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Week 2 Reading Response

The Last World War

 So far I have really enjoyed The Last World War. The book starts out with a marine reserve squad doing annual training for their duty. They then encounter an alien species that infiltrate Earth by using wormholes that jump two places in space and time to another. There are already a couple things that stand out. One of them being the accurate depiction of an alien's language. By default alien movies go with the cliche and depict the aliens speaking English. This book shows the aliens speaking an entirely different language, therefore creating a language barrier.

Another thing that stood out to me is the entirely inaccurate depiction of wormholes. In real theory, wormholes aren't actually confirmed, so we don't really know if they even exist. What we do know is that if they exist, then a huge amount of energy would be required to keep on open for a long period of time. A wormhole in the Earth's atmosphere would cause spontaneous combustion of the entire Earth. Obviously, that doesn't happen in the book.

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  1. TuckerSeptember 4, 2017 at 7:16 PM

    I like the way you noticed and pointed out the effects of language in a book like this. I also like the way that you pointed out the wormholes.

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