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Title: Multireal
Subtitle: Jump 225 Trilogy, Book 2
Author: David Louis Edelman
Narrator: Tom Dheere
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-12-12
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes
Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
David Louis Edelman's debut novel Infoquake was called "the love child of Donald Trump and Vernor Vinge" and hailed as the best science fiction debut of 2006. The story continues with Multireal, the stunning second book in the Jump 225 trilogy.
Natch has just won his first battle with the Defense and Wellness Council for control of MultiReal technology. But now the Council has unleashed the ruthless cunning of Lieutenant Executive Magan Kai Lee. Lee decides that if Natch's company can't be destroyed from without, it must be destroyed from within.
As black code continues to eat away at Natch's sanity, he faces a mutiny from his own apprentices, a legal onslaught from the government, and the return of enemies old and new. In desperation, the entrepreneur turns to some unlikely allies: a radical politician with an agenda of his own, and a childhood enemy to whom he has done a terrible wrong.
Natch's struggle will take him from the halls of power in Melbourne to the ruined cities of the diss. Hanging in the balance is the fate of MultiReal, a technology that could end the tyranny of the Council forever - or give the Council the ultimate weapon of oppression.
Members Reviews:
Motionless, uninteresting filler
After an enjoyable but rough first book in the trilogy, this book has severely dulled my enthusiasm. Two books in, the main character is still poorly defined, unsympathetic, crazy passive too often and just boring. The other supporting characters are equally wooden rendering a cool premise & setting hard to progress through. And the ending! Oy vey, what a random stopping point. Not nearly the cliffhanger the author might've been targeting. Spoiler! The ostensibly main character ain't seen for many pages before the end. Weaksauce.
If I hadn't bought the 2nd & 3rd books on the promise of the first, I certainly wouldn't read the third.
Good, but Suffers from "Middle Volume" Syndrome
An improvement on the first, which I gave 3 and 1/2 stars to, but I can't bring myself to give it a full four stars. The characters were great, and, as with the first book, the future world Edelman has constructed is stunningly complex and chock-full of cool ideas. The author's writing skills were also much improved from the first book. The story, however, was not that compelling. A ton happens in the novel, but very little of the action is the result of the characters' own efforts. Most everything is happening to them, not because of them. I guess that should be expected in the middle volume of a three-book series, as it sets things up for the characters to kick some serious butt in the final book, which I will definitely read. At least, I better, since I purchased it almost a year ago -- my "to read" stack (or should I say "stacks") of books on my nightstand is getting high.
Towards Perfection!
In Infoquake, Edelman created a futuristic world so thoroughly conceived and rooted in logic that it just makes sense.
In Multireal, he expands upon that foundation, providing us with even more details on how the pieces of this society fit together to give us a more refined picture of this already quite cohesive universe. As much as I love William Gibson, and Neal Stevenson, Edelman's dystopian view of the future just might take the cake.
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Title: Multireal
Subtitle: Jump 225 Trilogy, Book 2
Author: David Louis Edelman
Narrator: Tom Dheere
Format: Unabridged
Length: 13 hrs and 23 mins
Language: English
Release date: 06-12-12
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 9 votes
Genres: Sci-Fi & Fantasy, Sci-Fi: Contemporary
Publisher's Summary:
David Louis Edelman's debut novel Infoquake was called "the love child of Donald Trump and Vernor Vinge" and hailed as the best science fiction debut of 2006. The story continues with Multireal, the stunning second book in the Jump 225 trilogy.
Natch has just won his first battle with the Defense and Wellness Council for control of MultiReal technology. But now the Council has unleashed the ruthless cunning of Lieutenant Executive Magan Kai Lee. Lee decides that if Natch's company can't be destroyed from without, it must be destroyed from within.
As black code continues to eat away at Natch's sanity, he faces a mutiny from his own apprentices, a legal onslaught from the government, and the return of enemies old and new. In desperation, the entrepreneur turns to some unlikely allies: a radical politician with an agenda of his own, and a childhood enemy to whom he has done a terrible wrong.
Natch's struggle will take him from the halls of power in Melbourne to the ruined cities of the diss. Hanging in the balance is the fate of MultiReal, a technology that could end the tyranny of the Council forever - or give the Council the ultimate weapon of oppression.
Members Reviews:
Motionless, uninteresting filler
After an enjoyable but rough first book in the trilogy, this book has severely dulled my enthusiasm. Two books in, the main character is still poorly defined, unsympathetic, crazy passive too often and just boring. The other supporting characters are equally wooden rendering a cool premise & setting hard to progress through. And the ending! Oy vey, what a random stopping point. Not nearly the cliffhanger the author might've been targeting. Spoiler! The ostensibly main character ain't seen for many pages before the end. Weaksauce.
If I hadn't bought the 2nd & 3rd books on the promise of the first, I certainly wouldn't read the third.
Good, but Suffers from "Middle Volume" Syndrome
An improvement on the first, which I gave 3 and 1/2 stars to, but I can't bring myself to give it a full four stars. The characters were great, and, as with the first book, the future world Edelman has constructed is stunningly complex and chock-full of cool ideas. The author's writing skills were also much improved from the first book. The story, however, was not that compelling. A ton happens in the novel, but very little of the action is the result of the characters' own efforts. Most everything is happening to them, not because of them. I guess that should be expected in the middle volume of a three-book series, as it sets things up for the characters to kick some serious butt in the final book, which I will definitely read. At least, I better, since I purchased it almost a year ago -- my "to read" stack (or should I say "stacks") of books on my nightstand is getting high.
Towards Perfection!
In Infoquake, Edelman created a futuristic world so thoroughly conceived and rooted in logic that it just makes sense.
In Multireal, he expands upon that foundation, providing us with even more details on how the pieces of this society fit together to give us a more refined picture of this already quite cohesive universe. As much as I love William Gibson, and Neal Stevenson, Edelman's dystopian view of the future just might take the cake.