Y2K -- It's Already Too Late (Paperback)

by Jason Kelly (Author)

Editorial Reviews

Amazon.com Review
This engaging thriller depicts the chaos that ensues when the all-too-familiar year 2000 (Y2K) bug hits, crashing computer systems around the world. In Jason Kelly's novel, riots sweep through cities around the country after Y2K knocks out electricity. Transportation grinds to a halt when clocks in the microchips that control planes, trains, and automobiles fail. The same high-tech weaponry that toppled the forces of Saddam Hussein is rendered useless, leaving an unprepared United States military virtually defenseless against renegade nations with older but still lethal arsenals.

For computer geeks, X-Files devotees, and Tom Clancy readers alike, Y2K is one of those books that's hard to put down once you start reading it. While many argue that the Y2K bug is mostly hype, this book makes it impossible not to wonder what's going to happen when the ball drops on December 31, 1999. --Michael A. Mariani

From Library Journal
Mark Solvang, computer scientist, has seen the technical implications of the end of the millennium for years and has built a successful business to help fix the computers that regulate our society. His company is completely equipped with its own telecommunications and power sources so that he will still be in business on January 1, 2000. However, even he didn't expect his company to be taken over by a vanguard of Chinese invaders. This story is immediately engaging and will prompt most listeners to start stockpiling life's necessities before they are half way through the book! David Griffin reads with the gravity and earnestness of a television news anchor, with a steady, driving pace that contributes to the fear of an unknown future. The ticking of a clock begins and ends each tape, further emphasizing that time is the enemy. Unfortunately, the production is not equal to the reader or the plot. The distortion and reverberation of voices require a quiet listening area, and the tapes cannot compete with road noise. No matter how high the volume is set, commuters can make out only a word or two in each sentence. Recommended with reservations.AJuleigh Muirhead Clark, Colonial Williamsburg Fdn., VA
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Audio Cassette edition.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: JK Press; 1 edition (June 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0966438701
• ISBN-13: 978-0966438703
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars See all reviews (60 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,093,901 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Low Level Fiction, March 23, 1999

By A Customer

As a Y2K remediation consultant, I was looking for a few laughs when I ordered this book. However, I didn't buy into the premise for one second, and I barely made it halfway through. What a waste. The book requires you to believe that no one has ever heard of the millennium bug until the clocks strike midnight, and that no work is underway to head off this problem. What bull! There may be some disruptions, but believe me we're not going to experience The Day the Earth Stood Still as Kelly predicts. The author is simply fanning mass hysteria to sell books. Had he done his homework, Kelly would have referenced the billions already invested and the countless man-hours spent by people a lot smarter than his hero to head off problems. But it's Kelly's writing style that finally gives him away: amateur. Obviously the book is self-published. No editor worth her salt would allow this self-indulgent prose to reach the printed page.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too Little Logic, July 2, 1999

By A Customer

No vehicles work except 30-year-old ones, yet none of the roads are clogged with stalled cars? Everything's shut down, but there's almost no looting? Kelly needs to study his history.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The best bad book you'll read this year..., May 1, 1999

By A Customer

Horribly written, laden with cliches -- Visionary businessman meeting resistance at every turn, security man yearning for love, kid genius, etc. -- and absurdly paranoid -- The company in the story is "the only company still operable after New Year's Eve 1999." The US will be invaded by China due to a traitor in our midst... -- , Nonetheless, a good book for it's absurdity value alone. I recommend waiting till after y2k though... It'll be in every used book store's $.25 bin come 1/1/2000.