Very entertaining!

This dude has a strange, but interesting mind. Would love to have a drink with him and pick his brain. Liked this one a lot, but read Robocalypse if you haven't yet...

Wildon keeps you glued to the pages; it is only afterwards the brain starts working and you begin to see plot weaknesses and holes. Liken this, though, and Robopocalypse. I'll keep reading his stuff.

I thought the idea behind the book was well thought through and quite interesting (discrimination of humans who had augmented their bodies with computers leads basically to war) but didn't really grab me in practice. The book is pretty short, so the author ramps up petty discrimination to an almost concentration camp level of hatred extremely quick and implausibly. In addition, the characters I just didn't care about. Certainly the conflict and double-crosses between the leaders of the different factions was neat trying to figure out who are 'good guys' but that doesn't make up for a pretty boring read otherwise.

A fascinating premise: science has perfected technology to cure problems such as the loss of a limb, blindness, Down's syndrome and virtually all neurological or sensory diseases. The US government has implanted thousands of impaired children while many needy adults also have the surgery. But there is a side "benefit:" implanted persons, called "Amps," are able to focus completely on tasks at hand, resulting in vastly improved IQ. Before long, public resentment leads to calls for leveling the playing field at schools by expelling all amp children. High school teacher Owen Gray was implanted by his physician father following an accident that left him with epilepsy. Now, he is distraught when he cannot save his implanted student Samantha from killing herself She is distraught over by ousted from school, and foresees a dismal future for amps. Indedd, full scale persecution follows, and amps are labeled as nonpersons both legally, and culturally. War seems to be in the ofting, when Owen seeks his father and discovers there is more, much more, to his implanted abilities. This promising beginning descends into ever-bleaker settings for gruesome beatings and killings. Too much gore for this girlie reader.

Fast paced, and just begging to be turned into an adventure movie. A great read. If you like this, be sure to read Robopocalypse.

Wouldn't it be nice to get an implant to make us smarter, to minimize our strange neurological disorders, or control our artificial limbs. Yes, but that makes us different from the "norm". We would not be pure humans and we would have no protection under the law. This is a plausible story with unsettling overtones of the human rights wars of the 1960s.

Wilson has written an engaging story that considers what could happen when technology is implanted into humans. Will devices designed to improve mental functioning create an unfair advantage, or will it simply serve to level the playing field? Will there be discrimination based on implants? Where will people stop in the process of "upgrading" the mind and body with advanced prostheses? What if getting a life saving implant made people view you or your child as less than human? The science fiction in this story seems very close to the realm of possibility.

Engaging, though-provoking, excellently written Sci-Fi exploring future possiblities of our technology (more intriguing and exciting having heard a lecture by Michio Kaku shortly before reading this) with a look at the future of prejudice and discrimination. Both are very real, we only need to look at the acceleration of our technological progress over the last 100 years and the grim realities of human nature, fear and hatred (if you look at it with open eyes it's not always from the side you would expect either) during the same time period.