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Summary: A great, yet scary read
Review: Having just weened myself off a serious addiction to on-line gaming I could really identify with Jasmine when she suddenly found herself disconnected from everything around here. I picked this book up one night just too take a quick look and ended up reading the first 100 pages. We can only hope the future doesn't end up like this.
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Summary: Thoroughly Enjoyed
Review: I am really new to the book reading scene but I can say that, for what it is worth, Syne Mitchell managed to reel me in from the opening page and keep me coming back for more till the end. I just finished reading "Light of Other Days", "Armor", and "Expendables". So with my limited book vocabulary, if you will, this is by far my favorite.I just hope that I haven't been spoiled to the point where it ruins other books I endeavor to read. Just enough details for my mind to paint it's own scenes with the complimentary amount of directing to keep me on track with the author's story. I really liked this book. I recommend this book highly to anybody reading this right now.
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Summary: the birth of sci-fi
Review: i used to hate sci-fi...i mean i really loathed it, but then i read technogenesis. ever since, i haven't been able to stop reading them. i'm even taking advanced sci-fi classes now, all because of this book. but anyways, Technogenesis...i read the whole thing in less than one whole day. it was great! i've read it about 100 times now. the way the author details her text paints a vivid picture in people's mind. the whole time i could "see" what i read...as if it were a movie, just in my mind.
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Summary: Good old-fashioned cyberpunk!
Review: I've always been a big fan of the cyberpunk subgenre, and, in my opinion, Technogenesis falls squarely into that camp. The opening is classic. The very "connected" Jasmine Reese is forced off the net due to hardware malfunction. She discovers very quickly that the Beast is watching her. An entire conspiracy starts unfolding, and soon Jaz finds herself in the thick of it, forced to decide--in a typically cyberpunk fashion--between the government and personal freedom. What I like about Technogenesis particularly is that the decision Jaz faces is not as easy as it seems. The government (the usual big baddie) comes on very gestapo-esque, but their motivations are revealed to be almost benign--perhaps (gasp!) even decent. Meanwhile, the radical scientists who oppose the government are morally squishy as well, and, like Jaz, I found myself unsure whom to root for on occasion. Plus, there's a very satisfying romantic element, and, although Jaz doesn't make the choice I would have, her motivations are true to character. I'm also a fairly slow reader (thanks to mild dyslexia), and I ripped through this book. It's thoroughly engaging. All and all an enjoyable read. Highly recommended.
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Summary: Interesting Look at the Future of the Net
Review: In "Technogenesis" Syne Mitchell does what I wouldn't have thought possible--she's created character-based cyberpunk. Her Jasmine Reese is conflicted and capable and Mitchell's look at a future Net in which an AI uses people's minds as, well, human resources is chilling. The book's heroes (if you can even use that word) have a touch of larceny and the villains (ditto) turn out to have good reasons for their apparent villainy. This is Mitchell's second book (her first, "Murphy's Gambit," is a reworking of classic space opera) and she has a flair for fast-paced action and fluid prose. An author to watch.
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Summary: absorbing and creative science fiction tale
Review: In the not too distant future, most of humanity is hooked up to the net, if not through a computer than through neural jewelry or special glasses. Most people stay on the net twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, conducting business and pleasurable pursuits and even virtually eat and sleep in cyberspace.
Jasmine Reese is one of the rare people that can find data anywhere on the net and is able to immerse herself in it so thoroughly that she becomes part of it. When her hook-up to the net is broken she sees things that make her wonder if the neural computers transmitted by the net are controlling her and everyone else linked to it. When a secret government agency kidnaps her and forces her to do what the net wants, she vows to regain her individuality by avoiding cyberspace and do whatever it takes to fight her new enemy's intelligence network.
Syne Mitchell has written an absorbing and creative science fiction tale that is fine entertainment for those fans that like a futuristic drama. TECHNOGENESIS addresses some interesting social issues, which are cleverly intertwined inside the story line but it is the characters that raise the quality level of this novel from a poor man's Matrix into a strong story. The protagonist is flawed and weak at times yet so heroic that she represents the finest qualities inherent in our species. On a scale from one to ten, this novel is an eleven. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Excellent, believable Science Fiction
Review: It's always wonderful to find a new author who can tell a great story or create an interesting future or place real seeming characters in exciting situations...Syne Mitchell can do all three. And she can do it while making you think. I got this book as a reviewer's copy (hot on the heels of a book by her husband, I might add). I'd eyed Technogenesis in the book store, but with so much I HAVE to read, I thought I'd never have time. Imagine my delight when one of my journals sent this to me for a review! Imagine further when I started reading and just couldn't stop. This is an excellent science fiction thriller in a wholely believable future. I can't wait to get Mitchell's first book. Since Sheri Tepper (personal favorite) only writes one a year, I am so dang happy to find someone who hooks me like she does. And eventhough I'm not her husband (Eric Nylund--see above HA! There's the guy to go to for an objective opinion) I too think this is a ripping good read! {His books are great too if you haven't checked them out...um, I like this more...Yipe, sorry again Eric!} Happy Reading!
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Summary: Solid!
Review: Note added: Technogenesis has made the preliminary Nebula award ballot for best novel. This is solid science fiction from start to end. Set a hundred years in the future, the extrapolations were right on and interesting, creating a believable world. This is not a black and white book of good vs. evil, but much more realistic with everyone sure they're doing the right thing EXCEPT for the protagonist whose every choice is difficult which makes for riveting fiction. The final chapters of the novel send the story in pleasantly unexpected directions and maintain the feeling of a real character struggling to do the right thing in world of hard choices. Very much recommended and at least as good if not better than Mitchell's first novel, Murphy's Gambit. P.S. The book cover police should nab this one -- the protagonist is a woman of Irish-Indian descent, but the cover silhouette sure looks male.
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Summary: An exceptional story
Review: Perhaps the most captivating science fiction read of recent months is Syne Mitchell's Technogenesis, which tells of a near-future society connected full-time with one another. When data miner Jasmine becomes disconnected from the network, she uncovers some disturbing truths in this tense thriller which holds many unexpected twists and turns. An exceptional story.
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Summary: Brilliant
Review: Syne Mitchell is extraordinarily talented. Her concepts on the nature of consciousness is like reading Antonio Damasio, ("The feeling of what Happens") and her net characterizations are as good as Stephenson, (Snow Crash). One gets connected with this book in the same way that her characters get connected to the net. Except the Net in this novel has developed it's own consciousness, made up of all those connected. But a competition for this new consciousness has arisen, and threatens the nets existence.
Highly recommended, you won't disconnect till the very last page.
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