*** 2018 B. R. A. G. Medallion winner ***Get the sci-fi thriller that Readers’ Favorite called “a gripping tale of the near future that is scarily real.”A famous inventor of augmented/virtual reality glasses used all over the world, Oreste Pax, is working on a brain-computer interface he believes will revolutionize human cognition. However, a massive computer virus attacking the Internet of … the Internet of Things threatens to destroy civilization first.
Pax is forced into an encounter with Alethia, the brilliant leader of a mysterious society that has developed technology far beyond anything he’s ever seen before. She reveals a devastating truth about humanity to Pax before forcing him to make a choice that will affect the future of the human race.
A clever, compelling vision of the near future, The Infinet is a speculative fiction thriller that can’t be missed!
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There is just so much in this book that could one day become real that it is hard to hit on all the points made. If you want a book that will make you rethink your beliefs then this is it. I could not put it down until the end.
It is a long read so make sure you have time to devote to it before you start it.
Fascinating bit of science fiction. The story was original and I enjoyed it immensely. The narrator was a little dry, but that sometimes works for sci fi. I would choose another reader for any sequels. I recommend this book highly. I received a free review copy of the audio version of this book in exchange for an honest review.
An Interesting Take on a Technothriller
The Infinet is one of those books that was exactly what I was hoping for. John Akers writes a story about the near future where certain things that we take for granted now are just common place. Where you wear a “Univiz” every day (a combination of augmented and VR glasses) and pretty much every piece of history and knowledge is at your fingertips.
The first part of the book gives us an introduction to the main characters and the technologies that are involved in the story, along with intermixed flashbacks (slightly hard to figure out when these were happening) and some news stories about people being attacked/bothered by their technology. The scenes in which people were being bothered by their tech reminded me of an amazing scene from Mr. Robot where they harass someone by taking over all of their IoT (internet of things) connected devices to scare someone.
The story then takes an abrupt change into a completely different story – if it had two different people it would have been a completely different story. But it involved Pax – so it makes sense here. But man, it was like “here are these people, here are their lives, and then BAM now it’s completely different”. It just sort of threw me off and I spent a good amount of time trying to figure out what was going on (I believe this was disorienting and done on purpose by Akers so that the reader felt as confused as Pax did).
The final sprint of the book was completely unexpected and definitely kept my attention. The final 10% or so I just couldn’t put it down. I had to finish it to figure out what was going to happen. Thankfully, it had an “ending” but was also left pretty open since there are going to be at least two more books. I enjoyed The Infinet enough that I definitely want to know where the story goes and now that I know about the main characters and the main quantum computer – I believe that the next book won’t throw me for such a loop (or it will but that’ll be because Akers does it on purpose).
I thought that David A. Conatser did a pretty nice job with The Infinet. There were a few times that I thought he went a little overboard with some of the dramatic elements, but other times it added to the story. He definitely took a story that could have been confusing and made it a breeze to listen to.
Overall, The Infinet was an enjoyable Technothriller. It’s a book for fans of Eliot Peper and William Hertling.
I received an audio copy in exchange for an honest review.
I honestly recommend The Infinet as an unexpectedly good piece of speculative sci-fi writing, especially from a first-time author. The world is very believable, and I enjoyed the presentation of subjects from bot the pro and con perspectives. Mostly a real page-turner (or listener), there were a very few places that lost momentum briefly, but I enjoyed this book immensely and took a refreshing look at how many things evolve, but human nature doesn’t seem to be one of them, sadly.
5 stars and looking forward to the next installment!