![]() ![]() The Last Crucible is the third book in the Reclaimed Earth series. Here the town of Bosa has survived in ignorant bliss for hundreds of years, where you work to eat and eat to l The Last Crucible - J.D. Escaping, more by luck than judgement, was the Western Coast of Sardinia. In the year 2387, the Campi Flegrei volcanic region, which is nestled at the western edge of Naples, Italy, and stretches out into the Mediterranean Sea, erupted, wiping out most of the inhabitants of Europe and beyond. Moyer The Last Crucible is the third book in the Reclaimed Earth series. The blend of sci-fi and fantasy works well as does the tension and suspense. I don't know if there is more to come in this series but there is certainly room for it and I, for one, would welcome the chance to sit down with the next thrilling installment. It is to the author's great credit that he balances all the characters and storylines so that the reader remains enthralled and doesn't become entangled or bogged down. This is quite a complex story that can be read and enjoyed as a standalone or as part of the series. Her adversary is Maro, a megalomaniac politician from the Michelangelo worldship who has designs on using Jana's village to build his vision of a new Roman Empire, with him at its head. She is destined to be the next sorceress in her Sardinian village, perpetuating a long tradition by virtue of the Crucible - an ancient technology that carries with it a community of minds. At the heart of this story is Jana - one of those whose ancestors survived on Earth. The ultimate goal is to repopulate Earth, but not everyone has the same idea as to how that will be achieved and much of The Last Crucible is concerned with this struggle. Robot technology has also moved on apace - with some fascinating results. As time and technology have developed on this ship, so has the ability for humans to transport themselves into what they term Ancestral Realism. ![]() One of these - called Michelangelo - has been centred around preservation of the history and culture of the Earth. The year is now 2757 and the worldships that inhabit space contain descendants of those who were able to escape the devastation. As time and technology have developed on this ship, so has the a The Last Crucible is the third and latest in the Reclaimed Earth series which centres on a future where most human life on Earth has been destroyed by a cataclysmic volcano eruption in Italy. ![]() ![]() The Last Crucible is the third and latest in the Reclaimed Earth series which centres on a future where most human life on Earth has been destroyed by a cataclysmic volcano eruption in Italy. ![]()
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