- Paperback: 232 pages
- Publisher: Double Dragon Publishing (August 2007)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1554044774
- ISBN-13: 978-1554044771
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.2 cm
- Shipping Weight: 45 g
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When terrorists try to poison undergraduate schools with a nerve agent, the scheme backfires. Instead of causing death, the chemical stimulates the mirror neurons in the students' brains, causing them to multiply and become hyperactive. This, in turn, leads to unusual talents. As the children grow, their teachers and other institutions become very interested in the odd perceptive ability they begin displaying. Government, industry, military, drug cartels, businesses and the underworld all want to use them for their own purposes. Some of the young men and women have different ideas. They will fight to keep their freedom; especially after a few of them begin to develop another odd talent, one that may change the world.
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disappointment, Oct 25 2007
By Mr. Donald J. Kaufman Sr. "deejay" - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Mindwar (Paperback)
I was expecting more from this book. The author's overuse of slang concoctedto look like text messaging really sounded more like kid-speak. Yes, the characters were teens, but they were supposed to be gaining maturity from their telepathy, not losing it. I finished the book, but I'm not likely to buy another of Bain's books.
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A simple minded mother, Nov 8 2007
By Jorge Frid - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Mindwar (Paperback)
The book's story is good and you'll think about it afterwards. The problem is that you have a simple mother as one of the main characters. How could be that a mother encourage her 13 years old daughter to have sex? When you read this among other things that parents wouldn't allow their children do the book start swooping so fast you can't even catch it.
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Not that bad, really, Jun 1 2011
By Andy Moorer - Published on Amazon.com
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Some of the negative reviews here portray this book in a worse light than I found it. The basic premise is that an act of terrorisim which placed a new nerve agent in school lunches resulted in an unanticipated reaction which caused the nerve agent to selectively bind to the mirror neurons in broca's region of the brain, the neurons which model the behavior of others and thereby provide intuitive perception of the moods and thoughts of others. Hypertrophic growth of this region results in some of the affected children to develop, over years, enhanced perception - "mind reading" but of a plausible and limited sort. As a science fiction premise, this isnt bad at all. The complaints of some readers seem to fail to take into account that the author specifically writes these kids to be different from normal 13-year-olds. Their use of slang is mentioned as a deliberate exaggeration of normal teen slang to disguise their conversations. The kids, being more perceptive by orders of magnitude, are more aware of "grown up" topics including sexuality. One reviewer took exception that a parent in the series "condones underage sexuality." It's a book, people. In the book one of the parents recognizes how the kids are absorbing information most kids that age miss, and, suspecting her daughter will mature more rapidly than usual, suggests she start birth control. It's a reasonable exploration of the consequences of the original premise. Overall (and despite the awful cliched title) I found the book to be interesting, original, suprisingly grounded in real science and consistent with the "what if" tenets of classic hard or "speculative" science fiction. Worth a read.
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