The Lead Cloak The Lattice Trilogy Book 1 eBook Erik Hanberg
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Byron Shaw can track and find anyone on Earth. Except the people who tried to kill him.
By 2081, privacy no longer exists. The Lattice enables anyone to re-live any moment of your life. People can experience past and present events—or see into the mind of anyone, living or dead.
Most people love it. Some want to destroy it.
Colonel Byron Shaw has just saved the Lattice from the most dangerous attack in its history. Now he must find those responsible. But there’s a question nobody’s asking does the Lattice deserve to be saved?
The answer may cost him his life.
The Lead Cloak The Lattice Trilogy Book 1 eBook Erik Hanberg
Very inventive and timely premise. Started out really well and obviously a neat plot idea regarding privacy. Or the lack of it.The second half of the book, especially the soul-searching bits, is unable to sustain the suspense and drags on. The other problem is that the science is both too detailed and also not very credible. So it doesn't really know on which side of the fence to sit. It could have glossed over the technical bits a lot more than it did. Or, it could have tried harder to have some more credible science.
The spaceship for example is a mix of hand-waving and unconvincing detailed tech that drags on. For example, somehow a bunch of random Earthside folk can, with a few minutes' notice, get their hand on lasers capable of damaging orbiting spacecrafts and fire them?
Typical of that also is the 1m thick lead wall that is 100 m high. That would be one heavy wall, wouldn't it? Where is all the lead coming from? And somehow it stops the mind-reading tech (because lead does that to radiation?) even though that same tech can go back in time?
The core premise is also that the two lattices are very heavily defended against sabotage, but they haven't created any more backup ones. Why, exactly? By the very logic of the book anyone could look back at the inventor's mind and figure out how to make one.
As they accumulate, those logical lapses gradually lessened my enjoyment. And with the way less interesting plot, it lost my interest in the second half.
Plus, there is no much more to explore about the idea about generalized mind-reading. How do you avoid getting all your stuff and money stolen, if passwords and hiding places are both useless?
I did like the parts about rich vs poor and also the addiction and relationship aspects. Should the Lattice be de-invented? (read: would we be better off without the less edifying bits of the Internet?) Had it stuck more to societal bits, IMHO it would have been better. And admittedly, even the techy bits can be very inventive, a lot of the time.
This isn't a bad book, I admit I am being a bit picky here. More like 3.5 rounded down. Still, I don't feel the later parts delivered on the initial promise and I will not read #2 and 3 just to see if they pick up the pace again.
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The Lead Cloak The Lattice Trilogy Book 1 eBook Erik Hanberg Reviews
The science is ridiculous, the plot complicated beyond belief, and the tone preachy.
That's the headlines. The detail is that a great scientist has invented the Lattice, essentially the McGuffin of the novel, which tracks every atom in the solar system, in real time, and suitably configured reader devices can take a look-see. This includes reading thoughts and going back in time. Our protagonist protects one of the Lattice's - there is another on standby for reasons that don't make much sense - against terrorism and his defensive arsenal includes space based lasers and tactical nuclear bombs. Good thing it's out in the desert.
Bad guys can't get close, so when terrorists actually do, he is the man for the job of tracking them down and taking them down. Only, in this Lattice-driven world of absolutely zero privacy, these terrorists are strangely resistant to the track-and-trace that every single person in the world is subject to. Cue sinister music...
OK, it's not a bad setup, if way beyond plausible in terms of the quantum physics which 'explain' how the Lattice works. Global surveillance means zero privacy equals peace and harmony. It doesn't of course, and the evil of this scenario is hammered home, page after page, interaction after interaction, until it becomes quite tiresome. People become addicted peeping Tom's, making the Lattice a proxy for our social media fetish and Orwellian Government intrusion. Fine, I get that, move on with the... Oh, you need to make the point again? Okay, let's... And again, I see, it's twice a chapter, every chapter. Goodie!
Anyway, tiresome I can live with. But the invisible terrorists have tools to hand that are so amazing, they confound the Earthly experts. It's apparent really early on that with said tools, the terrorists could achieve their goals with none of the silliness they embark on. Even the protagonist sees this when all is revealed. And that singular lack of imagination kills the story for me. It makes a farce of the plot. It forecasts what is going to happen. And it makes the preachy preachy a political position, rather than an exploration of potential. The story does not unfold naturally from events and characters, it is forced into tedious, terrible, twists and turns to serve the need of "getting a message across". And sadly, the message is not original and the method is ineffective.
A fail for me.
Hi, I'm Jeanine and I'm an addict. I'm addicted to the Internet and can easily lose hours every day surfing. So what if there was something unimaginably better? Meet the Lattice, the invention that has remade society in the late 21st century. With the Lattice you can visit the past and watch history unfold, travel the solar system, or drop in on your friend's most intimate moments and read their thoughts and feelings. The benefits are enormous, but the price is your privacy. There are no secrets in the world of the Lattice. Or are there?
Someone with even more advanced technology has mounted a secret attack on the Lattice. And it almost succeeds. This fast-paced story grabs you from the beginning. Not all is as it seems from the first surprising twist to the last. But the chief battle is for the mind and heart of the Lattice's prime defender and the only one with the tactical skill tio destroy it.
This book is science fiction at its best, thought-provoking and just plain fun. It has its share of technology, but the story is about people--real, likable people who must make life and death decisions. A great read!
Very inventive and timely premise. Started out really well and obviously a neat plot idea regarding privacy. Or the lack of it.
The second half of the book, especially the soul-searching bits, is unable to sustain the suspense and drags on. The other problem is that the science is both too detailed and also not very credible. So it doesn't really know on which side of the fence to sit. It could have glossed over the technical bits a lot more than it did. Or, it could have tried harder to have some more credible science.
The spaceship for example is a mix of hand-waving and unconvincing detailed tech that drags on. For example, somehow a bunch of random Earthside folk can, with a few minutes' notice, get their hand on lasers capable of damaging orbiting spacecrafts and fire them?
Typical of that also is the 1m thick lead wall that is 100 m high. That would be one heavy wall, wouldn't it? Where is all the lead coming from? And somehow it stops the mind-reading tech (because lead does that to radiation?) even though that same tech can go back in time?
The core premise is also that the two lattices are very heavily defended against sabotage, but they haven't created any more backup ones. Why, exactly? By the very logic of the book anyone could look back at the inventor's mind and figure out how to make one.
As they accumulate, those logical lapses gradually lessened my enjoyment. And with the way less interesting plot, it lost my interest in the second half.
Plus, there is no much more to explore about the idea about generalized mind-reading. How do you avoid getting all your stuff and money stolen, if passwords and hiding places are both useless?
I did like the parts about rich vs poor and also the addiction and relationship aspects. Should the Lattice be de-invented? (read would we be better off without the less edifying bits of the Internet?) Had it stuck more to societal bits, IMHO it would have been better. And admittedly, even the techy bits can be very inventive, a lot of the time.
This isn't a bad book, I admit I am being a bit picky here. More like 3.5 rounded down. Still, I don't feel the later parts delivered on the initial promise and I will not read #2 and 3 just to see if they pick up the pace again.
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