Fragment
A Novel
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4,2 • Оценок: 60
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Aboard a long-range research vessel, in the vast reaches of the South Pacific, the cast and crew of the reality show Sealife believe they have found a ratings bonanza. For a director dying for drama, a distress call from Henders Island—a mere blip on any radar—might be just the ticket. Until the first scientist sets foot on Henders—and the ultimate test of survival begins.
For when they reach the island’s shores, the scientists are utterly unprepared for what they find—creatures unlike any ever recorded in natural history. This is not a lost world frozen in time; this is Earth as it might have looked after evolving on a separate path for half a billion years—a fragment of a lost continent, with an ecosystem that could topple ours like a house of cards.
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Fahy's imaginative debut puts a fresh spin on the survival-of-prehistoric-beasts theme popularized by Jurassic Park. When members of the cable reality show SeaLife, aboard a ship in the South Pacific, respond to a distress beacon from Henders Island, several of the show's scientists wind up slaughtered by bizarre animals on the remote island. In response, the U.S. government blockades Henders Island to contain the serious biothreat its unique fauna could pose to humanity. The ship's botanist, Nell Duckworth, joins the investigative team, which quickly finds that arthropods on the island have evolved into sophisticated and ferocious life forms. Particularly memorable and frightening are the creatures Nell dubs "spigers," which have eight legs and are "twice the size of a Bengal tiger." Exciting debates on topics like the role of sexual reproduction in the development of life on Earth provide a sound scientific background.
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Hender’s Island—Not Just A Place
On the whole, Fragment is a fairly entertaining read, but I believe it is fair to say that the people are the weakest part of the story. No, in a surprising twist, the greatest character of them all is Hender’s Island itself.
The most horrifically lethal and rapacious ecosystem I’ve ever read about is described in such vivid terms and described in such exquisite detail—readers will have no trouble imagining the never-ending orgy of nightmarish violence.
A band of scientists and cameramen took a peek into a world so utterly alien yet still terrestrial in origin, and I, the reader, was left feeling the same awe and terror that they did.
Yeah, I’d recommend it.
Wow
Loved this book . the creatures where so weird
Non stop!
The most entertaining book I have read in years and I read about a book a day . A sequel is absolutely needed!