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on August 13, 2014
Fascinating book and truly a brilliant page turner! Loved all the twists & turns in the plot leaving the reader hanging! Also must note that unlike many other books in its category - this author does an exceptional job at delivering a massive story/world in a very engaging, entertaining way! Let's see how long before a for a smart producer to put this awesome story on film...
on July 8, 2014
I loved this book. I couldn't stop reading it. The author creates a very interesting new world. The plot is fascinating with great complex characters. Those who are concerned with the environment, will fall in love with this book. I can't wait for the next one. I highly recommend it to science fiction lovers young and old alike.
on July 1, 2014
Reading Genostock is a powerful experience, which constantly ignites your imagination and challenges your thinking. The plot raises important moral issues, relevant to our modern existence, while engendering strong emotional attachment to the 3 main figures. The actions, feelings and thoughts of Julian, Dorianna and Bushon are the heart of this remarkable story, although there's much more to it.
This multi layer creation is based on a thrilling story taking place in a future world with a new order. The reader is zoomed out from a single character to brilliant logical structures of inter personal relationships, families and societies. Through building this world, the author uses ideas based on biology, paleontology, technology, geography and more. In the middle of this fascinating world stand the GENOSTOCK - genetically engineered and manufactured creatures, fully functioning on their own and enabling mankind to avoid another environmental disaster. The ideas behind the GENOSTOCK can serve, no doubt, as a future technology of the next startup firm. Indirectly, the concepts that drive this futuristic thriving society are indicative of the author's perception of the maladies that afflict of our current society; greed, myopic thinking, destructive weaponry, aging population, polluting industries and moral decay. No doubt - it makes one think.
Although many other sci-fi books have tried to build a convincingly future world, only a few have managed to maintain depth and credibility while describing it. Moreover, only a few have succeeded in combining their ideas with a powerful thrilling story that doesn't let up even for a single paragraph. Reading GENOSTOCK will keep you alert and tense. You will imagine, think, and debate with yourself. You will love and hate, get angry and disappointed. You will salivate reading the description of the food and feasts. You will be scared running away from the terrible hoolves, and be surprised while connecting the dots between the different stories. At the end of every chapter, you'll be hooked up, waiting impatiently for the next one, as I currently find myself waiting impatiently for scroll no. 2.
This multi layer creation is based on a thrilling story taking place in a future world with a new order. The reader is zoomed out from a single character to brilliant logical structures of inter personal relationships, families and societies. Through building this world, the author uses ideas based on biology, paleontology, technology, geography and more. In the middle of this fascinating world stand the GENOSTOCK - genetically engineered and manufactured creatures, fully functioning on their own and enabling mankind to avoid another environmental disaster. The ideas behind the GENOSTOCK can serve, no doubt, as a future technology of the next startup firm. Indirectly, the concepts that drive this futuristic thriving society are indicative of the author's perception of the maladies that afflict of our current society; greed, myopic thinking, destructive weaponry, aging population, polluting industries and moral decay. No doubt - it makes one think.
Although many other sci-fi books have tried to build a convincingly future world, only a few have managed to maintain depth and credibility while describing it. Moreover, only a few have succeeded in combining their ideas with a powerful thrilling story that doesn't let up even for a single paragraph. Reading GENOSTOCK will keep you alert and tense. You will imagine, think, and debate with yourself. You will love and hate, get angry and disappointed. You will salivate reading the description of the food and feasts. You will be scared running away from the terrible hoolves, and be surprised while connecting the dots between the different stories. At the end of every chapter, you'll be hooked up, waiting impatiently for the next one, as I currently find myself waiting impatiently for scroll no. 2.
on June 23, 2014
Excellent book!! Once you pick it up you just can't put it down. The characters come alive as the story unfolds. I can't wait to get my hands on the next book!!
on June 23, 2014
I found this book to be one of the rare books written these days that manifests verbal eloquence and evokes strong visual imagery. It is a creative look at what could be our collective future.
on June 22, 2014
No doubt, this is one of the most exciting, original and brilliant books I've ever read. The author created a future world that is full with amazing inventions and society rules that help it survive despite the threats of overpopulation and pollution. While dealing with the future, one cannot avoid the philosophical dilemmas that are so relevant to our era, such as aging population, racism, and even fire arm control. While successfully doing this, the author didn't neglect drama and tension: this story wouldn't let the reader put the book down until its surprising end. I can’t wait to read part II of this trilogy, hopefully available soon.
on June 21, 2014
A fascinating future world with captivating characters & genetically engineered technology. I got hooked as soon as I started reading the Prologue.
A fun & captivating story, set up in a post industrial world recovering from past (our era) environmental disaster. I especially liked the short proverbs (in rhymes!) interspersed among the fast paced story line - Brilliant & creative!
I hope books 2 & 3 follow soon...
A fun & captivating story, set up in a post industrial world recovering from past (our era) environmental disaster. I especially liked the short proverbs (in rhymes!) interspersed among the fast paced story line - Brilliant & creative!
I hope books 2 & 3 follow soon...
on June 18, 2014
If you are an intelligent reader, who is wondering what the future of our world might be and is fascinated by a creative and completely different way of thinking about this subject, you will love this book! It is mainly for Sci-Fi lovers, but any reader will be easily drawn into the future imaginary worlds created by the author. The characters are different from each other, but you can't be indifferent to any of them. You will get emotionally involved and won't be able to put the book down!
on June 16, 2014
A wonderful intelligent reading. unlike other futuristic books one can believe that the future world will actually look like the one presented in the book. An everyday story of of a special community strangling to survive in an extreme environment . Very easy to read . Lots of surprises and cliffhangers . Not to be missed.
