Click on a thumbnail to go to Google Books.
Loading... The Delphinus Chronicles (edition 2003)by Richard G. Roane (Author)
Work InformationThe Delphinus Chronicles by Richard G. Roane
None Loading...
Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. I have the audio CD; the recording quality is bad, the reading is bad, the effects are distracting, and I didn't enjoy the experience. If the plot had have been interesting, it might have all equaled out in the end; unfortunately, it wasn't. The writing was uninspired, the plot was slow, the technical details were so utterly incorrect as to be silly, and the book can't decide if it's science fiction or fantasy, and ends up just being silly. no reviews | add a review
Students at a small college in Southern California program their supercomputer to learn language, but the school is adjacent to an aquatic amusement park and the computer mistakenly learns to communicate with the world's dolphin population. The dolphins ultimately reveal explosive information about the true origins of mankind, which falls into the wrong hands and sets off a chain of events that threaten to unravel society as we know it. No library descriptions found. |
Current DiscussionsNone
Google Books — Loading... RatingAverage:
Is this you?Become a LibraryThing Author. |
As soon as Professor Ross Erricson and his graduate students realize what’s going on, the dolphins in captivity map the entire ocean floor. At a certain spot in the ocean, there’s a mountain here, a gully there, a human cannon over there (how would they know it’s human?). The captive dolphins are able to communicate with those in the ocean; since dolphins have no written language, they need to have quite a collective memory. The dolphins also report the location of a Spanish galleon that went down over 350 years ago, carrying over 30 tons of silver and gold back to Spain. This is the source of the legend of dolphins picking up humans in the water and transporting them to the nearest land.
The old saying goes something like, “Be careful what you ask, you might not like the answer.” The dolphins are asked how man started on Earth. Their answer has nothing to do with evolution.
The focus shifts to Atlantis, which was actually in the Aegean Sea, near Greece, not in the Atlantic. The group manages to attract the attention of the Fortezza, a secret society that is bigger than governments. They are the sort of people who wear identical gray suits, and drive dark sedans with tinted windows. Their purpose is to suppress all knowledge of the Kadut (read the book to find out just what it is) by killing everyone who even gets near such knowledge. The group has several narrow escapes, until they come within seconds of execution. Also, the cause (and cure) for aggression in the human species is found.
This book is excellent. It’s a good thriller, it will certainly get the reader thinking about a lot of things, and it’s a gem of a story. Recommended. ( )