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This review has been crossposted from my blog at The Cosy Dragon. Please head there for more in-depth reviews by me, which appear on a timely schedule.

It is 2094, and life has changed for humans all over the planet. The majority of humans are pretty much comatose, and the few on the run are dying out. Others are trapped in cages - and the overload lives on Mars. The question asked by this novel is whether life is worth it, and what people can be happy living with.

If you're sensitive to mentions of sex, please do be aware that that's the currency of the majority of the world. There are few scenes that are explicit in a way (I mean, two SexBots having sex), but I'm sure you could skip those parts if you wanted to. For once though, sex is woven into the text, and it's gratuitous. Rather it's moving the novel forward, always keeping in mind that sometimes sex doesn't solve everything.

My initial reaction was 'Wow. This novel was really something awesome.' I would strongly recommend it for both personal reading, and as a school text. It's about time the high school curriculum got a shakeup, and this novel is just the thing to do it. The sex will bother some people, but at the same time, teenagers are growing up a lot faster these days.

For once the genre listings on the back were completely spot-on. It's 'fiction, literature and dystopian'. It doesn't read as a fiction, it reads as if the author has seen into the future, and brought back the true of it. Some others categorise it under sci-fi, which is reasonable enough, but there's nothing that we couldn't expect to see in the next couple of years.

The back asks me to 'suspend my disbelief' - I barely needed to do that. Given the news in the media at the moment and the way that some human seem to act, it's likely this is a step towards the future. I guess everyone needs a minion?

What I couldn't understand was why any humans were kept alive at all. The only ones seeming to reproduce are the Initiates, and even then, it's a product of genetic manipulation. Why keep trying to survive? That's a clear question that each person needs to answer for themselves.

Some people have faith, and that enables them to keep strong in the face of 'Discipline & Punish'. Others have their families, and a strong resistance to being broken up. But the world is a harsh place, and sometimes death is the only way out without losing yourself.

It's obvious that this book has been created with 1984 in mind, even if you didn't pick it up from the title. It mirrors some things, such as the failures of human decency, and yet gives the next thought of what Big Brother could be doing.

Get out there, buy a copy, and read this novel.

While getting the novel's cover from Goodreads, I found this comment from the author:

"Mainly the risk is that the narrative's interconnectedness goes unperceived. For that reader, the novel is going to seem scattered and random. It should not be possible to misread 2094 in that way, as a haphazard, sprawling farce, but an inattentive reading could cause it. Especially dangerous -- to the book, to the reader -- is the cursory sort of skim-job practiced by review-writers. Rifling through the book quickly, reading just five or ten pages here and there then skipping, skipping, and moving on, would allow such a reader, particularly one not much interested in the novel's premise or subject-matter, to form a very wrong impression of how the book works and what it's trying to do. Add any strong bias to this scenario and the result is probably a disaster. "

I've been reading about author/blogger relationships this week, and this is really summing it up for me. I feel slightly put out that it intimates that all review-writers don't read the book throughly. After I read about the top reviewer on Amazon who reads 30+ novels A DAY I'm not surprised with having that opinion.

Don't worry John and other authors! I'm not a reviewer like that, and that's why I tend to have extended wait times for reviews. Peace.


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2094 John Lauricella 9780615868813 Books Reviews

I received a free copy of this book from the author in exchange for this review.

This book imagines life in 2094, 80 years from now. To give some perspective, go back 80 years from now, to 1934. In the US in 1934, phones were hardwired to the wall, radio and movies were the main form of entertainment, TV was still in the experimental stage, airlines were in their infancy, the main form of cross-country transportation was by rail, most cars didn't have radios, and about 99% of what is shown on cable now would have been declared obscene. Also, Jim Crow was still in effect, and the n-word was used in polite conversation. If you had written a book back then predicting a phone you could carry with you that connected to a large computer network, regular airline service and a superhighway system that would outpace trains as a means of cross-country travel, TVs that were over 10 feet wide that showed over 1000 channels, cars with TV screens in the back, and any other technology we have now, your work would at best be dismissed as science fiction, or at worst the work of a lunatic.

