Throughout the early chapters of the book, the one hundred children are still very much an abstract concept. Their time in space is full of anxiety for the reader, but Billy, with his keen judgment and strength, offers a sense of reassurance and hope. It is subject to a wide scope of dangers and, at one point, faces the same crisis Earth was subjected to in End of Days. They also understand the likelihood of their home surviving fully intact would be difficult, if not impossible. The children understand they need to survive in space for at least a decade. The book begins with one hundred and one survivors (99 per cent children) making their way to an orbital space station designated as their new home. As with End of Days, a sense of urgency is established throughout the plot with the use of this timeline. Each chapter is dated, which marks the steady progression of the characters’ goal of survival. Regenesis follows a linear plot line and uses a third person perspective narration style. How can a child understand the difficulty of leadership? What does it mean to truly be a leader? Walters seeks to answer each one of these questions in Regenesis and does so by introducing challenges into the plot that successfully drive readers through the story.
End of Days introduced readers to Billy’s unfortunate background, his tenacity, his cunning, and his willingness to survive, but it is only in Regenesis that readers are able to understand and empathize with the difficult role Billy was given. It is these struggles, which span from the mechanical to the emotional and psychological, that truly test Billy Phillips as both a protagonist and a leader for his people. Billy didn’t know what this man was going to do, but he focused on his voice to avoid showing fear of the words.Įric Walters’ Regenesis directly follows the startling ending of End of Days, chronicling the aftermath of the asteroid’s impact on earth and the struggles of surviving in outer space. The more he spoke, the more obvious it was that a showdown was inevitable. “I can assure you, I can make it slow and full of so much pain you will be begging for death to finish you off.” “Your death will be extremely full of pain,” the larger man said. “Kill me and you’ll find out exactly how that feels… running out of oxygen… you’ll probably get sleepy, lose consciousness. I think a bullet in the gut would be better than suffocating,” Billy said. And in the long run, what does an extra seven or eight hours mean? It would be better to go fast than slow. “If we shoot you, you’ll be dead long before us,” the man snarled. He was working hard to try to remain calm, in control. Volume XXII Number 19.January 19, 2016ģ24 pp., trade pbk.
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