Warp Speed

I'm afraid I have read the entire thing.

It starts off as a pretty harmless edisonade, with a rather too obvious author self insert (physics genius, mountain bike champ and karate whiz, what's not to like).

Anyhow, Travis (sorry Anson) discovers a warp drive and unlimited energy. This could be just great for humanity, dontcha think? Unfortunately, bad guys (read governments that the author does not like) get wind of the invention, and use it to devastating effect in a terrorist attack. Tarvis (sorry Anson), and his brave crew use said attack to justify committing genocide on the entire population of said nation with the bad government. I can't even contemplate how the author thinks this is a justifiable and proportionate response.

If I show more could give it no stars I would. show less

Scietist creates a warp engine to see the stars and bad guys use it to start WWIII.
At first, the attention to technical details was fascinating as it delved into a science I'm not familliar with, but after awhile it became tedious.
This was an interesting story and one well worth telling, but after the climax was reached, it kept going and going.
I found myself skimming quite a bit as unnecessary detail was pumped in to provide the backstory and continue to support the science. I was looking forward to a great read, but at best this was mediocre.

This book is roughly divided into two sections. In first section the Dr. Anson, a brilliant mathematician whose subconscious talks to himself with the voice and images of the late Albert Einstein, is running short of money as a NASA subcontractor. He is in desperate need to get some results in his "warp experiment lab". A small micro explosion during experiments introduces a brief human tragedy. In spite of the setbacks things progress smoothly and the lab flourish. The reader is brought to the orbit of earth where the final test of warp technology is about to take place. In second part a high gear is shifted in and there comes the villains, there comes the conspiracy, there comes the superpowers and dirty secrets of espionage, there show more comes save-the-earth scenarios within days.

The pace of the events is breathtaking to the page count left in second part. But that's not over yet. At the end the space is explored within 100 AU's distance and stars are only in hands reach a way. At the end all live happily ever after.

Zero (0.5) stars. The roller coaster ride lost it believability at its first meters. The Dr. Anson is presented as a martial arts expert, a super hero at the same time as trying to bring him to the level of layman by letting him drink beer and do pretzels, throw in start trek, Yoda comments, and make colorful remarks in Alabama accent. The story is grossly exaggerated: complex Warp-time-and-space (the science) is solved by three-four persons in few months and the stars are conquered as a brief sequel to save-the-earth WW III episode. There was also a problem with the presented political caricature of the superpowers seen from the eyes of the main character; Dr. Anson's Right Wing attitude is not radiating humor but leave a bad taste. A flash read which you won't much talk about afterwards. show less

This book needs a good edit, to remove gratuitous scenes, plot potholes, character cloning, disjointed plotting and such.

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