I get it that the author uses his imagination but some scenes in his Sean Wyatt books, you can't ignore the stupidity of just what he described and in real life it just doesn't work that way. This novel never gets off the pot. The war that you waited for, never comes and each day is an endless hashing of “topside” conditions. I will say that the guessed at political perspectives might be pretty close in a real situation based on the current state of anarchy that resides around the world. The characters are fun to follow in that the movement flows at a good clip WHEN MOVEMENT OCCURS. The writing style grows on you and only wastes your time with verbose military verbiage if you’re not into it. There were way too many firearm, Indian and wildlife fails, but was balanced out with some good action and interpersonal interactions. The first, Ike, is a scientist (and also apparently a super-survivalist) with an implant in his head. Ike is a rather crass and unlikable character who only grudgingly chooses to do "the right thing" many times. Every single female character in the book seems enthralled with him and wants to have sex with him (a bit of wish fulfillment there Steve?) even though he seems to basically judge them solely by how nice their breasts are, something he seems obsessed with. The implant, called 'ABE', is a real crutch for the story, as it is basically an info dump machine. ABE, in fact, may have actually made for a better protagonist than Ike, as the microchip ends up making the majority of the decisions and basically telling Ike what he should do next! Even better while you have the FBI, along other law enforcement looking for Sean, he could have had the new president secretly put a team together looking for him to protect him, aid him to finding what he was looking for and help rescue the former president. The dogs had found the woman's lair, its small entrance concealed by brush. I figured now they would stake out the area, waiting for her to return.

So, according to Elon Musk, “Ω” is his message for “resist the current [thing]”, as the last letter of the Greek alphabet is the symbol for the unit of measurement of electrical resistance in the International System of Units (the Ohm) which he took this name from the German physicist Georg Ohm.En el mundo del libro (la Tierra en la actualidad), la crisis del petróleo deribó en una Tercera Guerra Mundial, en la utilización de nuevas armas que mandaron a la Edad de Piedra a naciones y, lo más importante, en la Gran Mortandad, donde la excasez hizo que muriera prácticamente toda la raza humana. Ante este panorama, los supervivientes empiezan una suerte de reconstrucción de la sociedad sin la participación del petróleo. Descubren que una sustancia, el helio-3, tiene la capacidad de poder alcanzar la fusión nuclear sin peligro y quieren explotarlo para obtener energía, lamentablemente en la Tierra escasea y deberán ir a la Luna a conseguirlo. Full of twists, turns and surprises, Ernest Dempsey's The Omega Project mixes accurately-researched historical mystery and non-stop thrilling action. Book review: Lessons From the Light. What We Can Learn From the Near-Death Experience. Publishers Weekly, Oct. 26, 1998, p. 55

Instead of wasting the monotonous downtime of deployment, we worked with our trainers, cognitive coaches, nutritionists, physical therapists, and our fellow shooters to create the best fitness journal we could. We rigorously tested this product in the deserts of Iraq and Syria, after multiple prototypes, we came up with what you see today.While the premise was intriguing, the novel was just so boring. The landscape was described beautifully and there was some pretty good world building also. But that's about it. The pace of the story was so all over the place that it nearly gave me a whiplash. The first half, the story just flew through. Second half just slowed down and then suddenly sped up. Also, certain events did not seem very plausible to me. For instance, the novel started with the Great Die Off that happened due to our over-dependence on oil and when the supplies ran out, the world was plunged into chaos. But we managed to overcome that and we read about how our technology just advanced exponentially. My problem was that all of this happened within a few years if the Great Die Off. How was that even possible? The speed with which things happened wasn't very plausible to me. When he wakes, Eisenbraun finds the ship deserted and no longer functional. He escapes to the surface of an Earth terribly changed. The plan has gone horribly wrong, but as he adapts to a hostile environment, he realizes that there is still a way to accomplish what the mission had set out to achieve. But he also discovers that he faces a new adversary of the most unlikely sort. Now his own survival, and that of the woman whose love has sustained him in his darkest hours, depends on the defeat of a technological colossus partly of his own making. On the brink of a disaster that could end all human life on Earth, tech genius Robert Eisenbraun joins a team of scientists in Antarctica on a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa to mine a rare ore that can provide for Earth's long-term energy needs. But as he and the rest of the team train under the ice shelf in preparation for the long journey, trouble erupts. Before they embark, Eisenbraun finds himself the odd man out, and is put into cold sleep against his will. I am not reviewing the book for the tour company. I did finally finish the book and it was just OK (as the two stars confirm). The writing is good. I have read other books by him and this rating is in comparison to these. Otra cosa que hizo el autor que me pareció absurda fue utilizar al narrador para disculparse antes de utilizar frases hechas muy manidas como "el paisaje cortaba la respiración". Yo lo interpreté como "esto me parece un recurso cutre y pasado de moda, pero como no se me ocurre nada mejor lo uso y simplemente me disculpo antes de hacerlo". También tergiversó muchísimo la disciplina budista y las partes esotéricas y espirituales de la novela dejan mucho que desear y me parecen fuera de lugar.

Waxler, N. E. (1970). [Review of Methods of Madness: The Mental Hospital as a Last Resort., by B. M. Braginsky, D. A. Braginsky, & K. Ring]. American Sociological Review, 35(5), 951–952. https://doi.org/10.2307/2093343 The idea that John and his MWD-k9 and Becca are accepted into the Chiricahua nation as warriors is pretty funny. In case you missed the last 150 or so years, natives don’t really like us. How do I know? I have worked on Indian reservations for 25 years an am a First Nations decendant. Sure I have a lot of friends, but generally, Tribal Council’s are careful to exclude non-tribal employees/members from ANY tribal events and you will not lead from the front on any policy issue. Also the idea that there is a traditional tribal gathering being acted out in ancient Indian escape tunnels where elders have visions which the military takes seriously, is ridiculous. The whole special warrior knife thing where “warriors have to kill anyone that touches their knife”, is bullshjt. After another dramatic plot twist, the main character finds himself in some fantastic landscape where everything and everyone is trying to ruin his day, while the reader is incessantly bombarded with his obnoxious guesses and deductions. What Steve Alten has written here is really two different books, one a gritty, post-apocalyptic tale of the breakdown of society, with characters struggling to survive and finally re-building a new society; the other a crazy, fantastical ride into a distant future full of weird creatures and scientific spiritualism. The two don't fit very well together.I did get lost in the story, meaning, I lost the story line as the author clearly succeeded in confusing me if what was happening to the protagonist was a dream or real life. Also, at various parts it was too geeky and technical for me to follow the details. I do not want to be preached to in science fiction. Some great authors can pull it off. Frank Herbert in his Destination: Void series, Orson Scott Card with Ender's Game... they pulled it off. This book did not pull it off. In fact... I wanted to put a hat on Oscar, I did, I am ashamed of it, but picturing him with a hat helped me finish the book.