Trade in Body, Inc. (Tipping Point Trilogy) for an Amazon.co.uk gift card of up to £0.45, which you can then spend on millions of items across the site. Trade-in values may vary (terms apply). Learn more
Publication Date: 27 Mar 2012 | Series: Tipping Point Trilogy (Book 2)
New York Times bestselling author Alan Dean Foster has always been on the cutting-edge of science fiction. In Body, Inc., he creates a tomorrow where genetic manipulation has become ubiquitous, and the very meaning of what it is to be human is undergoing drastic transformation.
In a world deeply wounded by centuries of environmental damage, two unlikely souls join forces: Dr. Ingrid Seastrom has stumbled into a mystery involving quantum-entangled nanoscale implants—a mystery that just may kill her. Whispr is a thief and murderer whose radical body modifications have left him so thin he is all but two-dimensional. Whispr has found a silver data-storage thread, a technology that will make him wealthy beyond his wildest dreams. He is also going mad with longing for Dr. Ingrid Seastrom. Their quest to learn the secrets of the implant and the thread—which may well be the same secret—has led them to the South African Economic Combine, otherwise known as SAEC. Or, less respectfully, SICK. SICK, it seems, has the answers.
Unfortunately, SICK has also got Napun Molé, a cold-blooded assassin whose genetic enhancements make him the equivalent of a small army. Molé has already missed one chance to kill Ingrid and Whispr and now he has followed them to South Africa. This time, he is not only going to succeed, he is going to make them suffer.
{"itemData":[{"priceBreaksMAP":null,"buyingPrice":9.75,"ASIN":"0345511999","isPreorder":0},{"priceBreaksMAP":null,"buyingPrice":9.84,"ASIN":"0345511980","isPreorder":0},{"priceBreaksMAP":null,"buyingPrice":9.66,"ASIN":"0345512022","isPreorder":0}],"shippingId":"0345511999::kgv19c%2Fd0H9XxLd8x9U7gsej9wxWqOAKwy6wek8uCGkR3ZmxVH45u%2FUZ4CtZDWSZLjIRhuS8dALw84n13io9nHqy7QrhUClg,0345511980::EbUR7jcLmnq5SzqNFl4eEpXtDeKRwJdjB0d4AHPpdry%2FYmivkfBCZblr8LdgMpWTRZSmHy%2FeQ1AEsg4b2XE1JsTSmuIx722e,0345512022::l6%2BT1OAupj3koX%2BU36smWnXwQuwVlMLje7153F3JNKt00KjeCSrDxAz0t8eVwLKdbGPJsytVBs3ECs8BTq5Bfc1i8bYAB6oz","sprites":{"addToWishlist":["wl_one","wl_two","wl_three"],"addToCart":["s_addToCart","s_addBothToCart","s_add3ToCart"],"preorder":["s_preorderThis","s_preorderBoth","s_preorderAll3"]},"currenyCode":"GBP","shippingDetails":{"xz":"availability","yz":"availability","xy":"same","xyz":"availability"},"tags":["x","y","z"],"strings":{"showDetails":"Show details","differentAvailabilityAll":"Some of these items are dispatched sooner than the others.","addToWishlist":[null,null,null],"shippingError":"An error occurred, please try again","differentAvailability":"One of these items is dispatched sooner than the other.","preorder":["Pre-order this item","Pre-order both items","Pre-order all three items"],"addToCart":["Add to Basket","Add both to Basket","Add all three to Cart"],"showDetailsDefault":"Show availability and delivery details","priceLabel":["Price:","Price For Both:","Price For All Three:"],"hideDetailsDefault":"Hide availability and delivery details","hideDetails":"Hide details"}}
Having read ALL of the pip and flinx novels and then the 1st one of this series, i was quite looking forward to it. But I found it dry and boring and have given up on it. Also the book is very flimsy and feels more like a magazine than a book.
I'm a huge fan of Alan Dean Foster and have been so since the 1970s. So, be aware that he is unlikely to do any wrong - ever! Body, Inc is the second book in a series (The Tipping Point trilogy); you really must read the first book to get the full benefit of the storyline. The series is set in southern Africa, with a richly painted picture of near-future humanity and what might be in store for us when designer, technology-enhanced body-parts become the norm.
And this is the author's great strength; his ability to invent a familiar but alien world in the greatest of detail, populate it with three-dimensional characters that you can identify with and wind it all around a gripping pacey plot. Mr Foster goes to great lengths to research his material - as evidenced in his monthly blog - and that is how he delivers his monies-worth. I can't wait for the next in the series.
