Review_EARTH QUARANTINED by D. L. Richardson

Earth Quarantined: Book 1 of Earth Quarantined series by D.L. Richardson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Review of EARTH QUARANTINED by D.L. Richardson

EARTH QUARANTINED is an exceptionally engrossing futuristic science fiction, a novel whose themes have applications for the present time as well. There's lies and conspiracy, alien intervention and control, and humans “just trying to get along.” For a certain segment of these, that means pure survival, away from the alien Criterion and from the Criterion's human Quislings. (See, application to history as well.)

337 years into the future, the Earth is (presumably) safe, humanity is (presumably) at peace, and life goes on. Ha! Not so. Almost all of humanity is herded into urban centers, which exist within regions called “States” (not as we know it, but in the 19th century political sense of nation-states), and there are a few “outdwellers” expelled from the cities, living in a drought-ridden environment of day-to-day survival existence. Also there is a conclave of underground dwellers, who are unaware of anything on the “outside,” and the “outside” is completely unaware of these hidden people living in a former nuclear power station (I want to insert dozens of exclamation points here). An alien race, the Criterion, control every human on Earth (except the outdwellers and the underground conclave). Claiming to follow human laws, the alien Criterion achieve their own goals, not Earth's. If you thought the aliens in “V” were scary? Just wait till you read EARTH QUARANTINED.

I found this science fiction novel exceptionally engrossing, and can't wait to read it again.

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