![]() Both have collaborated before on best-selling books, and this is their new novel published énd May 2020. August Cole is also a futurist, specializing in conflict. Singer is a futurist author specialized in national security. When the events plaguing Washington get linked together, Keegan and her TAMS partner embark on a mission to stop the individuals responsible. While she patrols and avert various crimes, terrorists cyber attacks on the infrastructure start rocking the city. In a near future where technology has advanced, and unfortunately put a lot of people out of jobs, Lara Keegan is a Washington FBI Special Agent getting a new partner, an advanced AI-powered robot she’s to teach in order to maybe pioneer a fleet of new law enforcement machines. The bones are there, but they're masked in such a way that I gave up 30% of the way through.īurn-In - A Novel of the Real Robotic Revolution is a futurist techno-thriller by P. Get all that stuff out of the way and tell me the story. The author wants to sway the reader into like-minded thinking, but it's done in a heavy handed way that I didn't appreciate. I have no problem with the author noting source material, but it belongs in a list at the end of the book, not scattered through the text. When I'm reading a thriller, I don't want to drop out to read a historical article or a research paper or get a lecture on computer encryption. I just couldn't get past the stop-and-go of all that infodumping. The main character is smart, engaging, and likable. Okay, that's a little harsh, but really, the book had so much promise. ![]() ![]() How about sermons? Do you enjoy those? Do you get a chill down your spine when a character spouts propaganda for a full page? You'll be reaching for a blanket in no time! Sometimes you'll find as many as three footnotes on the same page. Do you want to know what research the author did to come up with the ideas and futuristic technology presented in the story? You're in luck! You'll find a footnote on every page or three. If you like slow-moving thrillers, then this is the book for you. Peter’s award winning books have been endorsed by people who range from the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs to the co-inventor of the Internet to the writer of HBO Game of Thrones. He has consulted for the US Military, Defense Intelligence Agency, and FBI, as well as advised a range of entertainment programs, including for Warner Brothers, Dreamworks, Universal, HBO, Discovery, History Channel, and the video game series Call of Duty, the best-selling entertainment project in history. Described in the Wall Street Journal as “the premier futurist in the national- security environment," has been named by the Smithsonian as one of the nation’s 100 leading innovators, by Defense News as one of the 100 most influential people in defense issues, by Foreign Policy to their Top 100 Global Thinkers List, and as an official “Mad Scientist” for the U.S. He previously was Director of the Center for 21st Century Security and Intelligence at the Brookings Institution and the youngest scholar named Senior Fellow in Brookings's 101-year history. Peter Warren Singer is Strategist and Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation.
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