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Steve Toutonghi

Autore di Join

2 opere 206 membri 11 recensioni 1 preferito

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Fonte dell'immagine: photo by David Hiller

Opere di Steve Toutonghi

Join (2016) 164 copie
Side Life (2018) 42 copie

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Informazioni generali

Agente
David Forrer (Inkwell Management)
Breve biografia
A native of Seattle and Soldotna, Alaska, Steve Toutonghi studied fiction and poetry while completing a BA in Anthropology at Stanford. After pursuing a variety of interests including an acting internship at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, work as an IT systems manager, and teaching English in a public school in Japan, he began a career in technology that led him from Silicon Valley back to Seattle. He is the author of Join and Side Life, both from Soho Press.

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Weird, interesting but unfortunately ultimately unfulfilling.
 
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snorrelo | 3 altre recensioni | Feb 22, 2021 |
Weird, interesting but unfortunately ultimately unfulfilling.
 
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snorrelo | 3 altre recensioni | Feb 22, 2021 |
Interesting universe, good characters, fun and relevant plot.
 
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jzacsh | 6 altre recensioni | Sep 9, 2020 |
What initially begins as a pretty interesting thought experiment about small groups of joined minds and experiences under a quantum entanglement surgery quickly becomes a lot more.

Doesn't it sound interesting when it quietly becomes a murder mystery, a philosophical discussion about immortality, including mental illness, meme propagation, obsession, and later, a myopic cautionary tale pitting the Joined against the Solos and eventually even a fascinating evolution of humanity as it reaches for the stars? Yes? :)

And that's just the surface, because we get to know some rather good characters, and plot actions, too. :)

It's an immensely readable near-future hop that gets progressively dystopian while retaining the very interesting core concept as both the center piece and the conflict, both within the other joined and with the rest of the solos in the world.

Honestly, this could have been fine as a novel that had just focused on just the smaller plot actions of the first half, but I feel quite lucky that the author decided to put a lot of extra thought and effort into the whole concept, discovering and exploiting a lot of the more interesting aspects of becoming an effective immortal by constantly changing out the "drives", or the individual people, as they wear out, and taking it much further with nearly crazy meme-sets caused by expanded join-sets.

I love SF and Fantasy that show us the rules, and then show us how to break them. This novel certainly gives us a fascinating ride. :)

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bradleyhorner | 6 altre recensioni | Jun 1, 2020 |

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Statistiche

Opere
2
Utenti
206
Popolarità
#107,332
Voto
½ 3.4
Recensioni
11
ISBN
12
Preferito da
1

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