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Tom Clancy's Net Force #6
Cybernation
In the year 2010, computers are the new superpowers. Those who control them control the world. To enforce the Net Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency within the FBP the Net Force.
When web service is disrupted across the world, a new nation makes its presence known. Terrorists from a virtual country called CyberNation have taken the web hostage. Their demands: worldwide recognition and rights for their "citizens." Though there are millions of CyberNation sympathizers, Net Force rallies its troops for an all-out war on three fronts -- politically, physically, and electronically -- because dealing with terrorists is never an option...
When web service is disrupted across the world, a new nation makes its presence known. Terrorists from a virtual country called CyberNation have taken the web hostage. Their demands: worldwide recognition and rights for their "citizens." Though there are millions of CyberNation sympathizers, Net Force rallies its troops for an all-out war on three fronts -- politically, physically, and electronically -- because dealing with terrorists is never an option...
358 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published November 1, 2001
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Steve Perry
312 books361 followersLibrarians note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name.
Steven Carl Perry has written over fifty novels and numerous short stories, which have appeared in various magazines and anthologies. Perry is perhaps best known for the Matador series. He has written books in the Star Wars, Alien and Conan universes. He was a collaborator on all of the Tom Clancy's Net Force series, seven of which have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller list. Two of his novelizations, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire and Men in Black have also been bestsellers. Other writing credits include articles, reviews, and essays, animated teleplays, and some unproduced movie scripts. One of his scripts for Batman: The Animated Series was an Emmy Award nominee for Outstanding Writing.
Perry is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, The Animation Guild, and the Writers Guild of America, West
Steven Carl Perry has written over fifty novels and numerous short stories, which have appeared in various magazines and anthologies. Perry is perhaps best known for the Matador series. He has written books in the Star Wars, Alien and Conan universes. He was a collaborator on all of the Tom Clancy's Net Force series, seven of which have appeared on the New York Times Bestseller list. Two of his novelizations, Star Wars: Shadows of the Empire and Men in Black have also been bestsellers. Other writing credits include articles, reviews, and essays, animated teleplays, and some unproduced movie scripts. One of his scripts for Batman: The Animated Series was an Emmy Award nominee for Outstanding Writing.
Perry is a member of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, The Animation Guild, and the Writers Guild of America, West
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November 10, 2022
Thought this was written by Tom Clancy, but tone was so different! It was by Steve Perry! Cybernation wants to take over the world so NetForce rises up to take them on! Plot is slow because of so much detail i.e. The Information Age , martial arts, guns, sex! The last hundred pages are the best of this book as it moves! Ahoy!🤓
June 9, 2020
Aaaaand, it did it. From 4 to 3 to, finally, 2 stars, the Net Force series has been going on freefall. Gone are the days where the story gripped you, like the assassination of the first Net Force commander, the ambush on Rhuzyo in the desert, or even Alaska. Here are the days of all characters complaining about their kids to each other. Julio and Howard barely show up in this book, so let's not even mention Tyrone. Net Force scenarios were always a bit lame, but in this movie even they disappear. I still don't know who's supposed to be the bad guy: Chance, Keller, or Santos, which is a terribly offensive characterization of Brazilians (coming from a Brazilian). I cringed every time there was a scene with him. I'm still unclear what the big attack was supposed to be, what's the point of having three redundant centers of command if they all fall easily like dominos as soon as they are approached with a police warrant, and how the multiple assassinations by Santos (although entertaining) really add to the story. It just feels ... disconnected, and uninteresting. Unsure whether I'll keep reading the series or not.
September 1, 2013
Worst book I've ever read. In the future (2010) everything can be had virtually including sex and beer, and one need not venture from the home office to partake or to conduct criminal investigations.
Alright, it has been awhile since I have read the book so I may not have a completely accurate representation, but this is where I started to become leery of the author franchise.
I'm still not quite sure how it works. I would expect "Tom Clancy" to provide a little quality assurance for material that was released with "his" name splashed across the cover. But then does "Tom Clancy" provide oversight or is this a separate organization? Is there a real person that we know and love of the pseudonym Tom Clancy?
Now I understand that it is impossible for a person to write a book on their own. It is an enormous effort and takes a team just of editors and proofreaders to shape the story. They all deserve credit. And if an author such as "Tom Clancy" is gracious enough to lend his credibility to an up and coming author... great! But I think what may have happened is a big house publisher took name recognition and thought they could spit out a new series of short run, quick reads that would make a mint.
When James Patterson released the two unfinished stories that were Cat and Mouse at the same time six books a year were hitting the shelves, he also earned my ire.
