Pangaea: Eden's Planet Review

Title:  Pangaea: Eden’s Planet

Author:  Tom Johnson

Publisher:  First Realm Publishing

ISBN:  10-1497340748

           13 978-1497340749

Genre:  Science Fiction

4-Star Rating

A team of scientists led by Colonel Evelyn Peterson is headed for Mars to scout sites for future settlements. Earth has been devastated by a nuclear war and much of it is now a wasteland. The future of humanity can only be assured by setting up a new home on Mars.

Trouble arises shortly after the flight has lifted off, trouble in the form of a strange storm. This was something they were totally unprepared for and had little hope of survival.  However, they did and when they come out of It, they find their destination is no longer Mars. In fact they are stranded back in time.

How they handle their new problems is guaranteed to keep you reading. This reader found the combination of time travel, space flight, a visit to Earth’s past, and living conditions irresistible. It kept me wondering how things would work out and will there be future tales about this place and people as they settle in. I loved the descriptions of the animal life and plants growing in various areas of the place their ship landed.

This is a story any sci-fi fan will truly enjoy. The talented author, Tom Johnson, has crafted a believable world; new terrors for characters dropped into it, and pulls the reader into the story so we become one of the members of this crew.

I am very pleased to recommend Pangaea: Eden’s Planet as a fun read you won’t want to put down. Not only will it teach us about our prehistoric periods, but have us looking for other books by this imaginative author and wanting to know what will happen next on Pangaea.  Will we get to see it decimated by meteor storms or will volcanoes split the large continent into smaller ones that we would come to recognize as our homes of today?

Enjoy. I sure did.

Anne K. Edwards

Three Go Back

“Three Go Back” by Tom Johnson. YA fiction. Great cover by Teresa Tunaley. When their teleport vehicle malfunctions, becoming a time machine, it sends three young girls back in time on a journey of discovery they never expected. From the Ice Age through the Cretaceous, Permian, Carboniferous, and finally to the beginning of the Earth's evolution of life, they experience their world's prehistoric past in all its splendor and terror, coming away with the joy of knowledge and adventure! Tom introduces us to the 24th century, where people travel by teleportation vehicles. The wealthy live in bubbles floating thousands of feet above ground. The story opens with three young girls leaving for school in their teleport vehicle. Because of a massive magnetic storm, their vehicle accidentally becomes a time machine, taking them thousands of years into the past. Despite repeated attempts to return to the 24th century, they travel farther and farther back millions of years into prehistoric times, experiencing adventure and danger in the age of giant reptiles. The girls wonder if they will ever return to their familiar world. Available in hardback for 24.26 http://www.lulu.com/shop/tom-johnson/three-go-back/hardcover/product-20654639.html Paperback for 11.66 here http://www.amazon.com/Three-Go-Back-Tom-Johnson/dp/1937769232/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1359475719&sr=1-1&keywords=Three+Go+back Kindle for $3.99, or order hardback and paperbacks from Tom.

Eden's Planet The Characters

Pangaea: Eden’s Planet

The Characters

Characters

Colonel Evelyn Peterson, before choosing a career as a pilot, majored in geology. She had dreamed of going to the stars from a young age, and her meteoric rise in rank as a fighter pilot and commander, gave her the opportunity to command this mission. If successful, she would return to Earth with the rank of general.

Major Adam Cooper is an open book, no mysteries. The same as Sheri, he’s seeking adventure, excitement, maybe a little bit of danger. He likes to throw a few parties, and has been known to swing the girls around a dance floor a time or two. He had studied paleontology at the university before becoming a pilot.

Captain Tony Mercer is the navigator. He has a hidden death wish. NASA needed a navigator, and Tony was the best. As far as NASA was concerned, they didn't want to pry into any secrets. He was wounded in the war, but never mentions it.

Professor Carl Plymouth holds degrees in astronomy and meteorology, as well as mathematics and a few other sciences most of us never heard of. He has assisted NASA for the last ten years in their study of the Martian atmosphere, and studied every storm that's been spotted on the red planet. He also lost a son in the war.

Doctor Terril taught medicine at the university where Professor Plymouth also taught. They both went to NASA when the call came. She is a mystery. Beneath that stern expression is one of the keenest minds in the medical field. She could head any major hospital of her choosing, or have a successful practice in a major city, and keep a bank account that would choke a horse. Yet she devoted her time to teaching medicine at the university, until volunteering for the mission to Mars. She is also a microbiologist, and had been doing private research for years.

Sheri Thompson has a brilliant mind—her specialty is zoology—she seeks the unknown, the adventure in life. Maybe even the excitement—and danger. She has studied every living organism on Earth, and is anxious to look under a few red rocks on Mars now. Personally, she also likes to dance and throw a few parties. Sheri will bring some bright spots to a lonely assignment.

Roger Manning, the civilian engineer, is looking for God. He's a fine engineer, the best in his field. He can fix any machine, given time, or figure out what's wrong with it. But being a Christian, the war almost destroyed his faith. With half the world wiped out, and billions of people killed, he couldn't understand why God hadn't intervened.

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“A Romance, 250 Million Years In The Making.”

Seven astronauts en route to Mars encounter a time warp in space that disables their ship. Crash landing on Earth, they discover an alien planet sixty million years before the dinosaurs. Pangaea, the super continent, is filled with danger and terror, as they must survive against fierce reptiles that ruled the Earth 250 million years in the past!