Six men;
a General at Area 51, interviewing a Grey on a potential global threat; a
Professor announcing to the world's media the gift of time travel to the past,
only to discover a horrifying truth at the crucifixion of Christ; a young man,
desperately trying to survive amongst a human resistance group amidst the
invasion; a man who will do whatever is necessary to protect the woman he
loves, as they watch the horrors unfold on the television; a suicidal man,
dejected at life, seeks answers from the archangel Michael, only to find more
horror; an everyday normal nobody, rallied into a fate worse than anything
anyone could ever imagine...
Blurred
Vision (SF/Horror)
By Chris
Botragyi
Independent
Publishing Platform
ISBN
#978-1910565858
Price
$0.00 (price not listed yet)
185
Pages
Rating
5-Stars
“I Was Unable
To Put The Book Down”
Six men
mysteriously awaken as prisoners aboard an alien space ship. Locked in a cell
together are Tom Valentine, Professor Mark Bennett, Air Force General James F.
Hargreaves, James Jones, John Chapman, and Daniel Lambert. Their captors are
seven-foot tall Grays with large black eyes and slender bodies. The prisoners
remember very little about the past or how they were captured, but hear voices
elsewhere on the ship so know they are not alone. They do wonder why they are
together. Why them, specifically? General Hargreaves appears to know more than
the rest about what is going on, and Professor Bennett remembers that he was at
Stanford University and was a theoretical physicist, and from what the general
told him he had worked on a time machine. The general also admits he had one of
the aliens captive at Area 51, under interrogation, but the creature had lied
to him.
Spoiler
alert. There is no way I can review this book without giving away some
spoilers. So if you don’t wish to hear them, stop reading this review now.
First, the author drops a strong hint about the plot simply with the
characters’ names: John, James (Jones), Daniel, James (the general). Mark, and
Tom (Thomas Valentine). We learn more as each of the six tell their (final)
stories. Tom tells us about the invasion. The aliens interrupt television news
broadcasts to explain why they are here: (Paraphrased) “We are from Heaven, and
we are here for Judgment Day. Everyone will be judged for their sins, and
punished accordingly.” Of course, we are all sinners, so we’re all going to be
judged – and punished. As each tells their story, we learn a little bit more
about the invasion and the aliens, but it is in the professor’s story that the
closest truth is revealed. A horrible murder two thousand years ago is now
bringing retribution down on us, and it could wipe out the human race. The
aliens tell them the writers of the Bible didn’t exactly lie to us, but they
didn’t explain everything, either.
Okay,
this was an interesting story, and I couldn’t put it down. I had to find out
what was happening on the next page, so I read this book in one setting. It had
my full attention. I picked up on the names at the very beginning, and thought
I had the whole story figured out, but I didn’t. Close, but not quite. The
names were mere namesakes of the Biblical writers, but maybe they “represented”
the actual writers to the aliens. Or the author was just playing with the
reader, maybe. The story has no ending, just the death of these six men. At the
story’s conclusion, our planet’s population has dropped from seven billion to
150 million, and the reader is left hanging. Will there be a remnant saved, or
will the human race cease to exist? Unique storytelling, and highly
recommended.
Tom Johnson
Author of THESE ALIEN SKIES
