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We Are Legion
by Dennis E. Taylor
3 1/2 stars
This was a fascinating take on the traditional apocalypse story. Bob is a computer programmer / project manager. He has done very well for himself and decides to spend his money on cryogenics. Of course, very soon thereafter he gets in a car crash and is pronounced dead and frozen. Fast forward a few centuries and Bob wakes up, but he's not really Bob anymore, his memories have been transferred to a computer.
I don't want to give too much away. Suffice it to say I found the whole concept fascinating and Bob's musings on whether he's still human and what's happened to the world are interesting. However, the second half of the book is clunky. I found each story-line very interesting, but didn't like how the book alternated between them. I think I would have enjoyed it more if the author chose to write a new book for each mini-story line, threading them together. Maybe not... but it needed a different sort of treatment, because it just didn't quite work.
Still, enjoyable and worth reading.
This was a fascinating take on the traditional apocalypse story. Bob is a computer programmer / project manager. He has done very well for himself and decides to spend his money on cryogenics. Of course, very soon thereafter he gets in a car crash and is pronounced dead and frozen. Fast forward a few centuries and Bob wakes up, but he's not really Bob anymore, his memories have been transferred to a computer.
I don't want to give too much away. Suffice it to say I found the whole concept fascinating and Bob's musings on whether he's still human and what's happened to the world are interesting. However, the second half of the book is clunky. I found each story-line very interesting, but didn't like how the book alternated between them. I think I would have enjoyed it more if the author chose to write a new book for each mini-story line, threading them together. Maybe not... but it needed a different sort of treatment, because it just didn't quite work.
Still, enjoyable and worth reading.