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Invasive Procedures (Playaway Adult Fiction) (Preloaded Digital Audio Player)

by Aaron Johnston (Author), Orson Scott Card (Author), Stefan Rudnicki (Narrator)
3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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  • Preloaded Digital Audio Player
  • Publisher: Playaway (Oct 2009)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1441701826
  • ISBN-13: 978-1441701824
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome tale!, 9 Aug 2007
By Detra Fitch (USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Invasive Procedures (Hardcover)
George Galen is a brilliant (but insane) geneticist, black-listed for unethical and illegal genetic tampering. He has created a method to alter human DNA to heal diseases, but uses it to also "improve" those who receives his treatment. Galen makes his patients stronger, faster, able to heal quickly, and compliant to his will.

Dr. Monica Owens is one of the best thoracic surgeons in her field. Needing Monica to make his plans work, Galen has Wyatt, her six-year-old son, kidnapped. To keep Wyatt from harm, Monica must accompany Galen and his goons to an abandoned and forgotten nursing home. It is there that Galen has set up an impressive genetic lab, along with some unwilling test patients. Hating herself for what she is forced to do, Monica begins altering the DNA of the prisoners.

Lieutenant Colonel Frank Hartman is a brilliant (and sane) virologist. Working for the government's biohazard agency (BHA), he has discovered how to neutralize Galen's DNA-changing virus, V16. Needless-to-say, Galen is not happy.

***** This began as a short story titled MALPRACTICE which was published in a sci-fi magazine around 1977. After years of emails to each other, Card and Johnston expanded the tale to novel size.

Although this is a combination of sci-fi and medical thriller, with a little government military thrown in, it is labeled as simply fiction. If you expect to find a fantasy or sci-fi story in the lines of ENDER'S GAME, then you are going to be disappointed. This book proves that author Orson Scott Card has the rare ability to cross genres with his writing. So begin reading with an open mind and be prepared to be blown away! *****

Reviewed by Detra Fitch of Huntress Reviews.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars If you are looking for the definitive colection of action cliches..., 18 Jun 2009
By A Smith (Norway) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Invasive Procedures (Hardcover)
... by all means, read this book.

From a barn going up in flames "... like it'd been sprayed with kerosene..." from a single spark on a rainy night, to a Good-guy / Bad-guy showdown on (that's right folks) the roof of a train.

I am an avid Card fan, but this book had nothing of him in it. One of the things that I enjoy the most while reading Card is his ability to create incredibly three dimensional characters and situations that draw me into the story. Be it Sci-Fi, Fantasy, or Horror, Card has never failed in this respect, until now.

The story was also peppered with glaring holes, contradictions, and incredibly predictable "twists."

This was a major disappointment and I implore Mr. Card to never put his name on the same publication as Aaron Johnston again. Anyone looking for a quality book please read "Folk on the Fringe," "Homebody," or (of course) the Ender series, but please don't let this book turn you off from an otherwise wonderful author.
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