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 enlarge | Author: Jeremy Robinson
Publisher: Breakneck Books
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  60 reviews
Sales Rank: 353956
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 300
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.9
ISBN: 0979692903
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780979692901
ASIN: 0979692903
Publication Date: June 19, 2007
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 Great adventure novel - with some new twists! November 29, 2008
Antarktos Rising combines elements of thriller novels and "The Day After Tomorrow" to change the landscape of our world and lend an urgency to the landrush of a previously unsettled continent.
Along the way, the author introduce some decent characters and puts them in peril not only from other competing landrush participants but the mysterious denizens of Antarktos, an alien landscape populated by unexpected creatures.
I really enjoyed the Nephilim, and thought the author integrated this forgotten species in with historical references nicely.
Some live, some unexpectedly die, and the reader is brought along for a wild ride.
Highly recommended.
 NEVER RISING ABOVE THE WATERLINE November 27, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I found the story of the book-description interesting and decided to give it a try. Well, these were some hours I will never get back, no matter how much I would like to.
Suspension of disbelief is a requirement to enjoy fiction - but a basic logical scaffolding is still essential. Otherwise no immersion is possible.
Some other reviewer compared ANTARKTOS RISING to a Michael Crichton novel - but, besides the quick passing of some dinosaurs, I fail to see the connection. Crichton's science was cutting edge yet solid. The "science" behind Robinson's claims is half-baked at best, if not simply not there. And he is sloppy as well. Unless the continent someway acquired...a metabolism, there are no "katabolic" winds in Antarctica (p35). The author probably refers to katabatic winds. Then again, the novel had much more serious problems.
A character, being the sole survivor of her home-city and after weathering the worse of the climactic change in her well-stocked basement, she decides to take off: what she deems essential to pack in this post-apocalyptic world? Her ...DSLR camera (whose characteristics she describes in detail, p53) complete with its 200mm lens! What's a extinction event if one cannot snap some decent sunset pictures, right?!
Antarctica thawing in...days - and then turning into a tropical environment, complete with 15 ft tall trees within...weeks? No even if said trees were on springs!
Full-grown dinosaurs thawing out to packs with set hierarchy (not to mention cool nicknames!)?
Gigantic demon-spawns living undetected for centuries, having to resort to...eating their own babies (need I point out how inefficient this is, to say the least?) - yet, not neglecting to learn English, taught by the scientists/"teachers" they captured? Come exam time, I would like to be a fly in THAT classroom!
In this light, the incorporation of Creationism and "scientific" verification of Biblical claims would not have bothered me so much, were they presented in a more logical basis. On that note, I never understood the impetus behind strong-arming science into "proving" claims that are supposedly articles of faith.
But that is the least of this novel's problems.
Try, try again November 22, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
There are some good things here, but this is a writer in the making, one who needs a bit more discipline and a better editor. After an intriguing beginning, this book becomes confusing and predictable at the same time. I don't mind the author's religious viewpoints, some of which I share. What I do mind is his failure to deliver on the promise of the first quarter of the book.
Bright, Inventive, and Suspensful! November 19, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
What a pure joy it is to read something that is so bold and creative. Any fan of doomsday, what if scenarios should most definitely check this one out! You won't be disappointed!
New Concept To An Old Theme. November 14, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Jeremy Robinson's Antaktos Rising grabs the reader right from the start. Each character adds another layer to the story and there is no fluff. There are characters that you will love and some that you will love to hate. As the author of The Second Virgin Birth, I am jealous of his skill as a writer. I did not want to put this book down until I finished it. The Antaktos Rising is a must read
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