Earth Gets Even is the fourth book in the Shonak series and details how Earth finally catches

up with Shonak’s key technologies allowing inter-phase travel and communication, anti-gravity

flight, and virtually unlimited power from small, eco-friendly devices. The technology leap made

by Earth is not made by the science or technology community, but rather by a high school senior

in Phoenix, with a knack for seeing the possible and then making it happen. What Benjamin

Post learns first is that he can now see the extent of Shonak surveillance of Earth, and he works

with some others and the World President to bring Shonak to heel over it. Rather than ban the

surveillance they decide to cash in on it and monetize the habitual vid-watching of Earthtaking

place on Shonak. This book is a fun read that helps bring some closure to the historically tentative

relationship Earth has had with Shonak. Beginning at the start of Earth’s recorded history it

has continued unabated and largely unknowntill now the fourth millennium on Earth. Ben

Post becomes something of a savior to a planet with some fifteen billion people and he also

becomes the world’s first and only trillionaire. Enjoy his transition from kid to owner of the largest

manufacturing conglomerate in history of Earth, and watch as his ideas change the planet forever,

and for the better. Dennis Patrick Treece’s Shonak Series is written in his distinct story-telling style.

This book, the fourth in the series,has a coming-of-age story where Benjamin Post is the hero. It

follows his saga as a young inventor turned global relationist and entrepreneur. The book ends

with his meeting the World President and formulating a plan to monetize Shonak’s near complete

invasion of Earther Privacy. Though this ending is dramatic, especially due to Benjamin’s humble

start, it shows how Benjamin has grown and changed over the course of the novel. Whether he

made the right decisions is up for the reader to decide. This book is a fun sci-fi read for mature

audiences. Though Benjamin Post is a bit naive and awkward, he is 100% teenager, and the

narrator reveals this to us throughout the book. Taking place in the far away future - the book

features many other fun elements of science fiction such as phase weapons, autonomous taxis

and secret spy communication with invisible heat-reactive ink. Treece’s entire series takes a close

look at the human condition and how people react to power and fortune, in stark contrast to the

way things are done on Shonak. Treece’s series is wildly imaginative yet realistic. The author uses

believable characters and situations decorated with elements of the future and the foreign. He

shows a tense relationship with “the other” which is such a prevalent topic in the world today. Not

only did Treece invent a completely alternate world belonging to an alternate universe, he also

designed the future of our planet. Dig in, and enjoy!