Rogue
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3.8 • 11 Ratings
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
The final frontier is closer than we think …
As a war journalist, Jonah Wall saw enough of humanity’s horrors to last a lifetime. He wrecked his marriage, alienated his two sons, and escaped by working on an oil rig in Alaska, as far from civilization as possible.
But when he finds a spacecraft that was buried for millennia under the tundra, he is suddenly and reluctantly thrust into an unbelievable adventure. As the ship is being unveiled to the world, it mysteriously comes to life, taking Jonah, his estranged son, and a disparate group on a terrifying journey.
Our crew of unwilling travelers are transported to a network of planets with remnants of civilizations that are strangely familiar to Jonah and his companions. But something has wiped out every one of them, and the visitors are about to find out what it is.
Rogue is a sweeping adventure story through space and time and a profound exploration of humanity’s age-old obsession with its origins, its flirtation with self-annihilation, and people’s stubborn ability to find love even during the darkest moments.
Customer Reviews
Earnest but Unimaginative and plodding.
I’m normally very forgiving for good faith effort and genre fiction. I’m a huge fan of the genre. So I feel bad unloading on this. But it should’ve never made it to publication. This book is a big miss. It feels more like a divorced dad’s wish fulfillment rather than a fleshed out story.
But the real problem is there is no vision, no imagination, no world building that would qualify this as science fiction. Simple having a “spaceship” in a story doesn’t cut it. There’s no idea here. No prose. The characters are flat. The dialogue a combination of exposition and generic brochure copy.
The laughable premise that an excavated alien spacecraft would be basically an open tourist attraction where random children could tour it is so dumb I just could not get around that central conceit.
There are million ways to get your characters into the main action of the story. The author chose the least interesting and least plausible possible vector.
The earth shattering discovery of evidence of alien life and the confirmation that faster than light technology is not a fantasy is just met with hardly a shrug.
And once the so called action starts and the spaceship abducts the characters… well, you wouldn’t know. The author simply doesn’t show you anything.
It made me wonder if the author has ever read any science fiction at all.