Bookshelf Reviews: “A riveting futuristic novel”
June 5th, 2008If this is our future, I really can’t say I’m looking forward to it all that much.
Dan Ronco spins a riveting futuristic novel packed with action, suspense and a whole lotta robots. And religious nuts - those guys are the fun ones. In 2022, the world lies in the aftermath of the virus that hit the world and its computers a decade before. The accused creator, Ray Brown, is dead, but his son David, possessing a weird ability to communicate with artificial intelligence, lives on, often suffering from his father’s indiscretions. But when David receives a preset email from his father claiming his own innocence, David suspects that perhaps his father wasn’t behind the world-shattering virus, but a business associate who now prepares and distributes A.I. inventions underground. And with the religious sect called the Church of Natural Humans causing havoc as well, picking off anyone who sneezes in the direction of an A.I., answers don’t come as easily for David as he might’ve originally thought.
Though some character dialogue comes off as a bit too scripted, Ronco’s story and writing is solid, providing enough twists and turns for the mystery-favoring reader and enough fist-to-fist action for the James Bond followers. An excellent read.