In modern days, TV series about the ancient world have attempted to duplicate the claw with some success, but in Theodore Morrison Homa’s novel Archimedes Claw their attempts have fallen far from the mark. Amongst other weapons was the famous, and famously confusing Archimedes Claw, described as a sort of crane with a grappling hook. I would rate this book with three stars out of five and I do recommend it for reading on your ebook reader.Īrchimedes designed the defenses of Syracuse as Rome attacked, back in 212 BC. Since I did enjoy the first book, I look forward to its sequel and wish success to the author. It is a problem easily corrected with experience. This is a common mistake with many first book writers, of which I have also been guilty in my first book. The dialog between characters is lacking in some places with too much telling instead of letting the characters speak for themselves. The action moves fast in some chapters and slower in others. The narrative is a bit heavy on historical details, scientific theories and personal beliefs, which can be a little boring or distracting for the typical reader. McGee develops the Rules of Time Travel and provides solutions in his travels through time, with one of his biggest rules-have a backup plan.Īlthough the plot, characters and suspense is quite entertaining, the author makes a few novice mistakes in the telling of the story. McGee tries to protect this secret from the CIA as he travels back in time to verify what Archimedes knew and how to use this exciting, but dangerous new discovery and it’s possible impact on people and past events. Fin McGee, a noted academic physicist, physician who discovers Archimedes secret that he also invented a means to time travel. Homa’s plot, he created a story about a quirky scientist named Dr. Using this scientist’s achievements as a major part of Dr. The claw was a crane-like arm with a large metal grappling hook that could lift a ship out of the water and sink it. Archimedes discovered and invented many things and one of them was the Claw of Archimedes, which was used to defend the city against Roman ships. I decided to purchase the ebook on my new Kindle Fire and give it a good read.Īrchimedes Claw is based on the real Greek mathematician, Archimedes, who lived in Syracuse, Sicily and died in 212 BC, killed by a Roman soldier during the siege of Syracuse. He wanted to combine history with good science and write a book, which was published as an ebook. Homa says he has always had a goal to write a novel, but has been too busy with his practice to do so. Doctor Homa’s first book is called Archimedes Claw. The writer’s name is Theodore Morrison Homa, MD, who happens to live in the same town as I. With Archimedes' works, Leo hoped to save Camp Half-Blood from the Roman forces at Camp Jupiter.In this Newsletter, I’ve decided to do a book review on a new science fiction writer who is experiencing, I am sure, the same frustrations as many new writers who publish ebooks for the first time- how to generate enough publicity to sell his book. He planned to take them to Bunker 9 at Camp Half-Blood, to study them further. He uses them to destroy the eidolons, possessive spirits working for the Earth goddess, Gaea. While searching for Nico di Angelo with Frank Zhang and Hazel Levesque in Rome, Leo Valdez recovered the lost works of Archimedes. The Claw of Archimedes, also known as the "iron hand" or "the ship shaker", was the weapon he used to defend the seaward part of his hometown Syracuse against the attack of the fleet of the Roman Republic during the Second Punic War.
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