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Loading... Amped (Vintage Contemporaries) (edition 2013)by Daniel H. Wilson
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. So Humans create tech to fix problems like epilepsy and ADD and insert them into kids and other people who need it. The technology evolves and people get them inserted to be smarter, faster and the military gets involved... Then everyone freaks out and get legislation to pass making discrimination against people with this technology legal. A war is planned. Everything goes crazy. I liked this book. This is another story from Daniel H Wilson about how humanity is defined, and what defines it. This is a difficult question to answer in normal times, but when prosthetics become so entwined with the human body that to remove them would be partial, if not toal, death, does humanity define itself by the absence of tech? no reviews | add a review
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HTML:Technology makes them superhuman. But mere mortals want them kept in their place. The New York Times bestselling author of Robopocalypse creates a stunning, near-future world where technology and humanity clash in surprising ways. The result? The perfect summer blockbuster. As he did in Robopocalypse, Daniel Wilson masterfully envisions a frightening near-future world. In Amped, people are implanted with a device that makes them capable of superhuman feats. The powerful technology has profound consequences for society, and soon a set of laws is passed that restricts the abilitiesâ??and rightsâ??of "amplified" humans. On the day that the Supreme Court passes the first of these laws, twenty-nine-year-old Owen Gray joins the ranks of a new persecuted underclass known as "amps." Owen is forced to go on the run, desperate to reach an outpost in Oklahoma where, it is rumored, a group of the most enhanced amps may be about to change the worldâ??or destroy it. Once again, Daniel H. Wilson's background as a scientist serves him well in this technologically savvy thriller that delivers first-rate entertainment, as Wilson takes the "what if" question in entirely unexpected directions. Fans of Robopocalypse are sure to be delighted, and legions of new fans will want to get "amped" thi No library descriptions found. |
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The biggest problem is that the main character spends most of his time reacting and recovering, rather than acting. We don't know what drives him, other than he has a chip in his brain and this puts him in peril from those who deem such 'amps' as a danger. He's too much of a blank slate for someone in their twenties that's made it through school and is a teacher.
For their part, the antagonists were not much better. For most of the book it appears that they are opposed to amps and want to round them up because they don't like them. That seems overly simple and so they all come across as dastardly villains, rather than real threats. Even the most developed antagonist is complex mostly because he is inconsistent, other than his consistent efforts to work against his own interests.
Bottom line is this is another fantastic concept of a book from Daniel Wilson, but once more he disappoints in the execution. Even so, I look forward to his next effort. ( )