Thought provoking, mind expanding, unique. Demands a sequel. Extraordinary stuff.

Tertiary

Review by Nectarios Xrissos from UNIVERSE PATHWAYS magazine http://www.innerzed.com/sites/kosmic

Okay. I admit that buying an e-book always sounded like a mediocre idea to me. The reasons: 1) I simply am in love with the printed form and 2) I considered it impossible for good stories to be published like this.
However.
Tertiary, Matryoshka and some other e-books I “had” to read and review, made me change my mind.
Tertiary is an amazing story that comes from an artist whose works most of us have seen in movies. You see, John Coppinger, the author, works as a sculptor and designer for movies and museums. It is he who designed Jabba the Hutt for Star Wars as well as Diva for the Fifth Element. This is his first novel.
This is the story as the author summarizes it:
A tale of two civilizations and a third way. Three palaeontologists find evidence for a Dinosauran civilization and uncover messages and artefacts from 65 million years ago. When they find viable dinosauran eggs they run from military agencies, to save our past and future, and the hunt begins.
339 pages full of suspense, managed to hook me for three nights in a row; not only was the story tight, not only was it well-paced, but, in the end, it ended believable as a possible past! That was the question I remained with, when I was done with Tertiary: What if all this has actually happened in the not-so-distant past of the planet?
For 4 $ (.pdf version), every fan of alternative history can - and should - read e-books like Tertiary.
Order it from Lulu (), Amazon and elsewhere. You can also visit the writer’s page (www.johncoppinger.com) and read Tertiary’s first chapter for free!