Fata Morgana
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At the height of the air war in Europe, Captain Joe Farley and the baseball-loving, wisecracking crew of the B-17 Flying Fortress Fata Morgana are in the middle of a harrowing bombing mission over East Germany when everything goes sideways. The bombs are still falling and flak is still exploding all around the 20-ton bomber as it is knocked like a bathtub duck into another world.Suddenly stranded with the final outcasts of a desolated world, Captain Farley navigates a maze of treachery and wonder -- and finds a love seemingly decreed by fate -- as his bomber becomes a pawn in a centuries-old conflict between remnants of advanced but decaying civilizations. Caught among these bitter enemies, a vast power that has brought them here for its own purposes, and a terrifying living weapon bent on their destruction, the crew must use every bit of their formidable inventiveness and courage to survive.
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This is a real genre crosser. We get WW2 bomber operations and aerial combat over Germany. We get travel to alternate worlds. We get lots of action in which the heroes have to survive and overcome impossible odds again and again. We get some really really bad enemies. We even get some romance and a bit of humor.
Basically Fata Morgana is a good story well told and with a very nice ending. It was slightly spoiled for me by a real deus ex machina moment late in the book in which a geeky crewman saves them by taking control of some super advanced technology with no explanation at all as to how he did it.
A fabulous tale that twists the real with the surreal. The authors do a fabulous job of writing a genre piece that starts off as historical fiction during WWII and transitions into a sci-fi story with a side of romance.
The main characters are a lovable bunch; the crew of an Air Force bomber named The Fata Morgana. And this is where this book really shines. These characters, feel relatable and real, plucked straight out of the Golden Age of the 30s and 40s. As they struggle to adapt to a world with technology far beyond their own, their quirkiness stands out.
This is a story that Hollywood needs to pick up and turn into a movie. From beginning to end this a tale that takes the reader on a wild ride.
