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The year is 2066, and the world is oblivious to the threat it faces.

The fate of humanity lies on the shoulders of Burt Radcliffe, the new head of NASA's Near Earth Object program. He's been rushing the completion of DefenseNet, a ring of satellites that are both part of an early-warning system, as well as the means to eliminate incoming threats.

Yet Burt knows that despite the world's best efforts, nothing can be done about the alert he's just received. Coming out of deep space is a danger that's been approaching since the dawn of time. A black hole. An unstoppable threat that promises death for all in its wake.

Dave Holmes was a modern-day Einstein. As the original architect of DefenseNet, he'd had visions of this Primordial Threat before he disappeared, yet he'd left behind no details on how the problem might be solved. Can Holmes be found, and if so, will his solution even work?

The world has less than a year to find out.

©2018 Michael A. Rothman (P)2019 Tantor Fiction Hard Science Fiction Military Science Fiction
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The story is paint by numbers boring. Characters really thin in substance. The narrator makes it hard to distinguish different characters because he sounds as bored with the material as I was listening to it

Light weight

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I loved the sheer imagination mixed with what could be possible with mindblowing astrophysics. written with warmth and strong characters.

Fascinating story

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The plot seemed to follow a tried and tested Hollywood disaster movie scenario with some very clichéd characters thrown into the mix for good measure. I stuck with the book in the hope of a subtle twist which unfortunately didn't come. Other reviews had suggested that this was written from a scientific perspective, but I found it pretty rudimentary and flawed in a lot of places and I am no astrophysicist.

desperately searching for a screenplay.

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After reading the story line of the ‘free download’ book, it captured my net rest and sat in my ‘to read’ folder for a couple of months.
It only took 15min to be hooked.
It was one of those stories that you look forward to immersing yourself into and it listening to it was like eating ‘comfort food’.
Strong characters, good story and a great example of Science Fiction ‘done well’.

End of the World, Black Holes, North Korea and Moving ‘Home’

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The characters were ok ish. I also like this narrator. Spoilers ahead: I just can’t get behind the idea of putting the earth in a bubble and moving it out the way of a wandering black hole. Maybe if it had been a farcical comedy science fiction. I realise it’s fiction, but I can’t drop that far out of reality when the science of a novel is supposed to be realistic. Doesn’t quite work.

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