Novel
Discipline
- by Paco Ahlgren
- (Greenleaf Book Group, July 2007)
Ahlgren melds the multiverse, quantum mechanics, the mysticism of the East, horror worthy of Stephen King, a little “these aren’t the droids you’re looking for,” and the violence of addition into a skillfully woven story of young Douglas Cole: his dog dies, he loses his family and moves to Texas, his friend kills himself, and his girlfriend leaves him (though, admittedly, the dog came back to life), all before reaching a time-travel-infused turning point.
Many small things were just that little bit off for me, such as the initial introduction of the uncertainty principle.
Many small things were just that little bit off for me, such as the initial introduction of the uncertainty principle.
Unfortunately, while I was becoming more adept at making the business decisions that repeatedly benefited my shareholders, I had also been informed by my mentors and closest friends that the proliferating global acts of terrorism—along with the economic catastrophe which had ended only a few years earlier—had been engineered by a power-hungry madman whose sole objective was to become a diety, thereby ruling the entirety of space and time.
