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Saucer | 
 enlarge | Author: Coonts Stephen
Publisher: Griffin / St. Martins Press
Category: Book
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Rating:  94 reviews
Sales Rank: 2235176
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 9
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 9.5
Dimensions (in): 32 x 12 x 9
ISBN: 0312289987
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780312289980
ASIN: 0312289987
Publication Date: March 2002
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Product Description
A relic from the past. A bridge to the future.
After 140,000 Years...
Seismic Surveyor Rip Cantrell has made an exhilarating discovery-a flying saucer embedded in the Sahara sandstone. Buried for eons, it's not the invention of modern man. Computer-equipped, it can't belong to ancient man. Rip's betting his life on the only alternative. If the ship's memory bank holds the proof he needs, it's going to rock civilization, and make Rip a very famous man.
Its Time Has Come.
Once the secret's out, Rip's outwitted by an enterprising billionaire set to steal the saucer's profitable technology-and outnumbered by the Libyan army looking to lay claim to history. But it's in a skeptical UFO investigation team that Rip finds an unlikely ally: test-pilot Charlotte Pine. Together, they come up with a plan to protect the saucer's secrets.
But Where In The World Is It Going?
Under a hail of bullets, in an exhaust of white fire, Rip and Charlotte are off. Accelerating on a fantastic journey across continents and oceans, they're about to experience the mystery of what once was, and explore the possibilities of what could be, on an adventure 140,000 years in the making.
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 Cartoonishly bad--but it was short! August 14, 2008
So good-naturedly, doggedly awful I can't savage it with a "Waste of Paper" one-star rating. Cartoonish at every level--plot, dialogue, characters, action.
But it was short! Most frightening is that this Coonts is apparently a best-selling author. In other words, he's done this before and people have bought it. With a straight face!
Contrast to The Egyptologist: A Novel by Arthur Phillips, another new fiction I just read that merited a "What a Classic" five-star rating. So there is really good writing going on out there today. Just not here.
 Cardboard. Publishing it was a crime. April 17, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I have never read a novel with thinner, more stereotypical characters. The pace is absurd, the romance utterly contrived, and many of the plot devices are painfully stupid. Imagine Flight of the Navigator without the charm, and with a smug, artificially perfect jerk swapped for the naive kid.
Avoid this author at all costs. I'm just lucky I borrowed this book from the library instead of paying good money for it.
Flat as a Saucer? Not quite . . . February 8, 2008
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
I once wrote a story entitled "Saucer." Perhaps that's why I read this novel. Coonts' adventure/sci-fi tale was fun and entertaining and the scientific verisimilitude convincing, as far as I could tell anyway. Finding the saucer embedded in a sandstone cliff certainly enlivened the story possibilities, but having the cocky 22-year-old kid who found it fall in love with it seemed a Walt Disney conceit. Were the builders of this marvelous craft from the cosmos or good old Mother Earth? Much of the dialogue was sappy and hackneyed and there may have been one too many "escapes in the nick of time," but what do you expect from this kind of novel? This is basically Clive Cussler material (He hit him hard as hell, that kind of thing). You either buy into it or you don't. I think it's worth a read. Now where's that old manuscript?...
 An old fashioned ripper of a sci fi! February 3, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Forbidden Archeology: The Full Unabridged Edition and
Chariots of the Gods and Sphere
all make this a main stream sci fi book.
There are two problems with the idea of 140 thousand year old space ships being the same as one in 1947:
1) evolution of species
2) culture death/ racial death of species.
But when reading E.E. Doc. Smith or other old space operas,
that kind of confusion with science
doesn't enter in?! Rat Bradbury or Edgar Rice Burroughs
never let science get in the way of the fiction.
Very cool concept January 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Stuck in a mound of sand the only real proof that we are not alone. My one problem is having to fill up on water so often... You travel across the galaxy and you need to fuel your vessel on water?
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