The Siberian Incident

By: Greig Beck

Narrated by: Sean Mangan

Length: 11 hrs and 53 mins

Publisher's summary

For lovers of John Carpenter’s The Thing comes a tale of alien horror from international best-selling author Greig Beck.

100,000 years ago the object hit the lake at the deepest point, quickly sinking into its mile-deep Stygian darkness. The sheets of ice closed, time moved on and the land forgot.

But over the centuries, legends grew of people vanishing, of strange, deformed animals and of an unexplained luminescence down in the lake depths.

When Marcus Stenson won the lucrative contract to create a sturgeon fish farm on the site of disused paper mill on the shore of Lake Baikal, he thought he had won the lottery and refused to listen to the chilling folktales, or even be concerned by the occasional harassment from the local mafia.

But then animals were found mutilated in the frozen forest and people started to go missing. And worse, some came back, changed, horribly.

In the depths of the lake, something that had been waiting 100,000 years was stirring. And it needed the warmth of mankind to survive.

©2019 Greig Beck (P)2020 Bolinda Publishing Pty Ltd

Very Cool

Before buying this book I read many reviews and went with the endless comparisons to The Thing, which is one of my all time favorites. While I did enjoy this book a lot, I don't see enough similarities. Only 2 things in common here, first being that they're both about hostile aliens, and second that they both take place in icy frozen areas. Other than those things, they differ quite a bit. I do massively prefer Who Goes There? But this was certainly an enjoyable Sci-Fi/Horror story.

Super mysterious!

A bit slow at first but keeps you intrigued by the mystery and need to know what IT is... Then the end hits hard. Great book!

Story had promise. Had some cliches.

1. Needs editing: noun, verb, and object problems.
2. Narrator needs to read the story to himself, checking his pronunciation, first.
3. Author needs to avoid clicbes and to be aware of verb to object relationsjips.
4. Flame throwers have limited fuel.
5. Character relationships are abrupt and weak. Sorry Marcus, I've got your brother now!

very entertaining

It was a really enjoyable book from start to finish, though i kinda thought the discription/appearance of the creatures was a little underwhelming.

S Kaye

Pretty sure I was very surprised! Not often a really creative story comes along. It’s like “ The Thing” on steroids with twists! Be a good movie. Good job from Narrator Sean too.

A very good story

This isn't my usual read but I completely enjoyed it. If you like John Carpenter's The Thing, then I think you will enjoy this story too.

It was okay

The creatures were the most interesting aspect in regards to the plot and the way that they were written was cool. Otherwise it was mediocre to listen to.

Had potential but was brought down by sophomoric writing

Had to speed up the narration as it was dragging. The story had a lot of potential, but the character development was lacking and the writing was assuming. Slightly predictable and couldn’t get away from the brothers perfect fit for the story with little to know character progression. SPOILER: The way Sara just got over losing her husband and jumped right back with the brother after the climax ending was just stupid.

Okay but why are you all so stupid?

SPOILERS: I listened to the first few hours of this book and then had to put it down. I have major issues with any kind of media where the characters are written as book smart but also stupid for really no reason. I'm supposed to believe that our initial main lead put together all of this in Russia without once having to pay a bribe? Or being told by someone "Yeah you're gonna have to deal with the Mob, guy."

Even in our uneducated not so world traveled America we know from movies and media how corrupt Russia is as whole. So from the start the inciting incident isn't handled well and had me rolling my eyes. After picking the book back up and trudging along some fairly alright padding, we come across the next "Are you serious? Seriously?" moment.

I'm no expert but I'd THINK a bunch of people would be able to determine that a bear was or wasn't hit by a claymore mine, eviscerated and left for dead. I understand people are skeptical of weird otherwise explainable events, but when you're standing there and your brain is telling you that nothing logical makes sense.. You're going to make the leap to the thing that doesn't make sense. Like oh sure, a wolf ate it right after a claymore mine blew it up but didn't leave any marks or bite wounds. Kay.

Then we get to the absolutely mind boggling stupid part. We have somehow trapped an alian being in a cage. We then decide we are going to communicate with it because maybe it doesn't know we're sentient. Right. It only GOT TO EARTH somehow, and has been murder eating people for thousand of years. It'd be able to see us technologically evolve, it'd see structures being built, cars, boats subs. I'm thinking it knows we're sapiant and doesn't care.

Oh but sure, Fish and Wildlife is absolutely trained to communicate with a being that shares zero evolutionary or physically with us. Something that thinks of us as flesh suits to operate on dry land. Something that has evolved a parasitic nature to do so! But yeah, by all means let's talk to it and it means no harm.

I like this book, it's an average listen, but these people are idiots and they should have nuked the lake from space.

fantastic book, greay detailed horror story.

the description of the aliens is detailed and the way they take over has an original twist. Great ending. Narration was fantastic in voice and inflection.