The Rookie Is A Total Immersion Into Another Realistic World

By [http://ezinearticles.com/?expert=Kelly_Libatique]Kelly Libatique
I'm generally not into sports books (or movies), but a friend recommended this book to me as being "wildly entertaining." And The Rookie by Scott Sigler is indeed.
The idea of a story about playing football 700 years in the future seems absurd, and if that was all it was about, then it may not be worth the time. At least for me, anyway. But the tale goes well beyond sports. From the get-go, we're not even on earth, but a planet that was colonized by a group of "purist" humans who abandoned earth long ago. They are self-righteous and, as it turns out, quite racist against other "sub-races," which is anything not human. Our main character, Quentin Barnes, is a young orphaned rookie football player who is discovered by the people that can get him into the big leagues and make him a star on the field. After being sold to another team, he's finds himself up a notch in the whole galactic football league and suddenly on the playing field with other races and beings, each with unique physical and mental abilities and styles of playing. As we go along, Quentin comes face to face with his beliefs, his racism, his arrogance, and learns to lead a team that is mostly non-human.
In very multifaceted ways, Sigler not only creates a realistic "galactic football league," but alien races and societies with amazing and well thought out complexity. These aren't just creatures you might see in a Star Wars film, but rather, they have their own unique cultures, and ways of perceiving things. As a reader, you become totally immersed in these worlds where the political power plays and the strong arm and manipulative nature of big money and big business very much mimic the way we humans do things now.
This book is also a huge social commentary on some of the problems that exist on earth today, from racism to tensions between differing religious beliefs and attitudes. As we near the end of the story, we end up back on earth and see how it's changed and how it's now rules by another race and has become a hotspot of terrorists activities.
I find it almost strange to say this, but I actually highly recommend this "out of this world" book, if only as a distraction and a total immersion into a fictitious fantasy world, but one so meticulously described and realistic, you'll want to believe it.
Kelly Libatique, author of "Divine Knowledge Transfer"
Kelly Libatique is a professional speaker, technical trainer, and author. He has a Master's in Education and a Bachelor's in Psychology. He resides in the San Francisco Bay Area with his wife and Anne and two sons.
Visit http://www.Libatique.com or Contact Kelly at: Kelly.Libatique@gmail.com
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