Ancestor: A Novel Review
You may have stumbled upon Scott Sigler already when you are a Podcast fan like me.
His usual method is to "lure in" listeners first to his free of charge Podcasts.
This is an evil habit of the Future Dark Overlord, who will once dominate the world of fiction in the near future.
Needless to say, I followed the pattern.
I enjoyed Ancestor already as a free of charge podcast, but the hardcover print version includes more details and the characters become more enhanced.
I can absolutely recommend reading the book.
You will be on a wild ride into the frozen north of Michigan and meet one interesting female pilot.
Not to mention the usual hulking villain who needs to be dealt with. This one has already attracted a fan crowd on Youtube.
Add on top a good dose of high tech mixed with military lingo and some advanced genetics technology to breed the perfect human organ replacement donor animal.
An excellent plot which keeps you turning the pages - 5 Stars!
Ancestor: A Novel Feature
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Ancestor: A Novel Overview
“The ancestors are out there…you have to believe me.”
From acclaimed author Scott Sigler—New York Times bestselling creator of Infected and Contagious—comes a tale of genetic experimentation’s worst nightmare come true.
Every five minutes, a transplant candidate dies while waiting for a heart, a liver, a kidney. Imagine a technology that could provide those life-saving transplant organs for a nominal fee ... and imagine what a company would do to get a monopoly on that technology.
On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, PJ Colding leads a group of geneticists who have discovered this holy grail of medicine. By reverse-engineering the genomes of thousands of mammals, Colding's team has dialed back the evolutionary clock to re-create humankind’s common ancestor. The method? Illegal. The result? A computer-engineered living creature, an animal whose organs can be implanted in any person, and with no chance of transplant rejection.
There's just one problem: these ancestors are not the docile herd animals that Colding's team envisioned. Instead, Colding’s work has given birth to something big, something evil.
With these killer creatures on the prowl, Colding and the woman he loves must fight to survive — even as government agents close in to shut the project down, and the deep-pocketed company backing this research proves to have its own cold-blooded agenda.
As the creators become the prey in the ultimate battle for survival, Scott Sigler takes readers on the ultimate thrill-ride—and offers a chilling cautionary account of what can happen when hubris, greed, and madness drive scientific experimentation past the brink of reason.
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Customer Reviews
Brilliant - NewoIkkin -
Scott Sigler is by far my favorite author. Every one of his stories keeps you hooked and wanting more, especially after it's over. He combines science and horror to create pulse pounding action and characters you love to hate and vice versa. I can't wait until all of his audio books are published and I can physically own them.
Great fast read, nonstop action - moof3r -
As with Scott Sigler's other two mass produced books (Contagious and Infected) this book takes you on a nonstop, action filled, somewhat gory at times, thrillfest that authors nowadays just can't keep a pace with. If you want a great book that will keep you reading straight to the end, make you cringe at the descriptiveness of Scotts twisted mind, and leave you wanting more, then pick this book up!
only sigler family would give this a 5 star review - Jay - minneapolis
I have to agree that I find it utterly amazing that this book could get this many 5 star reviews. The book is by no means bad, but 5 stars? Only Sigler friends and family, or publisher would give it a 5 star review, and NONE of them honestly. I would have like to give it 2 1/2 stars, because it really was kind of okay.
The first pages plod - and most of the first quarter or so of the book looks like it was tacked on when the author realized it was not long enough. Even some 25% of the way into the book, I was still wondering who the hero/heroine was, and who the bad guy(s) was/were. The writing is fine, though unspectular, and the plot is mostly okay. The contrivance of the "cute" accents I found annoying - the author knew something interesting about the upper peninsula, yay! The book is pure pulp beach fiction and no one should pretend it was anything more. It had some cute touches, and it had some decent action, but there really was not enough real plot to hold everything together - this is "B" movie material, at best.
If you want a real book, find something better - there are MANY out there. If you want a quick read with some shallow action, shallow, simple, and unbelievable characters (I mean, every laboratory doctor and researcher knows how to rig a brick of C4 with a timer, right) and a shallow plot, read on, by all means, but do NOT try to pretend that this is a great book.
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