Gene Mapper 基因設計師 (Chinese edition)

The author just didn't do the research on things combined with the misogyny I just ain't having it. Nov 01, Nathan Sinclair rated it really liked it. A very enjoyable sci-fi that wasn't like anything I'd read before.

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There were some very interesting concepts in it, though I think some of the science went straight over my head, as I honestly couldn't tell you how realistic or outlandish they were. I had a few issues understanding the story, but I think that was just a result of the things that get lost in translation. I'd definitely be interested in reading a follow up to see what developments come from how the book ended.

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Feb 11, Herman rated it it was amazing. Science fictions at its peak. Transporting us into the future, while throwing the dystopia off the cliff. Taiyo Fujii paint the future with words, and capture the essence of locations as the book plays out. He places faith in our species making the right moves, as new technology emerges from darkness.

Pages gone in a Blizz, this book was a beautiful read. Thanks to Jim Hubbert for the translation, and keeping the "tone". Nov 07, Jessica DiFelice thefanaticreader rated it really liked it Shelves: I really enjoyed this novel! The jargon took a bit to get used to, but the world that was created was intriguing, and plausible, and scary. The concepts of gene mapping, and engineered, "distilled" crops, were super cool, and I liked the fast pace of this novel as well.

Can't wait to read more from this author. Nov 27, Joshua Bennett rated it really liked it. Great book about technology and food production. The writing may through some readers off, but it reminded of me manga animated movies that I have seen note - I have not seen many of them. Really liked the ending and how it developed.

Looking forward to reading Taiyo Fuljii's other works. May 16, Doni Tonga rated it it was amazing. Jan 21, Keizen Li Qian rated it really liked it. I relished the geekiness of this near future depiction. I found the mystery solving action fell rather flat at the end, though. May 14, Derek Berg rated it really liked it. I enjoyed the heck out of this book. Had a Snow Crash-of-biopunk-lite feel to it. Please let there be more of this.

Aug 11, Rachel rated it really liked it Shelves: This book took some time to catch my interest, but the further in I got, the more complex the story became, and the ending was both unexpected and satisfying. Sep 28, Claire rated it it was amazing Shelves: This novel is about engineering Super Rice around Ho Chi Minh City, a Super Rice which has enough nutrients that you don't need anything else, and which grows in dirty water. Since rice doesn't have very many nutrients on its own, the idea absolutely thrilled me.

This science fiction novel scared me by presenting the possibility of an automatic Behavior Correction being implemented across society, possibly as a chemical put in the water, though that was not in the book, I'm just making a guess how that could work in a way as written. Aren't we allowed to behave the way we dictate, given that we've slept, eaten, exercised enough, and so on?

Then again, perhaps the idea is that you shouldn't have to worry about how to behave, just follow, like, the Emily Post guidelines. Or, now it's her granddaughter, I think. Or like, the best friend of her granddaughter's second wife thrice-removed. Something kooky like that. It's a long story. What I liked most about this novel was its emphasis on research and development: I also liked the little design above each unnumbered chapter.

What a fascinating story! I'll probably come back to it and find something new next time. Jul 13, Jessica rated it really liked it Shelves: Hayashida is a gene mapper who designed the appearance of a new variety of super rice, SR06, ensuring that the company's logos and certifications show on the field.

When SR06 starts mutating, Hayashida's head could be on the chopping block unless he can figure out what's happening. More importantly it could mean widespread public distrust of designed crops - and using high-yield disease-resistant designed crops is the only way to feed the world's population. Suspecting first a collection error a Hayashida is a gene mapper who designed the appearance of a new variety of super rice, SR06, ensuring that the company's logos and certifications show on the field.

Suspecting first a collection error and then sabotage, Hayashida finds himself in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam with his businessman contractor Kurokawa and a hired hacker Yagodo. Well-hidden clues lead the trio to the Cambodian rice fields where SR06 is grown, deep within the abandoned Internet, and of course into danger. I really enjoyed this book! It did feel a little juvenile and simplistic, and I think it would work well for a YA audience though it's good at an adult level, too.

The science is cool and near-future. The distilled crops seems like a natural extension of current GMO crops, and I appreciate that they're accepted as the future and a positive thing, although there are still environmental protestors and the main characters know that if they can't figure out what is causing the mutation then public opinion may be soured.

I liked the characters, though they weren't really the point of this story aside from maybe Hayashida and we get very little information about them outside of their relation to this plot. No background, no family life, little in the way of interests or character traits. But I don't think that's the point of this book.

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It was very tied up at the end; every plot strand was completed and all questions were precisely answered. I think most readers would have been open to a less conspicuously complete ending. For instance, in the last couple pages of the 3rd to last chapter a particular aspect of one of the characters that called their behavior into question earlier in the story was bluntly explained. It's just too clean.

I did run into a problem I've had with translated novels before, where I wonder if certain aspects are in the original novel or they occurred in the translation process. Definitely something that felt different and non-American, no charging ahead or bombasism I'm not sure that's a word, but I'm sticking with it.

I'd recommend this novel to anyone who likes environmental science fiction, anyone interested in Japanese SF, fans of Neuromancer , Neal Stephenson 's older bio-punk stuff like Zodiac or Snow Crash , or The Windup Girl. This feels fresh, new, and uncomplicated. It has a mid-level of violence - some fighting but not all that much content on the page, no sexual content and not much language.

