Abduction
Robin Cook
2000
PanMacmillan
pp. 400
Robin Cook
2000
PanMacmillan
pp. 400
Abduction is a fictional account of the abduction of five undersea explorers into an alternate world that exists inside earth. The interterrains, as they call themselves, are far more ancient and simultaneously far more advanced that the humans inhabiting surface earth. In terms of the narrative, the first fifty pages are slow and you keep waiting for the story to move ahead. The next three hundred pages would race ahead. The ending is likely to take you by a surprise.
In terms of Cook’s writing, I was really surprised to read this one. I have always associated Cook with medical fiction and thus I spent quite some time for it to turn into one. Turned out it is not medical fiction and coming from him, it did leave me surprised. I am back on track with wanting to read all his books. Having said that, I do wish his books were a bit shorter. I sometimes feel like skipping paragraphs. I also missed his epilogue that I have seen him write in his other books. I am not reading his books in the correct order and am not able to comment on how his writing style has evolved.
I do recommend reading this book to everyone who is a science fiction fan. Although the plot is not entirely new, you will still wonder about humanity at large, what we have become and what we have made our world out to be.