Justin Hourigan
It was a fun read but the techno-babble goes into overdrive in the final chapters and any reality complete leaves the building. Exabytes (mistakenly called exaflops in the book) of data being downloaded to hard drives connected to a laptop in 30 minutes. Don't trust anyone to complete trust of someone they just met.
In the long introduction to the book, the author makes pains to assure us that he is basing the book on facts and is being objective. However, he very frequently refers to his beliefs as “obvious” and opposing views as “nonsense”.
He paints vivid pictures of hell based on maybe a sentence of the bible. Very little appears to be anything other than the author's view on the subject with little attempt to reference where his information comes from.
The book is somewhat entertaining, educational in that it gives an insight into American Christian beliefs.
A very interesting book. It give an insight into why today's English people voted for Brexit.
“Poland was a pretext for war, not a reason. And it was a pretext for an essentially irrational, idealistic, nostalgic impulse. We were a Great Power, after all. We had to do our duty and stand up to Germany, even if we had no serious weapons with which to do so. We may even have feared (with some justification) that Germany would never provide us with any excuse to go to war with it.”
"What if the Cold War never ended -- but continued for a thousand years? " is the tag line for the book. While is does involve the Russian and Americas, it is not about the cold war, it is about magic!
I was hoping for an alternative-history / sci-fi tory, but gone a book about terrifying all powerful magical forces that could destroy the universe but for some reason can do it right now because ... magic word, magic word, science sounding word, etc, etc.
The dialog is painfully poor 1950s style cold war insults mixed randomly assembled super-natural creatures and spells. It feels like a poor sci-fi book that someone did a find-and-replace for technical words and replaced them with magical words.
