The Omniverse The Unearthing eBook Steve Karmazenuk
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BOOK ONE OF THE OMNIVERSE
EDITED BY VICTORIA CLEMENS
When an immense alien spacecraft is discovered buried in the desert outside Laguna, New Mexico, the world is plunged into chaos.
World leaders scramble to secure and study the Ship; the heads of the world's major religions meet in Rome to discuss the implications of the Ship's presence; terrorists and religious fundamentalists seek to use or destroy the Ship for their own ends, and ordinary men and women struggle to assimilate it all, as events unfold live and unfiltered across online news channels.
When a survey team is sent in to examine and explore the Ship, they discover that not only is it still operational, but it is conscious and has been waiting for tens of millions of years.
The Omniverse The Unearthing eBook Steve Karmazenuk
The Unearthing, the first book in the Omniverse series, is poorly written, yet it is intriguing, enough so for me to read the sequel, Through Darkness and Stars. It is full of awkward sentences and typographical and editing errors. Most disconcerting is the character structure. I thought the book was about Dr. Mark Echohawk, yet a significant way into the book, for reasons I won't mention for fear of spoiling, that turned out not to be the case. Other characters received a lot of attention as well, only to be discarded in the story line (I keep wondering if they're going to come back in the next book, though that would take substantial creativity!).Some scenes, such as a body viewing scene, received WAY TOO MUCH attention, while more interesting opportunities were frequently overlooked, resulting in my great disappointment. Overall, I had the impression that the book was the work of an untrained writer who sat down and just wrote the story from beginning to end, without planning or going back for a rework. It also struck me that there was no editorial guidance, either. It sure seems like a self-publishing effort, which is too bad, because professional input could have really made this book, in my opinion. I get it, though, and am generally in favor of self-publishing. However, I would urge all self-publishers to try and raise the quality of their projects to the highest possible levels to keep readers interested.
That said, The Unearthing is built around a very interesting premise, and I enjoyed the hints of philosophical and religious thought it tried to provoke. Although it was unsuccessful in exploring these areas, in my opinion, it did get me to thinking. The seeming randomness of so many things in this book make me wonder what's coming next in the sequel, Through Darkness and Star. So I'll plunk down $.99 to find out, although I suspect it may be predictable, based on the synopsis. My hope is it will be better than The Unearthing, and I do see it's getting higher ratings.
Still, serious flaws and all, I cannot lay down Mr. Karmazenuk's books. I hope he can grow technically as a writer, because he has some good and intriguing ideas!
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The Omniverse The Unearthing eBook Steve Karmazenuk Reviews
This book contains an intriguing idea. What if we unearth an alien ship and how would the world react to it. Interesting premise. The problem is that the book is rife with bad spelling, poor sentence structure and some rather odd verbiage choices. Normally I read right past those because they seem to be common in today's books, however the errors in this book are so numerous it becomes tedious to read at times.
The author also has many glaring technical flaws. He attempts to explain ground penetrating radar and its use in archeology, but it's clear he has no idea of the technology. He also attempts to use chemistry as a point of reference in first contact, but it's clear he doesn't understand the strength of doing so. The book I read following this one, "The Anomaly" does a much better job of doing this and clearly understands the science better. Finally he doesn't understand U.S. Military insignia in that when the Main Character is promoted to Lieutenant Colonel she is handed gold oak leaves to replace her silver ones. This is exactly backward, and he has just demoted the character instead of promoting her.
He also makes a number of forays outside the basic story. The religious aspects are done in two forms. The fanatical cult in the area which reminds one of the fanatics in the Carl Sagan book, "Contact", but with a much harder edge and the goal of putting their leader in control of the craft. This group is also used as a vehicle to kill off the discoverer of the site and put his ex-wife, astronaut in charge. The problem here is the cult it far too deranged to accomplish some of the tasks given it. The second aspect of religion is the world conclave called by the Vatican. It is a decent vehicle for the concept of dealing with the faith shattering experience, but in spite of gathering all the religions he misses a major potential attendee. He invites all major religions, including Wickens, but fails to invite Mormons, whose philosophy actually provides a perspective that would be useful in understanding and coming to grips with the event.
In short this is a good tale made worse in the writing.
I've read over a thousand sci-fi books in my life. Since I got my I like to read the "unpublished" works that are relatively cheap and have found many winners that I would never have found otherwise.
This book has a good premise. However the writing is absolutely horrible. The story moves at such a glacial pace that if I had the paperback I would probably have thrown it in the garbage by now. I'm 60% through the book and still waiting for something about the "ship" to happen.
Instead I'm treated to a psycho religious nut and have to read his insane ramblings (which are not needed and irrelevant) and the emotional issues of everyone in the book.
The author seems to feel that people have not ever read a book or seen a movie about a psycho religious nut. So he feels compelled to write page after page of his thoughts and ramblings.
The characters and how they act is completely out of touch with reality.
I don't write many bad reviews at all. But this book will be deleted so I can move on to something better which will not be hard.
The Unearthing, the first book in the Omniverse series, is poorly written, yet it is intriguing, enough so for me to read the sequel, Through Darkness and Stars. It is full of awkward sentences and typographical and editing errors. Most disconcerting is the character structure. I thought the book was about Dr. Mark Echohawk, yet a significant way into the book, for reasons I won't mention for fear of spoiling, that turned out not to be the case. Other characters received a lot of attention as well, only to be discarded in the story line (I keep wondering if they're going to come back in the next book, though that would take substantial creativity!).
Some scenes, such as a body viewing scene, received WAY TOO MUCH attention, while more interesting opportunities were frequently overlooked, resulting in my great disappointment. Overall, I had the impression that the book was the work of an untrained writer who sat down and just wrote the story from beginning to end, without planning or going back for a rework. It also struck me that there was no editorial guidance, either. It sure seems like a self-publishing effort, which is too bad, because professional input could have really made this book, in my opinion. I get it, though, and am generally in favor of self-publishing. However, I would urge all self-publishers to try and raise the quality of their projects to the highest possible levels to keep readers interested.
That said, The Unearthing is built around a very interesting premise, and I enjoyed the hints of philosophical and religious thought it tried to provoke. Although it was unsuccessful in exploring these areas, in my opinion, it did get me to thinking. The seeming randomness of so many things in this book make me wonder what's coming next in the sequel, Through Darkness and Star. So I'll plunk down $.99 to find out, although I suspect it may be predictable, based on the synopsis. My hope is it will be better than The Unearthing, and I do see it's getting higher ratings.
Still, serious flaws and all, I cannot lay down Mr. Karmazenuk's books. I hope he can grow technically as a writer, because he has some good and intriguing ideas!
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