Cosmos Incorporated

Rating NR Genre sci-fi Author Maurice G. Dantec Publisher Random House

Once in a while I am really in the mood to read a science fiction book.  I usually tend to pick “soft core” science fiction books.  Cosmos Incorporated was definitely a little too hard core for my liking.  Maurice G. Dantec had a good idea, but it does not appeal to all audiences.

Cosmos Incorporated focuses on a futuristic world where everything is controlled by machines.  After much world destruction, famine, and chaos this was the best option for controlling everything.  Sergei Diego Plotkin is a seemingly regular insurance specialist from Russia.  However, Plotkin is really part of an assassin-like group and is planning to kill a politician.  This politician is actually Mayor Blackburn of Grand Junction.  He is one of the only politicians on the earth that is keeping the remains of the 21st century in tact.

The general outline of this book is actually pretty interesting.  However, there is way too much side action going on to make this book coherent.  Maybe I am wrong.  Maybe this book is extremely well-written.  This book could have very well been wasted on me since I am not your typical science fiction buff.

For instance, one of the parts that bothered me was the very beginning.  Dantec started off with a story about this red light that governs everything.  That may not have been what he was trying to communicate but that was the only thing I got out of the first chapter.  By this point I wanted to throw the book away.  I did not understand the plot already.  

This book may have been reviewed unfairly by me because I am not a science fiction lover - just a little to heady for my liking.  However, if you are would like to take a look at the possible future and you are a true sci-fi freak, then by all means, be my guest.