The Long Run - Book Review

The Long Run - by Daniel Keys Moran - is the sequel to Emerald Eyes - an awesome SF book with AIs, telepaths and cyborgs. It is certainly one of my favorites.

But by the time I read it, The Long Run wasn't available anywhere. So I had to settle for a script from the author's site (pretty good too, btw).

A few days ago I decided to check Amazon again, and it was available for Kindle! Naturally, I bought it, stopped whatever I was doing and went to read it.

It is pretty much the same story as the script, just with more details, and very enjoyable. It is amazing how well it aged given it was written in 89! Most of the tech still sounds believable - and still is beyond us (with the exception of the storage - 1TB chips was much more impressive back before you could buy a pen drive this size!).

The main story (spoiler alert, specially if you might read the previous book) is from Trent Castanaveras - son of telepaths and genetically designed to be faster, smarter, and thougher. He is player - the top level of hackers on a net that is accessed using mind links (tracesets), or inskin implants - plus an Image - full or near AI software.

He has laid low since the events of Emerald Eyes, but now they have discovered him - and he is going to have to run...

Excellent, and very much recommended, but read Emerald Eyes first.

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