Unit Omega

Rating:
Summary: Not Military SF
Review: From the front and back covers one would thing this is military SF or at least military fiction. It is not. There is not a single military person in the book and no helicopters (as pictured on the cover).

The story revolves around a quantum physicist who has just started a new department in the UN. The department is Unit Omega, it has an annual travel budget of $1,000 and one salary. Not much hope of getting anywhere until a mostly reputable scientist calls and claims to have seen the Loch Ness Monster.

Blowing the entire budget on a single trip, our hero enlists the aid of a science magazine writer and it is off to Scotland. What is discovered next is totally unexpected.

In the depths of the Loch there is a quantum anomaly that, when properly prodded, can open a gateway to somewhere else. Just where that somewhere else is may be speculated upon but it is not resolved.

The story moves quickly with many chapters ending in cliff hangers and teasers. The writing is mostly solid (Jim Grand being a pseudonym) with only two blatant flaws. The firs is that our hero sometimes stops talking like a trained physicist and starts talking like a military grunt. The other flaw is less obvious unless you happen to have read about Loch Ness. In this book the loch has a very low fish population (unless there was a sudden drop-off, Loch Ness supports more salmon than Lake Michigan). But other than that I found the book to be quite entertaining.

Rating:
Summary: Not Military SF
Review: From the front and back covers one would thing this is military SF or at least military fiction. It is not. There is not a single military person in the book and no helicopters (as pictured on the cover).

The story revolves around a quantum physicist who has just started a new department in the UN. The department is Unit Omega, it has an annual travel budget of $1,000 and one salary. Not much hope of getting anywhere until a mostly reputable scientist calls and claims to have seen the Loch Ness Monster.

Blowing the entire budget on a single trip, our hero enlists the aid of a science magazine writer and it is off to Scotland. What is discovered next is totally unexpected.

In the depths of the Loch there is a quantum anomaly that, when properly prodded, can open a gateway to somewhere else. Just where that somewhere else is may be speculated upon but it is not resolved.

The story moves quickly with many chapters ending in cliff hangers and teasers. The writing is mostly solid (Jim Grand being a pseudonym) with only two blatant flaws. The firs is that our hero sometimes stops talking like a trained physicist and starts talking like a military grunt. The other flaw is less obvious unless you happen to have read about Loch Ness. In this book the loch has a very low fish population (unless there was a sudden drop-off, Loch Ness supports more salmon than Lake Michigan). But other than that I found the book to be quite entertaining.

Rating:
Summary: I agree with the other reviewers
Review: Started off pretty good with a lot of suspense and kept me wanting to read it, but during the last quarter it just dies. The ending is one of the worst I've ever read, but the fact that during the last quarter of the book you can TELL it's going to be a bad ending just ruins it.

Seems like the author just got tired of writing and cut it short by a hundred pages or so as there's never any military or saving of the world like the books description says.

The first 3 quarters of the book were good, and it had an interesting concept but I have to give it a 2 because of the sudden ending that left me feeling disapointed.

Rating:
Summary: I agree with the other reviewers
Review: The book starts off well. I had grabbed the book on my way out of a store and was pleasantly surprised by the quality of the writing and the interesting characters. But then the story quickly deteriorated and ended abruptly. Like others I was also annoyed by the cover's promise of a military threat that never materialized. No helicopters either.

Rating:
Summary: Loch Ness Madess
Review: This book ia a far fetched story of 3 scientists who investigate the Loch Ness Monster and end up discovering a hole in tme. The book advertises about a threat the military has never seen before. Well the only thing never seen is the military!! No where to be found in this book. Well unlesss you count the United Nations. Don't waste your time with this book. If you want an entertaining story dealing wih worm holes/holes in time, read Star Trek.

Rating:
Summary: Phew. This book stinks.
Review: This book was simply terrible. Like others have said, it starts out promisingly, but ends with almost no plot or character resolution whatsoever. Do the young scientist and the editor fall in love? Is the world taken over by hordes of Loch Ness monsters from the past? You'll never know (and, frankly, you really won't care).