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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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A Thoroughly Enjoyable Read!, September 19, 2008
Kathy Porter weaves a tale (or should I say tales?) involving realistic, multi-dimensional persons - each with his/her own distinctive storyline - whose lives and events converge when all are faced with environmental catastrophe on a global scale. The commonality of their very existence surfaces as they discover their unknown and unwilling involvement with alien beings (not with one race, but two!), and experience some heartfelt self-revelation as a result. Her characters reach out to you, as Ms. Porter effectively portrays, for example: the anguish a mother feels when having to choose between her own children (in this case, both earthly and alien) the dilemma of leaving loved ones behind on earth and everything comforting and familiar, to the noble end of continuing the human race in a new and strange world to the resignation of having to stay behind, facing one's own mortality. Compelling, amusing and suspenseful at different turns in the story, Gray/Guardians contains enough technicality and vivid description to hold the attention of a seasoned science fiction aficionado, but is engaging enough to attract the mainstream and the "I-don't-like-sci-fi!" readers, and draw them in. Gray/Guardians is a thoroughly enjoyable read, and I enthusiastically recommend it!
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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I really enjoyed reading this book. Finished it in one weekend., February 9, 2007
I have never read a book by Kathy Porter before. I found this book to be very engrossing and captured my attention so much, that I spent the good part of one single weekend reading the whole thing cover to cover.
The idea that a US President would be contacted by aliens who appear to be benovelent is quite common in science fiction. What was really interesting here is that we learn that the President is then contacted by yet another species of aliens. I have never seen this happen before in any other book. The idea that two separate groups of aliens who are in conflict with each other are then using contact with us as a strategy/tactic, and then having us figure out who is lying is very fascinating.
I don't want to provide too much info here about how this gets resolved, but let me simply say that it involves quite a few present day issues including global warming and a world-wide pandemic.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
To Nuur or not to Nuur, April 28, 2007
Gray/Guardians by first-time author Kathy Porter takes readers on an adventure through humanity's worst nightmare - a planet suddenly stricken by cataclysmic natural disasters; its inhabitants inexplicably falling ill by the thousands. Earth's crust shakes incessantly with seismic activity and the atmosphere's air currents reach hurricane-force. Humans are so weakened by energy depletion they are hospitalized and struggling to survive.
The greenhouse effect reaching full bloom, you say, and the long-predicted pandemic infecting people's immune systems.
Think again. Gray/Guardians introduces the ultimate variable - the existence of alien life forms from other solar systems. An extraterrestrial species called The Grays offer their ministrations to sick humans who are brought to "tent cities" where they are protected from the so-called Severe Environmental Allergy Syndrome. Under the pretext that planet Earth is doomed, The Grays offer to save humans by bringing them to their home planet. Chief among The Grays' relocation plan are women of child-bearing age. Given its circumstances, the human race seems to have little choice but to put their trust in the alien interlopers.
Enter The Guardians, yet another alien species with a different story to tell. Earth isn't doomed at all, they argue. Rather, that's The Grays' cover story for its real agenda, which is to use earthlings to create a dangerous new hybrid race.
An intergalactic struggle ensues. The embattled Guardians use guile to fight off the more technologically sophisticated Grays in their effort to save the human race.
Even as humans have chosen to align themselves with The Guardians, Porter leaves plenty of gray areas that keep readers wondering who the real human guardians are.
En route to getting the answer to that question Porter take readers from New York to California; the White House to a North Dakota military base; and Buffalo Gap, Texas to planet Nuur in the Sagittarian Galaxy.
Beam me up Scotty, along with my copy of Gray/Guardians!
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