цитата Elric

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Counting Heads introduces us to a world which gives us the very best that science fiction can offer—a vertiginous sense of wonder which, in displacing us from our assumptions, believably leads us to ask serious questions about our own world without descending into weak allegory. It also introduces us to a novelist of real power and intelligence, who can infuse his work with an entire genre and not be too scared, nor lack the ambition or ability, to go yet further. In short, it takes itself seriously.

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It's hard to summarize this book because again and again, the plot hinges on wonderful, original inventions, and just describing the storyline would spoil too many of David's delightful surprises. I haven't felt as buffeted by a book since Gibson's Neuromancer -- haven't felt more like I was reading something truly radical, new and exciting.

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"Counting Heads" is an ambitious, sometimes brilliant and sometimes overwhelming attempt to provide a fully realized portrait of what society might be like in the 22nd century, when rapid advances in every field from cloning to artificial intelligence to nanotechnology have made our planet both a simpler and a more sinister one on which to live.... Marusek could be the one sci-fi writer in a million with the potential to make an increasingly indifferent audience care about the genre again, and he could do it without compromising his voice or dumbing down his subject matter.