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Infinity Born is a techno-thriller, speculative fiction, sci-fi thriller, near-future thriller. So many names for one of my favorite genres. I prefer to call them techno-thrillers. Technology run amock, man against machine, etc. Not only are they fast paced and fun to read, they also give me so much to think about. New ideas and speculation on where our current technology is headed. I love these!I have to admit that my favorite part of the book is at the end when the author gives us a synopsis a...
Aaaarggghhh. The author has no spark of imagination whatsoever. How can he be claiming to write science fiction. He can't even write a good thriller. Everything is too stereotypical and cliched.Even teenage geek fanboys will tire of this after a while, but his fans seem to be at a much lower stage of evolution.
This is a really fascinating story that grabs you. We start off with Issac Jacobs, a genius with no formal education who discovers a means of fuel less space travel. Instead of 'gifting' this discovery to mankind, he patents it and uses it to colonize the moon and mars while also mining the asteroid belt. He becomes a trillionaire and the hero of the world.Many tech companies have moved away from Silicon Valley to Turloc due to the expense and Issac Jacobs is one of them. Then on day part of the...
Highly recommend this book.Fascinating read, what technology can do for the human race. Just think, especially if you're seventy something like me; did you ever thought when you picked up your first book to read, one day you were going to download and read anything you want on a device like kindle? You have to be patient, story starts eight years ago and jumps to eight years after. Keep a open mind, don't just look at it as another sci-fi story. Author did read and researched great deal, all lis...
I liked it. It's in The Sweet Spot of my genre. But there was something methodical about it. I've read a lot of books by this author. And they all seem so similar. The plot was great. The characters were well-developed. the world was built wonderfully. So what was wrong? I don't know. There was just something missing. A spark. I've read worse, and I read better. And I'm still on the fence about how I feel about it. I have the audio version and I may listen to it and that may give me new prospect...
Author Douglas Richards clearly likes to read scientific articles, extrapolate futuristic ideas from those articles and then write stories that combine those ideas with “thriller” aspects. But I guess that’s the very definition of a “techno-thriller”.For the “techno” portion of the story, the book description leads you to believe AI is the major technical thrust of the plot. AI is certainly a major plot point, but there are a number of other expansive future-tech ideas that are major components
1 Star. Halfway through I thought it was going to be 3 stars, since the premise was interesting enough to keep me going, but the plot just kept going downhill.A third of the book is just one long essay speculating on the future of humanity and the morals of emerging technologies.The rest was just a narrative that grows increasinly more boring, meaningless, and predictable the further the story gets. The characters all talk and act like highschoolers. A Russian superspy laughs and sneers like a c...
Read this book!This may be our future. As a novel, it has everything you need to enjoy it. But more then that, if you want a glimpse of our future, read on. The references at the end of the novel, will keep you busy in researching the concepts presented and it allowed me to realise, how close we are to some the concepts being reality.
I liked the plot. DNF.
A very provocative and fast paced story. What intrigued and captured my interest in particular was the discussion of sentient artificial (inappropriate word) intelligence. The author, Doug Richards, provides a thorough and convincing summary of the field and the various scenarios that might arise should this field be allowed to run its course.The novel is the delivery system, so to speak. But the larger purpose is to inform, instruct and provoke readers to think about the larger issues. Though t...
Humanity ReinventedFirst of all, my congratulations to the author, Douglas E. Richards, for writing a book that encompasses the breadth of knowledge of Quantum Physics, Artificial Intelligence and the most sophisticated Military Spyware I've ever read, in a way that a layperson can easily understand.That being said, what a book! There is no way I could begin to recapitulate this massively twisted, technologically brilliant and mind-blowing conceptually masterful plot.If your head doesn't hurt wh...
