Selection Event eBook Wayne Wightman
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In an isolation experiment, Martin Lake had been below-ground for fourteen months and two weeks. He came up on May 30, Wednesday, 1135 AM. He discovered that civilization had folded its arms across its breast, closed its eyes, and ceased.
When natural selection wipes the slate, there are always a few survivors. Unfortunately, nature does not select for beauty or intelligence.
Selection Event follows in the tradition of Earth Abides and The Road. In the aftermath of the catastrophe, this is what happens next. People open zoos, sabotage dams, and in a final nihilistic fling, several countries have a small nuclear exchange of greetings.
It is into this that Martin Lake must go and make his way.
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Selection Event eBook Wayne Wightman
This is an enjoyable interpretation of the post apocalyptic genre. The protagonist is likable and the story proceeds at a good clip without getting too predictable.Warning to religious readers: The writes is obviously non religious, or at least non Christian. Most of the religious Characters are not Christians either, rather some kind of god believers but mostly self centered, power hungry types using god as a metaphor for imposing their own morals. The only openly Christian character is a woman that in our world we would consider "Born Again" and in the book she comes across as fairly obtuse, judgmental and bigoted.
Amazingly, even without a worldwide pandemic a lot of Christians are like that today. I would think that once a good portion of humanity is gone, most people would become either more entrenched in their beliefs or start doubting their religion. So while this woman is despicable in the book for her actions, she is perfectly believable.
If your complaint is the lack of positive christian characters, I guess they all died or they were living elsewhere. Some of the survivors in the book must have been Christians before the pandemic, even if just statistically speaking, but being good people they either did not make a big deal out of it or figured that proselytizing or discriminating in a deserted world was not a priority. I would not blame them.
For other people such an event would be a great chance to start their own cult without much competition, and in fact we have at least one example of that. As far as I remember, that cult was not defined as Christian either.
Bottom line, for those readers that have to have a positive Christian character in any story where there is a negative one, this book may not be for you. If you are reading this on a computer, you have all the tools needed to write your own story and publish it. There are a lot of publishing houses that deal in that genre. Good luck.
For those that like a good book, you could do a lot worse than reading "Selection Event"
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Selection Event eBook Wayne Wightman Reviews
The book started with so much promise, i loved the first few chapters but as the story developed so did the political and religious views of the author.
What a drag it was, he just interupts the flow of the story with some childish attack on religion or political bias, i could care less about either but if a book has either let it develop properly into the plot with a informed and educated judgement,some great post apocalyptic classics such as "Swan Song" or "Lucifers hammer" handled it perfectly by entwining religion and good vs bad aspects, this Selection event just annoyed me so much i was jumping chapters and then of course the diaspointment sets in!
Well i truly beleive this story could have made 4 or 5 stars but i reakon the authors own self serving opinions pretty well killed the story, its like the book "Patriots"(written by some nutjob called james wesley rawles) but in a reverse aspect!
I do love the dog and cat in the story so they get a star!!
The basic story is how the main character started out being one kind of person but situations and circumstance turned him into somebody he didn't expect, or necessarily want, to become. Perhaps the intended parallel is that the religious folks (bad guys) became something they never expected to be, either, which was fanatical, blood drinking, manipulative freaks. Or, perhaps the writer just has a really really really big bone to pick with those of faith. I can't say I was particularly offended as much as I was curious to why, with so many opportunities for high drama in a post apocalyptic world (disease, famine, infection, zoo animals set free), the author focused on religion.
There was nothing spectacular about the story itself. For the setting, it lacked tension. Often I wondered where it was going, if anywhere, then something kinda big would happen, and I'd keep reading. All the zoos had been opened up, so there were cheetahs, wolves, hippos everywhere, which could have added great tension, but nothing happened with that. My favorite character, the motorcycle friend, should really have fared better, so I was a bit disgusted with how that went.
If you like end of the world stories, go for it. The price is right.
Selection Event is an interesting look at the aftermath of a virus that decimates the human race. There are no zombies or monsters, just a highly contagious disease that spares very few humans, and even fewer of the survivors are stable or trustworthy. When our protagonist Martin emerges from a year-long isolation study, he finds everyone he knew long gone, with only his half-starved family pet remaining to connect him to this new world. Predictably, among the few survivors are dangerous, power, drug or religion crazed people intent on controlling or harming Martin as he struggles to rebuild a life worth living. There are moments of very good writing in this story, as well as moments sad and sobering, describing what is lost, what remains, and how trivial our current daily lives compare to this new world without humanity. I found this a compelling read, and only in retrospect, after reading other reviews, did I realize that most, if not all of the major bad guys are religious fanatics. However, I don't think this novel is a statement against religion as much as it is a statement against corrupt power, manipulation and greed. I found the survival scenarios facing the characters to be well thought out and believable, such as the realities of long term fuel and food viability, and the struggle to grow crops and hunt food. I found Martin to be a sympathetic and honorable man who is forced to adapt and evolve to protect the new family and community he struggles to build, and enjoyed the cast of interesting characters he collected on his journey, especially Diaz.
This is an enjoyable interpretation of the post apocalyptic genre. The protagonist is likable and the story proceeds at a good clip without getting too predictable.
Warning to religious readers The writes is obviously non religious, or at least non Christian. Most of the religious Characters are not Christians either, rather some kind of god believers but mostly self centered, power hungry types using god as a metaphor for imposing their own morals. The only openly Christian character is a woman that in our world we would consider "Born Again" and in the book she comes across as fairly obtuse, judgmental and bigoted.
Amazingly, even without a worldwide pandemic a lot of Christians are like that today. I would think that once a good portion of humanity is gone, most people would become either more entrenched in their beliefs or start doubting their religion. So while this woman is despicable in the book for her actions, she is perfectly believable.
If your complaint is the lack of positive christian characters, I guess they all died or they were living elsewhere. Some of the survivors in the book must have been Christians before the pandemic, even if just statistically speaking, but being good people they either did not make a big deal out of it or figured that proselytizing or discriminating in a deserted world was not a priority. I would not blame them.
For other people such an event would be a great chance to start their own cult without much competition, and in fact we have at least one example of that. As far as I remember, that cult was not defined as Christian either.
Bottom line, for those readers that have to have a positive Christian character in any story where there is a negative one, this book may not be for you. If you are reading this on a computer, you have all the tools needed to write your own story and publish it. There are a lot of publishing houses that deal in that genre. Good luck.
For those that like a good book, you could do a lot worse than reading "Selection Event"
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