Nanotime - Softcover

Kosko, Bart

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0380791471 ISBN 13: 9780380791477

Publisher: Avon, 1998

Synopsis

William Gibson meets Tom Clancy in this brilliant and chilling cyberthriller set in the multimedia world of the near furture--where oil is running out, wars are smart, and intelkligent software agents may be the only friends you can trust.

In the year 2030--when the world has doubled in population and no one escape the prying eyes of the State--John Grant wants to save the Earth from its addiction to oil and get rich in the process. But the revoultionary new molecule he has patented--an astonishing advance that can split water and produce a virtually limitless supply of cheap feul hydrogen--has marke him as a traitor to his country. . .and as a target. Sufi mystic, genius mathematician and master terroist Hamid Tabriz wants Grant's patent and his mind. Now both goals are within Tabriz's reach, thankls to a chip he has perfected which enables him to place his own mind in another's head.

An increasingly chatic world is racing toward annihilation. And John Grant will have to defend it--and himself--from a disembdied place far beyond the confines of space and time: in NANOTIME.

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About the Author

Bart Kosko holds degrees in four different fields and is a professor at USC. He is the author of the Forthcoming Heaven in a Chip. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

From Kirkus Reviews

Debut novel from the guru of fuzzy logic (the nonfiction Fuzzy Thinking, 1993). By 2030 the world's oil is running out, leading to conflict in the Middle East. Backed by Israel, John Grant has invented a ``smart'' molecule that splits water into hydrogen fuel and oxygen, and has a pilot plant up and running at Eilat. Then Sufi mystic, genius mathematician, and terrorist Hamid Tabriz destroys Eilat before grabbing Denise Cheng, John's lover and financial backer, in order to replace her brain with a super- microchip controlled by Tabriz. John is forced to kill Denise, though the unnamed US agencies that are keeping tabs on him seem curiously reluctant to get involved in the action. Later, the Israelis implant a chip in John's brain, so now his mind works at nanospeeds, while the Israelis control him via the chip--and use him as bait to tempt Tabriz out of hiding. But John's secret ally, Jism, an artificial intelligence he's created using the template of Victorian genius John Stuart Mill, can help him handle his new superfast intellect, evade the Israeli mindblocks, and zap Tabriz. Meanwhile, the Middle East conflict rapidly accelerates towards WW III. A brash, confused, and, well, fuzzy yarn that, with its relentlessly amoral inhabitants and doings, leaves an unpleasant aftertaste. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Avon
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0380791471
• ISBN 13: 9780380791477
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 352