A stunning “what if” view of future human development and evolution and a morality tale about modern “security” concerns regarding the web and internet free speech issues.
Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
This book is right up my street. Essentially a technothriller set in the near future where nano-based drugs have enabled people to build an OS on top of the brain and interconnect. From that setup we’re sent around the world in an international espionage mission. There’s a few subplots too addressing various issues centred around the military. Throughout the characters are put into difficult situations and tested to the maximum. Ramaz Naam clearly knows his science and manages to squeeze in a lot of ‘could happen’ extrapolations without bogging the story down too much with dull facts or explanations.
I would have given the book 4 stars, but I’m afraid I was annoyed by the editing and formatting. I’m used to a few errors in ebooks as it seems most publishers still haven’t nailed the process yet, but this one had so many errors within it (I can’t speak for the print), that I was frequently pulled out of the story.
For the benefit of the publishers the errors were: typos, inconsistent formatting of internal/nexus dialogue, hyphens where there shouldn’t be any, and sometimes none where there should, missing words, and inconsisten italics. The hyphens were mostly a problem in the Thai names; sometimes they were there, other times they weren’t (in the same name).
Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
Excellent book. The author has a talent for writing fast paced plot and action scenes combined with intelligent and believable science fiction. He is clearly passionate about his beliefs for human freedom and self determination. The passion of the main characters is quite moving in parts… The whole book is about our potential to be more and the potential we can unleash through our capacity to communicate in synergy. The whole mid section of the book is almost one long action scene. The pace does not let up and you are kept turning the pages. The kind of book you would like to be twice as long. Here’s hoping for a sequal. So : a very exciting read, solid SF base, well written, good characters. Well worth the money !
Help other customers find the most helpful reviews
See the future as imagined by someone who’s creating it.,
A stunning “what if” view of future human development and evolution and a morality tale about modern “security” concerns regarding the web and internet free speech issues.
Was this review helpful to you?
|Fun story let down by editing/proofreading,
This book is right up my street. Essentially a technothriller set in the near future where nano-based drugs have enabled people to build an OS on top of the brain and interconnect. From that setup we’re sent around the world in an international espionage mission. There’s a few subplots too addressing various issues centred around the military. Throughout the characters are put into difficult situations and tested to the maximum. Ramaz Naam clearly knows his science and manages to squeeze in a lot of ‘could happen’ extrapolations without bogging the story down too much with dull facts or explanations.
I would have given the book 4 stars, but I’m afraid I was annoyed by the editing and formatting. I’m used to a few errors in ebooks as it seems most publishers still haven’t nailed the process yet, but this one had so many errors within it (I can’t speak for the print), that I was frequently pulled out of the story.
For the benefit of the publishers the errors were: typos, inconsistent formatting of internal/nexus dialogue, hyphens where there shouldn’t be any, and sometimes none where there should, missing words, and inconsisten italics. The hyphens were mostly a problem in the Thai names; sometimes they were there, other times they weren’t (in the same name).
Was this review helpful to you?
|Fast Paced, well written & passionate,
Excellent book. The author has a talent for writing fast paced plot and action scenes combined with intelligent and believable science fiction. He is clearly passionate about his beliefs for human freedom and self determination. The passion of the main characters is quite moving in parts… The whole book is about our potential to be more and the potential we can unleash through our capacity to communicate in synergy. The whole mid section of the book is almost one long action scene. The pace does not let up and you are kept turning the pages. The kind of book you would like to be twice as long. Here’s hoping for a sequal. So : a very exciting read, solid SF base, well written, good characters. Well worth the money !
Was this review helpful to you?
|