The Super Computer and the Key Wave: Ep. 3(2)/The King From The Sky/Novel

Reviewed by Maria Beltran, USA

 for Readers' Favorite

"The King from The Sky" or "Enter The King" by Ibomcha Kolom unfolds with Laysana receiving the prestigious Humanist Award from the President of UNO at the UN. It is a day celebration and the pretty girl is singled out for her social work, which is assisting those who are adversely affected by acid rain. It has been three years since she embraced this advocacy urged in part by a mysterious man named Manlay. This is an era of globalization when the earth is covered with acid rain. Governments have tried to save the earth with the use of a Super Computer installed in a space ship handled by Alice, an artificial female. The Super Computer has failed and Earth seems to be headed for doom. What role will Manlay play in averting this impending disaster?

Ibomcha Kolom’s novel, "The King From The Sky" is an eye opener for all of us who have contributed in the dire strait of our environment today. Imagine a world that is on the brink of disaster and the Super Computer that has been invented to avert the situation has failed. The events in this futuristic novel may as well happen to earth in the near future. The predicament that Laysana and Malay found themselves in is absolutely not far-fetched considering the rate of destruction that is happening to our environment today. This makes the story relevant to our present situation and is thus easy to relate to. Born under completely different circumstances, the main protagonists in Enter the King crosses paths in the most unusual way. And when they did- things are never the same again. This novel is a must read especially for young generation who will soon inherit the world.

Episode 3

The super computer and the key wave

Alice started her another new working by returning back to the Hero-soma which had shifted to another outer space leaving off the Earth’s sky. She has become out of sight.

All human beings on the Earth were being tested one by one by focusing them on the W.L.S. several years had taken place in such a way. But she faced many lengthy-problems and difficulties owing to the lack of accuracies, robots and Super computer.

Alice had become quite exhausted while making such experiment. Dark cloud on the screen had been assuming great proportions gradually. Since the failure on the part of the Hero-sima a number of sinister began to rise in the human society just like the rats frolicking when the cat is away. Truly the human society got entangled in various nefarious acts within these last few years. A new change had assumed. It served a contradictory turn to Alice. Instead of attaining her goal, new forms of social corruption had visibly surfaced: - Some of human being had embarked a new life of corrupt practice. Some had climaxed in the knowledge of evil plans. Some were on the lookout for selfishness only. Some were on the exhibition of noble works and then pulling down to meanest level. Many shady characters just like of another and rapist had appeared in many town and cities. Many officers and Govt. employees were playing on the surface of corruptions. Many politicians formulated sinister political games. Business people play different profiteering strategist. Casting off all obligations for works many people had turned to worshiping under various religious organizations, they tried to flourish knowledge unrelated to work laws. The days, religious people earned a distinction for arguments; the motive of the religions was to divide the human race in different groups. It is said that all religions are the same but each religion was in the rat race inviting dooms. There had appeared in many countries a new trail of earning easily of money in large sums. The extent of pleasure increased double fold but the physical strength decreased. Walking on foot had decreased much. Many crimes and cases of unwanted events appeared in some places owing to the degradation of human characters. In some places life relegated to nothingness by committing suicide. Disgusted will all these things, Alice switched off the meter band and then said:

“The emerging from such people has remained hovering in the sky assuming the looks of evil spirits. Where I shall find out? Out of these many, there is one, some unknown”.

Really Alice was at lost. Such a case had taken place twice before i.e. two events occurred in the past. In various works Hero-sima was victorious, it can be said that there is nothing what the Hero-sima can’t do. But in these two events the Hero-sima suffered defeat. Let us just remind these two occasions:-

The first was in a place in a dark jungle (forest). The name of this place was Samtan. Here was sparsely inhabited population. A powerful juggler ruled over there. He was a famous leader too of the present antisocial of the world. The people of Samtan lived very miserably, because this juggler encompassed all doors to the society of this time. The sad news of Samtan reached the ears of the human beings. But they could do nothing to this magician. After controlling all the antisocial on the Earth, one day the Hero-sima hurled towards Samtan sky aiming to save the small human nation. But on approaching near the place the magician began exposing his might. He made a screen of some which engulfing, as a result of which the place remained of all dark just like in a cave and there all the scientific power of the Hero-sima proved ineffective. Alice was quite struck at the magician’s power. Afterwards the Super Computer informed her by saying:

“We won’t be able to do anything to the magician. But however, someone or a spirit will be coming.  On hearing these words Alice once said wonderfully:

“A human being who can he is?”

It was her first important question. Secondly in the centre of a small city, there had been a vast meadow in fact. Everybody learned that inside the meadow there was a stock of a huge royal treasure. This no one could extract. The owner a powerful rich person of the royal descendant set a number of expert people on to this meadow. But almost of them suffered causalities either being mad or meet with death on entering the meadow on committing such thing, even his wife

 picked up a serious disease. At length this owner of the meadow handed to stock of treasure over to the Hero-sima. The Hero-sima had to remove all the treasures from the meadow. In this attempt to the Hero-sima underwent defeat. That a number of robots derived out three small antigravity crafts from the Hero-sima towards the centre of the meadow. But, when they were descending over the surface of the meadow a sudden mighty cyclone arose within few moments, it carried off the crafts away without being able to trace direction. Along with this the Hero-sima began to shake. The fly had to retreat. The computer then gave advice to Alice like:

” In fact this meadow is guarded by a kind of a goddess. This meadow has been awaiting someone since ancient after her heart. There are numerous internal laws and qualities of a human being. Such case may be about the battle amongst the interiors. There is only one way can’t be stepped or done by even God or any normal one  except the purity or nature or rule or thought gifted by the God to judge or guide a thing. Except this way only, I can do everything in the universe, so you much think endlessly about the human beings.”

On hearing this computer, Alice very much wonderingly uttered:

“What a human being! I come across several types of people. But I quests if there someone unknown”

It was Alice’s second question.

Alice came to remember all the past events one by one. Fumbling

Alice now began putting the 3rd question:

Who are you? That

I am going to find?

A politician or an

Industrial or a

Business man or a

Religion man or a

Mighty like Hitler?

Oh Manlay Laysana

A golden flower,

Blooming amidst

The society’s Dark jungle

Today I am waiting

For you never endingly.

One day if elicited

From the dark corner

Of human minds,

Will brighten in the vast sky

With your true identity

It is my pledge


To be continue.....