An Exciting New Science Fiction Novelist,
David L. Erickson has burst onto the scene with
his latest novel, Mankind’s Worst Fear . . .
Sandra Chene
Reviewed, June 2, 2009
Mankind’s Worst Fear—a SciFi gem
Quirky and pacifist scientific underwater exploration team meets by-the-book, military unit from Mars—three hundred years in Earth’s future. These unlikely groups form an uneasy alliance, at the end of time, in a desperate search for a means to reverse the mistakes of the past.
With mankind’s insatiable lust for knowledge and off-world expansionism, it was bound to happen. We dug too deep beneath Mars’ mysterious red crust. Our curiosity and greed sets off an ancient burglar alarm, alerting the alien race that left it there, and triggers the near extermination of our planet. For, like humans, the aliens will not allow another race to gain enough knowledge and technology to threaten their dominance.
Mankind’s Worst Fear is a joyride through future tech, and good, old-fashioned, human determination. The story tracks two separate but converging plot lines: the science teams’ danger-filled journey inland through hostile tribes of humans; and the Mars teams’ action-packed, space hijacking of an alien vessel on its way to finish off the last human life on Earth.
Mankind’s Worst Fear celebrates man’s strengths, while acknowledging the weaknesses that make us human. The tension of the twin plotlines holds the reader prisoner to turning the pages, even long after bedtime. And, when the two factions finally meet, an inferno of action chains you to the story until the very last word.
Remember to breathe.
Mankind’s Worst Fear ISBN # 1-60610-700-3
Regina Williams - editor
The Storyteller magazine Jan-Mar 2009
Sci-fi Novel a Thrill Ride
An experimental oceanographic submarine gliding beneath the coastal waters of Oregon in 2057 survives a violent disturbance caused by an enormous object hurtling from the heavens. The crew soon discovers they are in a new world, devastated by nuclear winter. Deep beneath a Martian crater, Colonel Kaider O’Brien discovers an artifact left by an ancient race. Thus begins Ozark writer David Erickson’s time travel novel, Mankind’s Worst Fear.
The need for answers sends Captain Schumer into the Cascade Mountains of Oregon while Colonel O’Brien leads his small band of survivors to Earth, to find sanctuary from an ancient alien race.
These frighteningly real tales unfold as the two men come to grips, three hundred years in the future, with the enormity of what has happened. Together they must rewrite human history to bring Mankind back from the brink of near extinction.
In contrast to Captain Schumer, a scientist with a dark secret, Colonel O’Brien is an administrative career officer and veteran of the Afghan wars of 2012. Schumer, Slinker’s designer and primary promoter, has gathered an eclectic crew of scientists who face the travails of this new world with varying degrees of success. And among the survivors aboard a small shuttle escaping the alien attack on Mars, is world renowned journalist Reginald Tammer, as large in life as he is in newsvids, tough as they come Sergeant Doomes and comely young Dr. Meyers.
With scattered remnants of humanity believing the devil’s stingray will rise from the sea to bring the world to a cataclysmic end, other tribes fervently pray the newcomers herald the resurrection of Earth: converting sullen skies to sun-drenched blue, build luscious valleys of green from withered scrub land and bring forth technological wizardry their ancestors only hinted at.
DL Erickson’s first published novel is about ordinary people caught in extraordinary circumstances who save the world by doing their duty, by doing what is expected of them, what most of us would hope we would if we found ourselves in their predicament.
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