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Ragnarok (Worlds Collide Book 1) Kindle Edition
On a flight from Paris to Los Angeles Tegan Mulholland is intrigued & charmed by Pete, the mysterious stranger sitting beside her. But when their plane almost falls from the sky and other jets in her vicinity wink from the radar, the official explanations that follow reek to Tegan's retired investigative journalist mind of cover up.
What is not declared:
A secret NASA experiment has warped a column of time instead of space, plucking with it the planes out of our era, and a band of Norse warriors from the Vinland colony millennia ago into our epoch.
Rowing eastward and back to Iceland, the contrail of Tegan's plane appearing after the strange aurora and moving westward high above, the Norsemen conclude are Odin's order to return to Vinland and unknowingly toward the modern day Canadian coast, where, just days--yet a thousand years before--the skraeling Indians had driven them out.
As news reports flood Tegan's living room of bloodshed and massacre, speculating about which gang of roughly dressed bearded marauders are responsible for mass-murder around the quiet Canadian coast, Tegan develops a hunch that there is more to the story than it seems. She quits her Hollywood Exec job and embarks on an odyssey that leads inexorably ever closer toward the Norsemen's hidden lair.
Only Pete, the Lockheed consultant she had steadily fallen in love with during the harrowing flight and since, has any hope of saving her.
If you enjoy intrigue, conspiracy and romantic suspense, Ragnarok will grip your imagination and not let go.
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Product details
- ASIN : B076VJRMVP
- Publisher : Qunard Publishing (November 1, 2017)
- Publication date : November 1, 2017
- Language : English
- File size : 526 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
- Screen Reader : Supported
- Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
- X-Ray : Not Enabled
- Word Wise : Enabled
- Print length : 304 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 0620722630
- Best Sellers Rank: #2,792,342 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #516 in Historical Norse & Icelandic Fiction
- #1,994 in Nordic Myth & Legend Fantasy eBooks
- #2,754 in Historical Fantasy Fiction
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About the author

Michael Smorenburg (b. 1964) grew up in Cape Town, South Africa. An entrepreneur with a passion for marketing, in 1995 Michael moved to California where he founded a business consultancy and online media and marketing engine in the burgeoning internet. In 2003 he returned to South Africa where he launched a security company. In 2015 he divested of the business to write full time. Michael's greatest love is the ocean, keeping up with technology and macro economics, the latest breakthroughs in science, understanding the cosmos and sharing all he learns.
Dedicated author's website and pictures at:
www.MichaelSmorenburg.com
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- Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2017initially just reading the synopsis, i was interested in the suspense.
The book is superbly written, and with a well researched background into the lives and people of the time.
Characters themselves are vicious , as in many Viking heritage themes but still makes one like them, notwithstanding.
a good addition to Michael Smorenburg's other list of great books.
The man keeps churning them out and i will continue to read as they come out
- Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2017I chose this book because the subject matter intrigued me. "Worlds collide" made me think of those movies from the 1960's, where outer space and earth battled evil, or some odd monster. Well, I was quite surprised to find something far deeper, and far more compelling. I like the use of science as, quite nearly, a character, and the way plot guided me, bug not quite, so that there was always interest. My only criticism is in the use of sentences that were, for my taste, a bit long, and I think it took away, just slightly, from the storyline which which would have benefited from tighter dialogue. Not that it detracted from the quality of the book, and again it is merely my personal taste.
I think the idea that life can change, and that there are, possibly, forces out there that make this possible pose a very interesting premise. I would have liked to see more ordinary characters, because not everyone is a Hollywood Executive and not everyone gets to fly from Paris to Los Angeles. But then again it added to the fanciful flare of the book, and the very idea of our imaginations and how they, like the plane and the vilians, can take us places.
- Reviewed in the United States on September 22, 2018It was very much fun to read. One can see what could had if thinks are not thought out well.
- Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2017Ragnarök is the fourth of Michael Smorenburg’s novels that I have read. In plot design, characterization and pace, it lives up to the high standards of its predecessors. It also has the elements of high science that made “The Trojan Affair” and “LifeGames Corporation” so intriguing. It shares the juxtaposition of past and future embedded in “The Praying Nun”, but with an interesting twist – the past has been brought to the future and coexists with it for a time. Smorenburg shows great ingenuity in his plot designs and structures, giving his books a fascination for all lovers of new ideas and story lines. In Tegan Mulholland, I found a heroine of great commitment and dedication to her chosen path, and a disarming frailty that almost demands that she find a partner in her endeavors. In Pete, a charming Australian with a wicked sense of humor and a likable demeanor, she finds just what she needs. Predictably she falls in love. Less predictably, so does he. But he is also remarkably difficult to pin down and even harder to keep track of. As Tegan gets more and more into dangerous circumstances and closer and closer to the truth of what's going on, Pete becomes almost a side issue that is always on her mind. As the book rushes to its unexpected climax Tegan finally gets into a situation that could well become her last.
This is an enthralling read and a great successor to Smorenburg’s other books, all of which should become part of the collection of any serious reader of really good stories. Don’t be a purist in terms of your favorite genre, and get a hold of these books.
Probably more a four and a half star book - not perfect but very, very good.
- Reviewed in the United States on November 4, 2018This could have been a wonderful exploration of how time and space merge, clash, rip apart and so on, but sadly it didn't come to pass in this book. The scientific explanations were implausible, even for sci-fi; even more implausible--spoiler alert--is how one guy got immediate access to U.S. military assistance. The heroine is incredibly naive for a journalist/film maker and her mother's "brogue" was irritating. The best part was imagining how 10th century Norsemen would comprehend modern technology, such as seeing contrails as the finger of Odin pointing them on.
The Kindle version needs serious editing--so many errors of grammar and editing. Examples include: chords for cords, its for it's, and course for coarse.
Wouldn't recommend it--sorry.
- Reviewed in the United States on November 1, 2017The author's style of writing is easy to read and he is adept at creating believable and interesting dialogue. I liked the fact that the main character is a sort of amateur sleuth as well.
His descriptions of the scenarios after a catastrophic event (news reports, protesters, North Korea) are brilliant and realistic. Good explanation of the technology involved. I have no idea which parts are real and which are fictitious, but I understood how the time warp technology and concept should work.
I like the Norse myth Ragnarak. I don’t know if the myth it’s made up or real, but it works. In addition, I enjoyed reading the descriptions of how Norse warriors would react to modern world. I also like that this science fiction story is set in the modern, Western world instead of an alternative reality. It made it easier for people like me - who aren't fans of science fiction - to get into the story.
**I received an early review copy from the author in exchange for honest feedback about his novel.**