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by Jeremy Robinson
| | List Price: | $14.99 |  | | Available: | Usually ships in 24 hours | | | | | Sales Rank: | 12946 | | Studio: | Breakneck Books | | | Binding: | Paperback | | Number Of Pages: | 300 | | Publication Date: | June 19, 2007 | | Publisher: | Breakneck Books |
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Product Description
A phenomenon known as crustal displacement shifts the Earth's crust, repositioning continents and causing countless deaths. In the wake of the global catastrophe, the world struggles to take care of its displaced billions. But Antarctica, freshly thawed and blooming, has emerged as a new hope. Rather than wage a world war no nation can endure, the leading nations devise a competition, a race to the center of Antarctica, with the three victors dividing the continent. It is within this race that Mirabelle Whitney, one of the few surviving experts on the continent, grouped with an American special forces unit, finds herself. But the dangers awaiting the team are far worse than feared; beyond the sour history of a torn family, beyond the nefarious intentions of their human enemies, beyond the ancient creatures reborn through anhydrobiosis-there are the Nephilim. The world races to claim a new continent, only to find it already taken. |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 49 reviews)
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Really bad science jumps the shark 
I actually am willing to let quite a bit by in terms of reality when reading a book. But this was beyond willing suspension of disbelief. First the entire ocean flash freezes while leaving a man in the "protection" of a boat intact? The amount of energy required for that to occur is phenomenal.
Taking some breaths and reading further I was treated to characters so mono-dimensional that they should be able to hide from the rampaging dinosaurs by turning sideways.
The villains at the end have a weak spot that is so ridiculous given the current human level of technology that it made me wonder if the protagonist's were welding potatoes guns.
July 15, 2008 | |
Explosive, Spine Tingling Adventure 
Jeremy Robinson has done it again with his new, explosive action/adventure novel that will keep you turning pages well into the night. Antarktos Rising plunges the modern world into the savage, ancient earth of eons past. Through a series of cataclysmic events, the continent of Antarctica is transformed into an apparent paradise while most of the inhabited earth is destroyed through a massive freeze. In order to survive, the nations of the earth race to claim the formerly frozen Antarctica as their new home. However, as teams from the various countries race to the center of the now tropical Antarctica, they find that the land is not the only thing thawed from the eons of deep freeze--so were some of the indigenous species that once roamed and ruled the continent. The journey to the center of Antarctica--now known by its ancient name of Antarktos--is the least of mankind's goals. Once they start, they must survive some of the most deadly obstacles ever faced. Jeremy Robinson takes you on their journey step-by-step through the spine tingling adventure with each turn of the page, making you wonder how the team can get out of their current danger. He scarcely gives you time to catch your breath before the team encounters a new, more deadly danger. If you have a list of books to read this summer, put Antarktos Rising at the top today.
July 01, 2008 | |
a great surpize
This is one book you can not put down. It is fast paced and a great read. I had to order the rest of his books just to see if he will be a great writer as I believe he will be.
June 06, 2008 | |
good read but nothing thrilling 
I enjoyed reading this book, but found the whole storyline a bit implausible. How can a flood/freeze event kill off half a continent and yet leave one person alive? Having said that, the story is kind of a fun story and contains a lot of "what ifs" which make it an interesting read. The story doesn't dig too deeply and doesn't give a lot of details, which makes for a quick read.
June 04, 2008 | |
Lots of imagination, good foundations, good storytelling for a very original story 
Jeremy Robinson's Antarktos Rising book tells the story of a handful of human survivors of a great Earth crust displacement that leads mankind to live in a completely reshaped world in which the North Pole has migrated to North Dakota, the Northern hemisphere gets encrusted in a thick ice layer, Siberia becomes a hot place and... Antarctica thaws.
With this thawing, the former South Pole becomes an attractive land to the remaining, weakened, shrunk, destabilized nations of the world, and the object of a race to conquer it first. A number of nations, grouped in distinct alliances, decides to send teams to the place and claim it.
The teams are met there by a series of gradually more dangerous threats. The story embarks the reader in the American team's progress throughout this uncharted territory.
The main merit of this book is certainly originality. It is also well written, fast paced and all-encompassing in terms of mythology. Its main flaws are perhaps essentially the lack of character development for those that are not part of the Clark family. They are a bit hollow. Also, there is a number of scientific shortcuts that make the story quite unbelievable at times. But reading this book is a lot of fun, and gaps in the rationale can easily be filled with imagination -or forgiveness- as the quality of the plot and the extent of Robinson's imagination are most definitely far reaching and truly amazing.
I liked-
- the theme: global catastrophe. So in line with today's world concerns!
- Antarctica rediscovered as a living place. Yes, we tend to forget that, unlike the North Pole, Antarctica used to be a fertile land where life, under different conditions, was and could again be possible.
- The Nephilim's theme. The concept of colossus and their related backgrounds, is top notch. Also, their struggling with the dinosaurs is a refreshing invention.
- The writing style. Fluid, fast paced, very enjoyable.
- The fusion of various world mythologies and mysteries into a rather coherent explanation. Crop circles, Egyptian and Nordic divinities, the Great Flood, the Bible teachings etc. all get merged together in quite an attractive -if not credible- fashion. It's easy to tell that the author's forte is into religion and mythologies.
I didn't like-
- the lack of character depth, especially for the soldiers
- the length of the book: a little too short for the magnitude of this saga. For once, the author could have taken more time and pages to further complete his telling and put more meat onto his main characters, the Nephilim's civilization, the global effects of the Crust displacement etc. That would have made the book double more interesting.
- Looks like the author forgot to write entire scientific explanation sections in his book. For one: how on Earth could a small team of elite US soldiers possibly locate, track, identify and get hold of a single woman, fleeing from her small town, walking alone on a thick layer of ice on her way to the South, in a completely desolate and wiped out area? The story does not provide any real clue as to how they managed to do that, especially in a time of global technological failure, beyond tracking the footsteps of the lady in the snow. Come on, with the wind blowing so strongly, tracks would become invisible in a matter of minutes... Another example: I have troubles believing that events of such a magnitude as sudden temperature elevation in Siberia, temperature drop in New England, Antarctica thaw being complete so rapidly (etc.) would actually happen SO QUICKLY! The author, probably motivated by his willingness to accelerate the tempo of his story, apparently took some serious scientific shortcuts that somehow impacted the credibility of the story at times.
Now, with that said, the book still is well worth reading. Also, it would appear normal to me that a sequel to this book be released one day. All the material, plot, characters, expectations are given in support of a sequel throughout the development of this book. Sure bet, I'll get myself a copy of this sequel, should it ever become reality.
June 04, 2008 | |
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