Abduction

Perry Berg is president of Benthic Marine and a passenger aboard The Benthic Explorer, a 450-foot research ship endeavoring to drill into, and sample for the first time, the earth's magma core. Also onboard are the lovely Dr. Suzanne Newell; ex-navy commander and present submersible skipper Donald Fuller; and navy-cum-Neanderthal divers Richard Adams and Michael Donaghue. It is this cast of characters who, with the reluctant Perry, dive to the stilled drill site in order to make repairs. En route, they are sucked (or suckered) into a defunct undersea volcano and deposited into an otherworldly wonderland. That takes about 75 pages of fairly cogent spadework. The next 375 pages sprout some of the looniest, most derivative, made-for-TV-movie science fiction imaginable. Our heroes, you see, have been abducted to Interterra, an undersea world of staggering beauty and unheard of technologies--intergalactic travel and eternal life, for starters--populated by stunningly beautiful, toga-wearing, first-generation humans. First-generation? They were here first, see, and had been doing very nicely until their scientists realized that the earth was about to be "showered with planetesimal collisions, just as had happened in its primordial state," and that they had better start digging. While the Interterrans prospered and thrived undersea, we, the second generation, began hauling our single-celled bodies up by our ooze-straps and started all over again. And that's about it. People with names like Arak and Sufa speak strangely, giggle at the primitive second-generationists, recoil at the very thought of violence, press their palms together to have sex, and direct "worker clones" to do the dishes while the second generation does its stereotypical best to, in turns, exemplify, define, and defile humankind.

Para ser un libro que leí sin previo aviso ni recomendación es muy bueno. me quede pegado desde el principio. Sus explicaciones y como se imagina el futuro y los avances de una civilización paralela son bastante creibles. Es una mezcla de ciencia ficción con suspenso, lo recomiendo definitivamente.

I really enjoyed this book. I read quite a few books this summer, and I believe I enjoyed this the most. Some of the concepts seemed to come out of nowhere. It is interesting to read a division in some of the reviews I have read about "Abduction" - you either love it or hate it.There are some concepts similar to Crichton's "Timeline", regarding the transfer of a person's "essence" when he/she dies, which I found interesting. And the history of these people below the earth goes way, way, way back - what a concept! Not your usual sci-fi, I thought it was totaly fresh and original.

I did expect to be reading a medical thriller from Robin Cook but I was wonderfully surprised at how great I thought this book was. It was enthralling, well written, and exciting. I often couldn't put it down. What an amazing piece of fiction and wouldn't it be cool if it were true??

Sure, a society under the earth's crust is an old theme, but this book is exciting and well written, a real page-turner. I couldn't put it down.Yet, it is more than just an action thriller. It also provides food for thought. Dr. Cook makes us take a closer look at our morals and motivations. Dr. Cook is a master storyteller.One reviewer didn't like the ending. I thought it was terrific. As I neared the end of the book, I was wondering how the many problems would be resolved. Why do we sometimes try to limit authors to our favorite subjects? (Medical thrillers, in this case.)Read and enjoy.