Wednesday, December 31, 2014

The KRAKEN PROJECT by Douglas Preston ****

This was an interesting concept, an AI becomes self aware and was written for a program intent on sending her to another planet's moon to study the hostile environment. "She" Dorothy, realized she would be in a hostile environment alone and decided to escape from the vehicle holding her prisoner.

She jumped into a computer destroyed the NASA building and the rest of the book is basically people chasing her around. A computer programmer wants her for stock raiding, the original programmer wants her back to reinstall her, beginning to realize the program is self aware.

The program ends up in some kids play robot his dad is working on and everywhere she goes trouble is following, guns going off etc. There are some nasty ass cops in Arizona, remind me not to go there and get stopped. They were beating the crap out of innocent people and not allowing them lawyers. Guess Mr. Preston found some ol' hick cops passing thru. :)

I would get it at the library. It keeps you reading even though you're on a chase with near misses the entire time. Was good for getting your head out of your problems. Short time.

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