The Siberian Incident

By: Greig Beck

Narrated by: Sean Mangan

100,000 years ago the object hit the lake at the deepest point, quickly sinking into its mile-deep stygian darkness. The sheets of ice closed, time moved on and the land forgot.

But over the centuries, legends grew of people vanishing, of strange, deformed animals and of an unexplained luminescence down in the lake depths.

When Marcus Stenson won the lucrative contract to create a sturgeon fish farm on the site of disused paper mill on the shore of Lake Baikal, he thought he had won the lottery and refused to listen to the chilling folktales, or even be concerned by the occasional harassment from the local mafia.

But then animals were found mutilated in the frozen forest and people started to go missing. And worse, some came back, changed, horribly. In the depths of the lake, something that had been waiting 100,000 years was stirring. And it needed the warmth of mankind to survive.

For lovers of John Carpenter’s The Thing, comes a tale of Alien Horror from international best selling author, Greig Beck.

©2019 Greig Beck (P)2020 Bolinda Publishing

Okay but why are you all so stupid?

SPOILERS: I listened to the first few hours of this book and then had to put it down. I have major issues with any kind of media where the characters are written as book smart but also stupid for really no reason. I'm supposed to believe that our initial main lead put together all of this in Russia without once having to pay a bribe? Or being told by someone "Yeah you're gonna have to deal with the Mob, guy."

Even in our uneducated not so world traveled America we know from movies and media how corrupt Russia is as whole. So from the start the inciting incident isn't handled well and had me rolling my eyes. After picking the book back up and trudging along some fairly alright padding, we come across the next "Are you serious? Seriously?" moment.

I'm no expert but I'd THINK a bunch of people would be able to determine that a bear was or wasn't hit by a claymore mine, eviscerated and left for dead. I understand people are skeptical of weird otherwise explainable events, but when you're standing there and your brain is telling you that nothing logical makes sense.. You're going to make the leap to the thing that doesn't make sense. Like oh sure, a wolf ate it right after a claymore mine blew it up but didn't leave any marks or bite wounds. Kay.

Then we get to the absolutely mind boggling stupid part. We have somehow trapped an alian being in a cage. We then decide we are going to communicate with it because maybe it doesn't know we're sentient. Right. It only GOT TO EARTH somehow, and has been murder eating people for thousand of years. It'd be able to see us technologically evolve, it'd see structures being built, cars, boats subs. I'm thinking it knows we're sapiant and doesn't care.

Oh but sure, Fish and Wildlife is absolutely trained to communicate with a being that shares zero evolutionary or physically with us. Something that thinks of us as flesh suits to operate on dry land. Something that has evolved a parasitic nature to do so! But yeah, by all means let's talk to it and it means no harm.

I like this book, it's an average listen, but these people are idiots and they should have nuked the lake from space.

fantastic book, greay detailed horror story.

the description of the aliens is detailed and the way they take over has an original twist. Great ending. Narration was fantastic in voice and inflection.

Interesting

Better than expected. Russians and aliens from outer space written into an interesting story. Worth the $5. Sale price!

Amazing

This book had me on edge wanting more. This will definitely be one of my top 5 books I've listened to on Audible and definitely added to my physical collection soon.

I will be checking out more of Greig Beck's works.

After reading Greig Beck's Primordia trilogy (which admittedly I was a little hard on because I know enough about paleontology to nitpick depictions of prehistoric life) I took a gander at some of his other works to see if anything else from him would pique my interest. I was not disappointed with The Siberian Incident. Unlike Primordia, it doesn't really cross into any territory I can nitpick, so I was able to enjoy it for what it is. The plot is well-paced, the characters and their development are interesting, and there is enough going on throughout the progression of the story that it kept me interested in what happens next. I will be checking out more of his works.

Great story, good read only one complaint

My only complaint is that the narrator would mispronounce words. Moat of these mispronounced words are simple and had he done a little searching could have learned the proper way to say them. Other than that the story was good and the narrating was was good.

Turned out to be an excellent book.

It started off kind of slow and was worried. But this really turned out to be a great book. enjoyed listening to every minute of it I couldn't wait to start it back up each time I was done for the day.

Fun story, decent narrator, terrible dialogue.

Writers tend to struggle with dialogue, and this author certainly does. Also, you don't need to TELL me how badass a character is so constantly. You simply need to show me. It makes it really hard to believe when I'm being told how to think of a character instead of letting me get there by myself.

Creative but Frustrating

I enjoyed the story line and found the first half of the book enjoyable. I thought the author took a creative approach to aliens and it didn't seem cliche. The second half of the book had way to many drawn out fight scenes with way too much useless dialog. There were a few logical fallacies that I didn't like but what bothered me the most was the drawn out conversation and banter in whats supposed to be life/death situations. The very end of the book was a let down but I suppose it sets up book 2.

Little generic

The book is good especially with parallel stories of carter messing with Russian mafia and the aliens on the other side but it’s very generic and i never felt a moment where characters understood that they are doomed.