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Infinity Link

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Characters were decently developed and Carver developed a good basic theme for his book. However, he wasted page after page with a totally unnecessary side-story that had a reporter chasing after the story that was the plot of the book.

Had it not been for this side story I would likely have given this book four stars. It was as if (and quite likely that) Carver wrote the book and then added the side story to give it some fat... you know, add a lot of pages so people will think it's a great book and not just a good book.

As it is, the book is still a very good read and, if bored, you may skip over most of the side story without missing anything of the central plot. I'll read more of Carver.

"The Infinity Link" by Jeffrey A. Carver, ©1984

This is such an unusual story. You are given the basic outlines of a girl who has lost her beauty to some accident, trying to make a go of it in college and this job come along. The job is wonderful: she gets to play with another person, male, who sees her in the compute simulation as she would see herself if she was not injured. The job is to end soon, but no one tells her. She is doing good and it comes to light with another peon and her out after work. She is devastated. She had thought there was a future and not an end. Now what?
Now come the aliens. They are coming into see us and sample our life forms. They find three intelligent animals on Earth. Whales? Dolphins? One of the great apes? It is a pretty good story, but I forget the ending, so maybe it was not so good.