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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780765311054
Edition: 1st
ISBN: 0765311054
Label: Forge Books
Manufacturer: Forge Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 416
Publication Date: January 08, 2008
Publisher: Forge Books
Release Date: January 08, 2008
Studio: Forge Books


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The world's biggest supercollider, locked in an Arizona mountain, was built to reveal the secrets of the very moment of creation: the Big Bang itself.
The Torus is the most expensive machine ever created by humankind, run by the world’s most powerful supercomputer. It is the brainchild of Nobel Laureate William North Hazelius. Will the Torus divulge the mysteries of the creation of the universe? Or will it, as some predict, suck the earth into a mini black hole? Or is the Torus a Satanic attempt, as a powerful televangelist decries, to challenge God Almighty on the very throne of Heaven?
Twelve scientists under the leadership of Hazelius are sent to the remote mountain to turn it on, and what they discover must be hidden from the world at all costs. Wyman Ford, ex-monk and CIA operative, is tapped to wrest their secret, a secret that will either destroy the world…or save it.
The countdown begins…


Customer Reviews
Average Rating:  out of 5 stars

Rating:  out of 5 stars - Religion vs Science
This is a decent book with some unsettling thoughts about life, humans and the relationship of science and religion. As I read the book it dawned on me that this could be a fictionalized account supporting a version of Stuart Kauffman's Reinventing the Sacred. Dr Kauffman, an researcher of emergent properties, attempts to bring together the separate belief systems of science and revealed religion in general in his book, although he is partial to the science side throughout.

The imagines ... Read More



Rating:  out of 5 stars - If a book ever deserved 5 stars its this one!
Seriously I recommend you do whatever you can to get a hold of specifically the AUDIO BOOK version. The narrator was fantastic in the varous voices he created ranging from Navaho Indians, to a southern televangelist and even a Borne Agan Biker. His voice for Gregory North Hezalious was particularly memorable though he sounded a lot like Sandi Griffin from Daria LOL. Truly though it was great book to listen too...the climax made feel like I was watching rather than listening to a very exciting movie. The ... Read More



Rating:  out of 5 stars - Truly horrible
Truly horrible--although I am a huge fan of the authors, and think they have written some top-notch thrillers (Riptide and The Ice Limit are classics), this book is truly horrible. I deplore hypocrisy, but why Douglas Preston had to decide that Religion is Evil and for losers is beyond me. Plodding... and the author's typical twist at the end makes you doubly-regret reading this book. My wife has devoured every one of their books, and after reading this I told her "don't bother"... that is what I tell you. ... Read More



Rating:  out of 5 stars - `It seems that both of our creator stories have origin problems'
The world's most powerful particle accelerator, Isabella, buried deep in an Arizona mountain is the most expensive machine ever built. The purpose of the machine is to explore what happened at the moment of creation, but there is a fear that it may suck the earth into a miniature black hole.

Against a backdrop of rising concern about the money spent, the team of 12 scientists led by Gregory North Hazelius is under increasing pressure to demonstrate the value of the project. In addition there ... Read More



Rating:  out of 5 stars - An uninformed, arrogant cliche
The first half of Blasphemy had me hooked. The latter half would have been outright boring if it wasn't so inflammatory and offensive. Preston takes a thrilling, creative idea and ruins it with characters who are absurdly, offensively stereotypical idiots. Preston's portrayal of the hypocritical televangelist is as tired as discarded socks.

This could have been a good book if Preston had studied the evangelical people he lampoons so viscously, and had portrayed his extremists as just that--a radical ... Read More


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