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I should have paid more attention when I bought this book as it was a lot smaller than I expected, its a quick read book, I didn’t realise this means that its only 115 pages long in rather large text. Don’t let this stop you buying the book, if you’ve read any of Matthew Reilly’s books its exactly what you expect.

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After reading Colony and enjoying that I thought I’d give this book a try its set in the far too near future, in this future PC and the nanny state have gone mad, The police can beet you to death for endangering your health by smoking.

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Written by half the team that came up with Red Dwarf, I saw this book and thought it worth a try as the Red Dwarf books were good.

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I started reading this straight after the first one, I bought them both together, so I had a pretty good idea of what to expect, the story picks up a while after the events of the first book in discworld time anyway, in round world time it mostly follows human evolution, and the science is a look into what makes us human, how we evolved, how our minds and Minds evolved, it also covers intelligence and extelligence.

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I was put off buying this book because it sounds like its an encyclopaedia type of book along the lines of ‘the science of the X files’, or ‘the physics of star trek’, this book takes a different view on it and rather than describing the science of the world it describes, it uses the discworld to help understand our world. Describing the science behind discworld would probably be impossible anyway as it runs on magic and common sense not the rules of science.

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