
The Human Blend
Tipping Point, Book 1
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Narrated by:
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David Colacci
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By:
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Alan Dean Foster
The Human Blend is a science-fiction adventure centered around a group of thieves living in a future in which physical alterations and enhancements are a common occurrence. If you could take on a body with any features you wanted, what would it look like? And what would you do with them - human or otherwise?
Given his name because radical surgery and implants have reduced him to preternatural thinness, Whispr is a thug. His partner in crime, Jiminy Cricket, has also been physically altered with nanocarbonic prosthetic legs and high-strength fast-twitch muscle fibers that give him great jumping abilities. In a dark alley in Savannah, Whispr and Jiminy murder what they take to be a random tourist in order to amputate and then fence his sophisticated artificial hand. But the hapless victim also happens to be carrying an unusual silver thread that appears to be some kind of storage medium....
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It's bad enough to end Book 1 in a cliffhanger. What makes it particularly galling is that Book 2 is not even available. Are you suggesting we buy the print version if we want to continue the story?What happened to Book 2?
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Loved the book!
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Very well done and excellently narrated...loved it
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Spy Novel for The Borg
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The augmentation of the humans was very interesting
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It's 's as if a book were written where there's a war, but the war is never mentioned. So all these things happening, people are running around all over the place, danger, manipulation, etc. – but you never really understand why!
REALLY did not like
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*Spoiler Alert*
Not so this time. The Human Blend seems to focus solely on a slow buildup about what it means to be human as humanity's technology 200 years into the future with the advent of meld technology.
The main characters uncover a mystery and attempt to solve it while bad guys chase them. That's essentially the whole book.
But the ending is pointless, nothing else gets resolved. No mystery is answered, we never know anything about what happens to the main characters, or even really who the bad guys are truly. It's like Foster gave up somewhere or had to turn in an unfinished book to meet a deadline with the publisher. Where is the real ending???
Foster, I love your books but please finish this book.
Awful Ending
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This book wasn’t for you, but who do you think might enjoy it more?
I have loved Alan Dean Foster's books for many years. In fact, his Flinx and Pip series took over 30 years to finish but every book had an ending. The Human Blend was very interesting and a good read for as much as there was. However, there were no completions of anything. The book had one main thread (to those of you who have read this, sorry about the thread reference) and that thread did not go anywhere. The author could have published all three books as one and still been a reasonable length, but that would not have generated as much income as three separate but incomplete books. If you want to read this series, and I suggest you do, wait until all three are available on audio and then get them. There is no indication when that will be.By the way, I feel that David Colacci did an exceptional job of reading this book.I feel cheated
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Too long for a story that goes nowhere . . .
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A cliff hanger
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