One of my favorite authors died in 2001 and since 2001 twenty-four Robert Ludlum novels have dropped. I haven't read any of them.
Alright, it has been awhile since I have read the book so I may not have a completely accurate representation, but this is where I started to become leery of the author franchise.
I'm still not quite sure how it works. I would expect "Tom Clancy" to provide a little quality assurance for material that was released with "his" name splashed across the cover. But then does "Tom Clancy" provide oversight or is this a separate organization? Is there a real person that we know and love of the pseudonym Tom Clancy?
Now I understand that it is impossible for a person to write a book on their own. It is an enormous effort and takes a team just of editors and proofreaders to shape the story. They all deserve credit. And if an author such as "Tom Clancy" is gracious enough to lend his credibility to an up and coming author... great! But I think what may have happened is a big house publisher took name recognition and thought they could spit out a new series of short run, quick reads that would make a mint.
When James Patterson released the two unfinished stories that were Cat and Mouse at the same time six books a year were hitting the shelves, he also earned my ire.
One of my favorite authors died in 2001 and since 2001 twenty-four Robert Ludlum novels have dropped. I haven't read any of them.
May 30, 2011
I won't spend too much time on this since this book was so bad. Clearly the Net Force series (and presumably OpCenter and the other Clancy franchises) is meant to be a cash cow. My guess is that Clancy probably pays a flat fee to some writer trying to break in, puts his name at the top with an apostrophe s and then pockets all the royalties. The result? A book that suffers from all Clancy's shortcomings without any of the redeeming qualities. The characters are not believable and not well-developed. The dialogue is cliche ridden and hackneyed. And the plotting lacks any of Clancy's gift for intricacy and technical detail.
I only picked this up in Kuwait or Kandahar or somewhere because I ran out of books to read (Amazon came to the rescue a few days ago). I will not be reading any others in this series. In fact, after the really mediocre 'Teeth of the Tiger', I may be off Clancy for good.
On a totally unrelated note, this makes eight books I've read in April. Whoo-hoo!
I only picked this up in Kuwait or Kandahar or somewhere because I ran out of books to read (Amazon came to the rescue a few days ago). I will not be reading any others in this series. In fact, after the really mediocre 'Teeth of the Tiger', I may be off Clancy for good.
On a totally unrelated note, this makes eight books I've read in April. Whoo-hoo!
April 2, 2022
Niet echt een meesterwerk. Jammer dat Clancy zijn naam heeft gegeven aan dit boek van Steve Perry, je zou toch denken dat hij iets meer controle zou hebben over een product dat zijn naam groot weergeeft. Helaas lijkt NetForce en OpCenter niet meer te zijn dan een melkkoe om maar zoveel mogelijk gebruik te maken van een bekende naam. De hele Net Force serie valt met iedere deel weer verder de afgrond in. En dat is jammer, want het hele idee achter de Net Force boeken staat mij wel aan. Het verhaallijn in deze serie was altijd al twijfelachtig, maar in dit boek was het gewoon afwezig.
Wie was nu eigenlijk de slechterik? Wat was het idee achter de drie los van elkaar werkende commando centra, als deze zo makkelijk te stoppen zijn?
Wie was nu eigenlijk de slechterik? Wat was het idee achter de drie los van elkaar werkende commando centra, als deze zo makkelijk te stoppen zijn?
May 6, 2009
I've read all the tom clancy net force books but this by far was the, out of all the books that tom as written the net force series isn't that popular among lot of people but its still a good book. i mean it doesn't have to be popular to be good look at twilight its poplar but its still really horrible and gay
February 6, 2022
Pretty good throughout. I just found it and read it independent of others in the series. It held up. Clancy kept me guessing and never quite ended up where I thought he was leading. Makes me want more Clancy
August 2, 2022
This was a good book but took a while to get to the action. The ongoing character development is good but there could be so much more to all of them. Will continue the series and hope the characters continue to get built out.
December 4, 2020
Wow I didn't know books this bad could be published. This book came out in 2001 so I recognize computers were new but only a child could come up with as dumb of hacking and computer setup as this book.
Maybe the characters are better? NOPE the villains are your run of the mill Saturday morning cartoon evil. Female representation? Most women are setup as sex objects other then one who might be a strong character but then just kidding she has the be a damsel in destress for her man to save.
Don't bother with this book unless you want to laugh at bad writing or need a example for a class on how not to write.
Maybe the characters are better? NOPE the villains are your run of the mill Saturday morning cartoon evil. Female representation? Most women are setup as sex objects other then one who might be a strong character but then just kidding she has the be a damsel in destress for her man to save.
