Amazon.com ReviewIt's 2023, and the Web has almost destroyed the world. While cyberspace's early pioneers promoted the Net as a revolution in human communication, America has instead become a society of desk-bound introverts who believe everything they read. The federal government has been "bought" by a Microsoft-style corporation. Any semblance of central authority has vanished. As the Net infiltrates India and Pakistan, fevered nationalists and terrorists find one more medium through which to spread the word.With Killing Time, Caleb Carr (The Alienist, The Angel of Darkness) manages to create a future that's both frightening and nostalgic. The novel's narrator, Dr. Gideon Wolfe, longs for a world before technology swallowed people's minds and imaginations. Through a series of complex misadventures, beginning with the murder of his best friend, Gideon finds himself joining a ragtag army of scientists and inventors who hope to take it back. Heading up this '60s-style revolutionary cell is a brother-sister team--genetically engineered geniuses with silver hair and shining eyes. Aboard their ultramodern ship, Gideon learns the extent of the damage done. When they dive below the surface of the Atlantic, he looks out the window and sees not an idyllic scene of aquatic wonder such as childhood stories might have led me to expect but rather a horrifying expanse of brown water filled with human and animal waste, all of it endlessly roiled but never cleansed by the steady pulse of the offshore currents. Carr's future is suffused with regret. It's also rife with mystery and suspense; in every chapter the stakes are raised a little higher, the apocalypse hovers a little closer. This author is a master of the cliffhanger, of cryptic warnings that return to haunt our hero later in the text. Occasional flashes of humor relieve the prevailing ominousness, and a beautiful girl with a huge gun appears at regular intervals to keep things humming. Fans of Steve Erickson's end-of-the-world novels will likely enjoy this adventure in the Internet age, where the sheer amount of information has induced not quantitative changes in the human psyche, but qualitative ones. --Ellen WilliamsFrom Publishers WeeklyFamous for his bestselling thrillers re-creating old New York (The Alienist; The Angel of Darkness) and trained as a military historian (The Devil Soldier), Carr leaps into the future for his third novelDand lands with a thud. Set about 25 years ahead, the first-person narrative describes the grim adventures of Gideon Wolfe, a bestselling author who joins forces with a band of outsiders intent on alerting the world to the dangers of excess information untempered by wisdom. By 2023, the Internet has multiplied wildly the ability of power possessors to deceive the general populace, resulting in a globe devastated by ecological blight and filled with near-zombies glued to computer screens. Some groups have escaped this fateDparticularly those living in unwired if disease-ravaged areas of Africa and AsiaDand a few, led by the enormously wealthy and brilliant brother-and-sister team of Malcolm and Larissa Tressalian, have vowed to fight it. These two, with a small crew, bring Gideon aboard their fantastic flying/diving fortress vehicle. They explain that for years they've seeded world-shaking disinformationDfor instance, that Winston Churchill plotted the outbreak of WWI and that St. Paul advocated lying about the life and miracles of Jesus in order to spread the faith. They've planned to reveal these hoaxes as such, to warn about the power of disinformation, but they're stymied by both the cleverness of their own lies and by a new threat that sees one of their hoaxes lead to possible nuclear Armageddon. This book is as much didactic essay as novel, filled with preachy talk. Characters are broad but memorable, and there's some brisk action, but the suspense relies too much on forebodings and cliffhangersDno doubt because the text originally appeared as a serial in Time magazine, from November 1999 to June 2000 (it's been slightly revised for this edition). The prose Carr uses is elaborate, near-VictorianDperhaps a holdover from his other novelsDand ill suits a futuristic tale. As readers navigate it, they won't be quite killing time, but they'll be wounding it for sure. (Nov.) Copyright 2000 Reed Business Information, Inc.

CALEB CARR

KILLING TIME

Carr, Caleb

AN AOL TIME WARNER COMPANY

Grand Central Publishing

New York: Warner Books

Hachette Book Group

Springboard Press

Warner Books ed., New York, New York State, 2002

United States, United States of America

1st ed, New York, ©2000

January 1, 2002

PS, 2002

Originally published: New York : Random House, c2000.

