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Regeneration #2
Regeneration: Capturing Shadows
Pleasure Machines, Soulless Killers, or People?
The ‘simple’ line between what we consider either machine or life form can be blurred when our eyes can’t tell the difference. When the machine is more human than its original creators the line between machine and life form can vanish. In a world where corporations are considered ‘artificial entities’ with more rights than human beings, who decides where to draw the line between pleasure machine, soulless killer, and person?
Capturing Shadows
In A World Where Security Had Become Paramount Over Freedom...Twin sisters woke up without the knowledge of who they were and it wasn't long before they had to wonder not only who they were but what they were, pleasure machines turned deadly or people. Would those who hunted them ultimately prove to be their salvation or damnation?
The ‘simple’ line between what we consider either machine or life form can be blurred when our eyes can’t tell the difference. When the machine is more human than its original creators the line between machine and life form can vanish. In a world where corporations are considered ‘artificial entities’ with more rights than human beings, who decides where to draw the line between pleasure machine, soulless killer, and person?
Capturing Shadows
In A World Where Security Had Become Paramount Over Freedom...Twin sisters woke up without the knowledge of who they were and it wasn't long before they had to wonder not only who they were but what they were, pleasure machines turned deadly or people. Would those who hunted them ultimately prove to be their salvation or damnation?
182 pages, Kindle Edition
First published June 7, 2013
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R.F.G. Cameron
3 books17 followersR.F.G. Cameron is a native of Texas where he currently resides with his wife and two felines notorious for never being satisfied with what is in their food bowls (the felines that is, not the wife).
Cameron attended Limestone College (the college’s primary location is in Gaffney, South Carolina) and has been employed in a variety of different settings.
He enjoys engaging in various activities with his spouse ranging from reading to camping. When not occupied with terminating invading scorpions in the house or taking care of other duties he writes. At times he writes anyway.
“I like to think of myself as sort of an old-fashioned wordsmith, if I can paint a picture with words that others enjoy then I’ve accomplished my objective. While I’m writing just set the coffee down close by and back away slowly.”
My work can also be found on Amazon:
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Cameron attended Limestone College (the college’s primary location is in Gaffney, South Carolina) and has been employed in a variety of different settings.
He enjoys engaging in various activities with his spouse ranging from reading to camping. When not occupied with terminating invading scorpions in the house or taking care of other duties he writes. At times he writes anyway.
“I like to think of myself as sort of an old-fashioned wordsmith, if I can paint a picture with words that others enjoy then I’ve accomplished my objective. While I’m writing just set the coffee down close by and back away slowly.”
My work can also be found on Amazon:
http://www.amazon.com/R.F.G.-Cameron/...
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June 3, 2015
The second book in the series takes up shortly after where the first one leaves off. Now, two "missing sisters" are on their own after being mind-wiped by some nameless "bad guys" and forced, by circumstances, into the prostitution business. Unfortunately, one of them has been seriously damaged in an auto accident and her twin has to care for her and earn enough money for them to survive.
This story is actually a bit better than the first book and I found myself staying up past my bedtime to read "just one more chapter". I finished it by staying up an hour past the time when I should have been ten-toes-up. A page-turner.
Well-edited. I took off a star because some of the interactions were repetitive. Since this has a passing similarity to some romance stories, that's to be expected, but I've never cared for that particular artifice. But the overall story is riveting and enjoyable.
This story is actually a bit better than the first book and I found myself staying up past my bedtime to read "just one more chapter". I finished it by staying up an hour past the time when I should have been ten-toes-up. A page-turner.
Well-edited. I took off a star because some of the interactions were repetitive. Since this has a passing similarity to some romance stories, that's to be expected, but I've never cared for that particular artifice. But the overall story is riveting and enjoyable.
March 22, 2014
In Regeneration: Capturing Shadows, the good-hearted marines from Regeneration: Gina's Journey join their android sweethearts in trying to track down their two missing sisters stolen from the reprogrammer’s lab. The trail leads to a Texas Ranger who is trying to solve an unusual murder case. It’s obvious that the abducted androids, taken before they were completely reprogramed from their original design of military weapons, are connected somehow with the deaths.
Reading Capturing Shadows kept raising questions for me about free will, and how that might apply if one’s mind and personality could be redesigned by others without one’s consent. The Swan sisters, as the androids are referred to, were stolen from the military before they could do much harm as remorseless assassins, and then reprogrammed by the grieving eccentric Max Swan to be facsimiles of his dead daughter. They were given a full range of emotions along with their artificial intelligence and taught to be human.
The book begs some thought about the ethical dilemmas all around, and the author, R.F.G. Cameron, does let some of his characters give their opinions about some of them. But at heart it’s an action book, and I had to keep reminding myself that most people don’t need thousands of words of reverie where ethics are concerned.
As in his previous books in the series, the writer (a lovely gentleman who sent me advanced reader copies of Gina’s Story and the prequel to both, which I strongly recommend reading before this one), is a quick, concise, and to the point storyteller. As someone who came of age reading 19th century Russian novels, I often struggled with the almost instant mutual romantic attractions or life-changing actions without the characters needing to brood about them for a few hundred pages first. But I suspect that I’m unusual in this and that this will be a very satisfying read, especially for those who like classic sci-fi or Texas Ranger stories. This series is a combination of both.
Reading Capturing Shadows kept raising questions for me about free will, and how that might apply if one’s mind and personality could be redesigned by others without one’s consent. The Swan sisters, as the androids are referred to, were stolen from the military before they could do much harm as remorseless assassins, and then reprogrammed by the grieving eccentric Max Swan to be facsimiles of his dead daughter. They were given a full range of emotions along with their artificial intelligence and taught to be human.
The book begs some thought about the ethical dilemmas all around, and the author, R.F.G. Cameron, does let some of his characters give their opinions about some of them. But at heart it’s an action book, and I had to keep reminding myself that most people don’t need thousands of words of reverie where ethics are concerned.
As in his previous books in the series, the writer (a lovely gentleman who sent me advanced reader copies of Gina’s Story and the prequel to both, which I strongly recommend reading before this one), is a quick, concise, and to the point storyteller. As someone who came of age reading 19th century Russian novels, I often struggled with the almost instant mutual romantic attractions or life-changing actions without the characters needing to brood about them for a few hundred pages first. But I suspect that I’m unusual in this and that this will be a very satisfying read, especially for those who like classic sci-fi or Texas Ranger stories. This series is a combination of both.
March 15, 2014
A worthy next-step in the saga of the Swan sisters! This book picks up where the previous Regeneration book left off, and this time it's more of a detective story when a Texas Ranger gets involved in solving a string of murders in Austin, and finding out what happened to the two "missing sisters" from the last book. This one has a satisfying story arc that comes to a conclusion; it gets us to a certain point of repose, but there has to be still more to come. The notorious "Fritz" is still out there. I'm going to be hovering around waiting for the next book.
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