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Collective Mind
The near future is not what you think it is going to be. 100%! New technology will allow the identification, measurement and downloading of human creativity and, therefore, our world will momentarily change for the better, although it will have left many people behind.
Under the management of scientists, the bio hard drive Collective Mind runs on human creative energy. It can easily solve the majority of modern problems: it provides new technologies, finds remedies against previously incurable diseases, successfully stops an environmental crisis and does many other useful things. People are willing to sell their creativity to Collective Mind to earn money and make the technology more powerful.
Isaac Leroy is one of those who wants to get a lot of money for his creative energy and, thus, solve his biggest problem with getting the funds for his sister's surgery. However, his plans are not going to come true: an unexpected terrorist attack turns him into an avid adversary of this most useful invention in the world. This unfortunate man who finds himself cornered may need to become a desperate criminal. Now his goal is to destroy the Collective Mind technology and eliminate its terrible side effects.
Under the management of scientists, the bio hard drive Collective Mind runs on human creative energy. It can easily solve the majority of modern problems: it provides new technologies, finds remedies against previously incurable diseases, successfully stops an environmental crisis and does many other useful things. People are willing to sell their creativity to Collective Mind to earn money and make the technology more powerful.
Isaac Leroy is one of those who wants to get a lot of money for his creative energy and, thus, solve his biggest problem with getting the funds for his sister's surgery. However, his plans are not going to come true: an unexpected terrorist attack turns him into an avid adversary of this most useful invention in the world. This unfortunate man who finds himself cornered may need to become a desperate criminal. Now his goal is to destroy the Collective Mind technology and eliminate its terrible side effects.
- GenresScience FictionFiction
509 pages, Kindle Edition
Published February 26, 2016
3 people are currently reading
64 people want to read
About the author
Vasily Klyukin
5 books4 followersVasily Klyukin is a writer, a designer of futuristic yachts and skyscrapers, a former banker who decided to give up business to devote his life to the creativity. Since 2010, Vasily has been engaged in architecture and design. He had released his architectural album «Designing Legends».
Their design concepts became well-known after the infamous amfAR charity purchase he made two years ago, buying a $1.5 million ticket to journey into space alongside Leonardo DiCaprio. Vasily’s art includes skyscrapers in the shape of Nika of Samothrace and Venus Milos, a hospital in the shape of a sailing-ship, a futuristic yacht-transformer Monaco 2050 which has an upper deck transforming into a private plane.
His life is active: he jumped from the 200-meter-high television tower in Auckland; he went to dangerous Venezuela to swim in the highest waterfall Angel Falls; he traveled across jungles of America and he conquered the North Pole.
In 2015 he wrote his first fiction book: Collective Mind, an absorbing and dynamic sci-fi thriller. It’s easy to see why his new book “Collective Mind” is as full of adventures as his restless real life.
Klyukin plans to use his experience and implement a development project in Monaco on the basis of his own designs. He lives in Monaco. Has three children. Married.
Their design concepts became well-known after the infamous amfAR charity purchase he made two years ago, buying a $1.5 million ticket to journey into space alongside Leonardo DiCaprio. Vasily’s art includes skyscrapers in the shape of Nika of Samothrace and Venus Milos, a hospital in the shape of a sailing-ship, a futuristic yacht-transformer Monaco 2050 which has an upper deck transforming into a private plane.
His life is active: he jumped from the 200-meter-high television tower in Auckland; he went to dangerous Venezuela to swim in the highest waterfall Angel Falls; he traveled across jungles of America and he conquered the North Pole.
In 2015 he wrote his first fiction book: Collective Mind, an absorbing and dynamic sci-fi thriller. It’s easy to see why his new book “Collective Mind” is as full of adventures as his restless real life.
Klyukin plans to use his experience and implement a development project in Monaco on the basis of his own designs. He lives in Monaco. Has three children. Married.
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March 19, 2016
Collective Mind by Vasily Klyukin is a thought-provoking, futuristic story of the potential of the human race to do great things. It is also a story of the repercussions that occur when humankind does not know how the technology will affect the population enamored by it's grip on society.
