EDITORIAL REVIEWS
Product Description In the blink of an eye, a young aspiring astronomer, Dr. Galley Pruitt, discovers an ominous cloud of dense stardust moving into our Solar System. Upon further examination, he finds that it will quickly move between the Earth and its Sun, eclipsing our life-giving light for months. He predicts the Endlight Event, an E.L.E. (Extinction Level Event). A new ice age is imminent. Earth's SOS is transmitted into the cosmos from Arecibo's 1000-foot radio telescope. Meanwhile, an eccentric billionaire executes his plan to save life on Earth with a futuristic deep-earth Noah's Ark. A response to our SOS is arriving. But then the Earth's crust begins to freeze catastrophically, the Ark witnesses mysterious murders, a suicide and sabotage and the sky yields a kind intelligence.
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 4.0 based on 4 reviews)
Entertaining read, interesting premise. The previously noted criticisms of the work are accurate, but the book is a very readable piece of work which is not only fascinating, but most importantly entertaining! August 28, 2007
Could this really happen to me??? I was facinated by John Cater's first SciFi novel. It grabbed me right away and I had a very hard time putting it down until I had read the very last page. The premise of the book is very plausible and the plot development will have you eagerly waiting for each new page. I hope I don't give anything away by saying that I am eagerly waiting for the sequel - John - I hope there is one in the works! I too gave it only 4 stars (still very high!) because of some of the weak character development. This is a minor critique given the amount of work that went into the science and astronomy in the book. I had better stop writing now - it is time to head to the store and start stockpiling... August 07, 2005
What if a cloud of cosmic dust cut off the sun? This book tells the story of what might happen if cosmic dust happened to come our way and get-even if briefly-between the early and the sun, cutting off the sun's energy. The result is daytime HIGH temperatures of 65 BELOW zero for New Mexico, even before the peak of the event. And dropping a couple of degrees every day. Governments seem incapable of dealing with the problem, but a private group-including the astronomer who first discovered the coming catastrophe-has a creative plan for saving humanity and the ecosystem. This book definitely held my attention and I stayed up very late, managing to read more than half of it in one day. Its strongest aspects are the idea, the realistic and detailed way the author has developed it and ideas for dealing with such a problem (which certainly seems like something that could happen). I gave the book four stars instead of five because I thought the characters a bit underdeveloped, although this may be a quibble, since most science fiction (which I typically don't read) doesn't much focus on characters. July 24, 2005
Fascinating Sci-Fi Tale The author, John Cater, who is an electical engineer is a new contributor to Sci-Fi although he has published previous technical engineering works. I picked up his book and was not able to put it down until I finished it. I was very much reminded of the writing style of Michael Chrichten. "The Endlight Event is a story woven from the fabric of John's intimate knowlege of astronomy and resonates with such a plausible premise that some survivalists may start stockpiling their ice-age survival shelters after reading this book. January 16, 2005