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Summary: Better than I expected
Review: Tek is the newest illegal and most addictive drug. It is electronic in nature, generating a false reality to match whatever you desire. To use it, a headset is placed on your head and a disk containing the experience is placed in the player. I imagine it would be much like the Apple iPod or Sony Walkman. Jake Cardigan is a former police officer who was convicted of dealing in Tek and sentenced to a fifteen-year sentence to be spent in a suspended sleep state on a satellite of Earth. However, he is granted a parole after only four years, awakened and sent back to earth. His wife has divorced him and taken his son to an undisclosed location.
Jake is hired by the Cosmos Detective Agency and reunited with Sid Gomez, also a former officer. They set out looking for a professor and his daughter. The professor has been working on a device that could destroy all Tek disks in the world, and since Tek is big business, the ruthless drug lords are trying to prevent him from developing the device. Robots and androids are prevalent in the society, and some of the androids are so sophisticated, they can pass for human.
Cardigan is persistent, traveling down to Mexico to be reunited with the leader of a rebel army, who is also his former lover. He avoids several assassination attempts, even managing to fend off three animated bulls who try to kill him. Eventually, he learns that his ex-wife and her boss were the ringleaders of his being framed, but he manages to find the professor and then his daughter. During his adventure, he meets an android copy of the professor's daughter and develops feelings for her. However, the android is destroyed when she saves him from being destroyed by a kamikaze, which is an android that seeks out a person and then explodes, killing them.
While this story is not the highest quality science fiction in terms of style, there is a great deal of originality. The Tek drug is somewhat original and certainly reminds you of the mindless quality of people with a Walkman on their head. The kamikaze android and some of the other aspects of the robots and androids show some originality. I enjoyed the story, reading it in a single sitting. Clearly, from the structure of the story, it was designed to be the first in a series.
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Summary: An excellent first try
Review: As soon as I started reading, I couldn't put this book down. It was everything I expected and more. I could picture all the events and the people while reading and that made it extra special. For anyone who enjoys science fiction this has to be on the list(at the top)! Once I started with this book,I did not like to put it down and the serial of TEKWAR books were a priority of mine to get and keep and reread. Jake Cardigan is one of my now favorite characters,thanks to William Shatner. I do hope to see more of these books in the future.
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Summary: Fun...
Review: Cop hunts down druglords in the future. Basic plot of the whole series...but what the hell? It's fun. The vocabulary is humorous (probably because of its relative simplicity), the action is fast-paced, the characters believable, and over-all it's almost slick. It ain't Blade Runner, but like I said before...it's fun.
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Summary: Awful
Review: I picked up this book mostly because I'm a Star Trek fan, and I like William Shatner. Usually even when a book is extraordinarily bad, I will finish it, in order to, I suppose, give the author a fair shot. I only forced myself halfway through this one before deciding that it was more pain than it was worth. I couldn't bring myself to care about Mr. Cardigan, the hero, or his sorrows. If Shatner was trying to resurrect the pure testosterone appeal of his lost youth, well, I'm not biting - he should have read Burrough's Martian Tales to see how pure testosterone is done. If he was going for torture and internal conflict, he could not have failed more miserably. If that's what you're looking for, forget Shatner. Try Feintuch's Hope series. That was absolutely unbeatable. After my experience with Tekwar, Shatner doesn't get another chance in my book.
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Summary: TEK WAR IS EXCELLENT
Review: Okay I'll admit I merely bought this book because Shatner is the author. I, however, found TEK WAR to be fun and exciting to read. Jake Cardigan is a wonderfully realistic protagonist who is not without his own vices. After being parolled from the Freezer, Cardigan tries to find out who framed him for dealing the virtual reality drug TEK. This book is great. When I started it I couldn't put it down
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Summary: It's better than the one by LaForge.
Review: Pretty good modern pulp by Billy Shat. Required reading for all entry-level Shatnerologists. For those less enlightened, if this doesn't convert you, nothing will.
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Summary: SHATNER AN AUTHOR--WHO KNEW?
Review: Tekwar is a great first novel. This book has everything, beautiful girls, killer androids, mind altering computer chips and lots of action. Jake Cardigan is a cop who has been framed for dealing Tek, a mind altering computer chip, and sentenced to the "freezer" for 15 years. Cosmos, a private investgative firm has need of his services and gets him released after only 4 years. Things change a lot for Jake in four years. Jake has to venture to Mexico to find Dr. Kittridge and his daughter Beth who have been kidnapped by Tek drug lords for the anti-tek device they have developed. This book is fast paced and an excellent read.
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Summary: SHATNER AN AUTHOR--WHO KNEW?
Review: Tekwar is a great first novel. This book has everything, beautiful girls, killer androids, mind altering computer chips and lots of action. Jake Cardigan is a cop who has been framed for dealing Tek, a mind altering computer chip, and sentenced to the "freezer" for 15 years. Cosmos, a private investgative firm has need of his services and gets him released after only 4 years. Things change a lot for Jake in four years. Jake has to venture to Mexico to find Dr. Kittridge and his daughter Beth who have been kidnapped by Tek drug lords for the anti-tek device they have developed. This book is fast paced and an excellent read.
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Summary: Better than you think
Review: The bulk of science fiction is lousy. There are a few geniuses (Asimov, Clarke, Ellison) who make the genre better than it is. TekWar is somewhere in between. Better than most of what's out there, but otherwise pretty middle of the road. It is also enjoyable.
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Summary: Shatner has created a fast paced entertaining journey.
Review: This is the first Shatner book I read. I have read the first 5 and liked them all. I stopped reading them when I became obsessed with the new Star Wars expanded universe following Timothy Zahn's trilogy about the further adventures of Luke and friends. If you saw FIFTH ELEMENT I imaged that Shatner's Jake Cardigan was a futuristic scruffy, PI more like Bruce Willis than Stacey Keach. When the TV series started starring Greg Evigan I thought Evigan did a fine job. Shatner and friends have done a great job creating this futuristic world where Tek theatens to do real harm to humanity. Cardigan, after spending years in a deep freeze coma prison is released and goes to work for a detective agency. The TV series followed the books fairly closely as Shatner was a big part of both, but the books had differences. Check these book out if you can find them. They are a fun read.
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