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Indlæser... Terminal Freeze (udgave 2009)af Lincoln Child (Forfatter)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. El descubrimiento de un animal prehistórico en pleno deshielo ártico parece confirmar una terrorífica leyenda de los pobladores nativos. Cuatrocientas millas al norte del Círculo Polar Ártico el paleontólogo Evan Marshall y un pequeño grupo de científicos investigan el deshielo de los polos. Una oportunidad única para estudiar los efectos del calentamiento global. Sin embargo, la expedición se ve afectada repentinamente debido a un sorprendente descubrimiento: en una exploración rutinaria, el grupo descubre un animal enorme atrapado en hielo sólido y en perfecto estado de conservación. Parece un tigre dientes de sable, pero su tamaño es monstruoso. Los medios de comunicación que patrocinan la investigación intervienen inmediatamente y montan todo un espectáculo pese a las advertencias de los pobladores nativos y las preocupaciones científicas de Marshall y su equipo. La «función» sigue adelante hasta que los científicos descubren algo espantoso: la bestia no es un espécimen normal, puede tratarse de una auténtica máquina de exterminio, y pueden estar equivocados al suponer que está muerto. Loved it! It was an imaginative plot combined with some serious science and technology understandings to build a great sci-fi/horror/adventure story. This is the first book that really features the Jeremy Logan character (he makes only a brief appearance in the first one) and I really like the character. The plot moves quickly and it builds in intensity making it a page turner. Terminal Freeze is a SciFi thriller. There is a lot of murder, blood, guts and tense scenes. The story is long. It feels like the author wants to preach something to the reader, but it is difficult to figure out what he is trying to say. The story is not believable. Unfortunately, the other books that Lincoln Child has written are far superior to this one.
One of the unwritten rules of creating a good horror yarn is that the location your story takes place in has to be as frightening as your monster. The setting almost has to act an an extension of the bloodthirsty antagonist; a place that can more easily be seen as its lair than a place of human habitation. In Lincoln Child's latest novel Terminal Freeze that place is Fear Base, a rotting military facility shivering the the shadow of Fear Glacier, and it is stalked by something utterly horrifying. Readers of The Relic, another horror novel penned by Child and his sometimes partner Douglas Preston, will feel right at home as they delve into Terminal Freeze. Fear Base is a dusty, dark, and labyrinthine place just as foreboding as the natural history museum in which Preston and Child's first hit novel was set. (Child's choice of setting also closely recalls that of John Carpenter's The Thing, based on the short story "Who Goes There?") A further similarity to the earlier work is that the story follows a diverse group of characters with a scientist, in this case paleoecologist Evan Marshall, as the hero. The basic storyline is as follows; a group of scientists discover something frozen in the ice, a creature with two predatory, cat-like eyes. At first they think it is a Smilodon frozen in ice, but as more information comes to light they are less sure of their initial hypothesis. Such a momentous discovery soon grabs the attention of the people who underwrote the expedition, the Terra Prime documentary network, and soon the scientists are sidelined as the film crew turns the base into a media circus. . . . Belongs to SeriesJeremy Logan (2) Distinctions
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