- Paperback: 400 pages
- Publisher: E-Rights/E-Reads Ltd (26 May 2009)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0759268363
- ISBN-13: 978-0759268364
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 2.3 cm
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In a galaxy-spanning novel of adventure and philosophical conflict, set in the year 2165, a fleet of colonizing starships from Earth approaches the planet Argus, 138 light-years from Earth. During their years-long voyage, Earth has developed a stargate and ended up in an interstellar war, waged by robot fighters far from Earth and commanded by the central artificial intelligence of the gnostic system owned by the McConwell Company. When the AI realizes the futility of the war it's engaged in, it sets out to chage its own program, engaging the conspiratorial help of a varied crew of humans and aliens and risking the ultimate destruction of all intelligent civilization.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Dance, Dance, Evolution!
18 Mar 2008
Format:Mass Market Paperback
The Gnostic Computer System belonged to the Company and but did they have control over it? The GCS needed help. It was just not able to handle the problem it had been handed. The biggest problem anybody had been handed. A war with an alien race. A war which it could not win within the limits it had been given. But the danger was that it might also fail to win the war. EVER. Now it needed human help to make changes within its programming, changes that the Company did not want, changes that even it might not understand. And there was the danger that by changing it, it would change the balance, maybe even against itself.
The story is about first contact, about aliens, about computer intelligence, music, the nature of man, and about war. While some parts seem to be simplistic, there are bursts of genius and plot twists that surprise you. Even the characters, many of which I did not like, were realistic. Face it, if you don't like a character and think he is a jerk, then you are reacting to a REALISTIC character. I am loaning this book to a friend right after the review because he is a sci-fi fan and this is a great book. Get it, new or used.
The story is about first contact, about aliens, about computer intelligence, music, the nature of man, and about war. While some parts seem to be simplistic, there are bursts of genius and plot twists that surprise you. Even the characters, many of which I did not like, were realistic. Face it, if you don't like a character and think he is a jerk, then you are reacting to a REALISTIC character. I am loaning this book to a friend right after the review because he is a sci-fi fan and this is a great book. Get it, new or used.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
was not fond of the dancing
22 April 2010
Format:Paperback
Parts of the book took me back to my early years and junior high school dances... not what I want to read about in a SciFi book. Other than that I enjoyed the story.
3 of 6 people found the following review helpful
One of the best books I've ever read!
26 April 2000
Format:Mass Market Paperback
The Rapture Effect is a great story of first contact. There are a lot of subplots thrown in that add to the story instead of detracting. I won't say any more so I don't spoil the story, but if you like stories about first contact, or about secretive government plots, then you will like this book
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