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Title:	Arcana Caelestia
Notice:	Directory listings are in topic 2
Moderator:	NETRIX::thomas

Created:	Thu Dec 08 1983
Last Modified:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Last Successful Update:	Fri Jun 06 1997
Number of topics:	1300
Total number of notes:	18728

478.0. "Try THE RAPTURE EFFECT" by DECWET::SNYDER () Wed Jun 03 1987 18:29

    Here's an unabashed plug for the books of a friend of mine.  Jeffrey
    Carver wrote THE INFINITY LINK several years ago, and has just come
    out with a new book, THE RAPTURE EFFECT. 
    
    The books are pretty good -- my husband, who is the connoisseur
    in our family, feels THE RAPTURE EFFECT is Carver's best so far. (His 
    first few are not so great -- see, I'm being honest!)
    
    If you're looking for something new to read, do a struggling sf
    writer a favor, and pick up THE RAPTURE EFFECT. 
    
    Cheryl Snyder

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478.1	Call your mother..	ZEPPO::TASCHEREAU		`Thu Jun 04 1987 16:37`	29
	I read THE RAPTURE EFFECT last month, and wasn't sure if I should enter a note on it or not, but since there is one now, here goes.. TRF is one of the better books I've read this year. Its clever, fast paced, full of action and very easy to read (a 1-nighter). Don't let the Pronunciation Rules at the beginning of the book scare you, the alien phrases and names are quite simple. The story is rooted in a technique called, appropriately enough, the rapture effect, which allows humans to mentally travel through the "thought-scapes" of certain AI (the book calls them gnostic) computers. The plot involves an engineer and an artist who, while doing research together "inside" the biggest of the gnostic systems, are shown scenes from an inter-galactic war that the government has been secretly waging. Well, being an intelligent machine, the gnostic system recruits the help of the engineer and the artist to reprogram it, thereby giving it the freedom to override the governments orders, and run the war its own way. And now the story really takes off...but I won't tell you anymore, you'll have to read it. Space-war lovers, take note, I think you'll really like this one, it got some good battle "scenes". -Steve

    I read THE RAPTURE EFFECT last month, and wasn't sure if I should
    enter a note on it or not, but since there is one now, here goes..
    
    TRF is one of the better books I've read  this year.  Its clever,
    fast paced, full of action and very easy to read (a 1-nighter).
    Don't let the Pronunciation Rules at the beginning of the book
    scare you, the alien phrases and names are quite simple.  
    
    The story is rooted in a technique called, appropriately enough,
    the rapture effect, which allows humans to mentally travel through
    the "thought-scapes" of certain AI (the book calls them gnostic)
    computers.
    
    The plot involves an engineer and an artist who, while doing
    research together "inside" the biggest of the gnostic systems, are shown
    scenes from an inter-galactic war that the government has been
    secretly waging.  Well, being an intelligent machine, the gnostic
    system recruits the help of the engineer and the artist to
    reprogram it, thereby giving it the freedom to override the
    governments orders, and run the war its own way.  
    
    And now the story really takes off...but I won't tell you 
    anymore, you'll have to read it.               
    
    Space-war lovers, take note, I think you'll really like this one,
    it got some good battle "scenes".
                        
    -Steve