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Format C [Englisch] [Gebundene Ausgabe]

Edwin Black (Autor)
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  • Gebundene Ausgabe: 402 Seiten
  • Verlag: Brookline Books; Auflage: 1st Edition (Februar 1999)
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • ISBN-10: 1571290788
  • ISBN-13: 978-1571290786
  • Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,1 x 15,5 x 3,8 cm
  • Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 3.7 von 5 Sternen  Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (24 Kundenrezensionen)
  • Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 1.974.932 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)

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From Kirkus Reviews

Massively conceived, neatly chiseled computer novel that begins on the wrong foot with lists of consumer goods enjoyed by a sybaritic hero only a Honda Del Sol salesman could love. Black (The Transfer Agreement, 1984) soon gets past this sticker-price prose by revealing that Chicago publisher Dan Levin has sold his bundle of magazines to Ben Hinnom, a megabillionaire and multinational media-conglomerate Australian who plans to reorganize all computers on the planet behind his Windgazer 99 multitask operating system. But first he must take over the Zoom operating system, just being introduced and better than his own. But is Windgazer, which will run every chip everywhere, actually a device of . . . well, does 99.9 upside down give you a hint, a touch of Revelation? The plot turns on the Y2K millennium glitch and Windgazers lightning ability to fight off all computer failures worldwide, including those in air-traffic control, the financial markets, the credit-card industry, the Internet, etc. When the world taps into the system on the midnight of the millennium, will mankind fall into the devil's handsor bring about salvation by typing Copyright ©1999, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

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The theme of religion and computers has been explored before by Neal Stephenson in Snow Crash (1992; Bantam Spectra, 1993. reprint), but journalist Black makes the issue even more real by using the current computer industry wars and the impending Y2K crisis as his backdrop. The richest man on earth, owner of the world's biggest computer company, uses Y2K to make a play for global domination. What results instead is a battle between good and evil, fought in the Holy Land as the millennium turns. While at times this first novel is bogged down by geographic detail, for the most part it is an entertaining and provocative examination of our dependency on computers and the amount of information we reveal about ourselves each time we log on. Though the appeal of this work may fade once the Y2K crisis passes, it is still worth adding a copy to your collection.ADebra Mitts, Univ. of Illinois at Chicago Lib.
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
I first read a review about this book in early 1999 through a computer magazine I subscribe to. I rushed out and bought it.

I thought it was a great work of fiction based around our Y2K fears, as well as the whole Microsoft/ everyone else in the computer world issue. It greatly parrelleled all of the current fears at the time, with believable characters.

I read this book twice in '99, and it was a great read both times. Although Y2K had come and gone with little problems, I think it does characterize our fears at the time. Bill Gates and Microsoft were monoplolizing the computer world, and the character Edwin Black wrote about seemed to catch our fears about what could happen. Though Bill and his company haven't turned out to be the devil, I still thought it was a great read.

If you're a computer geek, pretend it's 1999 all over again and give it a read.

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I tried to like this book, I really did. Even though the protagonist and I both like single malt Scotch, it just wasn't enough. Once you get through all the obvious villainy of the Gates character and the products name dropping throughout, the ending saves the world with a MANDATORY SABBATH-KEEPING O/S. Yes. The world is saved from the bad guys and now quietly reflects on it's pro-Jewish superiority from sundown Friday until Saturday night, when computers will work again. Even though the writing wasn't very good, the fast -paced plot was readable, right up until the sales pitch for the Decalogue.
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This is by far the worst book I've ever read. I still really can't tell if this is written for children or if the author is just pulling our legs. We are beaten over the head with the obviouse constantly. I won't "give away" the ending but suffice it to say all the characters show up that you would expect to be present in an apocalyptic tale. The authors secret is to take a cliche, magnify it 100 fold and then beat you over the head with it. Still, I did finish the book because quite frankly I had to see how bad it could get. I was not dissappointed. If you've never watched a movie just because you couldn't believe it was so aweful then you may not see the beauty in this book.
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It's okay
Writing is not nearly as good as the concept. Get this writer a better editor next time.
Am 10. November 1999 veröffentlicht
Silly, one-dimensional; still a page-turner
I had a hard time with this one. The technobabble is pretty much nonsense. The characters and politics of the computer industry are portrayed as very flimsy charicatures of the... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 15. August 1999 veröffentlicht
very pleasantly surprised
I typically stick to non-fiction philosophy, history, and politics. So when a friend reccommended this book to me, I was somewhat skeptical. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 4. August 1999 veröffentlicht
This Book Is Great!!!
This book is to recommended to the age of computer literate users who can fully understand this book. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 1. August 1999 veröffentlicht
An entertaining bit of education for laypeople
I really wanted to like this book more than I did--anyone who casts a thinly-disguised Bill Gates as he is in Format C: can't be all bad. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 30. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
Run away! Run Away! (to Cryptonomicon instead!)
Giving this "Book" the minimum 1 star is a small price to pay if it leads you to at least read a few pages of this mess before purchasing it. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 26. Juli 1999 veröffentlicht
Not yet finished with it but...
What a great book! It's a real page turner and the descriptions of Washington landmarks make it hard for me to believe this is a work of fiction. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 6. Juni 1999 von rhayman@hayman.com
This is a moronic book.
There's this bad guy, modeled after Bill Gates, who monopolizes all OSs on the planet. His Windgazer99 was supposed to fix the Y2K problem, but it also had a feature that makes... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 27. Mai 1999 von Hiroo Yamagata
A thought-provoking shift for the humanist sci-fi genre
Having just submitted a full review of this for the Providence Journal, I will point out only that Black follows the tradition of Huxley's Brave New World and Orwell's 1984. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 22. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
This book is for Laphroig single malt whiskey lovers!
Its great to see a sci-fi novelist with good taste. The only novel I could find where Laphroig whiskey was an important component, as it is in the lives of all its devotees! Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 9. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
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