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Six time Hugo Award winner Ben Bova presents Transhuman.Luke Abramson, a brilliant cellular biologist has one joy in life, his ten year old granddaughter, Angela When he learns that Angela has an inoperable brain tumor and is given less than six months to live, Abramson wants to try an experimental new therapy that he believes will kill Angela s tumor.Her parents object and the hospital bureaucracy blocks the experimental procedure because it has not been approved by the FDA Knowing that Angela will die before he can get approval, Abramson abducts Angela from the hospital He plans to take her to a private research laboratory in Oregon.Luke has turned his old SUV into a makeshift medical facility, treating Angela as best he can while they are on the road, desperately trying to keep his granddaughter alive long enough to give her the treatment he believes will save her life.Abramson realizes that he s too old and decrepit to flee across the country with his sick granddaughter, so he injects himself with a genetic factor that has successfully reversed aging in animal tests.As the chase weaves across the country from one research facility to another, Luke begins to grow physically younger, stronger He looks and feels the way he did thirty or forty years ago.But will he be able to save Angela Free Download [ Transhuman ] by [ Ben Bova ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Actual rating 1.5 stars.I saw a Ben Bova novel at the library and picked it up on reflex, Bova being in my memory a decent science fiction writer Transhuman turned out to be a great disappointment Bova is endlessly repetitive, revisiting background and plot points again and again as if he doesn t think the reader can be expected to remember from one page to the next that Luke doesn t want his granddaughter to die from cancer or that the treatment he intends to give her inhibits cell growth H Actual rating 1.5 stars.I saw a Ben Bova novel at the library and picked it up on reflex, Bova being in my memory a decent science fiction writer Transhuman turned out to be a great disappointment Bova is endlessly repetitive, revisiting background and plot points again and again as if he doesn t think the reader can be expected to remember from one page to the next that Luke doesn t want his granddaughter to die from cancer or that the treatment he intends to give her inhibits cell growth He plows these two particular plot points over so many times they almost turn to dust and blow away.Bova has a thing about ethnicity and race The coding is what you notice first if Bova doesn t describe a character s race or ethnicity, he or she is white Otherwise, he goes out of his way to identify blacks as black Hispanics as Hispanics If this served the story somehow, it might be valid, b...Embarrassingly terrible.I ve never had hate sex, but I have hate read books, and this was one of these Much like the Twilight and da Vinci code series, I couldn t look away from this book The plot s promising a scientist discovers some kind of gene therapy whatever that can reverse or accelerate aging His 8 year old granddaughter is dying of cancer He thinks he can age the cancer to death without killing her Oh, and make himself younger, too.The FDA is basically like remember morals You can t do this thing So I ve never had hate sex, but I have hate read books, and this was one of these Much like the Twilight and da Vinci code series, I couldn t look away from this book The plot s promising a scientist discovers some kind of gene therapy whatever that can reverse or accelerate aging His 8 year old granddaughter is dying of cancer He thinks he can age the cancer to death without killing her Oh, and make himself younger, too.The FDA is basically like remember morals You can t do this thing So he throws the dying child and her super hot green eyed doctor into the back of a van and they scoot off They re being pursued by the ...No, I did not finish this book in three days I abandoned it after 50 or so pages not something I do often, but I simply couldn t get past the actions of one of the characters that strained credulity Add to that a pedestrian writing style and I just wasn t able to justify putting the time in when there are so many other books calling out to be read Perhaps die hard Ben Bova fans will feel differently he has, after all, won numerous awards and writtenthan one hundred works of science f No, I did not finish this book in three days I abandoned it after 50 or so pages not something I do often, but I simply couldn t get past the actions o...This was quite the disappointment Look, I know what you re thinking I agree Ben Bova s a good author It s not even up for discussion His reputation precedes him This is not a good novel, though Bova s trademark easy reading style does not even save it TRANSHUMAN feels like one of these dreaded drawer novels thrown in to close a publishing contract It s a science fictio...Originally posted on my blog, SpecFic Junkie.When you re writing fiction, especially realistic science fiction, it s important to maintain your reader s suspension of disbelief Unfortunately, Transhuman ruins it almost immediately out of the gates, having characters continually make implausible choices to make the mediocre plot continue forward.The plot is pretty simple a nearly octogenarian cellular biologist s eight year old granddaughter is dying from a highly aggressive brain cancer that i Originally posted on my blog, SpecFic Junkie.When you re writing fiction, especially realistic science fiction, it s important to maintain your reader s suspension of disbelief Unfortunately, Transhuman ruins it almost immediately out of the gates, having characters continually make implausible choices to make the mediocre plot continue forward.The plot is pretty simple a nearly octogenarian cellular biologist s eight year old granddaughter is dying from a highly aggressive brain cancer that isn t res...In plausible from cover to cover Doesn t even reach the level of books for juveniles Horrible writing by an author that deserved my respect at one time There is nothing believable about the characters, action sequences, reactions of characters, or sub themes Repeated attempts to flesh out this weak story with love triangles, schemes of corporate greed, political intrigue, family infighting and possible modern d...This was something akin to a medical thriller Just without to much thrill to it Somewhat of a sci fi book because it was dealing with the future development of gene therapy So sci fi I will call it Grandpa abducts his granddaughter to treat her with a new gene therapy to treat her cancer Being old he shoots himself up with the same juice in the hopes to reverse his aging so he can stay ahead of the folks coming after them A decent story with enough kick to make it a quick read Just beware This was something akin to a medical thriller Just ...I saw this book in the science fiction section of airport bookstores many times and finally gave it a go, and I immediately regretted it there are low no stakes at any point in the novel it is mindlessly repetitive and could have easily been 100 pages shorter it is laughably unbelievable in many different ways many of the characters who ought to be smart people, given their status accomplishments do incredibly stupid things, repeatedly nearly all of the characters are flat or stereotypes I saw this book in the science fiction section of...When Luke Abramson s eight year old granddaughter is dying of an untreatable brain tumor, he whisks her away to try an experimental treatment to stop the cancer Soon he is being hunted by the FBI, a major biomedic...

Transhuman
  • English
  • 03 March 2017
  • Hardcover
  • 364 pages
  • 0765332930
  • Ben Bova
  • Transhuman