That was my thought while I was reading this book. Would it be possible to live in this world? It becomes clear, however, that all is not perfect in this world. In the combined North America and Europe, life is a paradise. Anatomically correct androids that can change appearance to anyone you want, TV is on a giant wall operated by a chip in your brain, and anything else you want. However, in Mexico, separated by earthquake from the US, toxic waste is routinely dumped, and anyone not taken for service elsewhere is reduced to subsistence living. Guantanamo Bay prison is still open, with descendants of the original prisoners. On Mars, scientists run an Earthstation, and see Earth only as a source of labor and raw materials.

There are shades of Orwell's 1984 in the book. There is a bit of irony here, because J Melmoth thinks that his world would write 1984 off as improbable fiction. The same chips that give you control of the TV can also be used to control you. The androids are malfunctioning, and J Melmoth is questioning what he's been told recently. Prisoners refuse to work, and Mexicans are swept up to Mars for manual labor.

This book bounces around between plots. It was hard at first to see how they connected to each other. Even at the end, you could see some connection, but not total connection. It continues a trend in current literature, which is present tense. It's a look at a dystopian future. I hope in 80 years not all of this comes true.
This review has been crossposted from my blog at The Cosy Dragon. Please head there for more in-depth reviews by me, which appear on a timely schedule.

It is 2094, and life has changed for humans all over the planet. The majority of humans are pretty much comatose, and the few on the run are dying out. Others are trapped in cages - and the overload lives on Mars. The question asked by this novel is whether life is worth it, and what people can be happy living with.

If you're sensitive to mentions of sex, please do be aware that that's the currency of the majority of the world. There are few scenes that are explicit in a way (I mean, two SexBots having sex), but I'm sure you could skip those parts if you wanted to. For once though, sex is woven into the text, and it's gratuitous. Rather it's moving the novel forward, always keeping in mind that sometimes sex doesn't solve everything.

My initial reaction was 'Wow. This novel was really something awesome.' I would strongly recommend it for both personal reading, and as a school text. It's about time the high school curriculum got a shakeup, and this novel is just the thing to do it. The sex will bother some people, but at the same time, teenagers are growing up a lot faster these days.

For once the genre listings on the back were completely spot-on. It's 'fiction, literature and dystopian'. It doesn't read as a fiction, it reads as if the author has seen into the future, and brought back the true of it. Some others categorise it under sci-fi, which is reasonable enough, but there's nothing that we couldn't expect to see in the next couple of years.

The back asks me to 'suspend my disbelief' - I barely needed to do that. Given the news in the media at the moment and the way that some human seem to act, it's likely this is a step towards the future. I guess everyone needs a minion?

What I couldn't understand was why any humans were kept alive at all. The only ones seeming to reproduce are the Initiates, and even then, it's a product of genetic manipulation. Why keep trying to survive? That's a clear question that each person needs to answer for themselves.

Some people have faith, and that enables them to keep strong in the face of 'Discipline & Punish'. Others have their families, and a strong resistance to being broken up. But the world is a harsh place, and sometimes death is the only way out without losing yourself.

It's obvious that this book has been created with 1984 in mind, even if you didn't pick it up from the title. It mirrors some things, such as the failures of human decency, and yet gives the next thought of what Big Brother could be doing.

Get out there, buy a copy, and read this novel.

While getting the novel's cover from Goodreads, I found this comment from the author

"Mainly the risk is that the narrative's interconnectedness goes unperceived. For that reader, the novel is going to seem scattered and random. It should not be possible to misread 2094 in that way, as a haphazard, sprawling farce, but an inattentive reading could cause it. Especially dangerous -- to the book, to the reader -- is the cursory sort of skim-job practiced by review-writers. Rifling through the book quickly, reading just five or ten pages here and there then skipping, skipping, and moving on, would allow such a reader, particularly one not much interested in the novel's premise or subject-matter, to form a very wrong impression of how the book works and what it's trying to do. Add any strong bias to this scenario and the result is probably a disaster. "

I've been reading about author/blogger relationships this week, and this is really summing it up for me. I feel slightly put out that it intimates that all review-writers don't read the book throughly. After I read about the top reviewer on who reads 30+ novels A DAY I'm not surprised with having that opinion.

Don't worry John and other authors! I'm not a reviewer like that, and that's why I tend to have extended wait times for reviews. Peace.