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Summary: Zombies, aliens, and a Dr. Zhivago-esque love story
Review: Things aren't looking good these days for the Democrats. If John Kerry gets desperate, he can plagiarize his next assault on President George W. Bush from A.K. Zander's apocalyptic The Number of Infinity. Unless the book depicts a Kerry presidency...
In Washington D.C. 2012 (two presidential campaigns away), the world is in turmoil, with freakish weather, environmental disasters, electricity cutbacks, nuked cities, food riots, food rationing, a thriving black market, lawlessness, impending war between Russia and China that makes North Korea look like a sissy nation, and of course the inevitable conspiracy by the government to make themselves look better at the expense of the people.
Mixed in with this Tom Clancy/Michael Moore/Noam Chomsky paranoia is a "Deep Impact"-esque story of an asteroid on collision course with Earth, a mysterious alien civilization, a "Night of the Living Dead" alien plague mad robot disease subplot, and a Russian femme not-so-fatale named Svetlana Kerenskia. Oh, I forgot, there's also a Doctor Zhivago-esque romance between Svetlana (Sveta for short) and Brad Henderson, your typical clueless but brilliant single guy. Brad and Sveta generate enough chemistry, awkward at first, to make the romance as engrossing as the science fiction thrills.
The key to Earth's salvation lies in DeBeers. Brad and Sveta stop the natural disasters by solving an ancient riddle with help from Sveta's engagement ring. There's a lesson here: technology and theories are great, but plain old love works every time.
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