed plot and will hold your interest. It is not too technical, yet the author's knowledge of astronomy is clear. I am a science fiction fan and highly recommend it.

5.0 out of 5 stars Best freshman effort I've ever read, September 27, 2006

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R. Burri "elseware" (st louis, missouri) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Remembrance: A novel (Paperback)

Great book, well written. The author and I obviously shared some common geography because I recognised much of the landscape he described.

1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Average Sci-Fi, March 22, 2004

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Kyle Brown (Carson City, NV USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Remembrance: A novel (Paperback)

The Remembrance has a some good ideas, but leaves way too many of its mysteries unsolved in the end. For some, this will be a selling point. For me, it reeked of deus ex machina. Some unknown aliens did things for unknown reasons, which aren't going to be explained...

The book starts slowly. The story is told mostly in the first person, as an individual human is interacting with aliens who are reviving/remembering a Jungian sort of racial history. Later this becomes the personal history of the protaganist. This is all an effort to understand what happened to the rest of humanity (there are only a pair of humans left at the start of the book). The early part of the book wanders quite a bit, without a lot of connection to the central mystery (what happened to humanity?). Later, the story becomes more focused and the pace quickens. However, the mysteries only multiply, and a few of them are frustrating - remember the cartoon with the professor and student standing in front of a blackboard on which is written a mathmatically proof, the key step being "then a miracle happens"... it has that feel. At the crucial juncture of the book, the author waves his hands and, "hey presto" it works out! Not very satisfying to me.

The book deserved another chapter, right before the end, to flesh out this hand-waving.