MasseR rated Fight and Flight: 2 stars
Fight and Flight by Scott Meyer (Magic 2.0, #4)
Martin and his friends discovered that their world is computer generated and that by altering the code, they could alter …
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Martin and his friends discovered that their world is computer generated and that by altering the code, they could alter …
I read the book, but I'm almost regretting the time I put to this book. The conflict was even more self-caused than the previous, but with constant reminder that there is not real conflict. Add the stupid long, stupid discussions between the NPCs and you get a terrible book.
The version of the book I have has an introduction by Graham Sleight where he warns the book being controversial. It definitely has controversial content, maybe less on the politics, but more on the normalization of corporal punishment as well as objectifying women. For the politics itself its easy to suspend the disbelief how on this future world we have regressed into such a militaristic environment.
The book reminds me of Prey by Michael Crichton. The hero goes to an underwater facility, trying to solve what's wrong with the people getting sick, while at the same time unearthing what they in the facility are actually doing and what consequences it has.
Read it in 2 or so days, definitely a page turner.
This was a good hard science fiction book. But it's definitely not a page-turner while requiring constant attention. I listened to Red Mars as an audiobook and too much of the book ended up being background noise while I got distracted by everything else. I had a really hard time focusing on the book :/