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Rip-roaring sci-fi adventure with a serious social conscience
by Cole Bellamy

The author’s self-described ‘metaphysical autobiography’ may just be the next big step in the arms race between fantasy and reality. This book has a strong sense of the fantastical while keeping an eye on the the impact that literature can potentially have on the real world. Filled with scenes of both the beauty and terror, Apocalypse Near is a novel that refuses to exist in a vacuum, it is unashamedly didactic, a book that has a clear and important message yet doesn’t skimp on solid, pulpy, action or original imagery. While the writing is slightly clunky at times, it hardly takes away from the overall experience of the book. I highly recommend it to fans of the social/political pulp sci-fi of the 60′s and the 70′s, authors like Philip K. Dick, Frank Herbert, Keith Laumer and E.E. Doc Smith.

A Multigenre Multimedia Masterpiece!, April 26, 2010

Apocalypse Near: A Metaphysical ODDyssey is truly a work ahead of its time, pioneering the genre of the hyper-real. (According to the author, “Hyper-reality is to reality what metaphysics is to physics.”) In this ultra personal memoir, author and protagonist “E” reveals to the reader that knowledge is the ultimate defence against the imminent annihilation humankind brings on itself– and fear, the ultimate enemy.

The story, unfolding from a first-person vantage point, begins with his looming death sentence under a freeway overpass and continues through rescue, recovery, and REVELution. Upon waking up following intensive emergency brain surgery, the protagonist finds himself with no memory of his former life, and the terrifying revelation of earth’s pending expiration date. This is his quest to simultaneously unravel the mystery of his identity and to reveal to the ignorant unknowing masses their own self-demise– and what might be done to stop it. In the midst of this significant task, he finds himself fighting a new enemy of his own making. In a story at some times comical and others terrifying, the dualistic settings are first described in terms of the physical “seen” and then what lies beyond sensory perception, relentlessly drawing the audience in and converting him from reader to spectator in this divine comedy. Read the rest of this entry →

[SAN FRANCISCO] “Apocalypse Near“, a first novel by screenwriter Eric Haase won first place at The Green Book Festival in the electronic / interactive book category. The book combines the true account of Haase’s clinical death experience with cyberpunk science fiction elements & interactive media (animation, film clips & dynamic web pages). The author created the online media to intensify the book’s message about environmental predicaments, why they may be occurring & what he learned while clinically dead that could help avert further catastrophe. Read the rest of this entry →