The Atlantis World (The Origin Mystery Book 3) Literary Elements

Contemporary, science fiction, thriller

Modern-day Earth, notably Northern Morocco and Antarctica, as well as various planets in the universe over a span of many thousands of years

Third-person limited point of view mostly following Kate, David, Dorian, although it follows others to a smaller degree, such as Ares, Paul, and Mary.

Tense, anxious, action-packed

Protogonists: Dr. Kate Warner, a brilliant geneticist who must try to save humanity before she dies of "resurrection syndrome," and her love interest David Vale, a duty-bound ex-soldier who wants to save both Kate and humanity. The novel's primary antagonist is either Ares, the Atlantean war general pursuing his own agenda on Earth, or the Serpentine Army, a super-powerful snakelike hive mind with incredible firepower that plans to "assimilate" Earth.

While Ares and the Immari continue to wreak havoc on the world, the Serpentine Army comes to Earth, intending to "assimilate" its population into itself and destroy whatever remains. Kate and David must go to extreme measures to try to prevent this terrible future.

When David is blown out of the satellite into space, he is picked up by the Serpentine Army, which tries to "assimilate" him. Because of David's stubbornness and sheer determination to hold on to humanity, however, the assimilation is unsuccessful, and because of his humanity, David acts as a virus that shuts the serpent down from the inside. During all this, Dorian kills Ares and then commits suicide.

The opening scene with Mary receiving a signal of extraterrestrial intelligent life from the universe foreshadows the rest of the novel, where the heroes must prepare to meet this alien threat.

“Now we’re getting somewhere.” - Ares, after the terrorists begin to take hostages (Chapter 40)

The names of the Atlanteans are allusions to Greek mythology (Isis, Janus, Ares, etc.). Additionally, as this is a novel set in the modern world, there are many allusions to existing places, people, and events, such as Morocco, the melting icebergs of Antarctica, and Puerto Rico.

The main enemy in The Atlantis World is the Serpentine Army, a hive-minded, super-powerful mechanical entity that is coming to Earth to "assimilate" its inhabits and destroy the rest. This antagonist is represented as a serpent, a common typology stemming from the serpent in the Garden of Eden from Biblical tradition. The image of a giant snake in the sky is a terrifying and aptly characterized description of the enemy, and even the mission of the serpent is evocative of Ouroboros, the giant world-encompassing worm from ancient Egyptian mythology.

Ares hopes to use catastrophes to create a person strong enough to withstand the Serpentine Army's process of "assimilation." Paradoxically, his disastrous efforts are entirely wasted and unnecessary - David Vale is able to resist, and he didn't even experience the effects of Ares's torments.

The great flood Ares unleashes on the world parallels the Biblical flood story in Genesis. Ares even indirectly references it before he releases the flood, saying that in order to build a new world, the old one must be destroyed, which was God's intention in sending the flood in the first place.

“He had gone through the scotch, the bourbon, then the rum, and all the other booze the dead researchers had stockpiled until he was down to the peach schnapps.” (Chapter 1)

“This world slaughters idealists.” - John (Chapter 1)