Intrusion
Format: ebook
ISBN:
9780748128778
Publish date: March 1st 2012
Publisher: Orbit
Pages no: 387
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Science Fiction,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Book Club,
Speculative Fiction,
Politics,
Thriller,
Dystopia,
Near Future
A disturbing, near future dystopian vision of Britain that is frighteningly plausible. Besides the central premise, there are many other extrapolations arising from society as we know it to construct something that, taken as a whole, paints quite a worrying picture of our future. There are several p...
Disturbing look at how the nanny state could take over all aspects of life in the future.Concerns a mother who is having second thoughts about taking 'the fix' which is a genetic cure all pill for an unborn child. Set a few years hence, Macleod covers the possibilities of surveillance in the home, m...
I have a hard time rating this book. I found the narrative generally slow and a bit boring. It didn't keep my interest for more than a page or two at a time.That said, the ideas that the book deals with are well illustrated and engaging. I don't know if the slow, often boring plot was a necessary...
I keep reading and reasonably enjoying Ken MacLeod's books, and i'm not entirely sure why. This one starts out with a really intriguing social-sf question - should a woman have to take a simple pill, with no side effects, to make sure her unborn child is healthy - and degenerates into (totally unrel...
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