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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Of his 3 books, the debut novel while well written was somewhat predictable unlike the other two. The author's grasp of advanced science and ability to percolate momentum are admirable. The gargoyle like creature is crazy as is the sort of Olympic game its created for. Aside from that, its a good read especially for those who like advanced computer VR stuff and a breakneck pace as the story comes to a close. ( ) An interesting premise (genetically engineered monsters fighting as an Olympic event) that the author doesn't completely trust to be a story all by itself. He adds a related secondary story that just never felt quite right. Worth reading but a story that took this premise and talked about the societal ramifications would have been better. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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"This stunning first novel from Nebula Award and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist Ted Kosmatka is a riveting tale of science cut loose from ethics. Set in an amoral future where genetically engineered monstrosities fight each other to the death in an Olympic event, The Games envisions a harrowing world that may arrive sooner than you think. Silas Williams is the brilliant geneticist in charge of preparing the U.S. entry into the Olympic Gladiator competition, an internationally sanctioned bloodsport with only one rule: no human DNA is permitted in the design of the entrants. Silas lives and breathes genetics; his designs have led the United States to the gold in every previous event. But the other countries are catching up. Now, desperate for an edge in the upcoming Games, Silas's boss engages an experimental supercomputer to design the genetic code for a gladiator that cannot be beaten. The result is a highly specialized killing machine, its genome never before seen on earth. Not even Silas, with all his genius and experience, can understand the horror he had a hand in making. And no one, he fears, can anticipate the consequences of entrusting the act of creation to a computer's cold logic. Now Silas races to understand what the computer has wrought, aided by a beautiful xenobiologist, Vidonia Joao. Yet as the fast-growing gladiator demonstrates preternatural strength, speed, and--most disquietingly--intelligence, Silas and Vidonia find their scientific curiosity giving way to a most unexpected emotion: sheer terror"-- Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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