Don't bother with this book unless you want to laugh at bad writing or need a example for a class on how not to write.
April 4, 2024
It wasn't until I was already 100 pages in that I realized this "Tom Clancy book" wasn't even written by Tom Clancy! But you know what, I had fun anyway. For number six in a spin-off series by more or less a ghost writer, it was pretty entertaining! Relatable characters, an interesting premise, quick pacing. Even if you know nothing about tech, it's easy to read. And you get to hear about not one but two different martial arts! For a random book picked up for a few hundred yen at a used book store, this was a good time. Now I guess I've got to find a book that's actually by Tom Clancy...
May 20, 2020
Cyber Nation a Tom Clancy’s thriller was OK. The plot of creating a virtual country that recruited people from around the globe for its population and threaten the world by taken down the internet was good. However, there were too many types of fillers like, interrupting the story line with concerns of a baby’s crying, that didn’t help the pacing for a thriller. The book could be cut by a hundred pages and be a great novelette.
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May 16, 2020Good
August 2, 2020
enjoyed the book alot
January 4, 2023
A great read
Never disappointing reads. I see the next generation of good guys coming to the surface of this series. Well done!!
Never disappointing reads. I see the next generation of good guys coming to the surface of this series. Well done!!
April 11, 2023
As usual several stories in 1 book. Learned alot about cyberspace.
September 18, 2023
The overall story was interesting enough, but I thought Mr Perry was a bit overboard in delving into the personal lives of the characters. And though not vulgar, some of his attempts at humor were not humorous. The last third of the book was page turning, but not sure how the characters can travel the globe at the speed of light. Also it is confusing to this reader, as to how information can be gatered in Virtual Reality. Probably will be awhile before I read another Net Force that is written by Perry.
March 31, 2011
I didn't realize that this book was part of a series where the same characters had a different adventure/mission in each book. It might have made more sense initially to read the others first and know more about the characters; but, the characters were so one-dimensional that more time wouldn't have brought more depth anyway. There were just so many characters that it was occasionally hard to keep track of who was who.
The plot was pretty basic, I felt like I was predicting every move the characters made. The end was anti-climactic, a big build-up to a relatively easy take-over. The one saving grace is that the plot moved quickly. There were so many characters and the narrative jumped back and forth between them all, so it actually kept things moving along quickly, thank goodness.
Since the book was written in 2001 and set in 2011 it was funny to see all the things that have come to pass and what hasn't. The government agents all have "devices" that encompass gps, telephone, video, camera, etc. which are supposed to be super-advanced, but my 4-year-old cell phone does all that, plus mp3 and the internet. Which is hardly mentioned in the book (the internet, I mean) as a tool, but rather just as something people use to check their email. Everyone uses video phones, even at home, hardly anyone has cell phones, and calls the internet "the net." They also use virtual reality all the time, like the holo-deck on "Star Trek Enterprise," and call it "VR" like it's something standard everyone uses all the time, rather than our reality where it's pretty much used for video games or by scientists. That was the most entertaining part of the book: all the things they got wrong about the future; but, of course, how would they know?
The plot was pretty basic, I felt like I was predicting every move the characters made. The end was anti-climactic, a big build-up to a relatively easy take-over. The one saving grace is that the plot moved quickly. There were so many characters and the narrative jumped back and forth between them all, so it actually kept things moving along quickly, thank goodness.
Since the book was written in 2001 and set in 2011 it was funny to see all the things that have come to pass and what hasn't. The government agents all have "devices" that encompass gps, telephone, video, camera, etc. which are supposed to be super-advanced, but my 4-year-old cell phone does all that, plus mp3 and the internet. Which is hardly mentioned in the book (the internet, I mean) as a tool, but rather just as something people use to check their email. Everyone uses video phones, even at home, hardly anyone has cell phones, and calls the internet "the net." They also use virtual reality all the time, like the holo-deck on "Star Trek Enterprise," and call it "VR" like it's something standard everyone uses all the time, rather than our reality where it's pretty much used for video games or by scientists. That was the most entertaining part of the book: all the things they got wrong about the future; but, of course, how would they know?
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
December 22, 2007
At this point in the series, the real date is catching up quickly to the date in the books, and what used to be sf is becoming current fiction. Because Perry made some unfortunate guesses about 2010, this book and the last involve a fair amount of backpedaling frantically to justify the technological advances that seemed reasonable back in 1995. Plus, he and Clancy were behind the curve in other areas, and he does a better job of bringing some of the tech up to date.
