We are not alone, and it’s our own damn fault ... Something demonic is stalking the brightest men and women in the computer...
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Mar 27, 2009
Stefan
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So-so near-future techno thriller in the Jurassic Park vein: technology X leads to beastie Y set loose on unsuspecting society. The technology in question is Artificial Life, and the monster basically a souped up version of a computer virus. "Artificial Life" means the virus, rather than being a designed program, has evolved from a basic bit of code to a sophisticated and intelligent, um, bit of code that can grow, learn, be trained, and eventually starts showing predatory behavior.
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May 29, 2009
Karina
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Feb 27, 2009
Alan
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Edward M. Lerner tricked me. His novel Fools' Experiments starts off badly, as if Lerner had decided to wrest the anti-science thriller mantle from the late Michael Crichton's shoulders before his winding sheets were cold. With wooden dialogue, simplistic characterizations and lots of infodumps, Fools' Experiments seems at first to be nothing more than a potboiler with an axe to grind. There was one tiny clue - the properly-placed apostrophe in the title - that Lerner could be a more careful wri
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Nov 22, 2009
Bruce
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Well written with a good story. The IT aspects are mostly accurate. Suspension of disbelief has only a few hiccups. The worse thing about the work is a tension in the story line that seems to have no good correlation with the tempo and intensity of the story making us wonder why? I would recommend this to my IT friends and colleagues to read on holiday after a few brews but not to the general audience of science fiction readers.
Dec 28, 2009
Joe
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Well written. The IT technology was fairly accurate, but the embodiment of applications having a personification and the general feeling of how the artificial life moved through switches and nodes as an entity with self control was a bit much. The battle to kill it was a bit of a reach, but this is fiction after all and it has to appeal to a broader mass of readers. I just had trouble suspending the current state of technical reality for the last half of the book.
Nov 08, 2010
Falbs
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A book with some excellent ideas, but I wish authors would do a better job of giving us insight into how electronic battles would take place. I get a little fed up with authors just substituting real, physical battle scenes instead of coming up with a more original idea.
May 01, 2009
Jennie
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This book was a pretty interesting story about what can happen when artificial life and computer viruses get together. It reminded me of a medical thriller gone to the computer side. The only complaint I have is it moved a little slow for me.
Feb 05, 2009
Dennis
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Wow, what can I say, I rarely find a book I don't like and this one had to be it. I don't know what it was, it was hard to pinpoint for me why exactly I didn't like it. It just didn't grab me and pull me into the book. I have had several books start out slow and then just hook me, this one was slow...and kept the same pace throughout for me.
Apr 18, 2009
Daniel
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I liked the way that Lerner described the AI's learning process. It had a decent pace and plot, and was consistent throughout.
Mar 31, 2010
Kernos
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A cyberpunk horror story about how stupid humans can be when it come's to acquiring power. It gets 6.5 of 10 on my scale, a fun read, but purely escapist.
Oct 15, 2010
Lisa
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A computer that's created to think for itself does just that, and havoc ensues.
Mar 03, 2009
Natalie
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I enjoyed the first half, particularly the chapters from the point of view of the increasingly intelligent computer virus. Then I put it down and could not get back into the book, which seemed to becoming more plot-oriented and less idea-based. If I had maintained momentum I probably would have finished it.
Feb 13, 2009
Michelle
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I'm giving this a 3 1/2 stars. You need to be a techie to enjoy. A story about AI.
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