Secret Realms
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| Rating | : | 4.46 (636 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B008SLMT8Y |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 304 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
In the first half of the next century, a band of warriors is raised in a virtual-reality environment. When the virtual warriors discover that their real bodies are being held prisoner in a secret military facility on an island in the Pacific, they will enter the real world--and the real war--to get them back.. As war breaks out in the real world, their virtual scenarios becomes maps of reality
From Kirkus Reviews Virtual-reality war-games yarn--something like The Lawnmower Man meets Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game--with some intriguing wrinkles of its own, from the author of the paperback Infectress. An impressively developed scenario in a yarn that emphasizes both the reality of violence and its emotional consequences: affecting and effective. Finally, Trickster gambles on being able to stop the war before it escalates into a nuclear holocaust. Soon, he and the others break out and defeat their Chinese masters, but still must deal with Japanese commandos and US marines. Trickster, though, begins to grasp that they're inside a VR system and have real bodies somewhere, and dreams of being able to destroy System. As the war begins, a US warship wanders into the battle zone, while a huge typhoon obscures the progress of the fighting; helped by Iva, a project psychologist and actually Trickster's mother, Trickster and the others gain control of Syst
Stephen Hickman (shickman@ulster.net) said Excellent story -- a daring concept made convincing.. No one can deny that the provisions for modern (global scale) warfare are closing the gap between the training simulations and actual combat with a bewildering rapidity. Secret Realms deals with the use of an enclosed virtual simulator which has been designed for the purpose of developing the entire human potential for tactical and strategic thinking in select individuals who have been ruthlessly isolated from actual real-life experiences in their virtual simulator from infancy (a project implemented by those ultimate pragmatists, the Chinese). I personally have little use for computer games, but the a. brionesr@blue-ridge.navy.mil said Narrow view of "future" U.S. Naval life sinks book.. Being in the Navy has given me a unique insight into one of the main characters of this book: a United States Naval Officer. It seems as if the author believes that only Naval Officers, not Enlisted, have any brains. Tom Cool could make a living writing manuscripts for the television show "JAG". The movie, "Crimson Tide" gives an inaccurate view of true shipboard life. Would the second-in-command of a nuclear submarine rush into and put out a galley fire? Hell no! I'm tired of movies that portray "Officers" as invincible supermen. I call it "Top Gun Syndrome". "Secret Realms" is the literary equivalent. "intriguing but difficult to believe" according to -gs- [pooka@brown.edu]. Realms creates an intriguing visions of the future of warfare cybernauts raised from infancy in a virtual world designed specifically to breed uber-tacticians. Believable enough, but from there on the suspension of disbelief becomes a little more challenging. For example, despite somewhat limited use of their muscles throughout their lives - and having only lived in a very controled & sterile environment, on emergence into the real world they're much stronger and faster than your average highly trained commando who was born and raised in the harshness of our reality. Uh huh, I not so sure about that.