Grabbing her bugout bag, she took the only option available and made a run for it. There had been close scrapes before but nothing as close as this. This isn’t good, as Kim has spent the last 5 years on run trying to avoid quite a lot of people. It seems someone has broken through her defences and located her physical location. Having been virtually obliterated, Kim is unceremoniously dumped back into real life where her initial rage at the mysterious Mike evaporates.
The distraction is enough for the other team to wipe them out. Unfortunately for the team and lead character Kim, it all goes horribly wrong when a mysterious character called Mike keeps trying to contact her. It is, of course, a virtual combat but that doesn’t make it any less real to the participants. The intelligence of these AI characters varies, depending on who created them and their intended function.Ĭoming back to the plot, the story starts in the middle of a firefight as two teams try to kill each other.
This stands for Evolved Internet which, amongst other things, is used to host virtual realms that are inhabited by people and AI characters. ‘Gemini Gambit’ is set in the near future, 2035 to be precise, where the Internet has evolved and is now known as EI. I have found it very hard to put down this novel as the story hooks you in and just won’t let go. ‘Gemini Gambit’ by D Scott Johnson is a prime example of this and I’m so glad I came across it. "About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.Occasionally and I do mean occasionally, I stumble across a gem of a novel that I missed when it was first published.
Johnson makes a conscious effort to develop a multiethnic cast of entertaining characters and mostly succeeds, but the story is overstuffed and overpopulated, and heroine Kimberley-a beauty who dresses frumpily in realspace \nbut wears cat suits in the virtual realms-sometimes seems more like a programmer’s daydream than a well-rounded character. It’s a cheerfully nerdy caper in which characters profess fondness for Terry Pratchett and a virtual model of a famous light sword makes an appearance. She fends off Bolivian gangsters and eludes the FBI while attempting to defeat a conspiracy to take over the Evolved Internet-a virtual reality that exists in the world of Johnson’s debut, set 20 years in the future. Kimberley Trayne, a genius hacker once known as Angel Rage, is on the run after five years in hiding, with Mike, an AI freshly downloaded into a human body, and a geeky high school boy named Spencer as her only allies.
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