Friday, April 16, 2010

Power of Invention

The future. What does it really hold for us? Whether realistic and closely tied to what we know now, or so distant that the world seems to be a millennia away, many authors have taken on the topic of the future. The idea that there is imminent destruction or discovery just around the corner that will change our lives forever might stop one from reading the novels that explain it so well. However, there are others, myself included, just recently, that have found it to be incredibly enlightening with endless possibilities. Many, many years ago when I attended elementary school, girls were not the protagonists in these high adventure books, nor were these books available on the scale they are today. Growing up, I loved to watch Sci-Fi movies – somewhat of an anomaly I am told – never thinking to pick up a book of the same content.

So recently, I reached down into the depths of my being and forced myself to pick up a 442 page book, that, as it turns out, I could not put down until I had droned over the very last page! Incarceron, written by Catherine Fisher, was so exciting and plausible, that I read and read until I finished. Not just the skimming kind of reading, but the kind of reading where I wanted to envision (and was able to through the author’s acute awareness of all the right details) what Claudia, the heroine, was going to do to save her kingdom that was all a façade. Behind the scenes were the minute electronic devices that kept up the whole charade of their chosen century in which to live. Her father was cold and serene as he planned her future, but she knew there was more to find out. Finn the lost soul of the underworld introduced other creatures partially flesh and blood with wires replacing veins and skin covering metallic parts. Unknowingly for years, their lives intertwined helping them discover the world that was at her father’s fingertips, literally.
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