This would definitely be appropriate for high schoolers, though any younger may find the story a bit complex. Jul 07, Ash rated it liked it. In the world of Gene Mapper, much of the world's natural crops have fallen to a blight called Red Rust, leading to a rise in genetically engineered foods. It's a high-tech mystery, a whodunit of virtual reality proportions. I think it's the translation that hinder this book for me.

It's as if something is being lost in going from Japanese to English, and I have a certain sense of being lost. I really like Fujii's concept of augmented reality, using AR stages for conversations and work and broadcasts and all kinds of things, but I don't really understand how it works. I can see someone entering an AR Stage and seeing the augmented reality, but what would someone not on any stage see them doing? They're talking and moving in their stage, sometimes having private conversations, and so wouldn't they be talking and moving in the real world as well?

I guess I don't understand the privacy factor of that, just as an example. And again, I think this is partly due to the translation. The worldbuilding, while interesting, is not very clear in english, and more difficult to really engage with. In another part of the book, Mamoru goes into the SR06 field wearing a special suit that has a weird kind of emotional control built in. The 'augmented reality' turns into a real hindrance, but that whole portion just makes no sense to me. I don't understand why they're wearing the suits in the first place--maybe to prevent contaminating the field, though I'm not sure with what, if the genetically distilled rice is supposed to be so stable--but also, I really don't understand why they would need or even want emotional control in the first place.

That just makes no logical sense when you look at how it completely derailed Mamoru's mission. The only purpose I can see it serving is a plot point that reveals Takashi's true nature, which really, it needs to make sense on the surface as well as move the plot forward. I found the ending to be a little forced, but I won't go into that here because spoilers. Overall though, if you don't mind feeling a little lost in a sea of buzzwords, it's not a bad read. I think a lot of other fantasy and scifi I've read has primed me to be okay with not necessarily understanding everything that's going on, though I like clarity more.

It's a fun read on it's own, and high-concept, which is always nice. But somehow it also doesn't necessarily stand out to me. Not bad; but not necessarily great, either. Jan 05, Artur Coelho rated it really liked it. Given that I rarely go for hard sci-fi, this book seemed the "hardest of hard" to me - futuristic ideas piling on futuristic ideas, crossing the boundaries between the fields.

And all that without a sole mention of rockets or space. Gene Mapper reads well and it rarely allows you to take a breath and just be there for a ride - every sentence, every word comes with a purpose, either to explain a concept or to push the story ahead.

I have encountered many of the concepts before and felt, at times, Given that I rarely go for hard sci-fi, this book seemed the "hardest of hard" to me - futuristic ideas piling on futuristic ideas, crossing the boundaries between the fields. I have encountered many of the concepts before and felt, at times, that it made the reading easier, such as in the case of the apocalypse. Given the "hardness" of this sci-fi book, the characters take the back seat in terms of personality and development.

They hang around, talk, but mostly get pushed around in the way to reveal the most interesting idea next. At times I was reminded of Asimov's books and his staple of two men sitting in a room talking - although Gene Mapper uses many of the modern ideas like diversity or female characters that behave like real women and not just increase the headcount or wait to be rescued.

The issues I had with this story was, at times, the clumsiness of the language which might just have been the effect of translation. Additionally, the characters sometimes "fall out of character" and do something abrupt, not in the sense of snapping, as people sometimes do, but more like "my word count is getting dangerously high and I don't have time to argue my way to what needs to happen". Finally, I was of course, at times, bothered by the actual science at times.

This may be the reason why I prefer fantasy - hard sci-fi sometimes tries too much and falls into unrealistic ideas. Of course I realize that fully inventing things in a fiction book is tough at the least, but I don't like being able to point to the story and show that things can't work like that.

I guess personally, I'd prefer wizard's staff and warp engines to semi-plausible but inherently flawed ideas. For the rest, there is the Wired magazine: Gene Mapper is a fresh and nontraditional sci-fi that's very much "in this world" and discusses ideas that are maybe more tangible than what's usually being talked about. In addition, it offers a perspective of a different culture with no Bruce Willises or similar - and expanding our world view is always a plus. Nov 11, Allan Dyen-Shapiro rated it it was amazing. I bought this book from the author at his table at WorldCon, having heard of it via the review on io9.

The promo material says this was originally published indie, and it shows. It breaks virtually every rule of what's supposed to be publishable in science fiction. There is very little action. In the entire first section of the book, the only two plot points are that something is growing on the genetically engineered crops and that means the protagonist is asked to fly to Vietnam.

And I bought this book from the author at his table at WorldCon, having heard of it via the review on io9. And the novel wasn't so big on character development either. This was a completely idea-driven novel. Having worked for a lot of my career in plant biotech and having dabbled a bit with computers, I was probably the ideal reader for this book, as I could appreciate how much care was taken into making the science plausible. And this book was written by a non-scientist author! One big idea comes hitting right after another.

The Internet crashed in and had to be replaced with a more secure version. Salvagers make their living by hacking into cached versions of the Internet. All business meetings are held in augmented reality. Personality correction software keeps Japanese businessmen from embarrassing faux pas.

Synthetic biology has advanced to the point that an entire plant genome can be synthesized and imprinted into an embryo.

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And that's all in the first few pages. Fujii forwards a hypothesis common among practicing scientists but not one I've seen in fiction before: Not for a minute does Fujii allow the reader to slip into stock sequences--even the fight scene is in augmented reality with characters running multiple avatars. Amazon Music Stream millions of songs. Amazon Advertising Find, attract, and engage customers. Amazon Drive Cloud storage from Amazon. Alexa Actionable Analytics for the Web.

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