Science Fiction
From Goodreads:
Ellis Rogers is an ordinary man who
is about to embark on an extraordinary journey. All his life he has played it
safe and done the right thing, but when faced with a terminal illness, he’s
willing to take an insane gamble. He’s built a time machine in his garage, and
if it works, he’ll face a world that challenges his understanding of what it
means to be human, what it takes to love, and the cost of paradise. He could
find more than a cure for his illness; he might find what everyone has been
searching for since time began…but only if he can survive Hollow World.
I call this thinking person Science
Fiction. The beginning in Hollow World seems very
ordinary. Ellis Rogers, the main
character, finds out he is dying and that his wife had an affair with his best
friend. He has a time machine and
decides to use it to go 200 years into the future. Instead he goes 2000 years into the future. That is where every thing changes. The future and the people are perfect
or are they? That is what Ellis must decide for himself.
The title comes from where everyone
lives in this future world. Hollow World is under the surface of the Earth. Sometimes the people go to the grass (the name for the surface)
but they do not live there.
The issues addressed in Hollow World are indeed thought provoking.
Hollow World is a great book club book. It is one I will recommend to the Science Fiction Book Club
for next year. It would provide a lively discussion.
Tachyon Publications published
Hollow World by Michael J. Sullivan in 2014.
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