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Amazon.com Book Description (ISBN 0380808188, Mass Market Paperback)The future war is now. Hiding out in Alaska, Sarah and John Connor, along with ex-counterterrorist agent, Dieter von Rossbach, are playing a waiting game -- trying to live their lives but ever watchful of Cyberdyne Corporation and the possibility of Skynet, the artificial intelligence network destined to destroy the world as we know it. They've fought for years to prevent this, and now, believing that John's love, Wendy, sacrificed herself to successfully prevent Skynet from becoming sentient, they think humanity may finally have a chance to survive. Then the United States government announces that all military and communications systems will be placed under the command of a brand-new, extremely powerful Artificial Intelligence named Skynet, effective immediately. Racing desperately to alert their allies, the Connors discover that Wendy's sacrifice was in vain -- far from being harmless, Skynet is active, sentient, and ready to terminate the human nuisance once and for all. Engineered by the relentless AI, the apocalypse of Judgment Day turns cities into deathtraps and releases mass destruction across the globe. In the nuclear winter that follows, our world changes forever: Cities become deathtraps of disease and famine patrolled by implacable machines, the first Hunter-Killer and T-90 Terminator units begin to exterminate their human prey, and all human life faces a desperate battle for survival against a seemingly unstoppable enemy. But there is still one rallying cry of hope, one man who will step to the forefront of the long fight to keep humanity from extinction: John Connor. A well-regarded author of alternate history sf novels, S. M. Stirling has written more than twenty-five books, including acclaimed collaborations with Anne McCaffrey, Jerry Pournelle, and David Drake. His most recent novels are T2®: Rising Storm, T2®: Infiltrator, The Conquistadors, and The Peshawar Lancers.(retrieved from Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:56 -0400) The first test round has been closed. Visit the Open Shelves Classification group for details. |
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Story (not much different than the movies, just more details of what happened where):
Despite (and maybe because) of their best efforts John Connor and Sarah Connor have failed in preventing Skynet from becoming self aware. Most of the world is caught unaware as the nuclear missles fall and kill billions in a matter of minutes. All that is left are those who were quick enough to get to shelters, the fledgling resistance members and eco/anti technology groups that unknowingly serve skynet. The only hope for humanity is for John Connor to rise up to his destiney and take the fight to skynet before it attempts to go back in time and change history so he never exists.
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This was a pretty good book considering how many differnt versions of the story their are (the orignal movies, the new movies, the tv series etc). It definetly keeps moving and you want to know what happens next. My only problem with this book was that toward the end it did start to jump forward a lot. In one chapter you would be 5 years in the future and then the next chapter you might be another 10 years in the future. I guess the author go told to wrap the series up when he still may have had another book to write. It doesn't detract from the story in this book it just seems like a lot is crammed into the last 5 or 6 chapters. I would recommend this to anyone who likes the terminator uninverse and wants more details as to why this and that happened and those who like good scifi adventure stories with plenty of action. One side note this is part of a trilogy, but you dont have to read the other two to enjoy this one. My guess is they kind of stand alone. m.a. (