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Title: Earthcore
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Author: Scott Sigler
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Comments for Earthcore

• Posted on 2009-09-22
  SciFi/Horror: Yes, Happily Ever After: Not So Much
  
  If you are looking for a good sci-fi or horror novel you will most likely enjoy Earthcore. Some of the humans Scott Sigler rights are more frightening than the monsters you can conjure in your mind. The story starts out simple enough, an old prospector hears about a place rich in silver but where no one will mine. What's a guy to do? Check it out of course. Enter a crooked business associate, greedy big business types, a biologist, an archaeologist and one mean ex-NSA agent and you have Earthcore. Let's just say there was more to that mountain than superstition, the stories about that place weren't just fairy tales, especially the ones about those that died. The employees of the Earthcore Corporation probably wished their bosses were less concerned about finances and more concerned about their lives.
  
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• Posted on 2009-07-11
  Another Great Sigler Novel
  
  Anything this man writes simply turns to gold. I have listened to or read everything he has published that's novel length and he is amazing at crafting a story. Earthcore while not my favorite of his, is still a great book. Scott's only problem, is outdoing himself because he sets the bar so high. I am a huge Stephen King and Dean Koontz fan, but they have serious competition as Scott is going to own this genre!
  
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• Posted on 2009-06-28
  Can't Read German
  
  The book was beautiful and it got here in the alloted time. However, it was in German. I overlooked that point because nowhere does it mention German until you look way down on the page in the discription part. As I knew what the book was about, I didn't need to look at the discription. My mistake. Now I have to pay to have it shipped back to the U.K. I tried to e-mail the shop where it came from but they don't take e-mails or phone calls, only orders. Needless to say, I was not happy with my purchase. They need to say in the bold print at the top of the page that it's in a different language not burried in the bottem part of the discription.
  
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• Posted on 2009-05-25
  earthcore
  
  I bought this for my husband who loves detailed books with believable creatures his favorite being Jurassic Park. He has started reading it on line and really wanted it. He is very pleased with it and says it is exactly what he was looking for.
  
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• Posted on 2009-01-29
  Decent Scifi, with a few hangups
  
  One thing you have to give this book - it's impossible to let go of. I couldn't help but enjoy it, even despite the growing critiques I had.
  
  But it needs to be said: there are some major flaws with the story. To avoid spoilers, I'm going to explain them via a silly analogy:
  
  "This story takes place in a world exactly like ours. Except that, periodically, big scaly fishmen dressed in bands of solid gold sort of... wash up on the beaches after stormy weather. This minor point is sort of briefly mentioned in passing... in chapter seven... this has apparently been going on all over the world since ancient times, and noone has really made much of it, or cared to make any of the painfully obvious inferences that any sane person would make. Ok! Back to the story!"
  
  There are no fishmen in Earthcore, I'm using a silly analogy here. But those who've read the book (and have an archaeology IQ above room temperature...) know what I'm talking about. To be fair, the story is excellent, and only a few such fishman-moments occur. But when they do, the reality-disconnect really does glare... and from the middle of a pretty decent attempt at realistic scifi.
  
  That said, if you're not easily bothered by that kind of reality disconnect, it's a heck of a read, with some interesting science. Recommended.
  
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