Transhuman
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Transhuman
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Seslendiren:
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Stefan Rudnicki
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Ben Bova
A scientific thriller by six-time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova
Luke Abramson, a brilliant cellular biologist who is battling lung cancer, has one joy in life: his ten-year-old granddaughter, Angela. When Angela is diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor and given less than six months to live, Luke wants to try a new enzyme, Mortality Factor 4 (MORF4), that he believes will kill Angela's tumor.
However, the hospital bureaucracy won't let him do it because MORF4 has not yet been approved by the FDA. Knowing Angela will die before he can get the treatment approved, Luke abducts her from the hospital with plans to take her to a private research laboratory in Oregon.
But Luke is too old and worn-down to flee across the country with his sick granddaughter, especially with the FBI on their trail. So he injects himself with a genetic factor that stimulates his body's production of telomerase, an enzyme that has successfully reversed aging in animal tests.
As the chase weaves across the country from one research facility to another, Luke begins to grow physically younger, stronger. He looks and feels the way he did thirty or forty years ago. Yet his lung cancer is not abating; if anything the tumors are growing faster.
And Angela is dying.
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“An exciting and action-packed book from start to finish, this could easily be turned into a movie. Plausible twenty-first-century medical research, the bond between a grandfather and his granddaughter, and political power all serve to make this book a must-read for those who enjoyed The Fugitive. A combination of thriller, adventure, and drama will enthrall.”
(Booklist (starred review))“Popular science-fiction writer and social commentator Ben Bova’s meditation on new life-extending technologies is engaging, and Stefan Rudnicki’s deep, rich voice adds resonance to the story.”
(AudioFile)I don't know if I was more surprised or disappointed. Mostly, I am confused. The story is simple enough, but I can't understand how it's supposed to function as a work of fiction. None of the characters are likeable; some are too unpleasant to be relatable, and the rest are so superficially described that it's impossible to get into them. Most of the characters seem caricatures - there's the Evil Big Pharma Magnate, the Violent Security Expert, the Bumbling Deep-Government Worker, the Inscrutable Native American... The women in particular feel paper-thin. The fact that all the female scientists fall in love or lust with the narrator, even though he's older, in poor health, and has no redeeming personal qualities, smacked of sexism to me, but I don't know enough about the writer to be sure.
The character at the centre of the story, a young child whose life is at risk, is described so weakly that I found myself fairly indifferent to her survival. In fact, the protagonist's prostate gets more attention. No, I'm not joking.
The one narrative ploy I found interesting was that different characters describe the same people and situations, so you get an idea of their mentality. This was offset by, well, everything else. All in all, not a book I'll ever listen to again.
My first Ben Bova, and probably my last.
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The idea of trans human is super.
Great idea but not what was expected
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Mundane...
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