My favorite from ADF. When I first read this I was in one of my Africa phases (currently in another but am reading an entirely different genre this time) and this little jewel caught my attention.ADF was an author that I'd read before and liked his work (not so blatantly pandering to the Hollywood crowd at that point) and this was supposed to be the novel to read on a business trip. Surprise! Into the Out of became a favorite.Highly recommended for fantasy/alternative reality fans who like their story rooted in the real world with transition to 'true reality'. Darkest Africa, saving the world and, well I won't spoil the 'catch' to this one, but it does make by list of 'goodreads'.
This is possibly the stupidest novel I have ever read. I like SF, and I am willing to suspend a LOT of disbelief, but this was simply unbelievable. No reason for the Maasai guy to choose these particular people - until you find out, at the very end, that they both have glass eyes. Um. They are necessary to the Maasai guy supposedly, to mask his aura or whatever from the bad guys - but they don’t - they are all, repeatedly, attacked, from the get-go, by different versions of these frankly horribl
What do You think about Into The Out Of (1999)?
Picked this book out randomly from the sci-fi section at the library last week. I've been writing a sci-fi myself, and hey, you read your genre, right? Anyway, for awhile, once I got into the meat of the book, I thought it was quite a find!Still, there were some things that I just couldn't overlook, though the plot was interesting. An African elder coming to America to look for people to help him "complete the triangle" to keep these evil creatures from coming through some hole in the fabric of
—Sherry Bee
Earth is being invaded by the shetani—spirit creatures so small and stealthy that only one man knows about the increasing peril. The potential savior is an African elder named Olkeloki who is capable of fighting evil both in this world and the spirit one. But to be successful he must recruit the help of two others: government agent Joshua Oak and a feisty young woman named Merry Sharrow. Only the three of them can keep the shetani from destroying reality as we know it.
—Al
