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A review by tomstbr
Extinction by Bradley Somer
4.0
Extinction is what I call peripheral science fiction. The futuristic element is there but off stage. Earth is dying, on its last legs, and most of the population is heading off-world. In fact, part of the driving factor in the story is the aspiration to receive a ticket to space. But we never travel to space and instead are firmly grounded in the North American wilderness.
Our MC is a green-type, devoted to the planet and willing to go down with the ship. He is part of a project meant to protect one of the last grizzly bears on the planet. Our story begins when the peace of the forest is disrupted by 'tourists'. Bradley has written a taut and tense action thriller with an eco-conservation message underneath it that propels the reader through the story. There are bullets flying and the body count at the end was higher than I expected. It never gets sidetracked into poetic tracts about nature, but it does paint a background to the plot, and certainly, there is a haunting feeling as we realize just how degraded our planet has become in this possible future.
Our MC is a green-type, devoted to the planet and willing to go down with the ship. He is part of a project meant to protect one of the last grizzly bears on the planet. Our story begins when the peace of the forest is disrupted by 'tourists'. Bradley has written a taut and tense action thriller with an eco-conservation message underneath it that propels the reader through the story. There are bullets flying and the body count at the end was higher than I expected. It never gets sidetracked into poetic tracts about nature, but it does paint a background to the plot, and certainly, there is a haunting feeling as we realize just how degraded our planet has become in this possible future.