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    The Wave
    The Wave
    The Wave
    Audiobook5 hours

    The Wave

    Written by Walter Mosley

    Narrated by Tim Cain

    3.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The New York Times bestselling author returns to science fiction with an eerie, transcendent novel of the near future.

    Errol's father has been dead for several years. Yet lately Errol has been awakened in the middle of the night by a caller claiming to be his father. Is it a prank, or a message from the grave? When he hears the unmistakable sound of a handset being put down on a table, he decides to investigate.

    Curious and not a little unnerved, Errol sneaks into the graveyard where his father is buried. What he finds there changes his life forever.

    Caught up in a war between a secret government security agency and an alien presence infecting our world, touched by the Wave, he knows that nothing will ever be the same again.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHighbridge Company
    Release dateDec 27, 2005
    ISBN9781598871067
    The Wave
    Author

    Walter Mosley

    Walter Mosley is the author of over twenty critically acclaimed books and his work has been translated into twenty-one languages. His popular mystery series featuring Easy Rawlins began with Devil in a Blue Dress in 1990, which was later made into a film starring Denzel Washington. Born and raised in Los Angeles, he now lives in New York.

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    • 2/5
      The premise sounded great, but the execution was not. Not my cup of tea
    • 2/5
      Avoid. Not bad, but just... boring. A grandiose concept presented in a lukewarm manner. You have better things to do with your time.
    • 4/5
      The book is a brilliant riff on one of the staple plot conceptions of science fiction -- colonization of human beings by an alien "hive" mentality. Mosley's brilliant twist on this familiar idea is to situate this novel firmly in the paranoia and xenophobia of post-9/11 America. Unlike the countless variants on the alien "body snatcher" theme, the hive mind that emerges in this novel is truly human and heroic, especially in contrast to the government intelligence agents who are willing to trample liberty and human rights to "defend" individuality from the alien collective Other. This is a fine n example of a genre that should be called post-9/11 literature.
    • 3/5
      Not terribly original twist on the collective intelligence alien; in this case not really an alien. Except that Cherryh's book is set on an alien planet, the collective intelligence is fairly similar to Serpent's Reach. The resurrection theme borders on the zombie.
    • 4/5
      I pick up just about every book that peaks my curiousity even a little, and thus have read a lot of lukewarm books and learned to not expect a lot out of them. This book was a pleasant surprise in being so much more than I had anticipated. This is great science fiction. It's real people and relationships, and it's also grand concepts and unanswered questions that captivate the imagination. I usually like to take my time wading through stories, but I drank this one down in two days flat, in any spare minute I could squeeze out of my day, because I couldn't wait to find out what was happening next. I haven't read so much science fiction that I can say this was an original concept, but I can say that I've never come across it's like before, and it really took me on a great journey.
    • 4/5
      For the past few nights, Errol Porter has been harassed by strange crank phone calls. One night, the caller says that he is Errol’s father. In the middle of the night, Errol breaks into the cemetery where his father was buried several years previously. There he finds GT, who looks, talks and acts like a younger, healthier version of his father. Errol takes him home for a shower and a change of clothes, if nothing else (Errol’s girlfriend, Nella, thinks that is a bad idea).Along the way, GT tells Errol things about his family and about growing up that no one else could know. Errol’s first thought was that his father had another family, and this is his illegitimate son. GT also points Errol to a handwritten confession written many years previously. Errol’s mother was having an affair with a local man. Errol’s father murdered the man, and buried him under their garage, where his body is found. Slowly, but surely, Errol is convinced. One night, GT disappears, and Errol thinks that this is the end of the story.That is, until Errol is kidnapped by government agents and taken to a secret facility. There, he is shown hundreds of people, risen from the dead, all with amazing powers of recuperation. He watches as what looks like a six-year-old girl regenerates an arm that has just been amputated. The head of the facility, Dr Wheeler, is convinced that this is the beginning of some sort of alien invasion. GT returns, and Errol learns that millions of years ago, a cellular intelligence came to Earth via a meteor. It recently found a life form it can use, dead people, and wants to peacefully coexist with the people of Earth. It also wants to give humans a storehouse of ancient wisdom, which looks a lot like a pool of black slime. But all Dr Wheeler can hear is Alien Invasion!Mosley may be better known as a mystery writer than a science fiction writer, but this is a really good science fiction story. It’s a very contemporary tale, with just enough Stephen King and Arthur C. Clarke in it. This is a pretty fast read that will keep the reader’s interest.