Review: Sci-Fi meets futuristic social networking, a great read
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 9, 2011
The writer manages to combine sci-fi/para and fantasy with a hint of something extraordinary. Having read his previous books I really think that the age group (above 16) he targets in this new book is more up his street. It allows him to be more specific when he wants to add a little spice to the story.I liked it a lot. For me it had an essence of realistic futurism, it wasn't a sci-fi notion that is totally off the wall, it is something I can envisage actually being fact in the next 50 years (give or take a few decades). The people in this book are all interlinked physically with a system called Connect, it works through thought and brain synapses (random scientific guess there). They relay messages to one another on a public and also private scale, that also means these messages/signals communicated via Connect are like a mainframe computer, which is attached to chip/node (thingymajig)on their eye or eyelid. This is what the Twitter, FB or social website of the future will look like. People follow Idols, who live in a secluded luxurious place and whether they stay there depends on their followers ratings and popularity. So in essence what today's celebrities will become in the future. His main character Spencer is trying to save her Idol with the help of her friends. The book is fast paced, full of original ideas and once again well worth the read. I highly recommend this author.