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The Omega Point (2010)

by Whitley Strieber(Favorite Author)

3.06 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0765323346 (ISBN13: 9780765323347)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Tor Books

review 1: In short, I would skip the actual story and go to the 25 or so pages of the author's note - in which he discusses his opinions and the ideas he used for this book in a more accessible way. This is not a sequel to his 2012: The War for Souls, which I thought was at times kooky but a quick, entertaining read (it is, to some degree, about lizard people). There are some Mayan references in this one, but neither of these books is a real examination of changes that might happen to the world, either on a physical or metaphysical level. (Strieber's disaster scenario stems from the effects of a supernova - which scientists have discussed as possible). The story revolves around the destruction of much of the earth, but oddly, it takes place almost entirely in a clinic that is sequ... moreestered from the rest of society. The characters didn't grab me, and he throws some sex and violence in, but it seems there for drama. His world-wide scenario (as someone else here said) is somewhat a new age interpretation of the Book of Revelations. But flying saucers are taking "good" people away, and it's not even really clear to me (if they are aliens) who's operating them.There's metallurgical alchemy, and bad guys, and a plan for saving the heroes that seems almost like magic - but one that Strieber says he experienced personally.Reviews say his earlier fiction is good, and I liked his fictional book The Grays in which he may have utilized his own experiences with aliens (if you even believe that happened).It's a different plot, but I think what he was doing here was in some ways accomplished better in Glenn Kleier's messianic re-imagining in The Last Day - though some people also take issue with that story's rushed prose style.
review 2: I read "The Greys" and the "2012: the war for souls" by Strieber years ago and loved them. Unfortunately the last book started to irritate me from the middle; there was too much doom and gloom, very little hope and shocking scenario for the end of the world. I read that the author believes into the alien abduction and claims that he was abducted. There is something unhealthy by his obsession with the subject. less

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