As such, Wyman Ford is the protagonist once again (having appeared in Tyrannosaur Canyon and Blasphemy), and the character of Stanton Lockwood III (who debuted in Blasphemy) also returns. The events in this novel follow those of The Codex, Tyrannosaur Canyon, and Blasphemy. The book was reviewed on All Things Considered in February 2010. The novel is the third book in the Wyman Ford series. Something has caused it to activate and fire a strangelet at Earth, setting off the events in the novel. Impact is a science fiction thriller novel by American writer Douglas Preston, published on Januby Forge Books. These threads intersect with discovery of an alien device that has apparently been on Deimos, one of the two moons of Mars, for at least 100 million years. Following a distinguished career at a private nursery school-he was almost immediately expelled-he attended public schools and the Cambridge School of Weston. A NASA scientist analyzing data from the Mars Mapping Orbiter (MMO) spots unusual spikes in gamma ray activity. Douglas Preston was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1956, and grew up in the deadly boring suburb of Wellesley. Impact ebook &mid A Wyman Ford Novel 3 Wyman Ford By Douglas Preston. A young woman on the other side of the world photographs a meteoroid's passage in the atmosphere with her telescope and deduces that it must have struck on one of the islands just offshore from Round Pond, Maine. Plot summary Įx- CIA agent Wyman Ford returns to Cambodia to investigate the source of radioactive gemstones and uncovers an unusual impact crater.

and two young women borrow a boat and set out for a distant island to find the impact crater. The Wyman Ford sequence of Technothrillers, by Preston alone, comprises Blasphemy ( 2008), a Near Future tale in which a new supercollider threatens either to suck the world into a Black Hole or (which may be something like the same thing) speak to God, and Impact ( 2010), in which evidence is found on a moon of Mars of Extraterrestrial activity focused on Earth.Impact is a science fiction thriller novel by American writer Douglas Preston, published on Januby Forge Books. A brilliant meteor lights up the Maine coast. In Douglas Prestons Impact, Wyman Ford is tapped for a secret expedition to Cambodia. (1956- ) US author most of whose novels of sf interest have been with Lincoln Child they are listed below for convenience, but for discussion see the entry for Child.

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