Signature
Ron Sanders
On the celebratory night of New Years Eve,
four colleagues-
academics all – welcome in the new year of 1346. Their leader, Titus
Mack, has
invited them to his home in the observatory. His home is located on the
outside of even the outskirts, on
unprotected land with an arm of the colony coming up from the depths
nearby.
Titus, begins to show and tell the trio of academics about
the information that he has researched with the help of his advanced
computing
program, called Solomon, over the past year, the last any of them had
seen him. His
revelations show them a past that has been erased from the history
books, that the actual date is 2509 rather than 1346. He starts to
explain to them
why their world is so strongly atheist with little religion at all.
During his
lecture, the perimeter of the Observatory is breeched by members of the
colony, the men are abducted and taken down into the depths of the
underground colony.
The men find themselves in a strange world where nothing is
what they know. Religion leads these people. In the years that they
have been
shuttered underground it has evolved into a society ruled by rituals
and rules unlike anything the four men have encountered before. The men
are taken to meet
the judgment of Mama and the ‘Postle, and nothing they do will let them
escape
this fate that has been handed to them.
I had a little bit of a hard time getting into this book. I
found the first twenty or so pages slow reading. However I am glad that
I
pushed past and kept reading. Signature is an intellectual thrill ride that makes you think. It explores topics like
what would happen if religion was segregated from the everyday world,
and what
would the world be like if its history was erased and restarted. This
book was
short but really made me think while I was reading it. While I can see
it not
being something that everyone would appreiciate, I ended up enjoying it
a lot more
than I originally thought that I would.