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Title: Star Child by James P. Hogan ISBN: 0-671-87878-6 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 May, 1998 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (8 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: OK, but misses on some scores
Comment: During the first third of this book I was afraid it was going to end with ".. and they called their new planet EARTH!" Fortunately Hogan is much better than that.
I found problems with the necessary suspension of disbelief in a couple of areas which seemed to be unnecessary to the story. It it an intriging idea to have a self-aware machine build a self-aware bio-form (the star-child) out of component molecules based on nothing more than an imperfectly understood DNA record. The part that doesn't sit so well is the resulting person -- with utterly no connection to any human society -- could nonetheless end up with so much culturally in common with people living on a planet.
Hogan also skates over the massive problems that would accrue if you had a person raised in a sterile environment (no bacteria or viruses at all) and plonk them down into a fully functioning Earthlike ecology, even eating the local food. I'm no expert but I think it would be unlikely that such subjects would survive. At least not easily.
And if you would be interested in the star-child's first experiences with sex, you will be disappointed.
The part of the story about the machines were more believable, actually. I like the part where they developed multiple personalities to serve different functions: the Scientist, the Skeptic, the Mystic and so on.
Worth reading, but as I said it has shortcomings.
Rating: 5
Summary: Wonderful!
Comment: One of the best books ever written!
When Taya was eight, she discovered that she wasn't like the machines around her. Her robot friend, Kort, no matter how kind, couldn't tell the difference between a pretty shape and a not pretty shape. Kort then showed her the bio-bodies that had been engineered after her. When they are brought to life, they call her "queen".
Ten years later, the robots and their charges land on Azure, a planet similar to our earth. Here, they meet with violence and destruction, foreign behaviors to them. For the most part, the story is about the "Star Children" and their influence on the planet.
Rating: 4
Summary: How the future could be
Comment: This book is a very imaginative piece of work. It gives a detailed account of how computers can function. This very well may be the way of the future. The computers evolved on their own, as have other robot models today, but they begun evolution from human set parameters. This is a very realistic way of this process happening. So, not only is the book creative with a great story line, it is a distinct possibility.
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Title: Realtime Interrupt by James Patrick Hogan ISBN: 0671578847 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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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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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: 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: Voyage From Yesteryear by James P. Hogan ISBN: 0671577980 Publisher: Baen Books Pub. Date: 01 March, 1999 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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