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Reviewer:
Forrest Schultz schultz_forrest@yahoo.com
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Blog Address:
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December 8, 2015
Salvation History
Analogy Set On A Space Colony
A Review of
Manuel Alfonseca The History of the Earth-9 Colony
(Create Space, 2015)
177 pp $8.99
ISBN: 9781512206739
Reviewer: Forrest W. Schultz
-- SPOILER ALERT --
(review gives away story)
The history indicated by the title of this
science fiction tale is an analogy of the salvation history in the Bible. For instance, Satan is depicted as a giant
crab who can only be defeated by the Christ-figure in the story, Who shrinks
him down to a teeny size, which is reminiscent of the famous medieval painting
which shows Christ stepping on a mouse-size bound Devil!
The stage upon which the drama is enacted
is described as a planet very similar to Earth, but we are not told when the narrated
events occur. We do know it is in the
very far future from this humorous statement (on p. 131) by one of the main
characters (who is very concerned about their fate): “As someone said far, far away in the past, ‘It’s
tough to make predictions, especially about the future…’ .” Of
course, the person referred to is the late Yogi Berra. And I do believe that if Yogi were present on
this planet when the giant crab was about to kill everyone there, he would have
uttered his most famous saying, “It ain’t over till its over!”, his zany way of
saying that God has the last word! The
story is a good read.
The
author is an engineer, a college professor, and a writer of science articles as
well as fantasy and science fiction stories.
He has been inspired and influenced by the stories of C. S. Lewis and is
a member of a C. S. Lewis email discussion group (called Spare Oom) which is
where I learned of him. Information is
available on his blog http://populscience.blogspot.com/
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