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Title: The Multiplex Man by James P. Hogan ISBN: 0-671-57819-7 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.33 (9 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Multiplex Man is outstanding
Comment: As most of the other reviews have noted, James P. Hogan here presents a somewhat unevenly written story. However, that being said, there is a class of reader (such as I) that really appreciates clever sf and surprising plot twists.
Multiplex Man does have its moments of annoying polemics so frequent in Hogan's work. However, the incredible entertainment of this book easily makes reading it well worth while. Towards the end I couldn't put it down; the adventure was so exciting, the explanations so satisfying.
If you have difficulty finding this out-of-print book, a little Web searching can reward you with this gem.
Rating: 5
Summary: An intellectual roller-coaster ride
Comment: What if you weren't . . . you?
(What if you were a writer _telling the story_ of someone in that situation? How would you organize it?)
If you're the protagonist in this fascinating SF novel, you're probably in for some interesting experiences. But will you get to keep them?
(If you're James P. Hogan, you tell the story in chunks, cycling through the various nonoverlapping personalities and telling the parts of the tale for which each is "present," as it were.)
Who do you turn out to be? Are you one person or several? Which hero saves the day, and which hero _gets_ saved? Are they the same person? Are you sure?
Hogan is in fine narrative form here. I've seen his writing described as "textbook-dry," but that's not likely to dissuade those of us who regard, say, Kernighan and Ritchie's _The C Programming Language_ as the pinnacle of expository prose style. Hogan writes like a _good_ engineer; his prose does the job he wants it to do, and the meat is in the story. (You don't need mannered digressions about the spelndid colors of the autumn leaves in a book whose theme is that the universe isn't what you think it is.)
In fact this is a fun book, full of Hogan's trademark mind-blowing coolness. The underlying technology is rendered plausible and the story is interesting from beginning to end. Even if you know what must be going on -- and you will, by midway through the second chapter, even if you hadn't figured it out from the title -- you'll still be kept guessing until the very end about (a) how and why it happened, and (b) how it will ultimately turn out.
Hogan is one of my two favorite living SF writers (the other is Spider Robinson, who doesn't write "hard" SF). If you like SF, you'll like him.
Rating: 3
Summary: dubiously read
Comment: I'm a sucker for identity-crisis books.
This book captured my attention because it had a man waking up without memory of several months of his life and every indication that he his someone else. But this book was disappointing. There were so many identity changes that it just got tedious. By the end, I really didn't care about the big revelation as to the whole identity problem. I just wanted to finish the book and move on.
Also I am almost never swift enough to guess the end before the author wants me to know, but in this book the "surprise" ending was painfully obvious very early on.
I did, however, think that the future presented in the book was interesting for those who like speculative futures. I wouldn't write the book off entirely just on the basis of the description of the future. There is also a lot of action, which may entice some into reading it.
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Title: Paths to Otherwhere by James P. Hogan ISBN: 0671877674 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1997 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Star Child by James P. Hogan ISBN: 0671878786 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: The Legend That Was Earth by James P. Hogan ISBN: 0671318403 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Outward Bound by James P. Hogan ISBN: 0812571916 Publisher: Tor Science Fiction Pub. Date: 15 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: Bug Park by James Patrick Hogan ISBN: 0671878743 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 April, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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