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topic: Presidents; Twenty-first century; Psychology teachers

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Bookmarks:
1. (p1) CHAPTER 1 Somewhere in the Mirumba Mountain Range of Central Africo, September 2024
2. (p2) CHAPTER 2
3. (p3) CHAPTER 3
4. (p4) CHAPTER 4
5. (p5) CHAPTER 5
6. (p6) CHAPTER 6
7. (p7) CHAPTER 7
8. (p8) CHAPTER 8
8.1. (p9) MUNDUS VULT DECIPI
9. (p10) CHAPTER 9
10. (p11) CHAPTER 10
11. (p12) CHAPTER 11
12. (p13) CHAPTER 12
13. (p14) CHAPTER 13
14. (p15) CHAPTER 14
15. (p16) CHAPTER 15
16. (p17) CHAPTER 16
17. (p18) CHAPTER 17
18. (p19) CHAPTER 18
19. (p20) CHAPTER 19
20. (p21) CHAPTER 20
21. (p22) CHAPTER 21
22. (p23) CHAPTER 22
23. (p24) CHAPTER 23
24. (p25) CHAPTER 24
25. (p26) CHAPTER 25
26. (p27) CHAPTER 26
27. (p28) CHAPTER 27
28. (p29) CHAPTER 28
29. (p30) CHAPTER 29
30. (p31) CHAPTER 30
31. (p32) CHAPTER 31
32. (p33) CHAPTER 32
33. (p34) CHAPTER 33
34. (p35) CHAPTER 34
35. (p36) CHAPTER 35
36. (p37) CHAPTER 36
37. (p38) CHAPTER 37
38. (p39) CHAPTER 38
39. (p40) CHAPTER 39
40. (p41) CHAPTER 40
41. (p42) CHAPTER 41
42. (p43) CHAPTER 42
43. (p44) CHAPTER 43
44. (p45) CHAPTER 44
45. (p46) CHAPTER 45
46. (p47) CHAPTER 46
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48. (p49) ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

theme: Presidents; Twenty-first century; Psychology teachers

Meet Dr. Gideon Wolfe, expert criminologist of the new millenium. A professor at New York's John Jay University in the year 2023, he lives in an era that has seen plague, a global economic crash, and the 2018 assassination of President Emily Forrester. In this turbulent new world order, Wolfe's life and everything he knows are turned upside down when the widow of a murdered special-effects wizard enters his office.The widow hands him a silver disc from her husband's safety deposit box, hoping that Wolfe's expertise in history and criminology will compel him to track down her husband's killers. The disc contains footage of President Forrester's assassination, the same video that has been broadcast countless times on TV and over the internet-with one crucial, shocking difference: This version shows that before the video was released, it was altered with sinister special effects.This explosive discovery will lead Gideon Wolfe on an electrifying journey from a criminal underworld of New York to the jungles of Africa and on a quest to find the truth in an age when all information can be manipulated. With this novel, Carr has boldly established a new genre-future history-combining the best elements of mystery and thrillers with unique historical insight. Breathtakingly suspenseful,Killing Time unfolds as the work of a master novelist.From the Hardcover edition.

A thrilling journey through the underbelly of New York City to the jungles of Africa, Dr. Gideon Wolfe sets out on a quest to find the truth in this electrifying speculative novel.
Information flows freely in 2023, but is all -- or "any" -- of it accurate? Criminal profiler Dr. Gideon Wolfe investigates the murder of a friend in New York City when he is suddenly caught up in the company of a beautiful woman, her ingenious brother, and a band of techno-terrorists at war with the world itself.

<p>Information flows freely in 2023, but is all-or any-of it accurate? Criminal profiler Dr. Gideon Wolfe investigates the murder of a friend in New York City when he is suddenly caught up in the company of a beautiful woman, her ingenious brother, and a band of techno-terrorists at war with the world itself.</p>

Dr. Gideon Wolfe, a renowned criminologist and professor at New York's John Jay University, is hired by the widow of a murdered special-effects wizard to track down her husband's killer

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