- Mass Market Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Tor Science Fiction; First Edition edition (Nov 15 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0812571088
- ISBN-13: 978-0812571080
- Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 10.6 x 2.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 172 g
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (24 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #579,168 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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There is a 50 percent chance that geneticist Pierre Tardivel is carrying the gene for Huntington's Disease, a fatal disorder. That knowledge drives Pierre in his work on the Human Genome Project, an attempt by scientists to map human genes. But a strange set of circumstances--including a knife attack, the in vitro fertilization of his wife, and an insurance company plot to use DNA samples to weed out clients predisposed to early deaths--draw Tardivel into a story that will ultimately involve the hunt for a Nazi death camp doctor. Frameshift shows why the New York Times calls Robert J. Sawyer "a writer of boundless confidence."
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From Library Journal
A Nebula Award winner and Hugo Award nominee, Sawyer has created a gripping medical sf thriller. Pierre Tardivel, a French Canadian geneticist, works on identifying junk DNA for the Human Genome Project. At risk for contracting Huntington's chorea, Tardivel drives himself to succeed in a race against time to complete his research. Skillfully interwoven is the misidentification of John Demjanjuk as the Treblinka death camp's Ivan the Terrible, the cloning of Neanderthal genes, and a greedy insurance company that illegally and clandestinely takes DNA samples from its policy owners and kills high-risk clients before it has to pay out large claims. Highly recommended for sf collections.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The screams came like popcorn popping: at first there were only one or two, then there were hundreds overlapping, then, finally, the quantity diminished, and at last there were none left and you knew it was done. Read the first page
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
No zing at all,
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This review is from: Frameshift (Mass Market Paperback)
I just finished this book and was saddened. I have read several of Sawyers books in the past and this was a dog. The plot is simplistic and the characterizations are not well developed.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
2.0 out of 5 stars
Too many interesting ideas,
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This review is from: Frameshift (Mass Market Paperback)
The ideas around which "Frameshift" revolves are intriguing. Unfortunately, there appear to be a few too many of them to cover in this rather short book: A scientist wrestles with a deadly genetic disease; discovers a telepathy gene in his wife; uncovers a secret Nazi death camp guard; his wife gives birth to a Neanderthal clone (although she is a PhD herself, neither notices anything "wrong" for a long time!); finds a secret code in "junk" DNA. The plot twists left me feeling abused rather than amused or intellectually challenged. A much stronger book would have taken just ONE of these story lines and developed it in greater depth. The ideas are interesting - I liked reading about Berkeley, where I was a postdoc. The writing style is spare and doesn't get in the way of the plot. Unfortunately, as it is, I felt like I was reading the script of a made for TV movie - probably the FOX channel.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars
Annoying and boring,
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This review is from: Frameshift (Mass Market Paperback)
Sawyer's command of the English languish leaves little to be desired; in fact, nothing even for which to hope. Grammatical errors abound in this cliche-riddled story. The characters are uniformly single- or un-faceted, especially the women. Heinlein for the 90s. We get much more detail about some areas than we could possibly want, and much less about others than we need. Save your money.
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