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Summary: Better than the Movie T3
Review: I picked up "T2-Infiltrator" due the fact that I didn't enjoy "T3 Rise of the Machine" movie. This book is really great! It picks up serveral year after T2 Judgement Day and tells the story of John and Sarah Conner in their quest to stop the war from ever happening. Old Characters from the movie including the Dyson family and Enrique are around and new ones are introduce, such as where did Skynet discover the model for the T-100? The writer does not lack in action and keeps the reader's interest. This a great book for any fan of the movies and should not be missed.
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Summary: A repeat to a previous series.
Review: I read T2: Infiltrator in sprind of 2002, and was sort of impressed. I found it a little hard to believe that the badguy (lady, really) got snuggled in so quickly with Cyberdyne Systems, makers of the dreaded Skynet system. And then there's the makeshift T101's Burns was making, and everyone falling for the overused "We're related" response. Running around, knocking off Terminators was ok, but introducing the guy that Skynet got the face from to give all T101s was a bit far-fetched. However, I later noticed a bigger problem. In spring of 2003, I read S. M. Stirling's "Drakon", of the Domination of the Draka series. Infiltrator's badlady is almost a duplicate of Drakon's! If you've read the Drakon, you already pretty much know how Infiltrator will turn out. Although well written, it felt bad reading the same story over again with different place/people names. Even the endings are alike. IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW, THEN DON'T READ FURTHER: Bad ladies set up back-up plans to ensure their existance; cloning themselves with the ability to remember their past lives, with allies and a little technology to start off with. These people may have conquered the worlds they know, but I hope the author would make up his mind and let them conquer ours or not.
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Summary: A repeat to a previous series.
Review: I read T2: Infiltrator in sprind of 2002, and was sort of impressed. I found it a little hard to believe that the badguy (lady, really) got snuggled in so quickly with Cyberdyne Systems, makers of the dreaded Skynet system. And then there's the makeshift T101's Burns was making, and everyone falling for the overused "We're related" response. Running around, knocking off Terminators was ok, but introducing the guy that Skynet got the face from to give all T101s was a bit far-fetched. However, I later noticed a bigger problem. In spring of 2003, I read S. M. Stirling's "Drakon", of the Domination of the Draka series. Infiltrator's badlady is almost a duplicate of Drakon's! If you've read the Drakon, you already pretty much know how Infiltrator will turn out. Although well written, it felt bad reading the same story over again with different place/people names. Even the endings are alike. IF YOU DON'T WANT TO KNOW, THEN DON'T READ FURTHER: Bad ladies set up back-up plans to ensure their existance; cloning themselves with the ability to remember their past lives, with allies and a little technology to start off with. These people may have conquered the worlds they know, but I hope the author would make up his mind and let them conquer ours or not.
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Summary: T2: Infiltrator - Oh My!
Review: I thought the book T2: Infiltrator was a lot better to make into a movie than what I watched in Terminator 3. To me, this had answers where the movie T3 left out. After reading this book then seeing T3, they should have made a movie from this book and left T3 buried.
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Summary: T2: Infiltrator
Review: I thought this was a very good book. I am a huge fan of the Terminator seires and when I found out about this book-sequal I couldn't wait to get it. When I did I was very impressed. Somethings bothered me however. The entire thing about Robert Labane could have been left out. From my point of view it made know sence. The fate of Tricker could have been explained better. A goof I found as that he reffered to the terminator that looked like Arnold Schwartzanegger as a T-101. The real name is T-800, yet this is an understandable mistake seeing as the complete name is Cyberdyne systems modle 101, series 800. The entire concept of the I-950 being half human/half machine was new to me. All and all it was very good and I hope Stirling writes a sequal
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Summary: Slow going at first - but it picks up
Review: I was really looking forward to this book. I was hoping for an engaging plot with a great storyline reminisent of the movies. Alas, I found the book to be very boring and slow going for the first half. Even in the second half, I found the author wrote the sequences too swift without the 'feel' for the atmosphere. Nevertheless, it was a good read, but not a 'great' sequel to the last film. I was slightly disappointed as the author could have done a lot more.
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Summary: Ran out of gas.......
