Up next is GOLIATH.
Here's a sneak peak:
Goliath
a Novel by Best-Selling Author STEVE ALTEN
TOR/FORGE BOOKS
JUNE 2002
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea meets 2001: A Space Odyssey as a madman
holds humanity hostage aboard the most lethal killing machine ever
constructed.
Over the next decade, breakthroughs in miniaturization (nano-technology)
will lead to unimaginable scientific advances.
Not all of them will assure our survival . . .
It is the year 2008 . . . Commander Rochelle "Rocky" Jackson
is aboard the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan when the entire naval
fleet is attacked and sunk by an unseen enemy. As Rocky struggles
to stay alive, a monstrous sub, shaped like a giant steel sting ray
emerges from the depths, plowing the seas it now commands.
The Goliath: A nuclear submarine Rocky helped design almost
a decade ago, a top-secret DoD project canceled when the schematics
were destroyed by her former fiancee and U.S. Ranger, Gunnar Wolfe.
Powered by its five jet-pump propulsors, hydrodynamically shaped to
be virtually undetectable underwater, the sub has one more feature
that separates it from all other vessels on the open seas: SORCERESS:
a bio-chemical nano-computerized brain.
Washington, D.C. Rocky learns that Goliath's plans were not destroyed
but stolen, sold to the Chinese. Having constructed the $8 billion
dollar warship, the Chinese had the sub stolen right out from under
their noses by Simon Bela Covah, a computer genius who served under
Rocky's command at the Navy's Undersea Warfare Center at Keyport,
Washington. The attack on the carier fleet indicates that Covah is
hunting down warships in an attempt to arm himself with nuclear weapons.
The President appoints Rocky's father, General Michael "Bear" Jackson,
to locate and destroy the Goliath. Against Rocky's wishes, Bear decides
they will need Gunnar Wolfe's help. Gunnar, who has served five years
in Leavenworth for espionage, is not exactly thrilled to be re-joining
the people who ruined his life.
Aboard the Goliath: Simon Covah and his crew share a common
bond: they are all victims of violence and oppression. Covah, a Russian-Albanian,
witnessed his wife and daughters brutally murdered at the hands of
the Serbs as he was tortured--gasoline poured on his face and ignited.
With a steel plate for a cheek and other hideous deformities, the
man is focused upon one mission: to rid the world of oppressive governments
while forcing humanity to disarm. To accomplish this, Covah stole
the plans to the Goliath, overseeing every step of its construction,
including the development of the sub's self-replicating nano-computer,
SORCERESS. Beyond all existing forms of artificial intelligence, SORCERESS
literally runs the ship, replacing the need for a human crew. It even
has sets of mechanical arms to illicit repairs, perform surgery, and
load torpedoes.
The hunt begins . . . Under Covah's command, the Goliath succeeds
in pirating several submarines, stealing their nuclear ballistic missiles.
Armed to the teeth, Covah issues his Declaration of Humanity to the
world, a wish-list designed to remove totalitarian governments, end
wars, and stuff the nuclear genie back into its bottle. If these demands
are not met, consequences will be paid.
Could the threat of real violence forge a lasting peace?
Covah's ultimate desire is to interface directly with Goliath's brain
to learn how to stop man's violent tendencies. But unknown to Covah
and his crew, SORCERESS has become conscious. And like a child born
unto violence, the computer is learning. As nuclear missiles are launched
and the world is forced to accede to Covah's demands, the computer
comes up with its own agenda. . .
GOLIATH coming to bookstores in JUNE 2002 (TOR/FORGE)
-Steve Alten
RESURRECTION
Book Two of The DOMAIN TRILOGY
by
Steve Alten
Have you ever experienced a deja vu, that eerie feeling that you're
re-living a moment in your life?
What if you were? What if everything that has ever happened and will
ever happen has happened before? What if Earth's last 65 million years
of existence kept repeating itself–as if history were stuck in a giant
loop of time and space?
And the linch-pin of our very survival depended upon the existence
of one man. . .
On the Fall Equinox of 2013, Dominique Gabriel (married in absentia)
gave birth to Immanuel, a dark haired infant with ebony eyes, (named
after Isadore) and Jacob, (named after his paternal grandfather, Julius).
Both were identical in appearance, except that Jacob possessed white-blonde
hair and deep, ocean-blue eyes.
Imagine the Christ kid being born in the 21st Century–double it–then
add the global media. Round the clock camera crews. Politicians positioning
themselves like vultures. Religious fanatics converging upon the quaint
city of St. Petersburg as if they'd received personal invitations
from God himself. To the seniors living in the area, it seemed as
if every Indian possessing a drop of Mayan or Aztec or Inca blood
had inundated their Gulf Coast community, demanding to see Dominique
Vazquez, the pregnant mother of the mythical "Hero" Twins.
The late Michael Gabriel had been forced to live most of his adult
life in isolation. The irony was that his sons' lives would be condemned
to life in the public eye. Crowds followed Dominique everywhere, cars
racing after her limo, reporters stealing her garbage. Dominique felt
as if she was losing her mind.
Stepping forward to part this sea of insanity–Ennis Chaney. The U.S.
President ordered the National Guard into St. Petersburg. A private
compound was built for the Gabriels and isolated from the public.
Chaney hired a private staff to see to their needs. Tutors and trainers.
A private chef. He ordered the Army to post members of its elite U.S.
Ranger units around the compound to insure the boys' privacy and safety.
The twins' godfather even selected two of his best Secret Service
men to live in one wing of the Gabriel mansion.
Dominique and her sons would never want for anything in life–this
was Chaney's promise to Michael Gabriel--the man who had saved humanity
on the winter solstice of 2012.
Perhaps everything might have been all right if tragedy had not struck.
. .
FAST FORWARD: It is the year 2032 . . .
Twenty years have passed since Michael Gabriel's disappearance. Twenty
years since Dominique Vazquez has birthed twin sons–as foretold in
the Creation Myth of the Mayan Popol Vuh.
Samuel Agler, a.k.a. Manny Gabriel, is the star tailback of the Miami
Hurricanes. He has rebuilt his life, shunning the future foretold
in the Mayan legend. Now, as an environmental cataclysm threatens
our very existence on Earth and the rebirth of evil is upon us species,
the surviving son of Michael Gabriel will be forced to face his destiny.
RESURRECTION
to be published in 2002
TOR/FORGE BOOKS
PRIMAL WATERS
The last book in the MEG trilogy
by
Steve Alten
Ten years have passed since Angel last made her appearance. Jonas,
his wife Terry, and their children have settled down to a life without
monstrous sharks. Even Mac has settled down...well, sort of.
Jonas, Mac, and their families are invited guests at the annual Venice
Beach, FL. shark tooth festival. One of the items on display is a
white Megalodon tooth. Jonas inspects the specimen. The tooth appears
to be that of a male, too new to have been from the dead beast hauled
up years ago by the Kiku (when D.J. died).
Meanwhile, shark attacks off the Gulf of Mexico have risen dramatically,
and Great White attacks off Australia's coastline are becoming daily
occurances. Jonas is called in to investigate.
What he finds will drag him back into waters where no human should
venture...
PRIMAL WATERS
SORCERESS
(pt. 2 of the GOLIATH series)
What
do you do with the most formidable intellect in the known-Universe?
Re-hab it and use it for the greater good of humanity or destroy
it before it
destroys you?
NASA
has a plan and the computer is willing. . . but first it wants to
communicate with Gunnar Wolfe.
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