Name: Rainbows End
ISBN: 9781250841506

Vernor Vinge

La Californie, au milieu du XXIe siècle. Dans un monde où dominent l'informatique et le cyberespace, un dangereux procédé de contrôle des esprits est élaboré. Le chef des services secrets européens est derrière ce procédé appelé V-D-M-C (Vous-Devez-Me-Croire). Robert Gu, le plus grand poète américain, se trouve mèlé à l'affaire...

Rainbows End

Josh Warner

Great ideas, excellent world building, but the book drops off sharply after a strong start. Toward the end I was reading to finish it rather than wanting to see what happened next.

A Novel With One Foot In The Future

Ken Gagne

Vinge's vision of the future may be more realistic than most, but his characters and plot drag. The first chapter is a bait-and-switch, introducing us to fascinating heroes, villains, and schemes, before focusing the rest of the book on less likable and interesting settings. Even one particular scene, which is identified as a diversion for the real action, is described in far greater detail across many more chapters than the situation warrants. And that's the overall problem I had with Rainbows End: too much attention in all the wrong places.