Heaven's Shadow

By: David S. Goyer, Michael Cassutt

Narrated by: Joe J. Thomas

The science fiction epic of our time has arrived.Three years ago, an object one hundred miles across was spotted on a trajectory for Earth's sun. Now, its journey is almost over. As it approaches, two competing manned vehicles race through almost half a million kilometers of space to reach it first. But when they both arrive on the entity, they learn that it has been sent toward Earth for a reason. An intelligent race is desperately attempting to communicate with our primitive species. And the message is: Help us.

Great Book

Not a formulaic apocolyptic, big rock heading for the earth book. This is a very interesting read that takes some big topics on without hesitation. It is supposed to be the first book of a trilogy, but after doing some research on the authors, who are primarily screenwriters, the rights to the books have already been sold to movie production houses, so I am not sure that the other two will ever get written as books. Too bad, because I would love to read the entire series.

Rama revisited

I enjoyed this book, but for you Sci fi fans, this book is a very similar story to the Rama stories by Authur C Clarke and Gentry Lee. VERY similar story. Its all set up for a sequel which may also be a Rama story. Stay tuned we'll see!!

Good character based sci-fi

What did you love best about Heaven's Shadow?

The character development and dialog was good I thought. The narrator's spin on the various voices helped personify them as well.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Harley - because he just seemed like one of those guys that act all bad-ass but is really a big softie.

Any additional comments?

The plot had a few holes in terms of being realistic and believable. If these creatures are so advanced why can't they directly communicate with us? Why do they even need our help?
Maybe that will be explained more in the next two books. But, in terms of a character based story it was very entertaining. The astronauts seemed to say the F-word a bit more than I would imagine they would, being professionals; it didn't really bother me (except I always had to have headphones on so the kids couldn't hear.)

The actual science wasn't bad either. I like how they addressed the fact that there was an 8 second delay in communications back to Earth for example.

If you can suspend disbelief and roll with the story, it was well written and entertaining. There were many characters but they were all well defined and all entertaining with their own unique personalities (if you can keep track of them all.) Joe J. Thomas did a spectacular job with the narration and added a whole new element to the story that wouldn't have been there if I simply read it myself. I loved his Harley voice.

Pod People in Outer Space?

Fair to Good story but lacks something! Very good Narration. The science part of this Sci-fi doesn't work well. The narration kept me listening. I hope book 2 Heaven's War is better.

nice

it was really good but! it ended with 2 more books in mind so the ending was a little bit of a bummer but other then that it was really well done =D cant wait for the rest.