Isaac Leroy is a young man of little means and has a sister who is gravely ill. He feels his only option to get the funds necessary for his sister's operation is to sell his creative mental energy to the Collective Mind. The Collective Mind is willing to pay a handsome sum for his level of creativity, but the outcome of this would basically render him uncreative and at a monumental loss for critical thinking. Fate intervenes in Isaac's decision to be downloaded when he becomes entangled in a terrorist plot on the very day that his mind is to be drained of its OE (Orange Energy). He leaves the download facility with his faculties intact and with knowledge of the terrible side effects that the procedure causes.
As Isaac becomes more knowledgeable of the downside to the procedure, he recruits other like-minded, highly creative people to help him in his goal to expose the true outcome to the human minds that have been downloaded. Aside from Isaac, a whole cast of characters comes into play - Bikie (a Harley-driving bar bouncer), Michelle (a world-traveling millionairess), Professor Link (the scientist who created the Collective Mind technology), Pascal (Isaac's best friend who had his creativity drained), Pellegrini (the police commissioner) and the unassuming Paul Wolanski (the funding behind Isaac and Bikie's mission).
The twist and turns in the story-line kept me turning the pages to see what would happen next. I could not help but root for Isaac and his team to complete their heroic mission of changing the world for the better and exposing the lies that the Collective Mind and its creators so skillfully kept hidden from the world's population.
For a debut science fiction novel, this was a very good read. The characters were well-developed and the plot was unique and different. I would definitely recommend it to those who like futuristic, thought-provoking stories that engage not only the mind but its capacity for critical thought.
Isaac Leroy is a young man of little means and has a sister who is gravely ill. He feels his only option to get the funds necessary for his sister's operation is to sell his creative mental energy to the Collective Mind. The Collective Mind is willing to pay a handsome sum for his level of creativity, but the outcome of this would basically render him uncreative and at a monumental loss for critical thinking. Fate intervenes in Isaac's decision to be downloaded when he becomes entangled in a terrorist plot on the very day that his mind is to be drained of its OE (Orange Energy). He leaves the download facility with his faculties intact and with knowledge of the terrible side effects that the procedure causes.
As Isaac becomes more knowledgeable of the downside to the procedure, he recruits other like-minded, highly creative people to help him in his goal to expose the true outcome to the human minds that have been downloaded. Aside from Isaac, a whole cast of characters comes into play - Bikie (a Harley-driving bar bouncer), Michelle (a world-traveling millionairess), Professor Link (the scientist who created the Collective Mind technology), Pascal (Isaac's best friend who had his creativity drained), Pellegrini (the police commissioner) and the unassuming Paul Wolanski (the funding behind Isaac and Bikie's mission).
The twist and turns in the story-line kept me turning the pages to see what would happen next. I could not help but root for Isaac and his team to complete their heroic mission of changing the world for the better and exposing the lies that the Collective Mind and its creators so skillfully kept hidden from the world's population.
For a debut science fiction novel, this was a very good read. The characters were well-developed and the plot was unique and different. I would definitely recommend it to those who like futuristic, thought-provoking stories that engage not only the mind but its capacity for critical thought.
September 15, 2018
I thought the original idea that "human creativity" can be "downloaded" and used in a "Collective Mind" was interesting. Unfortunately, the story and the writing were awful. Don't waste your time.
April 9, 2016
Начал читать под влиянием рекламы Амазон и высокого рейтинга.
И судя по рейтингу это должен был быть шедевр. К сожалению это не так, но в то же время вполне достойное произведение, на мой взгляд.
Читается иногда сложновато. В предложениях с 4 оборотами начинает путаться даже автор, повторяя в конце предложения мысль озвученную им в начале. И чересчур сложные предложения не единственная проблема этого текста.
Произведение сильно выиграет, если над ним поработает литературный и научный редактор.
И судя по рейтингу это должен был быть шедевр. К сожалению это не так, но в то же время вполне достойное произведение, на мой взгляд.
Читается иногда сложновато. В предложениях с 4 оборотами начинает путаться даже автор, повторяя в конце предложения мысль озвученную им в начале. И чересчур сложные предложения не единственная проблема этого текста.
Произведение сильно выиграет, если над ним поработает литературный и научный редактор.
May 23, 2016
This was a strange book first because though I bought the print version there was no publication page and no copyright info. The general plot idea was really interesting and that is what got me to read the book in the first place. However there were numerous typos, errors in punctuation and some of the dialogue was not convincing. I did finish the book just to see what the author would do with the idea but honestly I cannot recommend it.
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