Review by Me: Abduction - A book By Robin Cook

This is one of the best books i've read so far..Not only does it keep your eyes glued to the book while your reading it but it also, keeps your thoughts glued to the plot long after you have finished reading it!!

Robin Cook, makes Abduction sound so real and logical in a scientific way. The book is basically about double evolution on Earth.

To breifly describe what goes around; Perry Berg is president of Benthic Marine and a passenger aboard The Benthic Explorer, a 450-foot research ship endeavoring to drill into, and sample for the first time, the earth's magma core. Also onboard are the lovely Dr. Suzanne Newell; ex-navy commander and present submersible skipper Donald Fuller; and navy-cum-Neanderthal divers Richard Adams and Michael Donaghue. It is this cast of characters who, with the reluctant Perry, dive to the stilled drill site in order to make repairs. En route, they are sucked (or suckered) into a defunct undersea volcano and deposited into an otherworldly wonderland. That takes about 75 pages of fairly cogent spadework.

The next 375 pages sprout some of the looniest, most derivative, made-for-TV-movie science fiction imaginable. Our heroes, you see, have been abducted to Interterra, an undersea world of staggering beauty and unheard of technologies--intergalactic travel and eternal life, for starters--populated by stunningly beautiful, toga-wearing, first-generation humans.

First-generation humans are the one's that were the result of the first evoluation on Earth, after the 'dark Ages' another evoluation takes place resulting into us the 'Second Generation' humans. The first generation had been doing very nicely until their scientists realized that the earth was about to be "showered with planetesimal collisions, just as had happened in its primordial state," and that they had better start digging. While the Interterrans prospered and thrived undersea, we, the second generation, began hauling our single-celled bodies up by our ooze-straps and started all over again. They main characters like Arak and Sufa speak strangely, giggle at the primitive second-generationists, recoil at the very thought of violence, press their palms together to show respect, greeting and to make love, and direct "worker clones" to do the dishes while the second generation does its stereotypical best to, in turns, exemplify, define, and defile humankind. What the Interterrains are scared of is, the fact that us 'Second Generation' will discover Interterra. Hence, when the main characters of the novel decide to escape, from Interterra the plot thickens. In the end, the powerful Interterrians decide to send 'back in time' the culprits!
All in all a very exotic book! Would love to re-re-re-read!!! :)