From Library Journal
The Star Trek star and "Tek Wars" series author creates a new space adventure featuring 16-year-old Jim Endicott. When his secretive father is murdered and his stepmother disappears, Jim calls upon his survival training to escape the government agents sent to kill him on planet Wolfbane. Back on Earth, he finds that the secret code his birth mother embedded in his DNA links him to the mass psychosis caused by a vast computer network of mind arrays. Interesting hypotheses on DNA manipulation and the use of human minds hardwired for a global link overcome sketchily drawn characters. Buy on demand.
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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From Booklist
With this fast-paced action-sf novel, Shatner launches yet another series, called Quest for Tomorrow. Jim Endicott carries, encoded in his DNA, the secret of a process that will make humanity equal to its superior alien neighbors by enabling human minds to be linked together into a sort of organic supercomputer. This endowment puts him and his foster parents on the run from Delta, a super-spymaster who is Jim's biological father. Delta developed the process Jim carries, but after the defection of Jim's biological mother, he has been using a makeshift arrangement that has had a disastrous effect on the mental stability of humanity's Plebs, as the technologically unemployed are called. For their part, the Plebs want Jim as bait for luring Delta to destruction. Despite abundant action and high-tech hardware (the book would, given a generous FX budget, translate well to the screen), Shatner also manages to produce much subtle characterization, realistic (occasionally grungy) world building, and a sober regard for morally ambiguous situations and the decisions forced on 16-year-old Jim and others. This is the Heinlein sf juvenile novel grown up.
Roland Green
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