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Pillar To The Sky (2014)

by William R. Forstchen(Favorite Author)

3.32 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0765334380 (ISBN13: 9780765334381)

languge

English

genre

Science Fiction

publisher

Tor Books

review 1: I thought that this book fell short. I will write more at a later time. The take home message concerned the idea of Disruptive Technologies and how in a Dystopian Society... all forces will converge to prevent innovation that relates to sustainable energy for the entire planet... which in turn would make fossil fuel based energy usage void. The reality is that the idea of money is strongly connected to the utilization of oil.
review 2: “Pillar to the Sky” is a 180 degree departure from “One Second After”. One Second After was a gripping, plausible scenario following a very real threat to our civilization. Pillar to the Sky is an attempt to combine a basic formula written thriller with science fiction. It is not successful.This formula written thrille... morer has all the required parts: incredibly wealthy man, brilliant and courageous women, one brilliant man, villains posing threats, and stream of situations threatening imminent disaster but being miraculously resolve just in time. And a happy ending as well, as required. Reading became tedious early on because of the nearly continuous technobabble. I have a graduate technical degree, but was so tired of the monotonous technobabble I had to force myself to read past the middle, all the way to the end. As science fiction writer has license to make many assumptions, but good science fiction doesn’t ask you to accept obviously absurd premises. This invokes several glaringly ridiculous premises, including replacing ALL energy with electricity, oil prices rising to $225/bbl in the 2020s because the world is rapidly running out of producible oil, and rising sea levels because of man’s CO2 emissions. A little research prior to writing this book would have eliminated these embarrassing elements. less

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