Vigil's End: Book One of the Ninth Day of Man

By Grant Macaw

Young adults will explore the meaning of the universe in this futuristic story of one humanoid's valiant attempt to revive the human race 600 years after its extinction. When the 100,000 survivors of... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933255137
• ISBN13: 9781933255132
• Release Date: October 2005
• Publisher: Dna Press
• Length: 310 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.8" x 0.8" x 6.0"
• Age Range: 12 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 7 and higher

Customer Reviews

Great Book, Engaging and Emotional

So the story sets up like this, Mankind sees that a large "Global Killer" asteroid is coming and has a number of years to prepare for it. This in a timeframe just a few dozen years from now so there is no technology that can save the planet or lift the population out of harms way. So the idea is to dig and dig deep. A large underground complex is built to house a large population of humans and like the story of Noah's Ark with a modern twist, DNA samples of as many animals, plants, viruses and bacteria are collected for the future use of mankind after the planet becomes habitable again. This is called Sanctuary. The book starts 600 years after the asteroids impact, all life in Earth is gone and Sanctuary has changed. The author, Grant Macaw while not entirely new to writing, this is his first major publication and while I like to try new authors from time to time we all know that it can be a hit or miss proposition. But having met the author, I decided to give the book a try. The story is well written story, it's easy to read and the story flows from chapter to chapter. The book is what I would call an intellectual story. Written in the fashion of Isaac Asimov who was an extremely intelligent man himself, his writings often reflected his back ground in science. It's the same with Grant Macaw and Vigil's End, the story dives into a few heady subjects, but the author does a great job explaining these things so the reader is not ever lost as to what is going on. But you can clearly see Macaw's background in military intelligence, strategic planning and space operations coming out in his writing. The story is very engaging, so much so that you can't help but wonder what is going to happen next and that to me is a good sign that you are reading a good book and I found myself going through an interesting range of emotions while reading the story. To the realization that mother Earth is dead and the thoughts and feelings that brings because it's all gone, all of Human history is gone. None of it all seemed to matter because its all gone, the Earth as the cradle of human civilization has been destroyed along with every single life form that we shared this planet with are all gone. It's a sobering thought and one that brings a level of sadness to the reader that helps engage him in the story as you really want to see how things are going to turn out. I very much recommend this book to any Sci-Fi fan, you wont be disappointed.