The Bohr Maker - Book Review
The Bohr Maker, by Linda Nagata, is an SF novel with lots of nanotech, which just so happens to be called maker all the time.
Funnily enough, I read the sequels way back in the 90s, before I bought books off the internet. Even after all these years, I remembered as particularly good.
This book has aged very well, and the tech is very believable. In the world, makers are everywhere - keeping people young (or not, as they please), making the equivalent of brain implants (here called atriums), and allowing for mind uploads, as well as sending your mind to visit someone, enter specially developed animals or even take control (voluntary or not) over people.
For obvious reasons, this very well regulated by the police - although a little too much for Nicco, who is a special human adapted to vacuum who only exists by special license. That license is expiring, and so is he. He is desperate for a nanotech super weapon, a full AI (which is also illegal) which can make any nanotech. There is a heist, which naturally goes wrong, and the story flows from it.
It has actually been a while since I went though a book so fast - it was really great. It is very surprising that this was her first novel, really well deserving of the award it got.
Strongly recommended for SF fans.
Funnily enough, I read the sequels way back in the 90s, before I bought books off the internet. Even after all these years, I remembered as particularly good.
This book has aged very well, and the tech is very believable. In the world, makers are everywhere - keeping people young (or not, as they please), making the equivalent of brain implants (here called atriums), and allowing for mind uploads, as well as sending your mind to visit someone, enter specially developed animals or even take control (voluntary or not) over people.
For obvious reasons, this very well regulated by the police - although a little too much for Nicco, who is a special human adapted to vacuum who only exists by special license. That license is expiring, and so is he. He is desperate for a nanotech super weapon, a full AI (which is also illegal) which can make any nanotech. There is a heist, which naturally goes wrong, and the story flows from it.
It has actually been a while since I went though a book so fast - it was really great. It is very surprising that this was her first novel, really well deserving of the award it got.
Strongly recommended for SF fans.
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