Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN num: 9780595011391
ISBN number: 059501139X
Label: iUniverse
Manufacturer: iUniverse
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 324
Printing Date: 2000-06
Publishing house: iUniverse
Sale Popularity Level: 2937799
Studio: iUniverse
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Is this the greatest discovery of all time … or the biggest hoax?
Bob Hanson, the chief scientist of a major aerospace corporation, has made an incredible discovery: a wrecked alien spacecraft adrift in the Asteroid Belt. The evidence is compelling—video images from the Prospector space probe he himself had created. The military enthusiastically embraces an investigation of the extraterrestrials, remarkably indifferent to the inconsistencies that begin to appear.
Undeterred, Hanson keeps digging … and finds much more than he had ever bargained for. Soon on the lam, he, and everyone to whom he turns, is hunted. Before long only one conclusion remains unassailable—that his mysterious opponents play for keeps.
Are aliens manipulating events on Earth? Did unscrupulous corporate executives invent the aliens in search of giga-buck government contracts? Has the Pentagon fabricated an alien menace for its own purposes?
Or is the truth something really unimaginable?
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Robert Hanson, a researcher who heads up a team monitoring a space probe, gets strange data and even a video of an extra-terrestrial ship which stuns the team. But, his company wants it kept quiet. Why?
This near-future novel gets more and more involved as Hansen is drummed out of work and suspects a conspiracy. He's right, but he has no idea HOW high the conspiracy goes. Ed Lerner, a research engineer, has woven a Crichton-like story with intelligence and science that keeps you reading chapter after chapter..IF you like this kind of stuff.
Lerner certainly know HIS stuff..the tech is spot-on and readers may quibble with some things, but generally it's a good bedtime/airplane/vacation read.
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This is a hard review to write because any serious discusion of the plot would require spoilers. Suffice it to say it has a number of surprises, most of which are exciting or, at least, interesting, but some of which may leave the reader wishing the story had gone in another direction.
In feel, I think it comes closest to "The Terminal Man," by Crichton. A number of different sciences and technologies get to play their parts, most (but not all) showing that the author knows what he is talking about. Weakest is the non-technical, office-political axis of the story. The reader may feel this dimension lacks the same first-hand contact the others do, for its author.
Regardless, it's a good book with some neat ideas and a few good twists, set in the Very Near Future (an era that is, IMHO, underused in fiction). If like Crichton, or books like, "Oath of Fealty," you'll probably enjoy this one.
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I enjoyed this book and I was looking for a follow up from Mr. Lerner, since this book seems to have been published 10 years ago...
Especially fun to read a book with Chicago suburban settings that I can recognize
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I found the story and characters magnetic, I enjoy the second read as much as the first. Please think about a sequel, it would be truly enjoyed by this reader. Thank you for your 1st novel....
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Too bad Mr Lerner is not a full time writer. He has potential for lots of great stories and awards!
His very first and only SF novel is a high energy tale about mankinds very first contact with a probe possibly sent by aliens from outer space. What starts like a common very first contact story quickly evolves into a complex and intriguing plot about knowledge, power and the means to sustain it: coverups, treachery and deceit.
If you liked Crichtons SPHERE you will LOVE probe! Lerners style of writing is as complex as the plot itself but immensly entertaining. Believe me: This is an ALL TIME HIGHLIGHT!!!
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