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Duane K. Lacoursiere
Science Fiction
Taken at Spirit Indigo in Spruce Grove
July 28, 2017
The author first became interested in UFOlogy when he was sent to replace a Security Guard that had reported a UFO sighting and subsequently been fired for filing a false report. The report itself was of far less interest than the Government response was. Up until this incident the author had been totally unaware that there was a government sanctioned “UFO Investigation Team” in his area. This led the author to the conclusion that somebody was taking the UFO phenomenon a lot more seriously than they were pretending to. This interest was further piqued by a statement by the head of an international martial arts school. The Grand Master was asked if he believed in space aliens. The Grand Masters answer was “We don’t just train to fight other humans.”
ISBN 9781450063425
What happens when an inhabited planet is about to become uninhabitable? Do the inhabitants just accept their fate and die with dignity? Or do they abandon their planet like rats leaving a sinking ship? Common sense would dictate that a slim chance at survival is better by far than no chance at all. One only has to look at our own medical community to see how far they will go to buy a cancer patient just a few more months of life. Most times, the quality of that life is not even an issue. It does not matter how painful or wretched that life may be, as long as there is more of it. Thus, when the time came, the Colony Ship “Desperation” was launched. With only sublight capability and no clear destination it headed out into the great unknown with the philosophy that “anywhere is better than here.” This book is made up of excerpts from the Captains log of the Colony Ship “Desperation.” It covers a span of almost 1700 years from the time of its launch to the present, when they stumble across a secret that has evaded mankind ever since Noah sailed his Ark.
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DESPERATION
This is like an introduction to Gaia teachings. I already have strong opinions about that.
Cover
What can I say about this cover? It's too abstract to get a feel about what the books about and really the back cover starts with this cynicism that I found in the second quarter.
Even the back cover feels a little deceptive. I’ll get into that at the end.
Interior
My initial impression was this was going to be a Wall-e-esque story in the view of the captain and crew running from Earth.
It’s laid out as Captain’s Logs entries for centuries. As it flips Captains you don’t really get a feel for each personality. Which is a bit of a shame. The first chapter could very well be a really good book all by itself.
One of the biggest problems is that this book has is that it does a bait and switch. We watch Politicians evacuate Earth, fine and great but midway we are introduced to the Earth 2.0(?), Mars, Atlantis, and I find that the plot itself begins to deteriorate faster than the gene pool.
Actually:
(Doing a quick skim over the book it never admits our MC was from Earth or that they are even human.)
The politics and agreements between our Captain and the Annunaki isn’t consistent and the Captain’s Log motivations somewhat unravel.
There are subtle sparks in this book that make me go huh that's different or cleaver.
Firstly, I just love how this book starts off by declaring the world going to end in 2020 already has me giggling.
I love the concept of having the spaceship on a continual spin to create the illusion of artificial gravity. It’s hilarious but actually quite brilliant.
Something about aliens getting eaten by dinosaurs was just hilarious and somehow this book made me chuckle a couple times. I don't know if that was the intention though.
As it's an evacuation in 2020 the politicians are the only ones to escape it means Justin Trudeau is on this ship.
To one degree it’s saying Aliens are really inbred politicians but it also lands in this allegory they are the devil. (But as humans know Satan before hand it becomes a bit of a mess.)
Gaia/Religion
I find Gaia in general as a ridiculous premises.
FYI Gaia can be summed up as a boiling pot of all faiths/religion including evolution.
For this one is blending a lot of Mesopotamian gods, Bible, Evolution with UFOlogy.
Marduk, Tiamat, Enlil, Adammu, Nibiru, Annunaki, and not surprisingly Nephilim.
There are a few chapters dedicated to Earth's Genesis and nothing pained me more than the use of Noah, Eve, Eden, Prayer, Satan, and flipping Babel, with the Flood bringing in more confusion and making Babel nearly unnecessary, and somewhat breaking the plot some.
Final Thoughts
This is where the back covers, “secret that has evaded mankind ever since Noah sailed his Ark,” is befuddling in a plot setting since this wasn’t their planet nor a long lasting mystery for our Captain.
This is where I find the book flips from entertaining readers to indoctrinating them into the origin how we got where we are. When it shifts from entertainment to preaching it also includes the wagging finger of shame for not believing become more apparent.
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