- Paperback: 320 pages
- Publisher: Time Warner Paperbacks; New edition edition (6 Sep 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0751530751
- ISBN-13: 978-0751530759
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.8 x 2.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 1.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 649,008 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'KILLING TIME is a convincing and well-written look into an all too plausible future.' SFX MAGAZINE
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It is the greatest truth of our age: information is not knowledge. Manhattan, September 13, 2023. The air is so filthy that the populace are urged to venture outside only if their business is urgent. For Vera Price, her visit to criminal psychologist Dr Gideon Wolfe is just that. Her husband, special effects wizard John Price, has been murdered, and she needs Gideon's help in solving the case. On a disc she gives Gideon is the information that almost certainly cost her husband his life. For America is still in shock after the murder of its president, and the disc suggests the wrong man has been convicted...In the Internet age, the world is drowning in information. And in a sea of unregulated and unverifiable facts, the truth is harder and harder to find. Especially when deception is a daily occurrence, and doctored evidence and digitally manipulated images are distorting reality to breaking point. And as Gideon discovers, although there are those who want to put an end to this, their actions have the consequences of not only killing people, but of killing time itself ...
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13 of 14 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Caleb Carr - or an evil imposter?,
By Abigail (Goettingen, Germany) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Killing Time (Paperback)
While reading this book, I kept on having to check the front cover to see if it really was by Caleb Carr, and not by someone orthographically similar. Sadly, it does appear to be by him. It's terrible. It reads like Matthew Reilly, but with 10% of the action. The plot is absurd, the characterisation is leaden, and the dialogue sounds like something out of Tintin. The french professor ends all his sentences with a french word "non?","mon ami","precisement" to, like, really drive home the point that he is french. A rebel general in Indonesia addresses the protagonists - invariably - as "my infidel friends". It made me wince. I probably wouldn't be so caustic, as I have read enough poor sf to be somewhat hardened to dodgy plots and silly charaters, except I was really excited to read a non-historical Carr, and was bitterly disappointed.
12 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Highly disappointing,
By A Customer
This review is from: Killing Time (Paperback)
If you read and enjoyed the brilliant The Alienist and Angel of Darkness, be prepared to be disappointed. This book is a fragmentary, predictable yarn set in a (surprise, surprise) dark future where all the terrible things man has done to the world has lead to an apocalyptic environment ruled by "Information". A ludicrous storyline finally leads to the highly unsatisfactory ending.This book is already dated... I would advise readers to stay well away from this and to wait until Mr Carr writes a follow-up to the aforementioned titles (if he ever does!)
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Time to change the template...,
By A Customer
This review is from: Killing Time (Paperback)
The Alienist and the Angel of Darkness were brilliant and compelling with great in depth charecters. Both shared that urge to have to read on at the end of every cliff hanging chapter. This does not. Some of the ideas are good, but it all feels a touch lazy. It involves an alinated rebel group fighting against convention using new technologies. This group contains; a psychologist, twins, a strong woman who is good with guns, and a genius with both a disability and childhood traumas. Sound at all familiar? It is time Mr Carr used a new template rather than catapulting His existing one into the future and glazing it with a shiny sci-fi sheen. ...
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