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Utopia: A Thriller

2 Ratings: 4.0

A book by Lincoln Child

It takes a lot of chutzpah to give your novel the same title as one of the most famous novels in the history of English-language literature, even if the original novel didn't spawn a literary field or two (utopian and dystopian fiction) or become an … see full wiki

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Author: Lincoln Child

Publisher: Doubleday

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review by cpw1952. September 04, 2010

posted in Cafe Libri: Reviewing Books & More

A roller-coaster thriller ... literally!

Dr Andrew Warne is a brilliant computer engineer with some very avant garde theories in the field of artificial intelligence and robotic learning. Warne's hardware designs and his cutting edge software - "The MetaNet", an operating system that allows large numbers of robots loosely tied together in a common network to operate quasi-autonomously and to learn and improve from their day to day activities - have been used to create the wildly successful theme park "Utopia" located … more

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review by KevinRTipple. March 02, 2004

Remember Westworld? Visit UTOPIA (by Lincoln Child)

If you are old enough, you may remember a movie named Westworld as well as the sequel. In the movie, a theme park had been created allowing park visitors to experience the past thanks to fully functioning state of the art robots. Robots so real that they passed for human. Everything worked wonderfully and the park was a success until the robots started malfunctioning, attacking and killing guests.If Lincoln Child had stopped there with his idea of the novel "UTOPIA" the book would have been nothing … more

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