The God Project [Hardcover]

Stan Lee (Author)

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

This political thriller gets off to a strong start as Malcolm Keyes, an ad-man with perfect visual and aural memory, is named executive assistant to newly elected liberal President Richard Halliday. After Keyes gets wind of a top-secret CIA plan called the GOD project, Halliday and beautiful Vice President Madeleine Smith assign him to sniff it out further. He learns that the CIA is searching for a missing man, involved with the project, who may be leftist televangelist John Burns, but who also may be Keyes himself. Feuding with one another as they fend off the new administration's incursions, CIA officials authorize kidnaps here and wiretaps there. Keyes and the v-p develop a romantic relationship, while the investigations of a Russian agent parallel Keyes's own. Unfortunately, the more we learn about the GOD project, the larger Lee's ( Dunn's Conundrum ) soapbox looms, as his characters preach lengthy ideological sermons, turning what could have been a suspenseful, witty, thoughtful adventure into a tiresome rant.
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From Library Journal

Hearing rumors of a CIA secret weapon called the GOD Project, incoming U.S. President Richard Halliday calls on political campaign aide Malcom Keyes to use the powers of his incredible photographic memory to sort out the villains and uncover the plot. Readers who enjoyed Lee's first novel, Dunn's Conundrum (LJ 12/84), can look forward to another hilarious romp through a series of comical scenes masquerading as an espionage thriller. The characters are carefully drawn and the action continuous. The book offers comic relief for serious spy thriller fans and fun reading for the rest of us. Enthusiastically recommended for all popular fiction collections.
- Brian Alley, Sangamon State Univ. Springfield, Ill.
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 407 pages
• Publisher: Grove Pr; 1 edition (January 1990)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0802111289
• ISBN-13: 978-0802111289
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.1 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #544,266 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Stan Lee is a man who needs no introduction. Nevertheless: Having begun his career with wartime Timely Comics and staying the course throughout the Atlas era, Stan the Man made comic-book history with Fantastic Four #1, harbinger of a bold new perspective in story writing that endures to this day. With some of the industry's greatest artists, he introduced hero after hero in Incredible Hulk, Amazing Spider-Man, X-Men and more -- forming a shared universe for rival publishers to measure themselves against. After an almost literal lifetime of writing and editing, Lee entered new entertainment fields and earned Marvel one opportunity after another. He remains one of Marvel's best-known public representatives.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Insights Concerning Artificial Intelligence, July 19, 1999

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This review is from: The God Project (Hardcover)

From the bonding felt by the robots creator, to the comically failed experiments in machine intelligence, The God Project is a little too believable. Thats what makes it scary. God in this story is Games Of Defense, and not only has the perfect bionic soldier been manufactured, but it has escaped into society, a more than human thingie wandering around out in the great fire of humanity. Then, from the mass, comes a new religious leader, able to captivate audiences with insight and convincing arguments, whose power grows at a fantastic pace so that established government fears him to the point of plotting against his life. It is hypothesized that the Christian Mahdi is in fact the escaped AI soldier, and it is up to the reader to find out the rest. A must for the student of technological conjecture and history, a springboard by which to extrapolate and infer beyond the veil of government classification. Bill

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Science-fiction thriller with a different slant., July 15, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: The God Project (Hardcover)

After DUNN'S CONUNDRUM we're not surprised that Lee doesn't take the Cold Warrior slant of most thrillers, but the step towards SF is an interesting twist. A Presidential assistant with an eidetic memory catches hints of a secret project started by the previous administration; in a good twist, this isn't the reason why the project starts investigating him. Think of Gene Wolfe's "The HORARs of War" as an action novel. A bit formulaic (but without the cliched angst of Le Carre and his imitators), but I found it worth rereading and regret not finding any later work from an author who doesn't fit into a neat category.

5.0 out of 5 stars Aged well., June 25, 2011

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This review is from: The God Project (Hardcover)

The God Project by Stan Lee was as much fun to read in 2011 as it was when it first came out, in the 1990s. It is imaginative, well-written and, in an offbeat way, topical.

The characters are unique and interesting.

I do not want to go into the details of the plot because that might ruin it for a person who had not read it.