Bright Islands in a Dark Sea

by L. Warren Douglas

Yan Bando's quiet pursuit of knowledge, poring over the documents of a long-gone era--before aliens took over North America--lands him in big trouble when he uncovers his alien leaders' greatest... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345382382
• ISBN13: 9780345382382
• Release Date: May 1993
• Publisher: Del Rey Books
• Length: 313 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Not really bad

Mmm... The plot of this book is really good. The story gets you since the start, but at the end you miss a better plot. I'm sure this book was written to have a second part sometime...

My favorite

This is the best book I have read ever, and that is saying alot. I really wish the author had done a sequel, because this book really deserves it. this is the sort of book you can read over and over again, and it never gets old. the caracters are always vibrant, and as you read it a second and third time, details start to emerge that you didn't see the first time. His flow is smooth, background excellent, and the story is very plausible. If you happen to find this book, GRAB HOLD AND DON'T LET GO! I assure you that this book is truly a find, and you will treasure it forever. Hmmm... I have realized that you may not be aware of the plot of the story. The Protagonist, Yan Bando, is an archaeologist/historian in the distant future, about 3000 AD. He and his colleague/mentor find the wreckage of a spaceship in a bog- a _human_ spaceship. His colleague dies when he is attacked in the early mornig hours, and Yan goes into a berzerker rage, killing the attackers and burning down the house. We find out that this is a family trait of his, and that he has left his family to avoid spreading it. Then some history is introduced, including the fact that Earth has had some non-indigenous visitors in the past millenium, but they have left us to advance further. The world by now has undergone some serious changes, both in it's climate and it's government. There is no more world super-powers, and most lands are part of one kingdom or another. Science is losing ground due to the general ignorance of the population and the lack of near-instantaneous communication we have today. Yand finds himself alone in a world that has lost much of the civilizatoinal advances we takle for granted, pursued by the Church who killed his mentor and would do anything to suppress any evidence of a human-piloted spaceship, and two questions: what happened to the pilots of that spaceship, and where are they now?