The Omega Project: Near-Death Experiences, Ufo Encounters, and Mind at Large

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When Robert wakes, he finds the ship deserted and not functional. He escapes to the surface of an Earth terribly changed. The plan has gone horribly wrong, but as he adapts to a hostile environment, he realizes that there is still a way to accomplish what his mission had set out to achieve. But he also discovers that he faces a new adversary of the most unlikely sort. For now, his own survival and that of the woman whose love has sustained him in his darkest hours depend on the defeat of a technological colossus partly of his own making.

I didn't know much about guns. The one I'd been gripping in my sweaty palm held four bullets in its clip and one in the chamber—same as it had when I'd removed it from the corpse I'd come across two weeks ago. It was rare these days to find a dead body that hasn't been skinned and stripped of its meat. Thankfully, I'd never been forced to consume human flesh, which was why I was here … out in the woods, hoping to shoot a deer before the last deer was taken, before the last of my supplies ran out and hunger drove me either to cannibalism, suicide, or starvation. Tell you what, I'll handle the brawn, you handle the brains and maybe we'll manage to survive this mess." To solve the riddle and save the former president, the kidnappers give Sean just one week—an impossible task to evade a nationwide manhunt and solve the most dangerous mystery of his life. In The Omega Project, USA Today best-selling author Ernest Dempsey is at his most impressive. Wax, John. Reviewed Work: Methods of Madness: The Mental Hospital As a Last Resort by Benjamin M. Braginsky, Dorothea D. Braginsky, Kenneth Ring. Social Work, Vol. 15, No. 2 (April 1970), pp. 121-122 https://www.jstor.org/stable/23712602Robert "Ike" Eisenbraun is the inventor of GOLEM which is an advanced AI machine that would supervise the Omega Project which is a mission to the moon to mine for elements needed to solve the energy crisis that perpetrated the Great Die Off. GOLEM decides the mission is not conducive and moves the mission to Europa. Ike is commissioned to join Oceanus, an underwater habitat to monitor GOLEM which seems to make decisions on its own under the guise of evaluating the crew's psychological fitness for the mission to Europa. When the crew members began getting paranoid, they forcibly freeze him in his cryogenic pod. Due to a series of events, Ike only wakes up 12 million years into future (I know, right??!!). With the help of his invention Abe, a biochip implanted in his brain, he navigates the new world that has now evolved in ways he couldn't imagine. The first, Ike, is a scientist (and also apparently a super-survivalist) with an implant in his head. Ike is a rather crass and unlikable character who only grudgingly chooses to do "the right thing" many times. Every single female character in the book seems enthralled with him and wants to have sex with him (a bit of wish fulfillment there Steve?) even though he seems to basically judge them solely by how nice their breasts are, something he seems obsessed with. The implant, called 'ABE', is a real crutch for the story, as it is basically an info dump machine. ABE, in fact, may have actually made for a better protagonist than Ike, as the microchip ends up making the majority of the decisions and basically telling Ike what he should do next! On the brink of a disaster that could end all human life on Earth, tech genius Robert Eisenbraun joins a team of scientists in Antarctica on a mission to Jupiter's moon Europa to mine a rare ore that can provide for Earth's long-term energy needs. But as he and the rest of the team train under the ice shelf in preparation for the long journey, trouble erupts. Before they embark, Eisenbraun finds himself the odd man out, and is put into cold sleep against his will.

That 'second' novel features the continuing adventures of the main character from the first half as he is flung 12 million years into the future (these are not spoilers, it says it right on the cover). Alten does display a considerable amount of imagination in his future world and I enjoyed that part of it, but I had a problem with two of the main characters.I'd grown up in a world of bank bailouts, recessions, unemployment, collapsing economies, and endless wars; my country embattled in a perversion of democracy where corporations had been granted the same rights as citizens. Corruption overruled any sense of justice, the radicalization of the political system preventing the few true representatives of the suddenly impoverished masses from enacting solutions that could have reversed the eventual collapse of society. As my father said, "Human ego created these problems, and human ego will drive us over the cliff. The world would be better off if a computer ran everything." So after the chaos he caused with another post in Greek – he had previously posted the word “dialectic” in October – Elon Musk decided 8 hours later to explain what the letter “Ω” means.