FROM THE ICE. . . A mammoth, flash frozen in solid ice 10,000 years ago is brought to the surface by a team of scientists. An act of sabotage frees the giant from its icy tomb and reveals the secret held inside.
OUT OF THE MAMMOTH. . .
The body of an ancient woman, cloaked in furs, slides out of the mammoth's belly. But it is not the woman that holds the team's attention...it is the object she is clutching...a device created by an advanced civilization.
THE HUNT IS ON. . .
The device is accidentally activated, summoning forces who seek its destruction. It is the key to mankind's salvation and freedom from the men behind the curtain, pulling the strings and leading humanity towards destruction.
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A mammoth is found deep in the Canadian Arctic, completely preserved for the last 10.0000 year. Eddy Moore is the expert in paleontology who is hired and the one to be trusted to retrieve an object this size but while the mammoth is lifted the discoverer and one who pays for the whole operation secretly starts the thawing process in the hopes to retrieve mammoth DNA. What they discover is even more amazing. Out of the belly of the mammoth falls an ancient woman holding a device in her hands that very much looks like Star Trek equipment, especially when it opens and sends out a red light.
Up in space a small black orb makes it way to fulfill what it was built for: Keeping the device from being used. It triggers a huge snow wall to cover the dig site under a thick, icy layer of snow, leaving only a few survivors that desperately need to try to find their way back to civilization.
The crew of 7 gathers what they can find and make their way back in snow mobiles when they are approached by 5 men, claiming to be Inuits who have come to help them. The crew doesn't trust them and at night they make a run for it.
What follows is a chase through the arctic winds that causes more human losses, especially after the device lets of a message for humanity. They are holding the key to a secret citadel that hold a beacon to call for help because the men following the crew are out to kill them. A race from outer space that wants to make sure that Earth is going to be destroyed.
Things get difficult, and whom is ultimately to believe ? The evil race called Ferox, who want to make sure Earth destroys itself one day or the good-natured Aeros, who will come to safe humanity and cleanse Earth from Ferox corruption ?
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Raising The Past is an arctic adventure that promises a lot of excitement. The promise is kept up until the book slips into a sci-fi war between humans and two alien races. My cup of tea emptied there.
The whole citadel part was just too unimaginable and certainly lacked a more detailed description and plot development.
An ok beach read for the soft sci-fi fan.
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Paperback: 308 pages
Publisher: Breakneck Books (September 15, 2006)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0978655117
ISBN-13: 978-0978655112
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