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Lädt ... Watermind: Es kann jederzeit passierenvon M. M. Buckner
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. An interesting premise, perhaps, but not good writing. Characters were caricatures with no depth. And the author has a very annoying habit of misusing commas. ( ) Interesting concept, but spoiled by poor writing. The characters were cardboard when secondary, and random when primary, particularly the protagonist and the human antagonist, behaving firmly how the plot required them to whether or not it made any sense in terms of their supposed personalities. I think the resolution was scientifically implausible given the nature of the beast, but then so was much of its behavior. Nanotech combines with silicon refuse and other stuff, trying to escape from big corporate dumping grounds. The nanswarm, eventually called the Watermind, is not anthropomorphized. Most of story is from the POV of a science dropout who stumbles upon it. I never warmed up to the characters much, but I thought it was quite good, allowing for speculation without spoonfeeding readers (reminding me of Sharman DiVono's under-appreciated *Blood Moon*). For instance, unexpected acts by characters could be explained by others' influence, but to explain more would be a spoiler. Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
From storm drains, illegal dumps, and flooded landfills, all of North America's most advanced technology flows down the Mississippi river - microchips, nano-devices, pharmaceuticals, genetically modified seed - and lodges in the Louisiana delta. Out of this mire emerges a self-organized neural net, drifting in the water: the Watermind. It can freeze, boil, condense, and move - seemingly at will. CJ Reilly is a brilliant, sexy, self-destructive MIT dropout running away from Cambridge and the suicide of her ironic, emotionally-distant father. She is both infuriating and sympathetic. She is working as a laborer in Devil's Swamp near Baton Rouge, cleaning up a small pollution spill when she and her new lover, Max, discover the mysterious Watermind. Reilly's more interested in investigating it than containing it, but when it kills someone and escapes into the Mississippi, corporations, governments, protesters, the coast guard, and a really wacky underground journalist get involved. And there's no longer any question that it must be destroyed before it reaches the ocean. Watermind is Philip K. Dick meets The Blob, a postmodern combination of camp SF motifs and writerly ambition attacking serious subjects. "M.M. Buckner's Watermind is powered by a lean, reaching prose, a protagonist so real you can practically reach out and touch her, and a tight techno-savvy plot that will leave you exhausted The best book I've read in years." -- William C. Dietz, author of Legion of the Damned Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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