A very interesting and technical story line starting in Rome Italy about an astrophysicist, Ben Rollins, being called in to help other astrophysicists, astronomers and scientist to help identify and track an unidentified object approaching our solar system. The object, which they had named Nomad, was not visible because it is approaching from the other side of the sun. But apparently it is very large and moving very fast and is just beginning to perturb the orbits of the outer planets. This is scenario number one.
Many authors use the technique of multiple seemingly unrelated scenarios occurring simultaneously to introduce the characters in the story and the author, Matthew Mather, does the same here. Chapter two introduces the characters in scenario two who are a mother and daughter, Celeste and Jessica, enjoying a tour of a Tuscany Italy castle and grounds.
I don’t want to give away the plot or compromise the story line, but the two scenarios continue where the characters are identified as husband, wife and daughter and they try to get together before the anticipated end of the world occurs.
There are many twist and turns in the story where husband Ben Rollins and wife and daughter, Celeste and Jess, try to get back together. Both parties run into many obstacles that hamper their progress, but they always persevere and then move on to the next obstacle.
There are many other characters introduced into the plot that initially are portrayed in one light but are later shown to be someone else with an entirely differently motive. (Toward the end, the story keeps you a bit off balance with the shift in character motives and character objectives.) I guess that this is all part of trying to be a good story teller. But with a 76 year old reader, it is a little hard sometimes to keep up with who are the good guys.
Jess ends up being the hero of the story by defeating the bad guys. Jess has background of service in the Marines, astronomy and mountain climbing. And she does this even though her left leg has been amputated below the knee. This book is science fiction but it is still difficult to picture her defeating so many able bodied men to save her family etc.
I gave this book a five rating because of the technical details and the good story line. I particularly liked the author’s notes at the end inviting the reader to a link as to where he got the data, via a software simulation program, to support his technical descriptions. My suggestion is that you read the story first and then look at the software simulation.
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The mystery begins...A massive but invisible object is discovered hurtling from deep space toward the center of the solar system. Physicists are unable to explain it, but from their desperate calculations, in just weeks the Earth may be destroyed by an anomaly they name NOMAD. |
The Rollins family...Jessica Rollins is vacationing in Italy when she gets the call from her father. He's an astronomer working at NASA, and detected the anomaly years before but hadn't understood the danger. For decades he'd forgotten about it, but now desperately recovers his original research to try and discover what NOMAD is, the mystery behind it and how humanity might survive. |
Humanity Has Only Weeks To Prepare...As the world erupts into chaos, Jess and her mother desperately try to reconnect with her father and prepare for the unthinkable. This is the story of one family's struggle for survival in the face of a disaster that threatens to destroy the entire solar system--or change it into something entirely new. |
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Judith Dickinson
So scarily believable
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on April 21, 2019
