Okay. This review will be a little bit...Biased, i suppose is the word.This is because i believe that Mr. Wilson wrote Amped with teenage boys/men as his target audience.And i'm a girl.Not even, like, a nerdy/cool girl.I mean, i like dresses and make up and ponies.But here are my thoughts on the book:Mr. Wilson had a very firm grasp on what he wanted this book to be about. The plotline was very thought-out, and it had those threads that connect to each other later on in the story that make ou go...

Amped is the latest offering from Portland, Oregon's best selling author Daniel H. Wilson. DHW is most known for his previous works "How to Survive a Robot Uprising" and "Robopacalypse". Neither of which this reviewer has read. Meet Owen Gray; schoolteacher, former epileptic, son of an implant doctor, implantee. In short, he's an amp. A growing class of citizens who for one reason or another has had a medical implant surgically placed into their brains. Amps are conveniently...errr...easily iden...

Amped by Daniel H WilsonA Neural Autofocus MK-4 Brain Implant has been placed into a portion of the populations temple. These implants help control some medical deficiencies and disabilities such as seizures and learning impairments. Along with the success comes experimentation. One happens to be a military chip instilled into a dozen humans which increases strength, intelligence, and agility. A movement begins when "normal" humans no longer feel comfortable living among the altered which are no...

The idea had so much potential, but it was never realized in a melodramatic mess with a dumb ass main character, ludicrous romantic thread, & a plot straight from a bad comic book.Humans get 'amped', implants that turn a few from morons to fairly intelligent (occasionally genius), stop epilepsy, & such. Most don't do much except allow them to function normally.A politician is pulling McCarthy Era tactics on them using religion, fear of them taking jobs, & being other than human as a reason to ta...

Amped is... okay. A quick read. A bit obvious. Well, more than a bit. I love the idea of the technology, and it is gripping enough to keep you reading right to the end if you don't question it too much, but the characters are all pretty much non-entities and there is precisely one female character present throughout the book, and she's just the obligatory love interest.I read it really, really fast because there isn't really much there. A bit disappointing.

Pure Pride! White Pride! What's the difference?First they came for the mexicans, and I did not speak outBecause I was not a mexican.Then they came for the muslims, and I did not speak outBecause I was not a muslim.Then they came for the amped, and I did not speak outBecause I was not an amp.Then they came for me and there was no one left to speak for me.A good read. Very relevant in Trumps U.S.A

Combines the worst aspects of the novelization of a video game and someone trying to bait a movie deal.Meaningless 'levels' of technology, lousy characters, a transparent 'betrayal' as final crisis. It's kind of amazing this is getting the buzz and sales that it is. Hell, that it got published.Two great things going for it:1- It's short. No more than three hours reading.2- Seriously, one good thing: Wilson intersperses legal language with chapters that move the plot forward but also reflect the

I dug the tech but didn't give a shit about the main character, or really any of the characters at all. Wilson tries hard to show us how frightening technology without humanity behind it can be, but he forgot to give us compelling humans. Maybe he just prefers writing about robots.

Daniel Wilson has a background in robotics, and that is blatantly clear from the book. His descriptions of technology (particularly of the "amp") are very plausible--so Wilson deserves credit as a futurist. I also give him credit for imagining what impact technology can have on society (fear, alienation, social disparity, etc.). But he is not a good author--and that becomes painfully obvious as you slog your way through the book.My criticisms:(view spoiler)[1. The protagonist, Owen, is extremely...

Oddly enough, I had this really weird impression that it was a YA novel from start to finish even though I know, objectively, that the MC is a school teacher. It's just the feel of it.That being said, it wasn't bad. In fact, it kinda had the whole Little Brother vibe to it, at least when it came to the fear-mongering and the whole oppressive society bits mixed with high-tech to fight it.The augmented humans, the Amped, the transhumans, are smarter, faster, more naturally capable, and they're als...

