Peter Cawdron’s First Contact series continues to amaze me. Feedback is the fifth book in his Science Fiction series devoted to the topic of how Earth’s First Contact with an alien life forms might go. The books in this series are all stand-alones and each looks at the topic with completely different scenarios and perspectives. This is my seventh read in this series (I accidentally read two out of order) and I keep being more and more impressed by Cawdron’s writing. His first book was already good and the writing improves with each subsequent title.
Feedback is another action packed book. Like in his earlier book Xenophobia, Cawdron puts you right in the middle of the action from the opening page. In this book you are on a South Korean Search and Rescue helicopter that is flying within North Korean airspace so that they can drop off a US Navy SEAL team. They are flying in a huge storm with North Korea threatening to shoot the chopper out of the sky and with Cawdron’s writing you feel the storm and tension right through the pages.
The book flips back and forth between this mission to rescue a young child that was in a UFO that crashed near North Korea and the life of a physics graduate student in New York City twenty years later. Confused? That is exactly what makes this book such an interesting read. Cawdron has written a science fiction mystery story that takes place over many years. In different chapters you are shifted back and forth in time trying to unravel the story.
To me, Chapter Six: Professor Lachlan was the most amazing part of this book. In a few pages Cawdron presents both the theory of Times Arrow and a concept based on string theory that like up and down, right and left, there is are two directions to time. The writing here about the concept and theory of time are, by themselves, worth the read. Of course, since this is only a small part of the storyline the adventure gets even better.
This book does evolve a time travel theme and, as a rule, I do not like time travel books. For one, there is always the problem of a time paradox and for another I do not believe we could (or should) travel back in time. Despite my dislike of this theme, I have to admit that Cawdron has done an excellent job with the topic. His approach is scientific and he addresses some of my complaints with the time travel idea.
Feedback was so engaging that I literally read it from cover to cover in one day.
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Jas P
This book is utterly fascinating, and one of my favourites of the year so far.
Reviewed in Australia on April 23, 2015