The case of the writer Steve Alten presents a strange duplicity. In the first instance, he is recognized in the United States as a narrator with a strong roots in the marine world and its mysteries, with his deepening in genres of fantasy and science fiction about large sharks, even with his natural point of terror that draws from the incomparable reference of the novel Moby Dick, by Herman Melville.
And yet, in other places such as Spain, his mystery works about lost civilizations or even science fiction forays with an apocalyptic vision initially transcended more.
In the end, the great meccano of marketing has also made the novels that make up an endless saga of horror, adventure and science fiction around the great marine predators lost in the mists of time and resurrected through the literature of Steve Alten .
The best thing is always the synthesis, seeking the perfect balance between one branch and another of the creator capable of undertaking diverse themes with the link of mystery or even terror through fantastic assumptions presented with that essential point of documentation that makes the inconceivable plausible and that binds the reader until the last page.
Top 3 Recommended Novels by Steve Alten
The mayan testament
The darkest interpretations of the Mayan calendar established the end of the world back in December 2012. Thank God the matter was left in an unsubstantiated lucubration.
Unless we are all already dead and this really is a dream shared by our civilization 😉 The point is that some years before, Steve Alten also got carried away by the enigma of the Mayans. To delve into the subject, the author leads us together with Mick towards the final interpretation of the cryptic legacy of the Mayans.
And nothing better than this ancient wisdom connects with many other enigmas of humanity. Mick's bizarre approach, with a stubbornness that ends up uncomfortable, leads him to a psychiatric hospital.
Dominique's necessary intervention helps Mick escape and between the two of them they tie up the dots around what the Mayans had to tell the world.
In a fascinating journey around the world we discover messages hidden in ancient constructions from the most remote time of humanity, messages that end up composing an apocalyptic vision of the world that only Mick and Dominique can end up knowing and transmitting.
Megalodon
The latest from Alten in his devotional interest in the seas and their enigmas… Jonas Taylor (perhaps in an anagrammatic tribute to the myth of the navigator Jason) travels on an expedition that aims to reach the depths of the Pacific Ocean.
But everything ends badly when the crew faces the Carcharodon megalodon, ancestor of the great sea monsters.
The problem, of course, is that although Taylor survives to tell the tale, no one believes they faced this prehistoric animal. Among those who cannot believe Jonas Taylor at all and those who want to silence his theory for unaffordable interests, Jonas Taylor will always find someone who offers him support and faith, because that is the only thing that can be offered to a navigator like him, that reborn from hell insists on having faced the beast of the beasts of the sea.
The truth is that he is the only one left to tell. And the evidence of how the ship and the rest of the crew succumbed may raise doubts about the certainty of Jonas Taylor's story.
So, as a reader, and thanks to the light of the author's magnificent descriptions and the empathy achieved with the protagonist, you will only wish that Taylor once again has an opportunity to show the world how much there is left to see in that underworld that rules beneath our continents…
The lake
It was only a matter of time that Steve Alten wrote a novel about magnetic Loch Ness, in light of his interest in underwater worlds.
The legend of the monster presented as a hidden reality by private interests that seek to gain exclusive access to the truth about what the rest of the world considers a suggestive myth and little else. Zach Wallace, as a marine biologist, strives to find the definitive proof of the existence or total fiction of the monster.
But what he could not expect is that his firm will would encounter adversities programmed from those hidden interests. At the same time, we discover in the story a particular fascination of Zach himself, who does not always reveal the reasons for his stubbornness about Loch Ness.
And it is that, long ago, that lake and its monster were about to devour him forever ...
