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Binding: Kindle Edition
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
Format: Kindle Book
Label: Tor Books
Manufacturer: Tor Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: September 01, 2004
Publisher: Tor Books
Release Date: August 26, 2004
Sales Rank: 25491
Studio: Tor Books
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Return to the future of Archform: Beauty. In the twenty-fourth century, Earth is vastly changed. Ecological and biological catastrophe have raged across the planet, but for the survivors, it is a world of plenty. Even the poorest live in abundance, and the upper class -- the ascendant -- command technological marvels.
Ten years ago, Jonat deVrai was a rising star in the Marines. But he shocked his superiors by walking away from the Corps after witnessing atrocity and hypocrisy during the Reclamation of Guyana. Starting his life over, he established himself as the world's expert on the effectiveness of "prod"-- product placement, the only advertising which viewers will allow through the sophisticated filters they all use against unwanted intrusions on their electronic link networks. Prod, reinforced with sublims and the "res" -- resonant frequencies, a form of sonic branding -- is the wave of the future.
Jonat now advises multinational corporations on their prod campaigns, his busy life only occasionally disturbed by vivid flashbacks to his military years. Then his comfortable world is upset when the Centre for Societal Research approaches him to study the effects of res and prod on political campaigns.
After a res-heavy political rally for Laborite Republican Senatorial candidate Juan Carlismo, armed thugs jump deVrai in a parking garage. A day later, a sniper ambushes him. What looked like a safe, lucrative contract has suddenly turned dangerous. The stakes raise further when deVrai foils a remote-controlled cydroid assassination attempt on a Popular Democrat candidate. Cydroids built from deVrai's stolen DNA are turning up dead throughout NorAm.
Suspicion and conspiracy race around Jonat. Who wants him dead? Candidate Juan Carlismo's use of prod is skirting the limits of legality. The Centre has its own obscure agenda and may want deVrai as a martyr. The terrorist group PAMD is targeting ascendents in deVrai's family. And one of his clients is known for holding legendary grudges - could he have gone over the edge?
With his life on the line, deVrai must sort flash from fact before it's too late.
Flash is a blend of all-out thriller and thoughtful social, political, and technological exploration that that gets into your mind in a way even res and prod could never match.
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Borrring.
It almost got good a couple of times, but that quickly passed as we got back to the mundane life of answering the phone and writing a report.
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I got this book on Kindle during a for free promotion. It was better than I expected and I am likely to try some other books by this author.
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Flash (2004) is a standalone novel in the Archform: Beauty universe. In the twenty-fourth century, the ecology has collapsed and the population has been greatly reduced. The political environment has also changed, with the whole of North America united as one country.
In this novel, Jonat Charls deVrai is a former Marine Lieutenant Colonel who resigned because of his objections to the influence of multinational corporations on military operations. On several occasions, his men had ... Read More
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Long periods of what can only be described as real life, punctuated by moments of violence that are, to most of us, unreal, made this book for me.
What I thought was a bit stilted and slow at first rapidly developed into a storyline that I could not put down. From increased media intrusion, to far more user-friendly computers, to AIs with attitude, this book covered the "is the future better or worse" spectrum. Along the way there are some ideas about the nature of sentience and tech ... Read More
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In this tome, Modesitt demonstrates a real talent for putting words down on the page without advancing the plot one whit. The story's OK, when it's moving, but in the meantime we get so much detail about the protagonist's workday at his consulting practice that we could easily write his invoices for him. Do we really need to know about every single time the character gets up to make a pot of tea, or what he had for lunch and what he thought about the quality of the food?
If Modesitt had ... Read More
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