Armed Memory

By James Maxwell Young

Book Overview

In the strange days at the end of the 21st century, Tim drifts into New York City and goes to work for his cousin, a biotech wizard in designed genes who dreams of reshaping the world. But Tim's... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812550277
• ISBN13: 9780812550276
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: Tor Books
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 4.2" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

Good Science Fiction Thriller,but not the best.

I think that this book uses great imagination in order to look into another century and to depict how it might be.I haven't enjoyed a book this much in a while!If you liked this book you might want to check out other books somewhat similair to this one,such as Jurassic Park,The Lost World,or Intensity.I think that this book gets very interesting,but then loses it's flavor,but then it catches back up.Overall it's a good read.

Great Book! Read it twice

This book was very well itten. I liked very much. Some people think there are gaps in how te hammerhead walked on land and swam in the sea, but all you have to do is read it, and it explains it completely. Anyways, the idea of genetic tinkering intrigue, and shows what we might be able do in the future. the only thing, is that if u were a jones and comitted a crime, you could just microde yourself, and never be caught. Also the concept of moneya little odd, becuase 17 billion dollars didn't seem to impressive to him, as it would be in this day and age.

Smart, Dark and Thought-Provoking

I must have read the 1993 short story this book is based on in a collection somewhere -- at least most of this novel seemed vaguely familiar. "Lingers in the reader's memory"? No, I just barely got any déja vu from it... But I enjoyed it even more the second(?) time.Young's story is a brisk, short-chaptered cautionary tale, well-paced and intriguing. There are some major plot elements left unexplained -- like how can the Hammerheads be swimming in the ocean at one point, and rampaging through the streets of New York in another -- do they have fins or legs? -- but as long as you're willing to suspend your disbelief, this is great "soft" science-fiction.The microcoding fashions reminded me a bit of Delaney's "Dahlgren," and the high-tech high-security future is very Bladerunner. However Young's vision of genetic tinkering gone awry is all his own, as far as I know. Proponents of "designer genes" and nanotechnology-as-mankind's-golden-goose would do well to consider Young's alternative future, where not everyone follows a Disney script.Chilling and (except for a few implausible details) entirely too plausible.

The ability to create a new you.

This is a highly enjoyable thriller about a future where extreme body modification - via genetic manipulation - is the latest fad, and what happens when a group of people begin to use it as a route to world domination. A few careless plot gaps and a craving for more keep me from giving the book a higher score, but it doesn't keep me from recommending it to anyone who finds the premise interesting.

GOOD read. Lots of strong ideas to take away with you.

Very well written DNA-punk novel. Compelling plot with some good irony and socially interesting ideas. Just enough science to inform and lets your imagination fill in the gaps. Good charcter development that doesn't get in the way of the plot. I read it twice about a month apart and enjoyed it equally both times. Lots of good ideas to explore with your mind expand after the book is closed