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Pros
Authors do an excellent job of imagining the plausible reactions of government, normal people, and of course the extremist gun-worship lobby. The basic premise is that a group of scientists accidentally discovers a way to disable all conventional expl... Read More
The clarke collaboration is a heated, thrilling tale well worth the money i spent on it. As always, clarke remains one of the masters. In influencing the story, both in the scientific angle and in character construction. The ending is classic brillian... Read More
This is high-quality sci-fi as society commentary. It is timely and provocative as well as, typical with clarke, offering some unique perspectives on social, political and scientific trends.
Cons
This drivel is not arthur c. This book is the result of a previously succesful, gifted author--clarke--deciding late in his days that it's ok to get political. The science in this book is completely phony.
All firearms owners are portrayed as borderline sociopaths who cling infantilely to their weapons. They focus on the more capable technology only as a way to uninvent the gun even more thoroughly (the jammer) instead, they reinvent medeival weaponcraf... Read More
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Quality
Personally i found this book to be very thoughtprovoking
If youre looking for clarkestyle scifi because clarkes name is on it youll be disappointed
Everyone seems happy with the exception of military warhawks and domestic militia and gun rights advocates who scheme in variou... Read More
Clarke book ive read with the possible exception of 2001 and im only saying that because 2001 is so famous
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Soon the the enevidable uprising of those who think it is their right to bare arms as it does say in the constitution takes ove... Read More
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such, political, good, little and scientific. - Our engine has profiled the reviewer patterns and has determined that there may be deception involved.
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- Our engine has analyzed and discovered that 74.1% of the reviews are reliable.
- This product had a total of 136 reviews as of our last analysis date on Oct 11 2023.
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I think this is a book that has not gotten the attention it deserves
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No need to praise arthur clarke it goes without saying
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Whom i imagine are largely responsible for the lowstar reviews you see here
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Eventually the trigger gives way to the jammer which renders explosives useless without detonating them
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Everyone seems happy with the exception of military warhawks and domestic militia and gun rights advocates who scheme in various ways to blunt the spread of the devices
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Clarke book ive read with the possible exception of 2001 and im only saying that because 2001 is so famous
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The drawbacks however were all the more glaring in this context
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The gun advocates are all shown to be crazy and delusional by the end of the novel resorting to murder in the face of a losing battle there is an exception to this but it proves the rule
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