Published: Aug. 13, 2010
Words: 126,270 (approximate)
Language: English
ISBN: 9781452355641

Short description

Marna has a PhD in theoretical physics. So does Tess. Marna is unhappy because nobody will pay attention to her theory of quantum displacement. Tess is unhappy because everybody is paying attention to her husband's reverse camera, Aremac. Half the FBI thinks Roger has the answer to the terrorism problem. The other half thinks he's a terrorist.

Extended description

Rebecca Shelley (R.D. Henham) wrote of Aremac Power, "The science is so real I felt like I could go out tomorrow and buy an Aremac-controlled wheelchair. Way cool. The characters were every bit as interesting as the science. Gerald gives an unbiased, inside look at a culture that many misunderstand and fear. This is a great book."

Aremac Power is a sequel to the popular Aremac Project, with many of the same loveable, brilliant characters. It is, as the subtitle suggests, a story about the risks of otherwise great inventions—and how they don't just cause the world to beat a path to the inventor's door.

For one thing, there is prejudice. Marna is a brilliant scientist of the first order, but she is a woman and a Navajo, which makes her work easily discounted by the white men in positions of power. (Read more) Rebecca Shelley (R.D. Henham) wrote of Aremac Power, "The science is so real I felt like I could go out tomorrow and buy an Aremac-controlled wheelchair. Way cool. The characters were every bit as interesting as the science. Gerald gives an unbiased, inside look at a culture that many misunderstand and fear. This is a great book."

Aremac Power is a sequel to the popular Aremac Project, with many of the same loveable, brilliant characters. It is, as the subtitle suggests, a story about the risks of otherwise great inventions—and how they don't just cause the world to beat a path to the inventor's door.

For one thing, there is prejudice. Marna is a brilliant scientist of the first order, but she is a woman and a Navajo, which makes her work easily discounted by the white men in positions of power.

For another, there is entrenched wealth and power. If Marna's invention of a new source of energy is allowed its rightful place in the world, industrial empires will crash—oil, natural gas, all forms of power generation and distribution.

But most of all, there is personal weakness. Marna is dominated by her leech of a husband, who undermines her at every turn. Only with the help of Tesla does she learn to tap into her personal power, which in the end is greater than any invention.

Marna and Tess's story literally moves around the world—the nuclear laboratories in New Mexico, the traditional Navajo lands in Arizona, the degenerate casinos in Las Vegas, the sweatshops of Chicago, and the jungles of Africa.

As Tony Hlllerman said of the prequel, The Aremac Project, Aremac Power is "a thrilling glimpse into the near future. Don't miss it!"
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Tags

techno thriller, technothriller, young adults

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Review by: Andriy Rushchak on May 26, 2012 :
This book has thrilling plot, great details and rich language. Unfortunately, English is not my first language, so last two book's features became disadvantages for me :( After straggling to keep up with main line and trying not get drowned under details of characters' feelings, I gave up.
Hope your English is better and you'll experience beautiful world of this book :)
(reviewed long after purchase)

Review by: Twisted Root Publishing on May 25, 2011 :
Reading Gerald M. Weinberg's Aremac Power: Inventions at Risk was like a return to the golden age of science fiction, when we all believed that science and scientists were good and, if we were just smart enough, technology could solve any human problem. Of course Weinberg has updated the themes to fit today's world and its problems.

The book provides a fast-paced follow-up to the previous book in the series, The Aremac Project, but you don't need to have read book one to enjoy this one. Coupling Theoretical Physics, governments' need to control technology to their advantage, the culture of Navaho reservations, and the ever-seething turmoil of West African states, Weinberg takes you on a rip-roaring ride across the world as the band of scientists responsible for the memory-reading Aremac struggle to maintain ethical control of `the monster' technology they've constructed.
(reviewed the day of purchase)

Review by: Doomed Muse Press on Feb. 10, 2011 :
I really enjoyed this book. It's a follow up to the book "The Aremac Project" but I read them out of order. The author does a good job of giving enough information on the events of the previous novel that I didn't feel lost at all and was sucked in right away by the challenges the characters faced and the cool ideas surrounding the Aremac itself.

Some of the science takes a little suspension of disbelief, but that's true of a lot of science fiction. No one really understands yet how memories are exactly processed and stored, so there's lots of theoretical lee-way and the tech used here explores one path. The relationships between the characters, as well as their relationships with technology and their cultures, are also well-developed. This was a very enjoyable read and the pacing was spot on.
(reviewed within a month of purchase)

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