Virus - Mary Chapman Reviews
Description:ISBN 0237532069 /
Newest Review: ... plot is a little hard to follow, if I'm honest. It took me a few moments to get my head round the futuristic and almost 'Big ... more
... Brother' nature of controlling aspects of our lives that we take for granted, in particular the decision making process. Issues of trust come into the story quite quickly, and added to the new technology side of things, it certainly doesn't make for the easiest short story I have ever read.
But it's quite clever, too. Once you get into the story, and give yourself a few moments here and there to take in the story and the events happening within it, you soon realise that the point is that there is a virus that is cau...more
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Mary Chapman Virus (Shades 2.0) Pages: 64, Paperback, Ransom Publishing Last Update 17.06.2013 15:31
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Customer Virus - Mary Chapman Reviews (1)
by - written on 19/01/10 (Very useful, 36 readings)
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With a futuristic setting and a highly advanced form of technology forming the basis for this dramatic short story, the risks were always going to be high in terms of targeting a responsive audience. Mary Chapman creates a future where we are told what to do by computers as opposed to thinking for ourselves. However, in this story, the computers get a virus! Straight away, Chapman introduces us to the technological aspect, with LOPs (Life Organisation Planners) telling us to get up, wash, eat, etc. Sje introduces us to the main character, Penna, who finds that her LOP is malfunctioning, and turning to the nearest person, finds conversation awkward - it appears ... Read the complete review
