The Waking

by T.M. Jenkins

Book Overview

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0330440322
• ISBN13: 9780330440325
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Pan Publishing
• Length: 453 Pages
• Weight: 0.54 lbs.

Customer Reviews

A fantastic read

A fantastic read!, 6 May 2006 By Robin Maxwell "read-a-holic" - See all my reviews Everything we hear about today is GLOBAL WARMING. This book takes a look at what would happen if a person woke up one day and found out that all the predictions we most fear had actually come true. That's the experience a Los Angeles doctor, Nate Sheehan, goes through in this extraordinary book. Dr. Sheehan is murdered in 2006 and his wife, who is part of the "cryonics" movement, freezes his head so that she can someday be re-united with him. But technology doesn't become available until 2069, when a group of scientists in Phoenix, Arizona bring him back to life and attach his head to a "donor body." The story, one that is amazingly well-researched, deals with all the problems the scientists face in reviving human flesh. It's also a kind of "reincarnation" story (without being metaphysical), as Nate's consciousness reignites. The authorities don't know about his existence at first - he's flying "under the radar." Then begins a new adventure, that of learning how to use a stranger's body, and how peculiar it is to imagine that the body once belonged to someone else. And then the crushing reality that the world is coping with the arrival of global warming, and not the place that Nate remotely recognizes from his former life as a rich, privileged doctor in turn-of-the-century L.A. With this as a background, he must find out what happened to his beloved wife and family. This is a fascinating, engrossing story. I loved all the science and recovery part. Once I started reading it I couldn't put it down. It has that Da Vinci Code gallop of pace, which I like in thrillers. And there are some extraordinary things that happen to Nate that I won't say, or I'll reveal too much. Buy it. Read it. Pass it on to others. This has bestseller written all over it.

Heart racing thrill ride

This is an extraordinary thriller, part present, part future about a man who lives through the perils of this century. He experiences the abundance of now and the deprivation of conditions towards the end of the century. A modern Frankenstein and time traveller. I won't tell you how it happens except to say that I could not stop reading until I had finished it. You will not be disappointed.