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Future Tech #1
No Network Found
The future is not fixed - and even if you've got a map that lays it out, who's to say that the map itself is immune to change?
At that point, the question becomes "Are these things that MUST be? Or that MIGHT be?" And how do you tell the difference?
How far does predestination go? And what happens when you ‘know’ something is going to happen, and it doesn’t?
When the conditions are right it doesn’t take much to start a landslide – with catastrophic results.
When people are involved, how small a pebble can start a landslide?
At that point, the question becomes "Are these things that MUST be? Or that MIGHT be?" And how do you tell the difference?
How far does predestination go? And what happens when you ‘know’ something is going to happen, and it doesn’t?
When the conditions are right it doesn’t take much to start a landslide – with catastrophic results.
When people are involved, how small a pebble can start a landslide?
140 pages, Kindle Edition
First published August 21, 2013
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August 13, 2014
I really, really liked this book -- it was engrossing. Basically, researchers from the near-future send a cheap cell phone back in time (accidentally) to the 1950s. They've loaded it with a ton of technical information and some movies and music, and it ends up turning things upside down.
We follow the man who investigates this discovery, and who ends up in charge of doing something about it.
This was not an action-heavy, nor even a character-heavy book, but much more about the what ifs of it all. How quickly could people adapt? How would it change the course of history? What political developments might emerge? Since I absolutely adore this sort of speculation, I was enthralled for the course of the book (and immediately picked up the second, Early Adopter).
We follow the man who investigates this discovery, and who ends up in charge of doing something about it.
This was not an action-heavy, nor even a character-heavy book, but much more about the what ifs of it all. How quickly could people adapt? How would it change the course of history? What political developments might emerge? Since I absolutely adore this sort of speculation, I was enthralled for the course of the book (and immediately picked up the second, Early Adopter).
July 12, 2015
I make no bones about favoring Time-Travel stories, and this series is shaping up (I think) to be an altered Time-line tale. I suppose that's one of the things I DIDN'T like about this book, no real resolution to the main event (a fully loaded cell phone popping into 1954).
I often read other reviews, mostly to make sure that I'm NOT parroting something already said, and was amused by the solitary single star review on Amazon. The reviewer took umbrage at the disparaging remarks President Eisenhower made of some of his Democrat successors. The president was Republican. Did you EXPECT him to having glowing praise of Johnson or Carter? To blame the author for those remarks is rather nearsighted, I think.
In general, I thought Lawson's coverage of the 50s was pretty good. I think his handling of the Red Menace was perhaps a little light-handed. This story takes place in 1954, one year after Josef Stalin's death. Nikita Khrushchev was still a largely unknown equation at the helm of the USSR, but the Cold War was in full swing, and the Korean War was barely over. I think the Eisenhower administration would have been TERRIFIED by the thought of any advanced technology.
Another thing that I didn't like about this story was the set-up (in 2017) for WHY the cellphone popped into 1954. I felt that part was contrived and not readily believable. I personally would have been just as happy with NO explanation, since the people of 1954 didn't have one. Could have added to the mystique of the phone itself. WHY would someone send all that data to the past? Did they WANT to change the timeline? Why?
I will probably eventually read the other books in this series, just to finish the story that No Network Found begins.
I often read other reviews, mostly to make sure that I'm NOT parroting something already said, and was amused by the solitary single star review on Amazon. The reviewer took umbrage at the disparaging remarks President Eisenhower made of some of his Democrat successors. The president was Republican. Did you EXPECT him to having glowing praise of Johnson or Carter? To blame the author for those remarks is rather nearsighted, I think.
In general, I thought Lawson's coverage of the 50s was pretty good. I think his handling of the Red Menace was perhaps a little light-handed. This story takes place in 1954, one year after Josef Stalin's death. Nikita Khrushchev was still a largely unknown equation at the helm of the USSR, but the Cold War was in full swing, and the Korean War was barely over. I think the Eisenhower administration would have been TERRIFIED by the thought of any advanced technology.
Another thing that I didn't like about this story was the set-up (in 2017) for WHY the cellphone popped into 1954. I felt that part was contrived and not readily believable. I personally would have been just as happy with NO explanation, since the people of 1954 didn't have one. Could have added to the mystique of the phone itself. WHY would someone send all that data to the past? Did they WANT to change the timeline? Why?
I will probably eventually read the other books in this series, just to finish the story that No Network Found begins.
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