Divine Intervention

by Ken Wharton

Book Overview

"Wonderful...a page-turning adventure story." (Allen Steele) The residents of an extra-solar Earth colony are preparing for the arrival of a new group of colonists-but someone has vowed to do whatever... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0441008860
• ISBN13: 9780441008865
• Release Date: December 2001
• Publisher: Ace Books
• Length: 391 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 4.2" x 6.8"

Customer Reviews

Thought-provoking

This is, at heart, a story of the difference between religion and science, which I find intriguing. It does not say either is more or less valuable to the human condition - instead it warns against trying to blend them.Engaging characters, page-turning plot, and (as all sci-fi authors must create), a believable fantastic setting. A thoroughly enjoyable read.

A Great Fast-Paced Adventure

With his ability to plot several lines of thought and combine them with adventure, laugh, curiosity and suspense, "Divine Intervention" is no doubt a delight for the science fiction reader.The author throws you into the scene right from the start. With no blabber in even one single page, and with the ability to provide new ideas and many twists along the story, the book is a great escape into a new surrounding and technology. The scientific background of the author spices the story with hard sci-fi elements while human drama and spiritualism are kept an integral part through out the book. The writing style is very clear and intriguing. It is definitely a fast-paced adventure that keeps you awake into the night. Highly recommended!

Divine Intervention - a great book by a new author

This is an exciting book by a new author who very successfully blends interstellar colonization, religion, physics, and politics into a sci-fi novel with great characters and a rip-roaring ending. The author carefully familiarizes the reader with his new world, then turns on the excitement. I would definitely recommend this book, and am looking forward to more by this author.

Fascinating, entertaining and mind expanding hard SF

"Divine Intervention" is one of the most fascinating novels I have read in the past few months. It successfully takes a hard science fiction story and incorporates unique ideas on physics, interstellar colinization, religion and politics into an entertaining blend. The tension between the "Burnout Kingdoms" and the mainstream society of Mandala really makes the story work well. And the twist of Drew Randall, a young deaf-mute, communicating with "God" is quite intriguing.Very original and highly recommended.

This sf novel is very cleverly designed

The mission of the Walt Disney Spaceship is to find a habitable planet and colonize it, reporting back to Earth periodically on their failures and their final success. They land on the planet they name Mandala in galaxy light years from Earth and in the one hundred and fifty years they have lived on it; they have put their mark on the planet. Even their religion is based on the writings of the captain of the spaceship, a combination of science and theology. Earth has been notified of the colonizing of Mandala and with the new technology that has been developed 33,000 colonists who have been cryogenically sleeping are about to orbit the planet. The Prime Minister of Mandala fears that the colonists will be a threat to his regime. He goes to the spaceship with a few of his allies and kills off all but one of the crew. He plans to murder all the new colonists with only nine year old deaf mute Drew Randall, who has a direct pipeline to someone or something calling himself God, in his way. Fans of space opera, political intrigue and precocious little heroes will thoroughly enjoy reading DIVINE INTERVENTION. It's fascinating to read about a group of people who colonized a world according to their own collective needs and beliefs. Readers will believe that author Ken Wharton actually visited his planet and has written about events he witnessed.Harriet Klausner