Nomad
Ratings6
Average rating3.7
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Ratings6
Average rating3.7
Something big is coming... Big enough to destroy the entire solar system... And it's heading straight for Earth. That's what Dr. Ben Rollins, head of Harvard's exoplanet research team, is told by NASA after being dragged out of bed in the middle of the night. His first instinct is to call his daughter, Jessica, who's vacationing in Italy with his wife: something is coming, he tells them, a hundred times the mass of our sun. We can't see it, we don't know what it is, but it's there. They're calling it Nomad, and the Earth may be destroyed in months. "Set firmly in the realm of God-I-hope-not science fiction, Mather grounds his story in hard facts, weaving a story that is all too plausible, gritty and realistic." - Peter Cawdron, bestselling author of Anomaly But what is it? And how did they miss detecting it until now? In a frantic race against time, Dr. Rollins must unravel Nomad's secrets. A mysterious clue surfaces in his old research papers from the end of the Cold War, more than thirty years before... The world erupts into chaos as the end approaches-and Ben discovers that his wife and daughter are trapped in Europe. The key to humanity's survival may rest in the final answers he pieces together, in the midst of his desperate scramble across continents to find his family before Nomad swallows the planet. "An instant classic of the apocalyptic genre, a petrifyingly wild ride." - A.C. Hadfield, bestselling author of The Atlantis Ship. MORE ABOUT NOMAD For lovers of apocalyptic fiction, Nomad is the disaster story to end them all, a cataclysm all the more plausible and terrifying as the science behind it is vetted by a team of world-class astrophysicists from CERN, SETI, the Keck Observatory and more. It even comes with its own simulation video, for those interested. Nomad comes from the mind of award-winning, Amazon Best-Seller Matthew Mather, whose books have sold a half million copies and been translated into sixteen languages, with 20th Century Fox developing his second novel, CyberStorm, for film.
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4 primary booksNomad is a 4-book series with 4 primary works first released in 2015 with contributions by Matthew Mather and Lucas Bale.
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This is a really good book that is very thought provoking. It definitely gets a bit ridiculous at times and jumps the shark more than once, but overall it's a good read. It brings up a lot of really interesting “what ifs” that truly make you think about the future. How will humanity react if we know a near-apocalypse situation is coming? Once it happens, how will we survive?
It's definitely a good book that I recommend, even if just for the science discussions and social thought experiments it brings up. That being said, the book has WAY too many convenient situations. The characters are often saved at the last minute by something unexpected, lots of deus ex machina situations going on here. Plot lines seem way too convenient for driving the characters in one direction or another. I found myself doing a lot of, “oh come on, really?” when things would happen. It's a book that wants to be taken very seriously and has some majorly interesting science topics, but it's hampered by plot devices that seem just a bit too perfectly lined up, you know?
If you like apocalyptic stories or dystopian stories, then I recommend this one, you'll probably enjoy it. But you'll have to be ready to look past some of the all too convenient plot devices.
