Origin Story: A Big History of Everything

Origin Story: A Big History of Everything by David Christian         Audio Book:  12 hours, 23 minutes       Hardback Book:  368 pages                  

Excellent book that tells the evolution of space dust to space particles all the way through humans and animals today.    Told in such a lively, fully engaged way, author David Christian makes the reader want to know more and more all the way to the end and yes, David Christian even goes so far as to predict where both the planet and civilization is headed discussing the melting of glaciers, the destruction of rainforests,  over consumption of earth’s land and sea, man’s continuing to ignore the time bomb of desecration going on to earth’s atmosphere offering discussions on how it could be lessened and how fast we need to be doing something about it and the lack of desire on many levels as capital gain drives corporate motives disregarding the need to safeguard the planet as well as ourselves.    He discusses the destruction of life as the dinosaurs knew it and how history is repeating itself as man is on a collision course of desimation and will kill off life as we know it unless the course is changed.   Beyond fascinating, this book is full of so much information and explains the ins and outs of how this universe and others could house life on other planets with a section on how earth in order to save its inhabitants may find colonizing Mars and even other heavenly bodies a necessity not just research.    Really compelling book.   Goes from what is scientifically known of the beginning of all things  leaving the reader confronted with the current trajectory as is currently and where things may go with different scenarios.    Well researched, well written totally down to earth language and concepts even when discussing thermal nuclear fusion, plate tectonics,  astro-physics principles to adaptations by man and animals over the years in balance with their diverse environments throughout time as we know it there is nothing that will be over any body’s head, he breaks things down in totally conversational terms and makes the lofty absolutely understandable like talking to a friend on every topic imaginable and still communicating on terms you each get.    Great book – much learning to be had here- lots of new ways of thinking on subjects covered many times over the years.   Well done David Christian. I would highly recommend this read.