Rate this book

Terminal Freeze (2009)

by Lincoln Child(Favorite Author)

3.7 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0385515510 (ISBN13: 9780385515511)

languge

English

genre

Mystery & Thriller

publisher

Doubleday Books

review 1: A bit better researched than "The Third Gate" and a little more credible. The fictional story of an encounter with a Bigfoot-type creature who has been in suspended animation (cryogenically frozen and restored to life) and wreaks havoc with researchers at an Arctic station.It is well written with a lot of details that make you feel the confusion and terror experienced by everyone in the novel. There is science fiction which is totally unbelievable, but there is also science fiction based on experiences that we hear about but do not yet understand. The story leaves us not knowing the fate of the monster, whether it regenerates or returns as spirit abandoning its body or is killed.If you read serious present-day accounts of Bigfoot encounters or of genetic hybrid monsters (t... moreranshumanism) or of living giants found in present day Iraq by US military or of finding the body of Gilgamesh in Iraq or of attempts to clone from living cell tissue of prehistoric animals frozen in ice thousands of years ago or even of cryogenically freezing and thawing sperm and embryos without damage, you will find some credibility in this story. Native American legend that this monster could choose to return to spirit form and abandon his body backs up some of the behavior of this monster.Humans which change into animal form in witchcraft can be killed while in animal form and never return to life. Their spirits leave their bodies and do not remain on earth. True spirit forms that do not require a physical body to exist, but can transform to a physical body through quantum physics, especially frequency, can also transform back instantly to spirit form (like angels and fallen angels). They cannot be killed because they do not have actual physical bodies. Nephilim which are a genetic hybrid between angels and humans (or angels and animals or even humans and animals) can be killed. But they have more spiritual powers than humans and are more difficult to kill. As a result, the Hebrews were afraid to go into the Promised Land because the huge size of the Nephilim made the Hebrews appear "as grasshoppers in their sight". When the Nephilim were killed, it was usual to cut off their heads because of the fear of regenerative powers; only with the head removed could the Nephilim stop living. However, their spirits remained on earth to enter another hybrid body. This is why David removed the head of Goliath and carried it to Jerusalem.The monster in this novel exhibited many of the supernatural characteristics of both transhuman creations (hybrids) and Nephilim. It could change location in the spirit realm, it could choose to leave its body (as the Native American explained), it could regenerate its body from wounds, including a wound to the head, it was cryogenically frozen and thawed, and its biggest weakness was frequency and sympathetic resonance. We did not see it change from spirit form to physical form as has been seen in current Bigfoot sightings although when it bypassed them in the hall to attack from an unexpected direction, it seems that it might have temporarily changed to spirit form in the same way that Bigfoot seems to instantly disappear from sight.This is a work of science fiction, but it is based on enough knowledge of the supernatural to make it seem credible rather than imaginative. As children, we laughed at the Buck Rogers cartoon stories of taking rockets to the moon, but we enjoyed the science fiction adventures. Now we no longer make fun of those cartoons.Lincoln Child seems to be attempting to write science fiction based on modern fact. He has done a reasonably good job of trying to explain the seemingly unexplainable while still writing an interesting novel.
review 2: If you're looking for something bloody and scary, then you may enjoy this: lots of gore, stock characters with no subtleties to get in the way of the action, especially villains who "deserve what they get," and a monster which, although supposedly too horrible to describe, sounded a lot like a mutant walrus to me. I had the advantage of listening to a very good reader on CD, which enhanced the suspense. (I did actually read that last 30 pages because I wanted to find out what happened.) It was a good counterbalance to all the Christmas stories I'm reading. less

Download links for: Terminal Freeze

Advertising