Shatter War
Author: Dana Fredsti and David Fitzgerald
Publisher: Titan Books
Pages: 496
Reviewed By: Sandra Scholes
In a lab in a remote part of Antarctica on February 2nd 2219, the event happens when Dr Meta leads the Onmia Astra project to search for faster-than-light interstellar travel gets more than he bargained for.
Earth's past, present and future have fractured what humanity knew of the universe, their world has now got prehistoric monsters, terrifying robots, and new tech with people from other worlds in a jumble no one expected to have to deal with.
Survivors of the event try to make sense of what happened, a man called Merlin and others board a twenty-third-century ship called the Vannatu to make discoveries, but someone is out to thwart their plans, sending them off course into the shard world.
In this novel, the world as we knew it is no more, and everyone is fighting to survive in a strange universe where anything can appear and in the most destructive way. What I expected from the story was a lot of technical talk, lots of acting and funky dialogue, but this isn't what I got at all; instead I got a sci-fi thriller where a cast of interesting characters along with Merlin investigate the case of the event and try to stop their mystery saboteur.
In order for Fredsti and Fitzgerald to explain the event, they have to explain what happened before and after the event took place in different time periods and in different locations. We see what happens through the eyes of Nellie, Amber and Cam as they try to outsmart their saboteur, dealing with the many problems along the way. I found it thrilling to find how they can find a way out of a dystopian themed world and still be able to do it in time to save the world.
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