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Summary: Missing some ummppphhhh in the end!!!!
Review: Enjoyed most of the book. IT was well written and enjoyable, but it was just missing something in the end!
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Summary: The best book I have read in years!
Review: It is easy to see why this book won the coveted Nebula award for Best Novel. I haven't been this excited about a book since "The Forever War" and "Gateway". Sawyer takes a highly believable character (Dr. Peter Hobson), and masterfuly weaves him through a gauntlet of cutting-edge technology and spine-tingling mystery. I couldn't put it down and read the book in a single setting. Do yourself a favor. Buy it!
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Summary: Excellent and Intelligent
Review: I throughly enjoyed this intelligent thriller
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Summary: Very interesting, touching
Review: I loved this book. The characters and story were compelling, and though I don't believe in a soul, it would be mighty nice if we did have them.
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Summary: Wimpy, laughably PC characters mar this sf soap opera.
Review: Sensitive scientist discovers the soul while also learning that his wife cheats on him. He moops and cries a lot while his wife bites her lip in silent guilt. If you love Alan Alda, you'll love Sawyer's irritating, patronizing "hero," otherwise you'll wonder why the wife didn't cheat sooner.Sawyer's use of AI ignores issues better handled in Greg Egan's PERMUTATION CITY. Sawyer's computer replicas of the scientist "wake up" in the computer, blind and bodiless, yet take it all in stride. Sawyer got an Ontario Arts grant for this book and it shows. It's full of pointless Canada references (was there a quota to qualify for the grant?) A turgid non-thriller.
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Summary: Must book for Forrest Gump
Review: Simple answers for almost all the great questions of mankind: meaning of life, existence of God, life after death. Plus mediocre prose. An ideal book for Forrest Gump! Recommended.
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Summary: Good solid SF doing what SF is best at
Review: When Science Fiction is at its best, the technology is so accurate that only small extensions make it "fiction" instead of "fact". That is definitely the case with the Artificial Intelligence technology utilized in this book. We may not be at the point of actually creating fully thinking simulations, but so MUCH of the technology is right, it is no suspension of belief by the reader to believe that this has been achieved in what is effectively a current day setting. It is truly evident that Sawyer consulted with the experts in the field. When SF is doing its best, it uses the fictional world to deal with important issues. That is also handled adeptly in this book. The Terminal Experiment not only deftly discusses social issues such as abortion and infidelity, but also the "biggies" such as life, death, and the meaning of it all. Even the sidebars indicating media and commerce's reactions to the main character's discovery, which could have really been hokey if not done well, are fun rather than a distraction. A+ for good SF; A+ for SF "doing good"; Sawyer immediately became one of my favorite authors on the reading of this book alone.
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Summary: Thought provoking fictional science
Review: I read this book and thoroughly enjoyed it. It is rightly classed as science fiction because it deals with potential new technologies, how they may be used, how they may affect society (although a bit of discussion beyond Net messages would have been better) and how the "monsters" created by Robert Sawyer's main character get out of control. Don't be put off by the absence of interplanetary wars and lots of wonderful new technologies to ponder. The setting and extrapolation of current trends is quite realistic, and welcome at a time when we are facing the need to debate issues which challenge our ages old vision of humanity. Concerns expressed by other reviewers regarding the number of references to Star Trek and use of aging talkshow hosts are petty. This is classic science fiction because we could open a newspaper tomorrow and read about exactly the sort of research Robert Sawyer discusses. I'll be seeking out other titles by this author.
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Summary: A below average work that is unworthy of the Nebula Award.
Review: The interesting idea of trying to recreate the human mind without the inhibitions of the flesh and of mortality are unique, but the story suffers due to dull one-dimensional characters. The slow-paced plot kill what could have been an interesting story. In the hands of a Dan Simmons or an Orson Scott Card it probably would have been worthy of many an award, but do yourself a favor and pass this sleeping pill up.
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Summary: "There is a Soul"
Review: I was ccaptivated by the content of the Terminal experiment and I would recommend it dearly to any Sci-fi reader.The flow of pages and the way he interweaves several plots concurrently with much success is worth noting.The book touches several issues of morality. From love to repercussions suficing from tampering with mother nature.
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