Wisdom

by Patrick Tylee

Using her telescope, an orphan girl is first to spot an alien ship bound for Earth.
She’s befriended by the person from the vessel, but he hides a secret. His promise of peace is a trick. When she dies in an accident, his cloning technology restores her life.
Now her mind is a copy of his, and she knows the truth.

395 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2014

About the author

Patrick Tylee is an award-winning author of six Sci-Fi and Fantasy novels. He's always working on the next story, and wishes it didn't take a year to publish a book. Patrick's favorite moments are when he's able to personally meet with fans at conventions and author events.

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Reviews

[Ann Andrews · Rating 4 out of 5]

I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.

I loved the concept of this book, but there were a few places where I got tripped up and had difficulty following the plot line. However, the characters are extremely in depth - I love Jove and Elmyrah - and the writing was excellent. I just got lost with new names, phrasing, etc. I recommend taking your time with this book and really digging in to get the most out of it.

[Susan Walker · Rating 2 out of 5]

A science fiction story of life on other planets. As someone who is not a science fiction fan this was a slow read for me, However, if you like Science Fiction this is a good book for you,

[Hazel · Rating 2 out of 5]

I received this book for free through Goodreads First Reads.

Wisdom by Patrick Tylee is a book for science fiction fans. It is full of a large assortment of out-of-this-world ideas, from Jove, a clone trying to save the planet Jupiter, to squid-like aliens, spaceships, and a disembodied voice named Wisdom.

Personally I found the story very hard going. A lot of the scientific jargon went over my head and I often had no idea what was going on during the first half of the book. Fortunately, once Jove arrived on planet Earth, the storyline was much easier to follow. The book became entertaining and often humorous as the clone interacted with the human race. Alas, the ending became just as confusing as the beginning and, I for one, am not entirely sure how the story was resolved.

Despite Wisdom not being the book for me, I was able to appreciate Tylee’s ability to write. For serious sci-fi lovers, there should not be anything to complain about.

[Lindsey Rojem · Rating 2 out of 5]

I received the book for free through Goodreads First Reads. The first third of the book and the last few chapters I found confusing, lots of switching between characters and times. The middle was really good though, and fast paced.

[Ray Harris · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jove is an alien clone made by the Manufactured Flesh and SynThinker Union to protect intelligent life on Jupiter (the Knowers) from the rapacious Prawl-Tang. "You must, above all things, act to preserve the well-being of the Knowers...." Jove is the first of a series of artificial clones (the Savior class) each programmed to awaken with the memories of their predecessor if the predecessor is terminated. So, Jove is effectively immortal. One attribute of Jove's SnyThinker brain is a wisdom interface: linking to the wisdom of the ancestors "the voices of the Onlys, and the archived experiences of the Ones." Interestingly, the first wisdom offered to Jove was "form follows function," quoting Louis Sullivan, a human architect, followed by a quote from Chinese general Sun Tzu's book, The Art of War. Knowledge and wisdom seem intermingled.

The Jovians and the pacifist Union have no military technology; hence, Jove cannot use violence against the Prawl-Tang. Jove proposes negotiating a bargain, and the Knowers offer to trade the resources of Earth to protect the resources of Jupiter. The Prawl-Tang accept, conditionally.

Jove has a diplomatic protocol app that allows him to lie. Jove heads to Earth, planning to act as a messiah seeking peace among the warring humans. With him are three Knowers-in one body. They travel on the Prawl-Tang ship.

Humans were unaware of the ephemeral Jovian Knowers, the Manufactured Flesh and SynThinker Union or the Prawl-Tang. The humans become aware of a ship from Jupiter (named the Emrah by the humans) just three days before it arrives. Elmyrah al-Otaibi, an orphaned girl in Saudi Arabia, was the first human to observe the ship. As a celebrity, she meets Jove and becomes an unwitting victim/accomplice in subsequent events.

The author's language is sometimes elegant and lyrical as in an epic poem. At other times the language is formulaic to allow communication between species. I enjoyed the twists of this space opera and the emotional impact on Jove. I Look forward to reading the sequel, Rebellion.

[Jesse Fowler · Rating 4 out of 5]

I received this book free to read from Goodreads.

Overall, an engaging read. Falls off a bit at the end.

This book has a viewpoint character as someone who was manufactured, and is completely non-terrestrial. He has to navigate a terrible choice between extinction of two planetary species (Jovian and Terran) from an implacable foe. And he has to do this by being an artful negotiator. He occasionally receives insane-looking directives from his AI counsel (Wisdom), which is supposed to help him thread this needle. Most of them pan out, with one glaring exception. In the process of these negotiations, he manages to disarm the nuclear stockpile of all countries of Earth (no mention of rogue nukes).

I love the plot of this book, as the protagonist is tuck between a rock and a heard place for almost the entirety of the book. Some of the technical aspects of it I found annoying, like how his super spacecraft that can transit from Jupiter to Earth in four days isn't bulletproof, or no mention of how loud a bullet hole whistling out the entire atmosphere of a space craft would be whistling. Ultimately, you have to forgive those sorts of things.

The one thing that really bothers me is why the AI tells him he needs all the sand on Earth, and that they're willing to give it up. This is never answered. While the sand is considered extremely rare and valuable outside of Earth, why couldn't he just make off with a few thousand tons to pay for his retirement? Sand has value to regular people, while nukes do not, so it feels like the governments of Earth would balk at giving it *all* to him. Also, he has no way to carry it off. Even stranger was that the Jovians were willing to give up their magical Jupiter sand, because they need it to live. They would all die without it.

So, great up until the end. I suspect writer's fatigue.

[Carrie]

I won this book from Goodreads First Reads. Review coming soon.

[Shay Leszinske · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very interesting. It was easy to fall into this book. I loved the creativity. I hope to see more books from patrick tylee. I recieved this book through goodreads.

[Brian Thompson · Rating 2 out of 5]

meh ...