The Change Agent - Book Review
The Change Agent, by Daniel Suarez, is a biotech SF novel.
In The Change Agent's world, biotech is everywhere, and many things that used to be produced are now grown. You can use CRISPR to edit genes, but any improvement is strictly forbidden - it can only be used to cure some specific diseases.
However, there is a big black market where babies can be designed to be smarter, stronger and better looking. The main character (Durand) in the book is a data analyst that finds them, so they can be stopped and arrested.
But the big boss in the worst of these companies knows it, and has hunted him down. And changed him into a genetic copy of him. Now everyone thinks he is the criminal mastermind...
I really liked the tech intro in the beginning of the book. Then it goes to what is pretty much a big chase for Durand to get back to his old self. The action was nice, although I can't help but think that it was awful convenient that the data analyst was ex-military and super though...
I liked some small details - such as the big refugees trend causing other problems, such as autonomous vehicles being charged a fee to pass. The rest of the incidental tech is reasonably convincing, too.
Overall, not as good as Daemon, but still pretty good.
In The Change Agent's world, biotech is everywhere, and many things that used to be produced are now grown. You can use CRISPR to edit genes, but any improvement is strictly forbidden - it can only be used to cure some specific diseases.
However, there is a big black market where babies can be designed to be smarter, stronger and better looking. The main character (Durand) in the book is a data analyst that finds them, so they can be stopped and arrested.
But the big boss in the worst of these companies knows it, and has hunted him down. And changed him into a genetic copy of him. Now everyone thinks he is the criminal mastermind...
I really liked the tech intro in the beginning of the book. Then it goes to what is pretty much a big chase for Durand to get back to his old self. The action was nice, although I can't help but think that it was awful convenient that the data analyst was ex-military and super though...
I liked some small details - such as the big refugees trend causing other problems, such as autonomous vehicles being charged a fee to pass. The rest of the incidental tech is reasonably convincing, too.
Overall, not as good as Daemon, but still pretty good.
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