#2 - Einstein's Bridge

Back Cover

In a newborn twenty-first century, tunnels through space-time have connected our planet with hitherto unimagined alternate universes. The genius minds working at the Superconducting Super Collider (SSC) project - a fifty-three-mile-long underground particle accelerator - George Griffin and Roger Coulton have realised their greatest dream, and novelist Alice Lancaster is there to witness their triumph. Reaching out into the vast cosmos, Griffin and Coulton have finally made contact. But with whom? Or rather...with what? For their message has been received by an ancient hostile entity that combs the many universes searching for knowledge and life to absorb and annihilate. And now the entity has locked onto a faint, persisiting signal emanating from a distant, uncommonly fertile feeding ground...called Earth.

My Review

This is a Hard-SF book. Lots of accurate details about particle accelerators, physics, genetic modifications. The first half of the Book is an exciting journey between Europe & America on the trail of a Scientific breakthrough. It has some romance, some good character development, action... then .. we reach the middle of the book where the Author (Who is a real scientist) launches into too much politics. We get patronising dialogue about how the American government stops the project.. As a non-american the details of this committee, that group.. blah blah blah are lost on me (& really not interesting to the story). The underlining story is really good, the end works.. But the political drivel in the middle spoils it for me... If the author didn't have his only political opinions that he 'forced' into the story, the book could have been 10/10...