"exciting post apocalyptic tale"
Eight centuries ago, give or take a decade or two as post
catastrophic historical time is not precise, pandemic
devastation occurred when the magnetic poles shifted. Most
people drowned on continents flooded by the oceans; others
died not long afterward. Over the next eight hundred
years, the few survivors live a sparse nomadic lifestyle
with tribes constantly vying with others as available
sustenance is slight. The Usenn know life is a bitch and then you die, but a
local calamity strikes the tribe when invading strangers
abduct a Doctor-Woman while she gathers herbs. The
leaders assign their greatest warrior Odd to rescue the
Doctor-Woman, but they have taken her to the forbidden
eerie Darkrange, the last place even a great warrior like
himself would want to enter. However, Odd enters the
uncanny realm not just out of honor and duty, but also
because he loves the Doctor-Woman, though no one knows his
deepest secret feelings. The DARKRANGE is an exciting post apocalyptic tale that
takes the audience on a powerful journey because this
future earth seems like a genuine depiction of an orb
impacted by a change in global polarization (as has
happened in the eons of the planet). Odd is a great lead
character whose physical prowess and consequently
confidence in his abilities are legendary amidst his
people, but now knows fear as he enters a realm to be
avoided, but his biggest apprehension is for the woman he
loves. S. Roy L. Hawkins blends action-packed science
fiction, a mystery of past present and future, and a touch
of romance into a fabulous futuristic phenom that needs
time for its one sitting read. Harriet Klausner
Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted July 31, 2003
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