Greg Bear - Queen of Angels-NMR-UnAbr-info.txt
General Information
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Title: Queen of Angels
Author: Greg Bear
Read By: George Guidall
Copyright: 1990
Audiobook Copyright: 1991
Genre: Science Fiction
Publisher: Recorded Books Inc
Abridged: No
Original Media Information
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Source: Usenet Download -No original nfo
Condition: Good
File Information
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Number of MP3s: 28
Total Duration: 18:41:38
Total MP3 Size: 513.57
Parity Archive: YES
Encoded At: CBR 64 kbit/s 44100 Hz Mono
ID3 Tags: Set, v1.1, v2.3
Book Description
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Publishers Weekly
An intriguing concept forms the basis of this not entirely successful
novel by the author of Eon . By the latter days of 2047, psychology
has developed into a true science, and most of the population of Los
Angeles has been therapied into sustaining balanced personalities. Thus
public defender Mary Choy is shocked to be assigned to a rare murder
case. Within hours of the detection of the crime, modern chemical sniffers
have determined exactly who passed through which doors of the victim's
apartment in what order, and it is established that poet Emanuel Goldsmith
is killer of his publisher's daughter. The question is why. While Choy
tries to locate Goldsmith, fellow poet Richard Fettle tries to imagine
himself into Goldsmith's mind, and Dr. Martin Burke, Ph.D., does even
better through his sophisticated cell-monitoring technology. Each of
these subplots permits a guided tour through different parts of a society
50 years in the future. Braided with these three narrative threads is
a fourth concerning the engendering AI of an interstellar probe. While
each plot line is absorbing in itself, Bear fails to tie together their
implicitly interlocking parts, resulting in a weak and disappointing
ending. BOMC alternate.
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