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Chargement... Weapon (1) (Weapon-Solo) (édition 2023)par Robert Mason (Auteur)
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Equipped with telescopic, microscopic, and infrared vision, the strength of thirty men and reflexes beyond those of any Olympic athlete, Solo also has a brain. Bill Stewart, the gawky co-owner of Electron Dynamics, has created the thing most computer engineers only dream a machine can learn. Sent on a trial in Costa Rica with Bill and General Clyde Haynes, Solo monitors a Pentagon transmission ordering him shipped back to Florida for reprogramming. In a helicopter chase beneath the jungle canopy, Solo crashes his chopper, crawls out of the wreckage and, as his batteries begin to run out, escapes across the border into Nicaragua. Robert Mason, author of the New York Times bestselling Vietnam War memoir, "Chickenhawk", enters entirely new territory in a smashing fiction debut. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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This book probably wasn’t appreciated as much as it could be in the wake of James Cameron’s Terminator films which also deal with sentient, humanoid weapon systems. (Cybernetic weapons are nothing new in sf. They go back to at least Murray Leinster’s “The Warbler”. But they are often not humanoid nor is there interior life explored much.)
Mason does a very credible job of describing the technology and software that goes into Solo and his tale of Solo going rogue – as predicted by his creator who ultimately chooses to conceal Solo’s survival at novel’s end – is credible. I found Mason’s ability to draw Solo’s character from just a few spoken lines remarkable. ( )