The Gemlef is another book in a series by the Australian author A.S. Finney, which deals with the entity known as the Tefugart.  The Gemlef is a spaceship that has powers beyond the imagination of humans.  It is as though it is a living thing that is indestructible. 

The book starts with the Tefugart taking on a physical presence and imparting to a small group of four people, supernatural powers.  This leads the group to form an alliance with the Gemlef spaceship and a group of aliens, the Terasky’s.  This alliance leads them to Mars and to do battle with a wide variety of phenomenon throughout the book. 

The characters Sarah Hawthorne, Bill Fry, Zoe castle and her assistant Jack all play a pivotal role in the plot.  Sarah emerges as the saviour of the earth with her daughter Gemma taking on an even more important role for the preservation of life.  But yet again, as with A.S. Finney’s other books the story fails to deliver a tightly bound plot. 

Yet despite the books many structural faults I found it to be an improvement over previous works by this author.