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    Interrupt
    Interrupt
    Interrupt
    Audiobook12 hours

    Interrupt

    Written by Jeff Carlson

    Narrated by Hunter Davis

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    In the distant past, the leader of a Neanderthal tribe confronts the end of his kind.

    Today, a computational biologist, a Navy pilot, and an autistic boy are drawn together by the ancient mystery that gave rise to Homo sapiens.

    Planes are falling from the sky. Global communications have ceased. America stands on the brink of war with China—but war is the least of humankind’s concerns. As solar storms destroy Earth’s electronics and plunge the world into another Ice Age, our civilization finds itself overrun by a powerful new species of man…

    This brilliant thriller takes readers to an all-too-plausible tomorrow that’s as scientifically rigorous as it is wildly imaginative.

    Jeff Carlson is the internationally bestselling author of Plague Year and The Frozen Sky. With Interrupt, he brings his forward-thinking fiction to a contemporary setting with this edge-of-your-seat thriller.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJul 23, 2013
    ISBN9781480522527
    Interrupt
    Author

    Jeff Carlson

    Jeff Carlson was born on the day of the first manned moon landing and narrowly escaped being named Apollo, Armstrong, or Rocket. His father worked for NASA-Ames at the time. His granddad on his mother’s side was a sci fi fan whose library included autographed copies of Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy. Both men were strong, early influences—and in the high tech 21st Century, it’s easy to stand with one foot in reality and the other in thriller novels. Jeff is the internationally bestselling author of Interrupt, Plague Year, and The Frozen Sky, hailed by Publishers Weekly as “Pulse pounding.” To date, his writing has appeared in fifteen languages worldwide. Readers can find free fiction, videos, contests, and more on his web site at www.jverse.com.

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    • 1/5
      This is a complete let down. Even though it has great potential in concept, characters are one dimensional, there many plot holes, second part of the book is just unbearable. Waste of time!
    • 3/5
      Ok, so the overall concept was new to me and I did find that interesting even though.... Neanderthals, really? The characters were ok. It was a filler and it did entertain me.
    • 4/5
      Imagine you are going about your business one day and then you just black out and wake up with no memories of what happened. Maybe you wake up wandering in a strange area or with blood on your hands or in the middle of having sex with a complete stranger.Such is the premise of Carlson’s novel, fresh with speculations and implications from current science, on what would happen if the sun suddenly manifested its variability with massive electromagnetic pulses which scramble communications and the human brain. Carlson draws from genetic anthropology, geology, physics, SETI, astronomy, and neurology to fuel this modern hard science fiction thriller. And, while the science may be current, the speed and shortness of the novel are refreshingly old-fashioned in their tautness. (For those who have read Carlson’s short story “Interrupt” in his Long Eyes, this is not an expansion but a substantial reworking of the premise of that story.) The novel centers around three characters: Emily Flint, researcher on therapies for autistic disorders; Drew Haldane, Navy flier and also operative for ROMEO, an ultra-secret intelligence agency; and Marcus Wolsinger, a radio astronomer tracking variability in the sun’s output. Their loyalties to their communities and families, lovers and friends, institutions and organizations will be tested not only during the collapse of civilization due to the “interrupt” but also by a war between the US and China. Most ominously of all, not everyone is crippled by the intermittent pulses of the interrupt. A select few become murderously efficient in turning on their fellow humans. Or are these killers really human?Not only are the scientific bits worked out. The military action seems plausible as well. Carlson horrifyingly evokes the shame and horror of losing your faculties during a pulse.It’s not a perfect novel. As is the danger of any story based on plausible sounding scientific hypotheses, the reader’s analytic skills can be aroused to carefully scrutinize the author’s speculative conclusions – and finding them wanting sometimes. While Emily is a well-done character, the emotional foundations for a major decision by Marcus are, perhaps, not adequately established. While some questions and conflicts are left unresolved, the story feels satisfyingly complete.