The Ark
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4.0 • 112 Ratings
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- $3.99
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- $3.99
Publisher Description
The Earth as we know it is about to end.
Technology has developed to the point where a person can be placed in a Sleep State: a cross between suspended animation and a drug-induced coma.
Just as the trial of the new technology is being completed, an unusual comet is discovered approaching Earth, bringing with it radiation that will wipe out all life on the planet. Soon after, the government builds a sleeper facility to save humankind from extinction, taking drastic steps to maintain secrecy of the project.
But when the sleepers awaken, they discover that something has gone terribly wrong... and that the strange world around them is not the one they fell asleep in.
Customer Reviews
Good story line
Kept me interested from start to finish.
This is so dumb
I’d be less surprised at how dumb and backward the United States portrayed in this book is, but /gestures vaguely/.
Characters are surprised to learn that anticoagulant makes you bleed, then surprised to discover you shouldn’t let blood get into computers. They didn’t even think to place the computer access hatch in a place it couldn’t ever get wet.
They learned nothing from Apollo 1 and built a door that can be easily opened from the inside
They don’t even consider real-time monitoring of their test subjects that would have entirely prevented a death
The premier astronomers work at a university that only has nursing and healthcare degrees.
The government assassinates its citizens on the regular.
They removed women from combat roles.
They seem to have completely forgotten statistics, rocketry, and the laws of planetary motion.
They decide to save humanity by selecting only people with advanced degrees. No janitors, plumbers, electricians, or any other trades
Oh, I’m only halfway through
Much like anvil. Very well done.
The author is right that you could read either one first. I read the Anvil first, and I think it works better reading the Ark second. I find the ark almost a prequel to the anvil. The problem with reading a prequel first is some of the surprises in the original are removed.
This novel unlike the anvil has a little bit darker view of humanity. There are some bad people in the novel. A little worse than usual in terms of bad people for the author.
I’d recommend reading this but read it after the Ark.