Spears of God

By Howard V. Hendrix

Book Overview

In the early decades of the twenty-first century, the most commonly held truth is that knowledge is power. Yet a select few men and women begin to suspect what few will admit: we know nothing at all.

The world's oil resources have dwindled. The rich are turning richer and the power-mongers are becoming more powerful. China and the United States dominate the globe in a geopolitical chess match. The human mind has merged with the cybergrid, yet the human race seems not to have evolved much at all.

Then, on a remote South American mountain, two scientists stumble on a grisly scene. Here, while trying to protect an ancient sacred rock, a primitive tribe has been slaughtered. No witnesses remain to reveal what could have inspired such carnage. Or so it would seem.

In the international arena, meanwhile, a new global race is on: a weapon capable of tipping the balance of power is discovered. Among the competitors are a National Security Agency director who is playing at an elaborate doublecross within his own agency and a vengeance-seeking Israeli meteor hunter. Shamans and zealots, geniuses and madmen-all seek to unlock mysteries that fell to earth millennia ago. But the key lies with four mute children who may unwittingly hold the secret to the planet's survival-or its destruction.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0345455983
• ISBN13: 9780345455987
• Release Date: November 2006
• Publisher: Del Rey Books
• Length: 394 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Keeps your interest.

It's a bit weaker than the book before it but still a good read. Sometimes I get annoyed by the spiritual psychobabel built into his model of "higher consciousness", but Hendrix is a good enough writer to make even a sceptic give some thought to even his wilder ideas. Hendrix has a cast of characters that weave in and out of his books and keep them related, some of them alternative world takes on bits of the same story. It...

A very involving SF Mystery

This is one of Hendrix's best books. Sometimes I get annoyed by the spiritual psychobabel built into his model of "higher consciousness", but Hendrix is a good enough writer to make even a sceptic give some thought to even his wilder ideas. Hendrix has a cast of characters that weave in and out of his books and keep them related, some of them alternative world takes on bits of the same story. It makes the book more interesting...

Buy this ONLY if you love the BEST SciFi novel!

I am a long time (4+ decades) reader of scifi and this novel is a RARE treat! No other author has written with such command of diverse and intertwined scientific and spiritual disciplines since the Hyperion series by Dan Simmons. It is NOT an easy read novel which adds to the pleasure of its discovery. It is deeply considered craftmanship as a well written journey into strange lands and thought space based on REAL SCIENCE...

complex not easy to read science fiction thriller

In South America scientists Dr. Michael Miskulin and biologist Professor Susan Yamada climb the Caacamuni by themselves in search of ruins two billion years old that they believe holds the key to evolution. When they reach their destination, they find a remote isolated tepui and a scene out of a horror movie. An entire tribe with the exception of four children has been eradicated by apparently a militia using modern weaponry...

Intertwined plots that keep your interest

For Science Fiction fans looking for a novel that tackles the possible origin of multi-cellular life on earth with a hard emphasis on scientific details, Howard Hendrix's Spears of God should provide an enjoyable adventure. Hendrix pushes the technological boundaries of biological processing and human warfare in logical ways, and does a solid job of describing how such things might advance in the not too distant future. His...