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The Omega Project: Near-Death Experiences, Ufo Encounters, and Mind at Large

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There was a lot of ludonarrative dissonance regarding the main character. The main character was betrayed as someone without any religion or spirituality. He is wrapped up in his machines. At the beginning he is someone who should not be so capable at the end of the world, at least with the running out of energy and the asteroid heading towards earth. And all of a sudden he is super survivor. He should not be able to do all that! When they get to Antarctica, again already built up as not only a non-practicing Jew but someone who does not believe in anything but the science. You don't start praying and FEELING your soul bam, no matter how much of an experience you have. It happens, sure, but it happens within reason. It was... it was discerning and frustrating. Robert "Ike" Eisenbraun is the inventor of GOLEM which is an advanced AI machine that would supervise the Omega Project which is a mission to the moon to mine for elements needed to solve the energy crisis that perpetrated the Great Die Off. GOLEM decides the mission is not conducive and moves the mission to Europa. Ike is commissioned to join Oceanus, an underwater habitat to monitor GOLEM which seems to make decisions on its own under the guise of evaluating the crew's psychological fitness for the mission to Europa. When the crew members began getting paranoid, they forcibly freeze him in his cryogenic pod. Due to a series of events, Ike only wakes up 12 million years into future (I know, right??!!). With the help of his invention Abe, a biochip implanted in his brain, he navigates the new world that has now evolved in ways he couldn't imagine. While other people were searching for food and water, I was busy collecting car batteries and solar panels." Based upon the OSS Project Omega plan and authorized by President Truman, a series of secret shelters were built throughout the United States. Each shelter designed to be self-sufficient for long term survival and very comfortable for long term living. The hero and his Military Working Dog, Klavia, are assigned to one such shelter, Omega 11.

On the brink of a disaster that could end all human life on Earth, tech genius Robert Eisenbraun joins a team of scientists in Antarctica on a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa to mine a rare ore that can provide for Earth's long-term energy needs. But as he and the rest of the team train under the ice shelf in preparation for the long journey, trouble erupts. Before they embark, Eisenbraun finds himself the odd man out, and is put into cold sleep against his will. The Omega Project" could have been so much better if the author had taken more time to flesh out the story of Ike, a brilliant scientist making his way through a post apocalyptic world. Which is barely mentioned before he and his gal pal are rescued from danger by the government! And then BAM! it's a few years later and oh, Ike's now created artificial intelligence for his brain stem, and his pre-apocolypse super computer is up and running. And now that two paragraphs was given to both those things, Ike gets sent to Antarctica where his supercomputer is suggesting they go to the moon Europa to save the Earth, and then wham! It's a million years later and Ike comes out of his cryogenic state to find that this asteroid had hit the moon... Waxler, N. E. (1970). [Review of Methods of Madness: The Mental Hospital as a Last Resort., by B. M. Braginsky, D. A. Braginsky, & K. Ring]. American Sociological Review, 35(5), 951–952. https://doi.org/10.2307/2093343 While the premise was intriguing, the novel was just so boring. The landscape was described beautifully and there was some pretty good world building also. But that's about it. The pace of the story was so all over the place that it nearly gave me a whiplash. The first half, the story just flew through. Second half just slowed down and then suddenly sped up. Also, certain events did not seem very plausible to me. For instance, the novel started with the Great Die Off that happened due to our over-dependence on oil and when the supplies ran out, the world was plunged into chaos. But we managed to overcome that and we read about how our technology just advanced exponentially. My problem was that all of this happened within a few years if the Great Die Off. How was that even possible? The speed with which things happened wasn't very plausible to me. Angus Hodgson grew up in Buffalo, New York the son of a naval officer turned attorney. He remembers the Cuban Missile Crisis, air raid drills in school and helping his father turn the basement into a fallout shelter. Scary times that left an indelible memory.I did get lost in the story, meaning, I lost the story line as the author clearly succeeded in confusing me if what was happening to the protagonist was a dream or real life. Also, at various parts it was too geeky and technical for me to follow the details. In The Omega Project, USA Today best-selling author Ernest Dempsey is at his most impressive. This stark, evocative puzzle, this dark thriller, is capstone storytelling. With nerve-shredding action and the precision of a master craftsman, Dempsey reminds us that, sometimes, the greatest dangers are those we think we’ve put behind us.

I liked the issues and variety of approaches, but was regularly confused as where the story was going which very well could be a personal, being non-geeky issue on my part. Right on the mark and well worth the time, THE OMEGA PROJECT is easily a 5 spider read and Alten has another winner. After three hundred feet the woods began anew. The shadows of pine trees were closing in, dusk coming fast. For half an hour I wandered through a maze of trees, until the night was upon me and I accepted the fact I was hopelessly lost.After two successful terms—despite a series of political maelstroms—this humble Southern gentleman united the country behind a common purpose, strengthened America’s standing throughout the world, and kept his nation safe. Plus as I'm reading, just dumbfounded at several places were Dempsey easily could have made the intertwining storylines better verse the way he did it and left a few out. Steve Alten grew up in Philadelphia, earning his Bachelors degree in Physical Education at Penn State University, a Masters Degree in Sports Medicine from the University of Delaware, and a Doctorate of Education at Temple University. Struggling to support his family of five, he decided to pen a novel he had been thinking about for years. Working late nights and on weekends, he eventually finished MEG; A Novel of Deep Terror. Steve sold his car to pay for editing fees. On September (Friday) the 13th, 1996, Steve lost his general manager’s job at a wholesale meat plant. Four days later his agent had a two-book, seven figure deal with Bantam Doubleday. So, when Dawkins retires to his cabin in the Georgia woods, about the only excitement he’s looking for involves romantic dinners with his girlfriend and the occasional cold beer while watching his Atlanta Falcons.

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