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The Omega Theory (2011)

by Mark Alpert(Favorite Author)

3.45 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

1451628498 (ISBN13: 9781451628494)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Simon & Schuster

series

Final Theory

review 1: David Swift, physics historian, and his family return in the sequel to Final Theory. Basically, in the first book, Swift discovered that Albert Einstein proved the unified field theory. The theory was that space and time were interconnected. in the end, the only one who memorized the unified field theory was Einstein's great-great autistic grandson Michael because Swift was worried that the unified field theory could help man create the ultimate weapon. In this book, Michael is kidnapped by religious zealot's who want to create a weapon that would compress space and time and bring Heaven to earth while destroying the world and the universe. The race is on to find Michael and stop Armageddon. Unfortunately, the main characters religious views and their pacifist attitu... moredes make this book almost unreadable. Swift and his wife Monique Reynolds (an interesting husband a and wife interracial couple not found in most novels I've read) claim to be pacifists, but are given guns and shoot people with aplomb. They claim to be atheists, but every time the going gets tough they say prayers to God. Finally, to bring down the religious zealots hell bent on destroying the universe, they turn to a group of Jewish religious zealots toting Uzi's to save the day. I give the author Alpert credit for making difficult physics theories easy for the average reader to understand, but this book felt forced. So much of the novel is a set-up for the last fifty pages of action that it is a grind to get through the book. For lovers of fiction based on modern day science only.
review 2: A techincally complex novel, not as involving as the first in the series- It would appear that the author allowed some of his political views to seep into the plot- never a good thing in a novel- especially a thriller- which is aimed at a broad audience- Characters were somewhat plastic- and stereotyped- the "True Believers" were a bit hard to believe - pun intended and the overall plot was a bit on the far out side- a bit too much details on physics ect- stopped action - Alpert obviously is extremely intelligent in this area- but when I read a thriller-I like to learn some new things- but not take a course in Quantum Physics! less

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