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__ The Doom Machine __ Mark Teague

Doom... be aware of what is going on. You should be a little worried. The ending of the world in on the way. Jack and Isadora have to figure out a way to save the world from this possible disaster.

This book is about astronomy, and other far-flung technology that people are thinking about as of today. Probably, the most interesting is the idea of the time tunnel, as if you could go over 150 light years away and. Though this book is set in 1958, most of the book occurs in outer space. The technologies talked about in this book is not at all lacking behind time. The author's style is in first person, yet the conversations give lots of information. I like the style, although it is sometimes confusing to read. However, it makes things in this book very exciting, and personal.

The best part of this book to me, is the characters. All of the characters are stereotypical, yet the author gives a vivid description of their characteristics. The main characters are Jack, a boy who have served many times in juvenile detention and Isadora, a scientist's daughter who is really smart and invests everything scientifically. One thing that they have in common is they are both gifted, and will become friends who will work together to save the world.

The setting of this book occurred in many places, and some of them are the most absurd when compared to the world we live in. The book started in Vern Hallows, a sleepy town, where aliens were suspected. The town was closed off to be determined wall zone. Isadora, and her mom, with a few other people decided to escape. While they were escaping, they were abducted by aliens. The aliens, known as Skreeps, took them to a place without time, time tunnels, desert alien planets, and finally, the Skreeps' home planet, 150 light years away from earth.

The plot of this book starts off with the suspicion of aliens in Vern Hollow. The town is then closed off, to become a military battle site. The suspected aliens were Skreeps. Isadora and her mom was originally not planning to be there, but because their car broke down, they had no choice but to go there and fix their car. Jack, a teenager took a long time to fix the car, but did make the car a race-car. Because Isadora and her mom need to get to Boston quickly, they would have to escape the town. Jack and his uncle know a way out of the town, and with Isador and her mom, they took that route. While they were doing that, they were stopped by police officer Mac, who was going to shoot them if they took another move. However, an alien ship abducted them, and the aliens were Skreeps. The Skreeps found a destabilizer device that is designed to go through time tunnels. Too late, the Skreeps have already approached a time tunnel without the ability of getting around it. The only choice, therefore, is to crash into it, and figure out what ever is to come at their mercy. What did happen, however, was that they landed on a timeless planet. Jack and Isadora had to bring them out of the place with the aid of Ponzo, a native to the planet. After that, the Skreeps and the people landed in Arobia, a planet where it have been devastated, originally to get water, but eventually turned into a craze. Jack, and Isadora, and a hobo went off to help the natives there to reclaim their lands, while the other people went searching. The natives there hated the Skreeps, and Jack and Isadora now have to go to Skreepra to defeat them, while the rest of the people and Skreeps are also going to Skreepra also. The Skreeps have a horrible plan- to destroy the Earth people and make them slaves, and Jack and Isadora have to make sure that this would not happen.

I strongly recommend this book. Despite being set 1950s and having a black and white cover, it is the most exciting and informative book that I have ever read. The book takes virtually all of the space ideas that I could think of as of today, and blend them into a easy to read, easy to understand version. If you like any science fiction books, at all, you would love this one. This book is similar to Ender's Game, except it is way better. The book is of exciting, nonstop adventure. Grab your copy today!

Image Citing Teague, Mark. The Doom Machine. Digital image. Buy.com, Rakuten Group. Buy.com, 10 Jan. 2009. Web. 3 Jan. 2011. .

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