Resurrection

by Steve Alten

Domain Trilogy (2)

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What happens to us when we die? Is there really an afterlife? Do we possess a soul? Does God exist? For Michael Gabriel, the answers to these questions lie in another dimension, a realm of eternity where there is no concept of time, only pure life force, pure existence, and pure evil.Now, as was foretold five hundred years ago in the Mayan Popol Vuh, Michael's sons are born: white-haired, azure-eyed Jacob, blessed with inhuman physical prowess, intelligence, and insight into the cosmos, and show more dark-haired Immanuel, who refuses his genetic calling, desiring only a normal life. Only the combined powers of the Gabriel twins can resurrect their savior-father and save the human race from an eternity of repeating its own self-destruction.But on this fateful day another child is born. Exposed to the uglier side of existence and empowered by her posthuman genetics, the beautiful, schizophrenic Lilith will travel down a darker path that leads to eon-distant Xibalba (the Mayan version of Hell) and an epic battle of good versus evil and the final destiny of the human race. show less

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30% stupid fun, 30% boring, 40% sexist garbage. Featuring a sexualized abused schizophrenic 14-year-old girl antichrist, Mayan legend, Bible code, ghosts, wormholes, time loops, Future Drugs, whales, and this passage from a boy to his mother:

Then the fog lifted, and I saw the Abomination for what she really was. "She was part-human, part-demonic creature. Her skin had bleached ghostly white, her long hair was black and knotty. The corneas of her eyes were violet-red, her pupils like a viper. But it was her mouth that made my soul retch—a vertical slit, like a fleshy trap—like a vagina, Mother, only it was filled with hundreds of these sickening stubbly black teeth....though I had no nose, I could still smell the putrid scent of show more demon's vomit, and though I had no mouth, my tortured mind screamed over and over as the Abomination entwined her naked limbs deeper around my mind, and ground her rancid groin into my being... I was drowning in her sulfuric maelstrom..."

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This is a strange series. It's what the "Left Behind" people wish they could write like. It's pretty religious and science fiction, neither of which is especially appealing, but it is also a fresher take on the end of the world. However since the local library doesn't have book three, I think this is as far as I'll get.
I am always on the lookout for new Alten material and when I saw this I said to myself "Cool, a new Alten book!" As I started reading the description, I was thinking that this is awfully familiar, so I researched and lo and behold, this is not a new Alten book but a reprint of "Resurrection", the second book in the "Domain" trilogy. The original was printed by Forge books in 2006 and is still for sale from that publisher.

I love Steve Alten's "Meg" books, the giant, bigger than life shark, but this series should get less than one star if possible.
I love the Meg books but this is no where near as good. I'm sure someone will love it, but not me.
Há 500 anos, o Popol Vuh, livro sagrado dos maias, profetizou o nascimento de gêmeos poderosos, nascidos em 2013. Jacob, de destreza e inteligência fora do comum e com um sexto sentido acurado, pressente, desde pequeno, que há acontecimentos extraordinários em seu futuro. Manny, seu irmão, tem a mesma consciência, mas rejeita seus poderes. Seu único desejo é viver como um homem normal. Nascida no mesmo dia que os gêmeos, Lilith é uma jovem bela e perturbada. Exposta desde cedo aos aspectos mais sórdidos do ser humano, ela tem como seu destino o Xibalba, o inferno maia, e como meta, a destruição da raça humana. O confronto de Lilith com os irmãos é inevitável.
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Sep 10, 2012Portuguese (Portugal)
El día en que termina el calendario Maya. Hace quinientos años, el Popol Vuh de los mayas profetizó el nacimiento de unos poderosos hermanos gemelos. Jacob, de cabellos blancos y ojos azules oscuros, dotado de cualidades inhumanas que sabe desde el momento de nacer que su destino va más lejos. Su hermano Immanuel, de cabello oscuro, rechaza su vocación genética y desea llevar una vida normal. Pero sólo la combinación de los poderes de ambos podrá resucitar al salvador, su padre, y librar a la especie humana de toda una eternidad repitiendo su propia autodestrucción. Existe un gran tercer poder sobre la Tierra, nacido el mismo día que los gemelos.
Segunda entrega de la Trilogía Maya. 21 de diciembre de 2012... El día en que termina el calendario Maya... Hace quinientos años, el Popol Vuh de los mayas profetizó el nacimiento de unos poderosos hermanos gemelos: los hijos de Michael Gabriel. Jacob, de cabellos blancos y ojos azules oscuros, dotado de cualidades inhumanas tales como una gran capacidad psíquica, una inteligencia especial y una visión profunda del cosmos, que sabe desde el momento de nacer que su destino va más lejos. Su hermano Immanuel, de cabello oscuro, rechaza su vocación genética y desea llevar una vida normal. Pero sólo la combinación de los poderes de ambos podrá resucitar al salvador, su padre, y librar a la especie humana de toda una eternidad show more repitiendo su propia autodestrucción. Existe un gran tercer poder sobre la Tierra, nacido el mismo día que los gemelos. Sometida al lado más amargo de la existencia y dotada de un poder especial por su genética post-humana, la bella y esquizofrénica Lilith, que viajará a través de un camino más oscuro que conduce a Xibalba, la versión maya del infierno. Dará comienzo una batalla épica del bien contra el mal, y nos será revelado el destino final de la especie humana. Una conspiración que se remonta a 65 millones de años y que ha alterado el tejido mismo de la civilización. Un misterio milenario que afectará a todos los seres vivos de la tierra. Un libro revelador que descubre la verdad acerca del calendario Maya, una verdad tan antigua como poderosa que podría revelar el funesto destino de la humanidad. Un antiguo rompecabezas cuyas piezas están diseminadas por todo el planeta, desde Stonehenge a las inmemoriales ruinas mayas. show less

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Steve Alten is the writer of such thrillers as Meg, Fathom, and The Trench. While critics often find fault with his works, the books continue to be popular. Disney Productions optioned Meg, which has been described as "Jaws meets Jurassic Park" or "Jurassic Shark." He was born in Philadelphia. As a young man he planned to become a sports coach and show more earned his PhD. In sports administration. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Resurrection
Original title
Resurrection
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Jacob Gabriel; Immanuel Gabriel

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Fiction and Literature, Science Fiction
DDC/MDS
813.54Literature & rhetoricAmerican literature in EnglishAmerican fiction in English1900-19991945-1999
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PS3551 .L764 .R47Language and LiteratureAmerican literatureAmerican literatureIndividual authors1961-
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