false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173374425m/278797.jpg 278797 21 Perry Bergman is president of Benthic Marine and a passenger aboard The Benthic Explorer, a 450-foot research ship endeavoring to drill into, and sample for the first time, the earth's magma core. Also onboard are the lovely Dr. Suzanne Newell; ex-navy commander and present submersible skipper Donald Fuller; and navy-cum-Neanderthal divers Richard Adams and Michael Donaghue. It is this cast of characters who, with the reluctant Perry, dive to the stilled drill site in order to make repairs. En route, they are sucked (or suckered) into a defunct undersea volcano and deposited into an otherworldly wonderland. That takes about 75 pages of fairly cogent spadework. The next 375 pages sprout some of the looniest, most derivative, made-for-TV-movie science fiction imaginable. Our heroes, you see, have been abducted to Interterra, an undersea world of staggering beauty and unheard of technologies--intergalactic travel and eternal life, for starters--populated by stunningly beautiful, toga-wearing, first-generation humans.<p> First-generation? They were here first, see, and had been doing very nicely until their scientists realized that the earth was about to be "showered with planetesimal collisions, just as had happened in its primordial state," and that they had better start digging. While the Interterrans prospered and thrived undersea, we, the second generation, began hauling our single-celled bodies up by our ooze-straps and started all over again.<p> And that's about it. People with names like Arak and Sufa speak strangely, giggle at the primitive second-generationists, recoil at the very thought of violence, press their palms together to have sex, and direct "worker clones" to do the dishes while the second generation does its stereotypical best to, in turns, exemplify, define, and defile humankind.<p> If you've yet to read Robin Cook's innumerable (and mostly successful) medical thrillers, start now. If you want to read about an alternative world, start off right with H.G. Wells's 1895 masterpiece, <I>The Time Machine.</I> <I>--Michael Hudson</I> 2666720 2000 Abduction total:404|5:72|4:115|3:132|2:47|1:38| 404 1348 569 43 3 3 false false Wed Aug 22 06:52:53 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 23 06:53:38 -0700 2007 4 2 false false Fri Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Jun 20 08:53:06 -0700 2007 Mon Jun 25 13:15:39 -0700 2007 5 1 false false Sun Apr 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue May 01 10:40:07 -0700 2007 Tue May 01 11:13:35 -0700 2007 This book proposes the possibility that flying saucers are not from outer space but from "primary humans" living in paradise in the Moho layer, between earth's crust and mantle. I feel that's plausible. I've always had that feeling "we are not alone"....]]> 2 0 false false Wed Nov 04 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Oct 13 07:12:35 -0700 2009 Wed Nov 04 19:21:24 -0800 2009 more...]]> 2 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 13 15:13:32 -0700 2007 Thu Sep 13 15:16:01 -0700 2007 1 0 false false Mon Mar 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 20:22:31 -0700 2009 Mon Mar 09 20:29:06 -0700 2009 more...]]> 1 0 false false Thu Jan 29 10:07:38 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 10:37:35 -0800 2009 This is a startlingly bad book. Cook's premise is that half a billion years ago humans evolved, grew powerful, and moved into a spacious and habitable hollow shell (!) between the Earth's crust and mantle. They lived there for 500 million years, not interacting with the surface world, until ...more...]]> 3 1 false false Wed Nov 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Fri Feb 13 10:45:21 -0800 2009 Fri Feb 13 10:46:16 -0800 2009 1 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Jun 19 18:46:41 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 31 15:54:43 -0700 2007
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