In this one, CyberNation (mentioned in the earlier books in the foreshadowing tone that suggested it would be a later plot point) finally makes its bid for world domination, or at least better membership numbers. While interesting, the books spends entirely too much time on the relationship between the two villains, which might have made for an interesting couple of pages, but with several chapters devoted to it, becomes somewhat boring. I would have wanted more detail on the cyber end of things, and less on the personal side, but hey, I'm reading a Steve Perry book. And he brings in capoeira! Very cool.
In this one, CyberNation (mentioned in the earlier books in the foreshadowing tone that suggested it would be a later plot point) finally makes its bid for world domination, or at least better membership numbers. While interesting, the books spends entirely too much time on the relationship between the two villains, which might have made for an interesting couple of pages, but with several chapters devoted to it, becomes somewhat boring. I would have wanted more detail on the cyber end of things, and less on the personal side, but hey, I'm reading a Steve Perry book. And he brings in capoeira! Very cool.
August 16, 2010
Book 6 in the series. Not as good as the first couple but this one, and the previous, one were somewhat better than volumes #3 and #4. Even though this was only written in 2001 it's amazing how some of our current technology has caught up with the 'futuristic' technology in this book. Super secret government communications devices with built in cameras and GPS.. Ha ha yeah.. we all have that now.
Cybernation kind of misses the mark because it is described as something like a global internet provider. In 2001 I guess they had no idea how virtual worlds such as Blue Mars or Second Life would evolve over the next few years. Today they are more akin to the VR described in the book than a virtual cybernations. But who knows what will happen in the next 9 years.
Cybernation kind of misses the mark because it is described as something like a global internet provider. In 2001 I guess they had no idea how virtual worlds such as Blue Mars or Second Life would evolve over the next few years. Today they are more akin to the VR described in the book than a virtual cybernations. But who knows what will happen in the next 9 years.
March 9, 2013
Vono je to furt stejný... :) Ale pořád se to dobře čte! Netuším, proč tomu tak je, ale jako relax funguje tahle série skvěle. Už 5x použité schéma - padouch, průser, tápání Net Force, slepé uličky, náhodná chyba, správná cesta a útočný tým to zachrání :) Jasně, furt to samé, ale strašně skvěle se to čte.
Za mě opět 4/5 - zraje to jak víno a ani po několikátém opakování nenudí.
Jo, začal jsem chodit na lekce pencak silat :) (v knize je to špatně pojmenováno "penjak", ale to nic nemění na faktu, že jde o velice účinné a brutální bojové umění).
Za mě opět 4/5 - zraje to jak víno a ani po několikátém opakování nenudí.
Jo, začal jsem chodit na lekce pencak silat :) (v knize je to špatně pojmenováno "penjak", ale to nic nemění na faktu, že jde o velice účinné a brutální bojové umění).
June 2, 2013
Not a Tom Clancy book, merely his Net Force concept written by someone else. A pretty ho-hum book that just meandered from start to finish. The plot could have made for a pretty good story but it simply wasn't developed well and the sub-plots came across as filler rather than adding anything to the book. A quick ending read like it was thrown together to meet a deadline rather an exciting, thriller with a big bang ending. A disappointment but I'll be sure to read the actual author's name next time rather than being drawn in by a big name on the cover.
September 28, 2011
I started to read this book, before the one who bought it. But... I did not finish it, because I did not like it. For some reason this book did not catch me. Maybe because it is too technical, or because the contents is something I can hardly imagine.
I put it aside again and probably will not try it again.
I put it aside again and probably will not try it again.
July 6, 2014
In the year 2010, computers are the new superpowers. Those who control them control the world. To enforce the Net Laws, Congress creates the ultimate computer security agency within the FBP the Net Force.
June 14, 2015
Le plus mauvais de la série Net Force. Malgré une idée de départ intéressante, l’histoire s’enfonce vite dans le ridicule et l’inaction. Les ennemis sont ridicules, caricaturaux, prévisibles. La fin est affligeante.
September 5, 2010
I'm going to finish the series, but ya know "who done it" to soon. The best part of this series is how the team interacts with each other both professionally and personally.
May 13, 2012
great
November 6, 2014
One of the more interesting books in the Net Force franchise. I particularly enjoyed the showdown between Roberto Santos and Alex Michaels.
June 17, 2014
Not my favorite of the series. Too much focus on lots of minute detail about individual characters (including villains), and not enough complex probing of character development or the plot itself.
January 28, 2016
The book is so boring and not worth reading. http://techmusicnmore.blogspot.in/201...
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