Review: I was very reluctant to read this book, being a huge fan of the "Terminator" movies and having the knowledge of sci-fi movie to book rip-offs. For at least the first two-thirds of this book, I was impressed. The story picks up where "T2" left off. The characters and their personalities are developed. The enemy and its background is developed. The plot flows with a nice even pace, hinting for a major conclusion. But then it all seems to change. Suddenly the pace goes into hyperspeed and everything seems to happen all at once. It felt as if the writer was on a time constraint and needed to hurry up. In doing so, there are some gaps in the plotline. Some of the dialogue was unnecessary, hinting that if "Arnold" was in this as a movie, he would say it that way. Overall it is an average read. I give the first part of the book 5 stars and the last part 1 star. Still a very interesting addition to the "Terminator" story.
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Summary: Pretty Good
Review: In all honesty, it's not the greatest book ever, and S.M Sterling is certainly not what you'd call a great author, but the link to the film franchise was too much for me to resist.
It's an enjoyable read, and, although there are many links to the first two films, it is not that essential that you see the films first, although it would abviously help. I also thought that the author tried far too hard to find places in the book where he could mention events from the previous adventures of John & Sarah Connor. It really didn't need so many references to the past, and it does begin to get rather tedious, but all in all, the idea of having Four Arnie terminator's, one infiltrator female terminator, and of course human 'Arnie'was an incredably bold step to take, and I think Sterling just about pulled it off. If you're a fan of the films, then read this book. If not, then give it a wide berth.
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Summary: One of my favorite sf thriller of the year
Review: In the present, Cyberdene built a computer chip to power Skynet, a military computer that eliminates the human error. Problems begin when Skynet turns sentient and attacks its former masters deeming them unfit to live. Sarah Connor and her son have knowledge of a future where the lad will lead the human resistance against Skynet. Sarah felt that with the death of the Skynet creator and the Cyberdene complex burned to the ground, the future would change. However, the American government declares the Connors as terrorists forcing them to flee to Paraguay. In 2021 John Connor, the resistance leader, tries to destroy Skynet, which has created a new weapon to end all counter insurgence. Cyborgs are attached to a neural link to send Serena back to the present to insure Skynet is built. The weapon system Serena becomes head of Cyberdene security and actively tries to kill the Connors, once again having Sarah and John fighting for their lives and that of the future of humanity. It has been about a decade since T2 hit the screen, yet S.M. Stirling captures the essence of the movie while taking it one step further beyond the icons. The story line is as exciting and fluid as the two movies so that even James Cameron will not want to terminate this series; judging it as worthy. Harriet Klausner
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Summary: Kudos to Stirling for a great book
Review: Man created machines. The more machines man makes, the more man depends upon machines for daily living. But will machines ever become conscoius? Prof. John Searle argues that they won't. But the writers of Terminator 2 disagree w/ the professor. These folks create a world in which not only do machines become conscoius, but shortly after becoming conscious, they choose to try to exterminate the human specie. The human specie only confounds the fecundity of the machines. In T2: Infiltrator, seven years has passed since the end of Terminator 2 (the movie). (I haven't seen Terminator 3, yet, b/c I heard that it was only so-so.) Sarah Conor has started a new life in South America. Cyberdine has started a new life in California. Conflict is bound to arise. By 2029, Skynet has spent years refining its research on Infiltrators, which are human-based instead of machine-based. Skynet's latest creation is the I-950, and it sends one back, with several mission objectives, to 7-years-post-T2. I think that this book was written primarily to satisfy us T2 fans. (I watched T2 at least 12 times.) Infiltrator was well-written, and the author does his best to make the T2 story more coherent and more complete. There's even a character in Infiltrator that makes sense of why the T-101 (played by Schwarzenegger in the movies) had a German accent. I enjoyed Stirling's film-noir-like sense of humor, with lines such as the following: "Skynet just went for you; it didn't dance around and tease like this. Probably nothing in its experience had given it any more reason to try anything more subtle than a sledgehammer." This book is pretty entertaining, and if you're looking for entertainment, then read it. Even though sci-fi is not the genre of books that often provides profound insight into life, Stirling's characters are realistic and multi-faceted. In particular, I enjoyed how Stirling depicted the life and thoughts of the I-950, who lived (and sometimes struggled) between the consciousness of a human and that of a conscious machine. And as with any action story written for a male audience, the author develops the extrordinarily intelligent and competent charismatic protagonist in a way that both elicits the young male reader's admiration and shapes the reader's wishful thoughts. As for me, I agree with Prof. Searle. And I think that only God has the power to create conscious things with free will. But if man could develop conscoius computers that had free will, then I would expect them computers to become evil. And reading about these evil machines versus survivalist humans is part of what makes the Terminator 2 storyline so fun. And funny.
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