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by Anne Charnock
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Reflections
Reflections rated it 9 years ago
This is a slow starting but ultimately moving “wow!” of a story, set in a dystopian future Manchester with three types of “humans”: humans with a moderate amount of genetic engineering to help them resist social evils like addiction, genetically engineered humans who have been enhanced with implant...
XLeptodactylous
XLeptodactylous rated it 10 years ago
Boring, confusing.
Url Phantomhive
Url Phantomhive rated it 10 years ago
Jayna is a super-intelligent kind-of computer-like person who works for a big company trying to see trends in everything. As she's always analysing stuff she might just find some data that could turn her life (and the world like she knows it) around. In the beginning I liked her mathematical way o...
IntheZone
IntheZone rated it 11 years ago
I received this in a giveaway contest from the publisher.This novel had an interesting idea an the central plot point and it certainly raised some interesting questions along the way. The story is of the late 21st century dystopia set in England where life is heavily regulated by the government and ...
IntheZone
IntheZone rated it 11 years ago
I received this in a giveaway contest from the publisher.This novel had an interesting idea an the central plot point and it certainly raised some interesting questions along the way. The story is of the late 21st century dystopia set in England where life is heavily regulated by the government and ...
Saturdays in Books
Saturdays in Books rated it 11 years ago
Dystopian in the classic sense, A Calculated Life follows an analyst's attempts to understand the world around her and her place in it. The title is a pun representing both her work (her attempts at developing intuition), and her origins. And perhaps even her society, where biology dictates social c...
kelian
kelian rated it 11 years ago
El tema de las IA me atrae desde hace una temporada, y esta novela lo afronta de un modo interesante, enfocándolo desde el punto de vista de una IA, Jayna, que vive en un mundo que se nos hace muy cercano, a pesar de ser "futuro". Es un mundo compartimentado, muy competitivo, y existe un distanciami...
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