I'm always up for a good science fiction ethical quagmire, and I enjoyed Robopocalypse, so Amped seemed like a decent bet. It wasn't until I was 80-some pages in that I recognized something amiss:Apparently the world of Amped has next to zero women. I don't usually spend my time calculating the demographic composition of characters in a novel, but Amped was so egregiously male it was impossible not to notice. Because I expect to be accused of exaggerating, I went back through the book page by pa...

I wanted to like this but I didn't. The cover promised that it would cover the kinds of things that interest me: future tech, brain optimisation and the effects of these on a person. What I got instead was a YA book that veered into politics, fighting and the idea of the body as an advanced weapons system. And on top of that, it wasn't really credible that the events in the book could ever happen.If you like politics etc. then you will love this book, but if you want it to contain the kinds of t...

Thrilled to have an Amped ARC. Started it this morning, wrote lesson plans all afternoon, and finished off friday night by devouring the rest of the book!SciFi/Dystopia fans will enjoy this book -- I sure did! I'm feeling a little Orson Scott Card, Empire, similarity. Hints of Terminator and Matrix. The Senator MUST have been modeled after Rick Santorum...So far, the story and writing is simpler than in Robopocalypse, but beautiful in its simplicity. The character doesn't seem quite fully develo...

I'm having a hard time writing a review for Amped. On the one hand, it's an engrossing look at the human condition. What makes us human? What happens when that definition changes? Will humans ever evolve past their fear of that which is different? While the book may not provide answers to those questions, it does provide a glimpse into a near future when those questions come into play in the most visceral and dramatic of fashions.The story revolves around an issue which is coming into play even

It's a quick read, but it won't be long until you realize it's a story you've heard before...it's sort of like eating a rice cake. No real substance. It struck me as the sort of novel written for the sole purpose of being turned into a movie. Though unlike Robopocalypse, there's nothing remotely fresh about the premise of Amped. In fact, it's like reading a book about superheroes where you don't care about any of the superheroes.Owen thought he was an ordinary guy who had an implant to control h...

Although I've had a copy of Robopocalypse on my shelf since it was released last year, it never quite made it to the top of my TBR pile. That is an issue I plan to rectify soon, based on the fact that Amped turned out to be one of my favourite reads of 2012.This is a book that works on two levels - it's both a thoroughly enjoyable adventure and a deeply thoughtful look at class warfare and social prejudice. Wilson has previously been compared favourably to Michael Crichton, and based on this, I

Worth the read.The story is pretty paint by numbers. This book suffers from the same problems that robopocalypse did. Intimate scenes are traded for larger set pieces and we rush through them to get to the information needed for the next scene. Characters interact a bit unnaturally and nothing is really rooted properly. None of the setups necessarily pay off, they just disappear. That being said, it is worth the read. The scenes are fun though emotionally empty. It plays like a summer movie wait...

Wow. Amped by Daniel H. Wilson is a great and thought-provoking book. It hits the ground running and hardly pauses for breath.The book opens with a twenty-nine-year-old math teacher perched on the roof of his high school, pleading with one of his students not to jump. It’s some time not too far in the future. Medical implants called amps are in use throughout the world. At first, they were used to control epileptic seizures and artificial limbs. Then a government program brought them to children...

As a fan of Wilson's work (Roboapocalypse and Robogenesis) I was looking forward to reading this book, and boy was I not disappointed. Portraying a world I feel we aren't too far away from, Wilson weaves a fascinating tale of implanted super humans and the consequences this brings. Amped (RRP $19.99 from Simon and Schuster Australia) opens a few years after people have started receiving implants for both medical reasons and pure enhancement. Owen Gray has received an implant in his brain from hi...

Quite a fan of Daniel H Wilson books since I first read The Clockwork Dynasty. His examination of what makes a human a human is always so interesting. This book doesn't disappoint. The story is well thought out and progresses quickly. The issues include prejudices, political corruption and mob mentality which are sadly very believable as we look at current issues we face in 2020. Character development is done via actions and reactions. The story is told from a single POV so there is little chara...