Genre: Technothriller
Description:
“Alan is wasting his time in technical support, dreaming of the
future. Accidentally releasing an advanced computer worm wasn’t how he imagined
it would start. Now he’s just trying to hold everything together with digital
duct tape and wishful thinking.
His employer’s sinister secrets throw a wrench in those plans as he
learns the technological singularity is imminent. When ‘working to live’ takes
on a literal meaning Alan realizes the future may not be as bright as he’d
hoped.
Alan fights to guide the future of humanity before control, and
freedom, slip from his fingers forever.”
Author:
“Tony L Joy currently lives in Colorado and has spent his adult life explaining
increasingly less comprehensible computer problems to similarly less
comprehensible people in exchange for money. When not exchanging knowledge for
currency, he writes stories and books”
Appraisal:
The primary reason I didn’t rate this book one or possibly even two
stars more is that it is lacking in polish. The proofreader needed to take
another pass or two through it as there were numerous minor errors that kept
throwing me out of the story when I’d have to re-read a sentence after mentally
tripping over the place where a small word was missing or a minor typo jumped
out at me.
That said, if you’re not sensitive to those kind of issues (or you’re
willing to overlook them) there is an interesting story here. It invokes some
interesting questions about whether technology can be taken too far, morality
and ethics in a changing world, and even what it takes to make something human.
A good technothriller will have you excited about what technology can possibly
do some day (and for my tastes it shouldn’t be too far out there, so seemingly plausible),
but also provide a counterpoint, cautioning us to be careful. The story in Kludged
Singularity hits that balance well.
FYI:
Some adult language.
Format/Typo
Issues:
Way too many issues that should have been caught in copyediting and
proofreading. None serious, but the sheer number was way more than is
reasonable.
Rating: ***
Three Stars
Reviewed
by: BigAl
Approximate
word count: 100-105,000 words
4 comments:
Thank you so much for taking the time to read and review Kludged Singularity! I'm glad you enjoyed the story despite the challenges from poor proofreading.
I did want to note that the current published edition is much cleaner, the review copy and initial publication was definitely plagued with typos. Thanks to the reviewers and initial readers bringing the issues to my attention I was able to get another proofreader to go through it and produce cleaner copy for future readers.
- Tony L Joy
Glad to hear that, Tony.
I'm allergic to under-proofread books. But am sampling on your promise that the glitches have been fixed, Tony :-)
I hope that my book delivers a mistake-free reading experience now, but if you do find anything please let me know so I can fix it and switch my proofreader for future books.
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