Primordial Threat

By: M.A. Rothman

Narrated by: Tim Campbell

The year is 2066, and the world is oblivious to the threat it faces.

The fate of humanity lies on the shoulders of Burt Radcliffe, the new head of NASA's Near Earth Object program. He's been rushing the completion of DefenseNet, a ring of satellites that are both part of an early-warning system, as well as the means to eliminate incoming threats.

Yet Burt knows that despite the world's best efforts, nothing can be done about the alert he's just received. Coming out of deep space is a danger that's been approaching since the dawn of time. A black hole. An unstoppable threat that promises death for all in its wake.

Dave Holmes was a modern-day Einstein. As the original architect of DefenseNet, he'd had visions of this Primordial Threat before he disappeared, yet he'd left behind no details on how the problem might be solved. Can Holmes be found, and if so, will his solution even work?

The world has less than a year to find out.

©2018 Michael A. Rothman (P)2019 Tantor

Narration

Nothing was wrong with this audio but at moments it got a little boring and kept switching back and forth, but overall ok

Kept my interest

Just enough suspense to keep me listening, but not so thrilling that I had to worry about my driving

Performance was great. Plot… predictable

I recommend this book to anyone who does not believe in God. Atheist and the self- absorbed will love it…

Didn’t quite stick the landing.

It was gripping, nail biting and even a bit thrilling…for about an hour.

Spoiler…ish.
The start was very promising. I was curious where it was going to go and how it was going to play out but then, that was it.

There was a character who ended up being completely unnecessary to the overall story. Him and his adventure meant nothing. You’ll know it when you hear it. You can skip all his parts.

Then, once the problem was solved, that was it. All sense of peril gone. I thought maybe there was going to be some lurking danger, an unforeseen obstacle to overcome, heck, I would have taken a disaster movie cliche or two. But nope. The author played it way too safe which is such a shame given the way it started.

The misogyny is painful

The author describes women like he is a 14 year old boy. The first couple times I noticed him describing a female character I kinda shrugged it off, but it kept getting worse. He assigns value to his female characters by how attractive they are (or would be if they didn’t have a stern look on their face).

The story is interesting, if a little predictable, which is why I stuck with it but I probably won’t read another book by this author. The author might consider for his future books that women like sci-fi also.