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Great sequel Feb 25, 2008
By CJD
"Chris"
Sullivan has really outdone himself with DESIAGEO. Both brilliantly researched and eloquently written it is truly a unique look at the world of today and the possibilties of tomorrow. Many of Sullivan's insights are profound and his predictions prophetic. It's always exciting to see a relatively new author reach his stride. A real page turner.
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By Author Jan 20, 2008
By P. Sullivan
As Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Arthur C. Clarke and Michael Crichton have all shown us, science fiction often proves over time to be science prediction and actually science vision. DESIAGEO (Dezee-AH-geo) follows in the footsteps of those mentors for the 21st Century and beyond.
Readers of DESIAGEO will realize by the conclusion the book it's one of the most important works of our time. Without its vision, everything which has happened before could become an utter waste. More importantly, everything, and everyone who could come after, -may not at all. This novel is the insurance policy for the continuation of humankind and life of the Earth in a wonderful future.
Like Verne's Nemo, Clarke's HAL and Wells' Winston Smith, DESIAGEO has strong and unique characters whose genesis is covered in depth in the predecessor novel of GEODESIA. They embark upon a new epic this time through events familiar and contemporary to us. Events are connected to the story in a somewhat DaVinci Code-like manner which is necessary for the fiction.
Many historical events are somewhat confusing in general and alternate ways of tying them together are interesting and provide insights. Left right left provides the settings attempted before and then the book kicks in the afterburners and far eclipses both.
It was 104 years from Verne's book "From the Earth to the Moon" before human beings set foot on the lunar surface. H.G. Wells coined the phrase "Atomic Bomb" in his 1914 novel "The World Set Free", and only 31 years passed before the first atomic bomb was exploded in New Mexico. Arthur C. Clarke predicted geostationary satellities in 1945, and by 1963 a mere 18 years later, Syncom 2 was placed in that orbit. Jurassic Park came out in 1990 and by 2000 only 10 years later, the Human Genome draft was complete. The timeframe appears to be collapsing from science vision to tangible results.
Some who enjoy this novel will make a fortune from it's concepts yet the vision is what's important. The author could have the little 3 millimeter in diameter stent in his coronary artery clog or collapse tomorrow and be gone. The reader would then have a first edition of Desiageo with a typo somewhere proving it as such. They would hold in their hand the solution to global warming, energy, the end of many causes of war, the way to permanently end starvation, poverty, and much disease and suffering. To their perceptions would be added several which were non-draconian and beautiful. Perhaps their sharing of this with others will lead to a series of coincidences enhancing or saving innumerable numbers of lives in a future which is not far off. It's a gift of a book which insures all other books will be around, and that there will be human beings to read them.
Patrick
Thinking Outside the Box Aug 06, 2008
By Loren Whitehouse
"Desiageo" is a great follow up to "Geodesia" (also by Patrick F. Sullivan). The continuing hero Michael Doors (formerly Michael Murray) has become the richest man in the world, with all sorts of high tech gadgets at his fingertips. He uses his ideas, intelligence, integrity and the thought scanner to help communicate ways to save the earth from war, starvation, poverty, global warming and more. The ideas may even be able to work outside the world of fiction. The book is thoughtful and intriguing, mixing science fiction with politics and recent history. The characters are fun and charming, even the robots.
I highly recommend you read "Geodesia" first though. That way, you can enjoy the unraveling of Geodesia's story without knowing the ending from the Prologue of the sequel, "Desiageo". Besides, you learn much about the characters in the first book.
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