"Enormity" by W.G. Marshall

With my book club this month, we read a Sci-Fi novel by a local Rhode Island author. The book is called Enormity. It is reminiscent of Jonathan Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels and more modern takes on giants such as Godzilla or King Kong. So even though the subject is not new, W.G. Marshall puts a new spin on it. The setting is South Korea. Our main character Manny Lopes finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time and accidentally gets blown up to giant proportions by a dark matter device.

Marshall’s giants are much bigger than we are used to seeing in this genre. Manny is over a mile tall which makes any sort of interaction with regular humans impossible: he cannot see them and basically causes havoc and destruction simply by moving around.

Another aspect of the book that I enjoyed are geo-political and military implications. Parts of this book are really witty and clever and I found myself chuckling as I was going through the novel.
It is a very quick and enjoyable read, and the book is definitely grossly underrated. I highly recommend it.

One word of caution: the book does contain several graphic sex scenes. When we met with the author, he said he included them to demonstrate how much privacy factors into our lives, and for a giant being privacy is just not even an option. Overall, a great read. 4 out of 5 stars.