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Anomaly

By: Peter Cawdron
Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
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Anomaly examines the prospect of an alien intelligence discovering life on Earth. The technological gulf between humanity and the alien species is measured in terms of millions of years. The only way to communicate is using science, but not everyone is so patient.

Humanity's first contact with an alien intelligence is far more radical than anyone has ever dared imagine. With a technological gap of millions of years, mankind is barely able to recognize the arrival of an alien space craft outside the gates of the United Nations in New York.

©2011 Peter Cawdron (P)2017 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved
Action & Adventure Fiction Hard Science Fiction Science Fiction Thought-Provoking Adventure
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Thoughtful Storytelling • Scientific Accuracy • Distinctive Character Voices • Intriguing Premise • Captivating Performance
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I found myself caught up in the puzzle the Anomaly presents, yet appreciating the time Cawdor took to develop multidimensional characters. He did well at presenting different viewpoints and even kept hostility towards faith at a minimum. The narration had enough variety to be engaging without distracting. My only downgrade was Cawdor's peculiar quirk of addressing all male characters by their last names and main female characters by their first names. It seemed subtly demeaning.

Thoughtful SF with Heart

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This is a very simplistic story with similar writing style. The story was interesting in the respect that I wanted to see how things turned out because I love a good mystery sci-fi story. I was, however, disappointed with how it turned out in the end. They did explain everything but the explanation was rather formulaic. Overall I think this book would be better suited to a preteen rather than an adult reader.

Simplistic

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Totally love first contact SiFi books, if you do to you won’t be disappointed, guaranteed !!

Fully recommend.

Beautiful.

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I really enjoyed the careful thought put into desxribing the struggle of first contact I will be looking fot more work by this author.
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Great fun

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The author put some time and effort in to comment up with an original take on an Alien first contact scnario. Some very original insights.

Good read and enguaging story

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The expansion of thought and where it can take us, is evident. Try to branch out. Good book.

Thought Provoking.

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I'm a big fan of "cerebral" first contact fiction and this is one of the best I've read. Enjoyed every moment and the story will stay lodged in my mind, as a reminder of how it could happen.

Thought Provoking

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Absolutely phenomenal. It made be start researching different scientific theories !! I’d recommend this to everyone

This made me feel smarter

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From page one of Anomaly, I was hooked. I was hooked by it's mind bending weirdness, and it's main character, and the idea that a middle grade science teacher might have something to offer to the best scientists in the country. In fact, it's a bit of a love letter to a certain kind of teacher, one that I approve of heartily.

I especially enjoyed how caring Mr. Teller was in wanting to make science fun and informative for his students. I wish I'd had a teacher like him, and I'd love to read another book featuring him.

This would be a great book for a sci fi discussion group because I still can't stop thinking about the characters Peter Cawdron created, or why he went the way he did with the ending. And I'd really like to talk about it with other people who've read it, too.

But each reader will have to decide for themselves how they feel about the ending of this book -- as indicated by the reviews -- because in a way, the ending is a kind of a litmus test that will bring up some of your own baggage. Enjoy!

I look forward to listening to another one of Cawdron's books; I only wonder if they'll all be this fun!


P. J. Ochlan did a great job reading. His male and female voices were excellent, and his secondary characters could be distinguished easily. Nice job, P.J.!


Highly recommended: For people who like first contact sci fi and want to support an author who has created one of the most interesting main characters I've seen: A super smart middle grade science teacher who uses his wits to teach his kids, and some adults, about science by thinking outside the box.

We could stand to have a lot more of that in the world right about now.

It's a litmus test!

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The story was good, but I did not like the instant romance between the main characters. Not needed and hard to believe.

Did not need romance

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