Scott Burdick

This story's a mess. Anytime the plot tries to clean up for a few pages, the author throws it down the garbage disposal, turns it on, and picks up some mixed-up globule to move the plot forward.

So, in the first half we're treated to a deformed girl from a primitive and technophobic tribe. A phoenix-like transformation from a divine source. Rape. We find a green skinned race of trolls and very quickly move on for no reason. Some low-life-yet-highly-moral humans pretending to be gods. You have interstellar outlaws that hacked their genes to become animal hybrids. Clones are in there too. There's some omniscient deities (Allah, God, Buddha, Zeus, Joseph Smith, etc...) that are like talking over coffee. We move on to sport-fighting robots that are remote mind-controlled. We get nanobot communication that's faster than light, you have a virus being spread by terrorists. A constant battering of Fox News level of understanding of the theory of evolution throughout, so annoying. We're treated to high school level philosophizing on right/wrong. Iraq War from the 1990's makes an appearance. There's another dimension that humans moved to whose location cannot be described since "it's not here or there it's everywhere and nowhere." There's tons of Jesus Christ and prayer to him.... on and on.

Seriously, I think this book was written by Stefan from the SNL skit... IT HAS LITERALLY EVERYTHING! And the password is BLURHHGLGHHRpthtththht. Next.… (mehr)