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Title: Domain
Subtitle: The Domain Trilogy, Book 1
Author: Steve Alten
Narrator: Roxanne Hernandez
Format: Unabridged
Length: 17 hrs and 29 mins
Language: English
Release date: 11-15-16
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 24 votes
Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
An asteroid impacts Earth, forever changing life on our planet. Only the object isn't an asteroid.
For 32 years archaeologist Julius Gabriel investigated the Mayan calendar, a 2,500-year-old enigma of time and space that predicts humanity will perish on December 21, 2012 (the winter solstice). Julius believes that certain mysterious sites - the Great Pyramid of Giza; Stonehenge; the giant desert drawings of the Nazca Plateau; the temple of Angkor Wat; the Pyramid of the Sun; and the key site, the Kukulcán Pyramid at Chichén Itzá in the Yucatán Peninsula, site of the ancient asteroid impact - represent pieces of a global puzzle linked to the salvation of our species. Ridiculed by his peers, Julius dies before he can solve the doomsday prophecy. Now only one person can prevent our annihilation: Julius' son, Michael, a patient locked up in a Miami mental asylum.
Miami, 2012. Psychology major Dominique Vazquez reports to a Miami asylum to complete her graduate internship. The new director assigns her to a special patient - Mick Gabriel, a paranoid schizophrenic with a high IQ. Mick attempts to charm her into believing his father's theories of the apocalypse so he can escape. What Dominique doesn't realize is that she represents Mick's last hope of saving humanity.
Fall equinox, 2012. As it has done for 1,000 years, a serpent's shadow appears on the northern balustrade of the Kukulcán Pyramid. As a rare galactic alignment occurs, a deep-space radio transmission reaches Earth, activating the remnants of an object buried long ago in the Gulf of Mexico. It is the beginning of the end.
Members Reviews:
Not a fan
I am really into fiction that is a spin on the Mayan culture. When I found the Domain Trilogy I was excited. I quickly read Domain and it was OK, but not that great. I read the second, and because, when I start reading a series, my rule I have to finish, I read my way through it.
Now I am reading the third, Mayan Destiny, am have to fight to keep from just throwing the book away.
In the first book, Atlen does a lot of jumping around in the plot. In the second book, it is very hard to know who is on first and even what the plot line is. In the third book, Atlen does a spin and the one bad person becomes a good person and the time line is change again.
If these books are typical of Steve Atlen, I will not read another of his works.
Low-end conspiracy fiction
You won't find it in most book stores, but there is a branch of fiction that can only be categorized as conspiracy fiction. Typically in the suspense genre but also reaching into science fiction and historical fiction, conspiracy stories propose that there are hidden cabals out in the world who have secret (and usually sinister) agendas. Things that seem tame on the surface are really elements of some grand plan. Recently, the big novel in this field would be The Da Vinci Code, which has spawned a whole bunch of similar historical conspiracy stories. Another example would be Steve Alten's Domain, which unfortunately shows some of the weaknesses in conspiracy fiction.
In Domain, the conspiracy is actually one fostered by aliens and it starts millions of years ago when a spaceship crashes into the Earth with such intensity that the environmental effects wipe out the dinosaurs.