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Host by Peter James (1995) (L22b4) Villard HC
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Do you want to live forever?
The science of cryonics--the freezing of the human body--has come a long way since the rumors about Walt Disney first surfaced. In HOST, Peter James's frighteningly authentic technothriller, a young professor combines computer technology and the latest cryonic advancements in his quest for immortality--and faces consequences more terrifying than anyone could ever imagine.
Joe Messenger is an award-winning specialist in artificial intelligence. The son of a cryonics pioneer, he believes that people can be made to live forever. But he also knows that merely freezing the body is not enough; without one's brain--one's consciousness--a cryonically preserved person will be incomplete. Joe, a computer genius, devises a way to download the human brain into a supercomputer called Archive.
Joe's wife, Karen, finds his cutting-edge research increasingly disturbing, particularly his obsessive work on Archive, which is developing signs of a distinct and sinister personality. Karen's complaint that Archive is beginning to dominate their lives is not idle paranoia it is truer than even she realizes.
Karen and Joe's marriage is further threatened when he falls for Juliet Spring, a gifted young scientist whose loveliness is matched by her keen insight into Joe's work. But just as the pair are on the brink of a scientific breakthrough, a series of macabre accidents befall Joe, Karen, and their son, Jack--clearly the work of some malevolent force. It becomes increasingly evident that the obsessions that have shaped Joe's life are about to blow his family apart.
The New York Daily News called Peter James's TWILIGHT "one scary book, a top-notch medical thriller of the Robin Cook class." HOST, James's first scientific thriller in the Michael Crichton vein, is as terrifyingly realistic novel that will seduce computer buffs and captivate any reader who appreciates speculative fiction that takes us one step beyond the limits of our world.
Pursuing his dream to extend life--perhaps indefinitely--through the use of artificial intelligence, computer genius Jack Messenger teams up with scientist Juliet Spring, until a series of macabre accidents befalls his family.
ISBN: 0679437839
Format: hardcover
Pages: 489
Book Condition: good
Defects: stamped B.G. Not for resale
Dust Jacket: fair - scuffing
Copyright: 1993, 1995 by Peter James
Publisher: Villard
Edition:
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The science of cryonics--the freezing of the human body--has come a long way since the rumors about Walt Disney first surfaced. In HOST, Peter James's frighteningly authentic technothriller, a young professor combines computer technology and the latest cryonic advancements in his quest for immortality--and faces consequences more terrifying than anyone could ever imagine.
Joe Messenger is an award-winning specialist in artificial intelligence. The son of a cryonics pioneer, he believes that people can be made to live forever. But he also knows that merely freezing the body is not enough; without one's brain--one's consciousness--a cryonically preserved person will be incomplete. Joe, a computer genius, devises a way to download the human brain into a supercomputer called Archive.
Joe's wife, Karen, finds his cutting-edge research increasingly disturbing, particularly his obsessive work on Archive, which is developing signs of a distinct and sinister personality. Karen's complaint that Archive is beginning to dominate their lives is not idle paranoia it is truer than even she realizes.
Karen and Joe's marriage is further threatened when he falls for Juliet Spring, a gifted young scientist whose loveliness is matched by her keen insight into Joe's work. But just as the pair are on the brink of a scientific breakthrough, a series of macabre accidents befall Joe, Karen, and their son, Jack--clearly the work of some malevolent force. It becomes increasingly evident that the obsessions that have shaped Joe's life are about to blow his family apart.
The New York Daily News called Peter James's TWILIGHT "one scary book, a top-notch medical thriller of the Robin Cook class." HOST, James's first scientific thriller in the Michael Crichton vein, is as terrifyingly realistic novel that will seduce computer buffs and captivate any reader who appreciates speculative fiction that takes us one step beyond the limits of our world.
Pursuing his dream to extend life--perhaps indefinitely--through the use of artificial intelligence, computer genius Jack Messenger teams up with scientist Juliet Spring, until a series of macabre accidents befalls his family.
ISBN: 0679437839
Format: hardcover
Pages: 489
Book Condition: good
Defects: stamped B.G. Not for resale
Dust Jacket: fair - scuffing
Copyright: 1993, 1995 by Peter James
Publisher: Villard
Edition:
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