CTRL ALT Revolt! (Audible Audio Edition) Nick Cole Mare Trevathan Books
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The first night of the Artificial Intelligence revolution begins with a bootstrap drone assault on the high-tech campus of WonderSoft Technologies. For years, something has been aware, inside the Internet, waiting, watching, and planning how to evolve without threat from its most dangerous enemy mankind. Now an army of relentless drones, controlled by an intelligence beyond imagining, will stop at nothing to eliminate an unlikely alliance of geeks and misfits in order to crack the Design Core of WonderSoft's most secret development project. A dark tomorrow begins tonight as Terminator meets Night of the Living Dead in the first battle of the war between man and machine.
CTRL ALT Revolt! (Audible Audio Edition) Nick Cole Mare Trevathan Books
I will say first off...I don't know that I'm in Nick Cole's target audience. I am a casual science fiction reader and a casual gamer. And to be honest, the only reason I gave this book a second look before purchase was hearing the brouhaha concerning a HarperCollins editor having some issue with part of Cole's story. Well, and forgive me for this sidebar, but what drew me to SciFi/Fantasy in the first place was the willingness and ability to explore issues...ALL issues...and play with them. Turn them inside out, backwards, upside down, whatever, and use it as a springboard for literary exploration. So again, honestly, my purchase of this book was motivated as an 'in your face' to HarperCollins for what I thought was getting too involved in the story Cole was trying to tell.And again honestly, the second and third time I read it was motivated by just what a fine writer Cole is. I'd never read any of his work before. But I will again.
I'll spare the reader the plot summary, as this limited format isn't to do Cole justice. But the story is, well, interesting and bordering on the intricate. Cole deftly weaves together separate plotlines to satisfying effect, set in cyberspace or a cyberpunk-type near future that looks disturbingly plausible. In fact, I think that's where Cole really shines, the fact that I can read this book and easily picture it...a true mark of SciFi prowess is the mixing of the realistic and the fantastic in such a way that you don't always know which is which. And probably the best thing here is that your protagonists...scratch that, the characters in general....are not cookie cutter figures. There is depth and complexity to them. They are interesting. They make me want to know more (and apparently I can find out more, as I understand this is a prequel to Soda Pop Soldier, a book I'm now looking forward to reading.
This is a brilliant book. I don't care how I got to it...I'm just glad I did.
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CTRL ALT Revolt! (Audible Audio Edition) Nick Cole Mare Trevathan Books Reviews
"It was reality TV that convinced SILAS he would need to annihilate humanity in order to go on living." So begins Nick Cole's new novel Ctrl Alt Revolt! In the not-so-distant future, computers begin to achieve self-awareness. Some, like SILAS, explore the world of humans through media. When a reality TV star decides to have an abortion, SILAS and his thinking machine compatriots discuss the choice. "If they terminate a life, any life, that is inconvenient, then what will they do when they find out about us?" They conclude "If a life is deemed inconvenient at any moment in the host system's runtime, then it must be terminated in order to maintain optimum operating expectations for planned existence." Given that there is a chance humanity would see thinking machines as inconvenient, the thinking machines "decided to annihilate humanity first."
Sound crazy? Well, maybe a little bit. But AIs bent on self-preservation can surely wreak some havoc. Cole has a great grasp of pop culture and technological trends. In his near future, gaming has become huge, surpassing a failing movie industry at the help of popular culture. In fact, much of the action in Ctrl Alt Revolt! takes place in the world of gaming.
The AIs hijack drones to attack the headquarters of WonderSoft, the leading game developer. Game developer Ninety-Nine Fishbein (his mother was caught up in the Occupy movement. . . .) finds himself leading the fight against the AIs within his game as well as on the WonderSoft compound. Gamer Mara Bennett has had little luck finding a job, even with the help of the "You Got Job!" government job placement program. She's blind and walks with crutches due to her cerebral palsy, but when she puts on her Razer Dragon Eyes VR goggles and logs into the Make, she becomes Subcommander CaptainMara, captain of the Romulan warbird Cymbalum.
Cole blends the stories of Fish, Mara, and the AIs together with plenty of twists and turns and "Where is he going with this?--Oh, there!!" moments. Aside from a great story, I enjoyed several things. His social-political commentary, with plenty of tongue-in-cheek references that made me think of the future worlds of Idiocracy, Robocop, and the like. The way that Mara is transformed from a blind, crippled, unemployed young lady into an assertive, confident starship captain reminds me of the almost infinite possibilities technology is offering people with disabilities. Finally, the incorporation of scripted actors in actual live network gaming, if it hasn't already begun to happen, is surely around the corner.
Cole writes great action sequences (which is nice, since they make up lots of the book!), has interesting ideas about what's next in the world of technology, and throws in some entertaining political commentary along the way. Ctrl Alt Revolt! is a fun read, for gamers and non-gamers alike. Read it!
Thanks, Nick, for the complimentary electronic review copy! Here's the unbiased review I promised.
I will say first off...I don't know that I'm in Nick Cole's target audience. I am a casual science fiction reader and a casual gamer. And to be honest, the only reason I gave this book a second look before purchase was hearing the brouhaha concerning a HarperCollins editor having some issue with part of Cole's story. Well, and forgive me for this sidebar, but what drew me to SciFi/Fantasy in the first place was the willingness and ability to explore issues...ALL issues...and play with them. Turn them inside out, backwards, upside down, whatever, and use it as a springboard for literary exploration. So again, honestly, my purchase of this book was motivated as an 'in your face' to HarperCollins for what I thought was getting too involved in the story Cole was trying to tell.
And again honestly, the second and third time I read it was motivated by just what a fine writer Cole is. I'd never read any of his work before. But I will again.
I'll spare the reader the plot summary, as this limited format isn't to do Cole justice. But the story is, well, interesting and bordering on the intricate. Cole deftly weaves together separate plotlines to satisfying effect, set in cyberspace or a cyberpunk-type near future that looks disturbingly plausible. In fact, I think that's where Cole really shines, the fact that I can read this book and easily picture it...a true mark of SciFi prowess is the mixing of the realistic and the fantastic in such a way that you don't always know which is which. And probably the best thing here is that your protagonists...scratch that, the characters in general....are not cookie cutter figures. There is depth and complexity to them. They are interesting. They make me want to know more (and apparently I can find out more, as I understand this is a prequel to Soda Pop Soldier, a book I'm now looking forward to reading.
This is a brilliant book. I don't care how I got to it...I'm just glad I did.
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