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When an experimental memory-modification device goes awry and affects the president of the United States, the race is on to determine if someone has obtained the president's memories, including secret military plans.
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I feel like I've said this on my last few RJS books: I love him, but this was not his best work. He is a much better writer than this and it seems he made this too "action packed". He excels in the conundrums he creates out of natural events (much the same as Orson Scott Card), but this book focused more on the action and plot twists. Too many convenient story lines. ( )
  cgfaulknerog | May 28, 2020 |
I actually read this serialized in Analog Science Fiction and Fact where it was printed over 4 issues. That said, according to the author there's only minor differences (and not to story) with the book version.

The book is centred around a very interesting premise that an experiment causes various people's minds to be linked together, but they only can read one other person's mind (and it's not reciprocal). However, since one of the people linked is the President of the US, this causes definite security concerns.

It reads like a mix of a science fiction novel and a Tom Clancy novel. It's for this reason I'm not that big on the book. It ends up kind of coming up short on both sides of this equation. It doesn't explore the premise quite as well as it could and it's not the best political thriller either (although it doesn't really try very hard on the latter).

This author has some excellent books (e.g., the WWW trilogy, or [b:Calculating God|264950|Calculating God|Robert J. Sawyer|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1312023482s/264950.jpg|2207588]) so I'd recommend that people look there first. This isn't a bad book, it's just not as good as some of his others. ( )
  tjl | Jan 2, 2020 |
Interesting idea as usual from Sawyer, but without much suspense for most of the book. The ending happens almost too fast, so there's not much time to do any exploration of what is happening. ( )
  Guide2 | Mar 16, 2017 |
Sawyer seems to be running of a string of novels now that for lack of a better description are "of a kind." That's probably hard to avoid, but this one seems rather like he's following a formula and I for one am ready for him to embark in a new direction. Not nearly as thought-provoking and challenging to our preconceived ideas as most of his other recent work. ( )
  ndpmcIntosh | Mar 21, 2016 |
I actually read this in Analog SF (Kindle edition) in installments (I'm a sucker for those...a nostalgia thing, I guess. I remember waiting for the new issue to read the next section of a novel by Frank Herbert, Roger Zelazny, Robert Silverberg, Alfred Bester, etc.)

That said, this was another good Sawyer novel, though not my favorite. It had a "thriller" quality to it and felt a little soap opera-ish, though it explored some interesting twists on the "what if we shared one another's memories" theme. It felt like it could have gone a little deeper, but was a great springboard for speculation.

Sawyer was apparently inspired by Moonwalking With Einstein by Joshua Foer, a nonfiction account of Foer's introduction to "competetive memorizing," among many other things associated with memory. I would highly recommend that one, too. ( )
  bibleblaster | Jan 23, 2016 |
President Seth Jerrison, the Republican successor to Obama, is giving a speech from the Lincoln Memorial in Washington DC. The former History Professor from Columbia is presiding over a nation still at war: Chicago, Philadelphia, and San Francisco have been devastated by a new kind of bomb with the destructive power of a nuke. The perpetrators? Al-Sajada, an offshoot from the now-defunct al-Qaeda.

Jerrison is just getting into his stride – ‘… we shall not rest until our planet is free of the scourge of terrorism …’ – when that old nightmare makes its appearance: an assassin opens fire, mortally wounding the President.

As Jerrison is undergoing emergency surgery at the nearby Luther Terry Memorial Hospital, one of the new bombs is discovered on the very roof of the White House – clearly an inside job. A bomb disposal robot is soon rolling towards it on clanking treads.

Adjacent to the Operating Theatre where the President is struggling for life, Iraqi war veteran Kadeem Adams is about to undergo an experimental procedure for PTSD. His therapist, Professor Singh, has developed a special laser-based process which can directly activate the neural networks in Kadeem’s brain, editing those areas holding his traumatic memories. Kadeem is in the harness, the laser-rig is activated and the doctor prepares to stimulate a major flashback episode. And suddenly … the bomb detonates and an EMP sweeps across Washington. The power goes down in the Emergency Room and as the surgical team battle to restart the President’s heart, an impulse spike hits Professor Singh’s equipment. And everything changes.

It soon becomes apparent that everyone in a radius around Singh’s device can now access the complete memories of another nearby person. It’s a one way linkage, but someone now has the memories of the President himself. And that’s unfortunate, because Jerrison has signed off on Operation Counterpunch, a devastating military initiative intended to deal with the terrorist onslaught on America once and for all. But many would judge Counterpunch as the greatest atrocity in history.

The story unfolds as Secret Service agent Susan Dawson takes charge. Who has whose memories? And who has the President’s? It’s not made easier by the fact that the President now has Kadeem’s memories, including the Iraqi atrocities which caused his PTSD in the first place. It soon becomes apparent that the Secret Service has itself been infiltrated and Counterpunch is less than three days away.

Sawyer has a lot of fun with the concept that someone else might have access to everything you know. That other person now has access to all your passwords and bank details for example: it’s got to be a worry. If, like hospital CEO Dr Mark Griffin, you were involved in a major fraud, then you are now open to blackmail. If you have the memories of your romantic partner, you know everything both about them and about what they think of you.

It’s in the last few chapters that the novel begins to seriously go off the rails. The nature of Operation Counterpunch is revealed only at this point, although it will have been obvious to the reader from early on. However, it is incredible that such a self-defeating and morally-untenable plan could ever have seen the light of day. Really. Beyond the bounds of possibility.

Without revealing too much, the memory-sharing effect now begins to spread and go viral: it reminded me of Arthur C. Clarke’s famous novel ‘Childhood’s End’. But while Sartre observed that ‘Hell is other people’, Sawyer is an incurable optimist: if we all truly immersed ourselves in the memories and thoughts of others, conflict, fear and oppression would come to an end and a new utopia would dawn. As a new dawn ushers humanity to its next stage of consciousness, the result is a hasty conclusion that crudely closes off remaining plot threads. Don’t let any of this put you off though. Sawyer writes well, his characters are strong and interesting and if you manage to suspend your disbelief the pages will turn right through to the end.
 
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