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"Better than Jurassic Park"

It was a scientific project that began with the best of intentions and in the four decades of its operation much good has come out of it. Deep in the Utah desert an isolated project known as the Genesis Protocol is going strong protected from intruders by the military. Scientists have created new life forms both plant and animal, mostly toxic as a way of cleaning up the environment. For example, a genetically modified fish who can survive in toxic areas can eat up oil spills.

One day while checking on a malfunctioning piece of equipment in a toxic zone, two scientists are killed by creatures that are not supposed to exist. Dr. Elizabeth Christopher and her group in ObStat 4 are attacked by the same creatures and call for help at the main compound. Security can't destroy the cross-species genetically created lizards known as harbingers that walk on two feet and have opposable thumbs. A marine force reconnaissance mission is called in to extract the survivors, but the leader of the Genesis Project Dr. Geoffrey Bates is not telling everything he knows; that could result in more deaths from creatures that seem to apply human logic to problem solving.

THE GENESIS PROTOCOL is better than Jurassic Park because the disaster is caused by scientific application to clean up hazardous wastes and spills that in real life are already beyond the basic theory phase of development. The problems start when politicians interfere with scientific research by engineering the creation of harbingers, intelligent creatures controlled by humans who can search and destroy, clean up toxins and other dangerous tasks. Dayton Ward provides a strong cautionary tale as to how far science should go and if any should restraints be placed on research.

Reviewed by Harriet Klausner
Posted January 14, 2006

Reviewed by PNR Group Member
Posted January 25, 2007

"...before the trees of knowledge in their synthetic garden bear their strange fruit, the gardeners should heed the lessons of history." - The New York Times Science has deciphered the code of life; the power of creation has fallen into human’s hands....

Deep in the Utah desert lies the EDN project, a man-made ecosystem built at government direction and inhabited by an intricate array of bizarre, artificially designed lifeforms unlike anything that has ever walked the earth.

“New Eden” is supposed to be under total scientific control, from the bizarre, outlandish animal life created by EDN scientists to the otherworldy and even toxic environment of the artificial forest itself. But when a team of researchers goes missing deep inside the highly toxic environment, a small Marine unit must be sent in to rescue the trapped scientists and confront the terrors mankind released by following…

THE GENESIS PROTOCOL

As a Force Recon Marine with hard-won combat experience in numerous hot spots around the world, Gunnery Sergeant Donovan Hassler thought he and his team had seen it all. But none of the dangers they had faced prepared them for what he and his comrades in arms find when they venture into the unique, forboding region that is New Eden to rescue the lovely Dr. Elizabeth Christopher and her team of scientists. To survive, Hassler and his squad must come face to face with the nightmarish results of ungodly science run amok.