Ted Bade's Reviews > Across the Sand

Interesting novel about a post disaster earth. For some reason sand had buried the pre-disaster cities and the locals use a technology to be able to dive into the sand and communicate telepathically when wearing special suits. There are two major groups, an empire, and a number of people who live outside it. For some reason, the powers of the empire want to destroy the other group.

The Author uses a somewhat disjointed method of telling the tale, starting a chapter with a statement like, three weeks earlier or 5 days later. So the pieces of the tale are told, but it is up to the reader to figure out how them mesh together. I don't mind a little use of past history, or foreshadowing, but using it consistently is annoying.

Still the story eventually comes together. I finished wondering what really was going on.

It was an okay tale, imaginative, but not one of my favorite ones.