To Build a Tower

The ArchAngel Missions, Book 3

De: Joshua Loyd Fox

Narrado por: Colin Campbell

Duración: 9 h y 10 m

Resumen del Editor

At the height of vast technological advancements, the human race chose to ignore the costs of controlling the fragile environment they had destroyed. Mark Simon and his father, the brilliant engineer John Simon, would fail to stop what was to come. And so, the world would end, much like it had begun—catastrophically—and as a result of unforeseen consequences. But a remnant of humanity would survive.

Against all odds, and evolved in the cauldron of extreme hardships and war, humanity would hang on to become the best version of themselves, 10 generations later. The descendants of Mark Simon, the three brother’s Simone, would lead the charge to balance the cost of survival with a rediscovered technology, and accomplish what their ancestors could not.

Meanwhile, the ArchAngel Host would be tested beyond anything they had witnessed before. They would be forced to give truth to the coming conflict, and horrors of which they would never be able to recover.

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The little things, and the big things

"Mark knew it was the little things"

So does the author. Mr. Fox keeps things grounded along alongside the epic sweep of time and place and event. The "little things" of the human characters are not forgotten as the very big things happen. I look forward to continuing this series. "To Build a Tower", despite being in the middle of a long series, is, in my view, a self-contained story.

I love post-apocalypse novels, to the point that I am at home in them. This novel did not disappoint. The apocalypse rooted not in zombies or nuclear war, but in very real-seeming contemporary situations involving AI and environmental crisis. I would say this is the best book of the series. Grand and epic, but with well-painted enjoyable characters: the author remembers the little things that always matter.

The Archangels are present, of course, as they have been in the previous two books in this series. They add more epic grandeur to an already grand and epic novel.