Literalist biblical evangelism | Ice

Could not put it down! | Ice | Shane Johnson

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	• Ice Shane Johnson WaterBrook Press, 2002 - 416 pages average customer review:based on 25 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

There is no fence........

Great alternative history book. The book is a strange brew of Christian beliefs and Science Fiction. It shows some insight into the Apollo moon missions.

Literalist biblical evangelism

I found it difficult to give a numerical score to this novel. As hard science fiction I found the Apollo-related story outstanding. Woven throughout the story, however, was a Christian theological plot that to me became stronger and increasingly heavy-handed until the end of the novel. This isn't necessarily a bad thing but it is not for me. Towards the end I almost felt as though a televangelist was standing in my house pushing upon me a literalist view of the bible that I do not subscribe to. If you do not mind a sermon incorporated into every part of your life, and you like good science fiction, you will enjoy this book. Otherwise, you may find it difficult to suspend your disbelief, particularly in the last chapters.
I am not saying that this is a bad book but it is not for everyone.

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Could not put it down!

This is one of the best books I have ever read. Have all of Shane Johnson's books now. Superb!

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Christian hard-core SF - not!

"Ice" begins with all the trappings of a first-rate contemporary "hard core" science fiction novel. The technical details, skilfully woven through a nail-biting plot make it a page turner, apparently of the stature of a Michael Crichton book. Alas, it meanders off into lengthy passages of religious introspection, and plot-breaks based on snap-of-the-fingers magic. The basic story idea is an intriging one, and for that the author is to be congratulated. Unfortunately, his personal religious passion overrides his duty to entertain his reader rather than preach at him/her. Sadly the last pages collapse the story entirely - the reader ploughs through the Afterword just to see if there is anything else there, but there is not. If the reader shares the author's uncompromising approach to Christian faith it might work, but the classic Apollo novel has yet to be written.

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Another great What If Novel

I love these novels that consider the "What If." And I am also fond of those authors that will take a chance on including Christian doctrine in them such as D. Shane Burton and Douglas Hirt. I would not even be offended if a Hindu or Islamic author wrote Sci-Fi and included their doctrine. They show lots of guts. The novel was an enjoyable read and kept me interested from the go.

In the late 1960s, NASA proposed hardware and mission parameters for an extended Apollo program that never materialized. Decades later, the existence of ice beds at the lunar south pole was discovered by NASA?s space probe Clementine and confirmed by the lunar satellite Lunar Prospector. Now, author and Apollo missions historian Shane Johnson explores the fantastic possibilities of what might have transpired, had the more ambitious version of the Apollo program gone forward as originally planned.

It is February, 1975. Apollo 19, the last of the manned lunar missions, has successfully landed. Exhilarated and confident, Commander Gary Lucas and Lunar Module pilot Charlie Shepherd set out to explore a vast, mysterious depression at the lunar south pole.

There, in the icy darkness?where temperatures reach 334 degrees below zero?the astronauts search for the fragments of crystalline bedrock the scientists back home had hoped for. But when tragedy strikes, the men are driven deeper into the lethal realm, where they find much more than they bargained for, including a strange machine that seemingly transports Lucas back to a pre-flood Earth, and startling evidence that could transform mankind?s perspective on all creation and its Creator? if only the men could miraculously make their way back home to earth to reveal it.

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