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The Cassandra Complex (Hardcover)

by Brian Stableford (Author) "When Lisa first heard the noise, she wasn't sure whether it was real or not ..." (more)
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  • Hardcover: 320 pages
  • Publisher: Saint Martin's Press Inc.; First edition (21 Jun 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0312877730
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312877736
  • Product Dimensions: 21.7 x 14.6 x 2.7 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,321,886 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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"Brian Stableford is one of the most inventive and original writers working today." --"The Times," London
"Brian Stableford has triumphantly created his own niche of hard biological SF, containing the genre's most intelligently imagined marvels and nightmares." --David Langford


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This is a science fiction novel of enormous scope, filled with wonders, that expands Brian Stableford's ambitious on-going future history series begun in Inherit the Earth and continued in Architects of Emortality and The Fountains of Youth. It is the 21st century, a world of rapid change and biotech threats and promises. World War Three, the biotech war, is on the horizon and the world as we know it is going to end. The fateful question is, who is going to choose what kind of future comes next, and who gets to live in this new world to come? Lisa Frieman, a forensic researcher, is attacked in her apartment. Jordan Miller, a distinguished scientist, and Lisa's former co-worker, has disappeared, taking with him a secret discovery. But what does he possess that everyone wants?
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2.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely awful, 16 Dec 2007
This review is from: The Cassandra Complex (Future History) (Mass Market Paperback)
Given a choice between watching a wall and reading this intellectually under-nourished, lazy, characterless book, then I would hope for an interesting wall. This is writing so bad the brain glances off the attention repelling surface of its prose: I managed to read the first 58 pages (which could have been summarized in a single paragraph without loss) but no more. Please, no - NOOOO!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Slick Detective Future Distopia Thriller, 20 Jul 2006
By Mr. S. Crook "porkycat" (North of the M25) - See all my reviews
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Part typical Stableford territory of thoughtful speculative near future SF and part straight detective story. Set in a world that's close enough to ours to be reconisable, well thought out enough to be plausible, and nasty enough to not be a world that most of us would want to live in if we had any say in the matter.

If you're expecting BIG ideas, or high action, you'll be disappointed, but the book delivers with the quality of the writing, characterisation and plot that is familiar to anyone whos read much Stableford.

If you read the books in the order described in the summary above, this one seems to be out of sequence and timewise it should really be the first of the series. It fills some interesting back story in the Emortality ideas and deals with characters who receive passing (but important) mentions in the other books.

Highly recommended.
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