What kind of book is Disoriented?
Disoriented is published by Latter-day Saint publisher Cornerstone and marketed to the Latter-day Saint market. It is a novel which straddles a few traditional mainstream categories: it could be classified as a thriller, a science fiction novel, or even a romance. Clearly it is a religious novel, written by a Latter-day Saint author for a Latter-day Saint audience. For the first half of the novel, Disoriented is very much a science fiction thriller/adventure. It is set in the near future (a few years from now) and features some speculative technology and some very mysterious yet scientifically observed phenomena. But although its science fiction elements are strong (including the use of two scientists as the primary protagonists and the significance of theoretical particle physics), Disoriented taken as a whole is not best classified as science fiction. Looking at the book within the context of speculative fiction as a whole, many might describe the novel as contemporary fantasy. But t
