The Holy Land
Robert Zubrin
(Reviewer - Rebecca Brown)
2003 Polaris Books
ISBN: 0974144304

Religious fundamentalists, ruling a future USA, plot to expel a people relocated to their ancient homeland in Washington State.

Fanatical Earthling planet assassins are spreading chaos through the galaxy. Is there any nice way to stop them?

Leave the righteousness of your chauvinism on the cover of Robert Zubrin's The Holy Land, because everything will be turned inside out, on its head, in this thought-provoking parody of a hard science fiction & political science story about aliens from outer space, good & evil, patriotism & freedom.

The Holy Land is an equal opportunity offender -- taking all one people hold as sacred & posing the simple question: “What if we've got it all backwards?” What are honor, compassion, authority & greed? How do we deal with people who view life so radically differently, & who also have way more sophisticated ideas & weapons than we do?

No one is immune to Robert Zubrin's ascerbic insights -- neither presidents nor marines, martyrs nor misfits, masters nor slaves, compassionate nerds nor “innocent” children -- all are paraded within this fascinating story of every imaginable human frailty versus unimaginable futuristic alien powers & how the twain will meet, greet & survive.

Inspired by the furor surrounding the unearthing of the Kennewick Man, this tale bears every resemblance to what we, in the present, are experiencing in the Middle East which is, of course, no coincidence.

You surely will come away from reading The Holy Land with a much clearer grasp of what is really happening in that troubled region. I kid you not!

Oh, & by the way, Feminists will get quite a few giggles out of The Holy Land too!

Robert Zubrin is a renowned space engineer, visionary & the winner of the prestigious Robert A. Heinlein Award. His other book is: The Case for Mars.
(11/23/03)

Rebecca