http://books.simonandschuster.com/Day-by-Day-Armageddon-Shattered-Hourglass/J-L-Bourne/9781451628845

The next DbD ZOMBIE book will be out this year. If you have read the other two, you know where this is going. I am not sure if this is still supposed to be a trilogy, but it will be out by end of the year.

CANNOT WAIT!

ABOUT TIME.

Loved the first book, and then I got to the end of the second...WTF?

quote:

---

then I got to the end of the second...WTF?

---

Agree. I am kinda giving it the benefit of the doubt since I have stuck with those first two books.

So can we discuss the end of the 2nd book on here cuz we are talking about the 3rd book?

if no do not read below this......









I warned you......







Did we confirm that the body found was an alien or was it a experimental ship by the Chinese trying to cover something up?





Ok done

OK SPOILER



So what exactly is Remote 6. Since it seemed that every plane it sent out was unmanned, I tend to think that it's some Skynet-style AI that was set up by the military in case the regular government was taken out in some war. But it simply could be a rival quasi-government that wants to take out what's left of the government on the aircraft carrier.

**** YEAH!!!!!!!!1

That is a horrible release date.

I think the author had a great premise in the first book, but then tried too hard to come up with a hook to try to differentiate it from other books/movies in the genre.

The second book was like a bad B-movie. Now you have zombies, aliens, and what appears to be the either Skynet or the Illuminati working behind the scenes with an unknown agenda.

I can't image shatting an hourglass

anyone read this yet? Waiting to see what you guys think

It's up next in my queue.

Just finished it last night. Kinda of disappointed. Really different from the first two books. Not in the 1st person journal style of the others. The ending was poorly executed. As I was getting to the end of the book, I was anticipating a fourth. Then all of a sudden in the last 20 pages they get to China and he wraps up four or five different story lines and the entire series WAY too fast. And even then, the ending is confusing. Disappointing ending to what was a great series of books.

I liked the first two, but this was a pretty terrible addition to the series. No 1st person, and just a ridiculously rushed/unsatisfying ending.

So what the hell was CHANG? Time traveler or ET? They said he was human but more evolved. And that the virus had been around for thousands of years but people weren't evolved enough, so it went dorment. But after that they then specifically mention extraterrestrials when talking about the US specimens. And what the hell is quantum? AI?
The more I think about this the more dissatisfied I am.

I don't ever really venture to this board so I didn't know others on here were reading this. I finished Shattered Hourglass a few weeks ago. I was somewhat disappointed too. It was not as good as the first two. And I agree that the ending felt very rushed. It felt like someone telling a long, very-detailed and elaborate story culminating to a climactic moment, and then just saying "and then this happened and that happened and they all lived happily ever after the end".

I don't really understand the CHANG thing either.

The fact that his suit said "Major Chang" says to me that this person was originally in the military and was infected somehow. I don't really understand the space suit and the futuristic spacecraft, though. I kind of interpreted it as the Chinese propagating that Chang was an alien but in the end it was a lie. But that doesn't explain the spacecraft, or where this thing came from.

Ugh, this just frustrates me because he did a horrible job explaining it. If it's the last book, you better explain it better than that. Such a rushed, bullcrap ending.

Oh, and Quantum is just a very advanced AI. That's all.

Was Bourne planning on a forth book, but decided to, or was forced to, wrap up the series in this one? The whole book reads like a build up to another one, except at the very end where everything is just done. What was the point of introducing Quantum? Why only mention it twice and have no bearing on the story? What was the military looking for in the arctic? (I guess it could have been signs of the virus in the past, but even that is pointless) And there is the whole mess of what CHANG really is.

ugg, what a crap ending.

Quantum was a shadow government that was run by the man nicknamed "God" and they used an advanced AI to make decisions about what policy to make for the country/world. Unfortunately, the Chinese hacked and infected the AI and it started giving out bad courses of action to follow. That led to nuking the major US cities even thoug it made no sense and strengthened the swarms.

I'm not 100% on Chang but the implication seemed to be that a past Atlantian civilization left Earth and evolved further. Some kind of war broke out and Chang was carrying a bio weapon that turned enemy soldiers into friendlies by controlling portions of the brain but he happened to conveniently get shot down over Earth. Since human biology was slightly different from the Atlantians, the virus just turned human corpses into mindless drones.

I enjoyed the first book but the second two are major reaches. Appreciate the author writing books while in the Navy but it would have been worth the time to not create such a disjointed backstory and ending.

quote:

---

Unfortunately, the Chinese hacked and infected the AI

---

Where does it say that?

quote:

---

Quantum was a shadow government that was run by the man nicknamed "God" and they used an advanced AI to make decisions about what policy to make for the country/world. Unfortunately, the Chinese hacked and infected the AI and it started giving out bad courses of action to follow. That led to nuking the major US cities even thoug it made no sense and strengthened the swarms.

I'm not 100% on Chang but the implication seemed to be that a past Atlantian civilization left Earth and evolved further. Some kind of war broke out and Chang was carrying a bio weapon that turned enemy soldiers into friendlies by controlling portions of the brain but he happened to conveniently get shot down over Earth. Since human biology was slightly different from the Atlantians, the virus just turned human corpses into mindless drones.

---

Did you make all this up? Remote 6 was run by "God". Quantum was some sort of AI. Chinese hacking and their involvement of using nukes on the US where never mentioned in the book. Atlantis? Turning enemies into friends???

I may very well be crazy and will have to look for passages to cite my previous post.

I am 95% confident that "God" is mentioned several times as the man running Remote 6. There is a specific paragraph that mentions he doesn't need a name because how he controls the world. He also clearly gets frustrated with Killjoy when he doesn't launch the nuke from the silo. That's why the giant noisemaker was dropped.

The quantum computing AI (note, I am not talking about the drones/C130s/Remote 6 assets; they are just remote controlled) is a very important part of Remote 6 but it is still only a prediction machine that allows "God" to control the US government.

Also, I'm again 95% certain the author makes an obvious hint at a successful hacking or computer virus infection of the decision making AI that makes it start behaving erratically. However, "God" trusts it so much that he doesn't question retarded suggestions like nuking US cities.

Admittedly, the Atlantian/ancient-civilization-leaving-earth-and-returning-theory is my most far fetched about this book. There is never a really good explanation of Chang other than he is a human further down the evolutionary tree than us and whatever bio-weapon he was carrying infected the more advanced humans differently than Earth-humans. It is pretty clearly stated that his spaceship was damaged in some kind of skirmish and crash landed.

[This message has been edited by bedofbrass33 (edited 2/26/2013 9:38p).]

^
|
|
|

Wow that sounds utterly terrible. I retract my previous statement about reading this schlock.