Genre: Historical Fiction
Title: The Days of Peleg
Author: Jon Saboe
Take a spoonful of history, mix it gently with some science fiction, add three tablespoons of ideology, a believable hypothesis, a dash of religion and a very large imagination and you have Jon Saboe’s The Days of Peleg.
Difficult book to categorize because the author has taken a sci/fi plot but instead of placing it far in the future, it is set in Ancient Mesopotamia. Our protagonist, Peleg has been chosen by Reu-Nathor, High Minister of the Citadel to take part in a great expedition. Six ships will travel the world exploring new countries, new cultures and some very different belief systems.
Peleg is the Chief Cartographer on the ship, Urbat and will be gone for twelve years. He is a master of language and his linguistic skills are put to excellent use. He was given not one mission but two: Not only is he to explore and prepare maps of the new colonies but his secret mission is to discover: Why the human race is dying? In an age where most people live to be three, four or even five hundred years old, why now are they starting to degenerate and die at one hundred and fifty or younger?
Sometime in every man’s life, his beliefs and values are challenged but Peleg experiences more than a mere awakening. To say he finds himself is an understatement. He is shaken to his very core of reality, or reality as he knows it. He spends twelve years on a journey of strange colorful characters, foreign tongues, odd and almost unbelievable customs and monstrosities. When the journey is done will he return home or is his fate and the fate of his descendents changed forever?
Jon Saboe received his Masters Degree from Johns Hopkin’s University and currently lectures on Information Theory and Intelligent Design.
The Days of Peleg is an adventure, a voyage into self and a mind opening experience. The addition of the appendix helps with strange and unusual names and nouns. Well written with excellent research and vivid descriptions making this a highly recommended read.
Reviewer: Shirley Roe, Allbooks Review.
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