How would you act if you had the chance to be God? Would you first rid the world of all your enemies? Would you have fun blowing up stuff? Or would you be more peaceful? Maybe you would ensure that people and nations wouldn’t fight each other.
I know that if I had the chance to be God that the world would not have nearly as many inhabitants. My patience tends to run short at times now. I don’t even want to imagine what it would be like if I had unlimited power.
Omar Haddad, known throughout the world as Al Yad, has a great following in Syria. The government of Syria is afraid of him. Delegates sent to bargain with him never return. They would just disappear For some reason, this man seems to think he is the “hand of God”. All the signs say that he might possibly be right. I mean, he can kill a man just by looking at him. He can fly through the sky like a plane. He can literally move mountains and reduce ginormous boulders to nothing. Does his power come from God, or does it have a more “reasonable” explanation?
Brennan Craft, first introduced as Theo Grant, is the one who enabled Omar Haddad to become what he is, and now Theo wants to stop him. And he needs Alyssa Aronson to do so. But will she ever trust him? How can he get her to get her to help him?
The survival of the world is at stake. Will Craft be able to do what needs to be done to save it? Will he be seduced by the technology that he has discovered, the same technology that will enable him to become a god?
In what almost seems like a game of cat and mouse, Craft risks all, even the love of his life, to pit himself against Al Yad. Will he be successful? But who is the cat, and who is the mouse? Is Al Yad toying with Craft? Or is Al Yad toying with Haddad?
Reading this made me want to read The God Theory by Bernard Haisch. This book was mentioned a lot in Quantum Lens, and it really roused my curiosity. I looked this book up on Amazon to make sure that it really existed, and it does. One day, I plan on reading it.
I was sent a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review. If you would like to read this edge-of-your-seat thriller and find out what one man does when he finds he has the power of God, I have provided an link below that will take you straight to the Amazon page where this book is sold.
Amazon link: Quantum Lens
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Favorite Sentences:
If an observer could alter the universe by his observation, then didn’t the universe require consciousness to even exist?
A wounded zebra can refuse to be a lion’s prey all it wants, but that won’t stop the lion.
The more the mind believed something was true, the more likely it was able to make it come true.
In many of the virtual worlds we’ve created for our computers, the reality only comes into being when a character in the world observes it.
If you were God, could you possibly dream up any more educational, contrasted, thrilling, beautiful, tantalizing world than Earth?
New Words Learned:
aliquot – a portion of a larger whole, esp. a sample taken for chemical analysis or other treatment
fealty – fidelity; faithfulness
Inedia – fasting
nocebo – a harmless substance or treatment that when taken by or administered to a patient is associated with undesirable or harmful side effects or worsening of symptoms due to negative expectations or the psychological condition of the patient
prana – a life breath or vital principle in the Hindu religion
rube – an awkward unpolished unsophisticated usually gullible rustic ignorant of urban ways
self-effacing – the act or fact of keeping oneself in the background, as in humility
About the Author:
Douglas Richards is the New York Times bestselling author of Wired, Amped, and The Cure. These novels are thrillers that have just the right amount of science fiction blended into them. He has also written several middle grade/young adult novels.
A former biotech executive, Richards earned a BS in microbiology from the Ohio State University, a master’s degree in genetic engineering from the University of Wisconsin (where he engineered mutant viruses now named after him), and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
The author currently lives in San Diego, California, with his wife, two children, and two dogs.
You can friend Richards on Facebook at Douglas E. Richards Author, visit his website at douglaserichards.com, and write to him at doug@san.rr.com.
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