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    The Six
    The Six
    The Six
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    The Six

    Written by Mark Alpert

    Narrated by Josh Bloomberg

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    Adam's muscular dystrophy has stolen his mobility, his friends, and in less than a year it will take his life. Virtual reality games are Adam's only escape from his wheelchair. In his alternate world, he can defeat anyone. Running, jumping, scoring touchdowns: Adam is always the hero.

    Then an artificial intelligence program hacks into Adam's game. Created by Adam's computer-genius father, Sigma has gone rogue, threatening to kill Adam-and the entire human race. Their one chance to stop Sigma is using the technology Adam's dad developed to digitally preserve the mind of his dying son.

    Along with a select group of other terminally ill teens, Adam becomes one of the Six who will forfeit their failing bodies to inhabit weaponized robots. But with time running short, the Six must learn to manipulate their new mechanical forms and work together to train for epic combat . . . before Sigma destroys humanity.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateMar 27, 2018
    ISBN9781977376923
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    Mark Alpert

    Mark Alpert is a contributing editor at Scientific American and an internationally bestselling author of science thrillers. His novels for adults—Final Theory, The Omega Theory, Extinction, and The Furies—are action-packed page-turners that show the frightening potential of near-future technologies.

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    • 4/5
      I found this novel to be fast paced and incredibly easy to get into. Although the second part of the novel was a little padded around the middle, the novel still flowed nicely from one event to the other and was a gripping read throughout. Alpert went to great length to explain all of the theory behind the process, presenting it in a way that was easy for the reader to understand. Although sometimes it felt as though he went a little overboard in his explanations, especially early in the novel, it was still fascinating. I’m not really a science-minded person but the technology behind his story all seemed plausible, even if it was a leap beyond what is currently possible.I also found the characters to be utterly compelling. All six of the Pioneers showed noticeably different personalities and were nicely fleshed out and Sigma was a truly intimidating villain. Adam was a really relatable protagonist and Alpert captured his teenage voice really well. I liked how his muscular dystrophy was presented in the story - Adam was resigned to his fate yet still sometimes felt bitter when he noticed how his friends were drawing away from him. His honesty made me all the more attached to him.I only have a few irks with the story. Firstly, I would have liked for there to be a little more philosophising. This is a purely personal gripe but the whole Pioneer Project raises so many ethical issues, yet Alpert only just touches on these. It would have been nice to have seen them explored in more depth, particularly through the relationship between Adam and his mother.I also felt that both the love triangle and cliffhanger ending added nothing to the plot. Love triangles are frustrating at the best of times but Alpert barely focused on this plot device so it just felt really tacked on to the story. The cliffhanger just felt very cheap. The novel was strong enough to make me want to read a sequel, it didn't really need to resort to such a trick to emotionally blackmail me into seeking out the next book.All in all I really liked this novel. I can't wait to see what Alpert has in store for the Pioneers next!
    • 5/5
      I wasn't expecting much from this book, but I actually really enjoyed it. The first part, in first person present tense, bugged me almost enoungh that I gave up and picked up a different book, but the action picks up almost right away, and the narration fits the story well from then on. The premise in this story is a bit like the early days of the Battlestar Gallactica world, when humans were figuring out for the first time how to transfer human consciousness into a machine. The movie Caprica is a lot like this book, only in Alpert's story a rogue AI intelligence has started taking over the planet and is trying to exterminate the human race, and the technology that might allow human minds to transfer into a machine is the only tool left that might defeat the AI. I am definitely looking forward to the next book, as the end of this one more than hints that at least one more book will follow this one.