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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Disappointed. Suffered through to the end, only to have my hopes for a conclusion dashed upon the rocks of obscurity. I am loathe to give book a two-star rating, but I am unashamed to proclaim this as a meager one-star. This book would never have been published if it had not been penned by a best-selling author. It is an incomplete first draft, rushed to market, which has the potential of a good story and glimmers of good writing sprinkled throughout, but the potential and glimmers are lost in the mire of: 1. A protagonist with no empathetic value, 2. A protagonist with no true motivation and so she becomes a plot device, 3. An antagonist who is flatter than 3-day-old road kill, 4. Persistent "head-hopping" (point-of-view shifts) that most readers don't mind, but drives me as an author crazy, since I've been required to weed them out of my own narrative, and 5. A contrived plot that ends in a fog. To all authors and publishers: Don't be a slave to the deadline. If the story doesn't work or is underCOOKed, don't print it. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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Pia Grazdani pone su vida en peligro cuando empieza a indagar en las investigaciones secretas de la empresa de nanotecnología donde trabaja.Tras una experiencia traumática, Pia Grazdani ha decidido abandonar los estudios de medicina y dedicarse por completo a la investigación. Ahora trabaja en Nano, un laboratorio de nanotecnología enclavado en las montañas de Colorado y custodiado como una fortaleza. Nano pertenece al competitivo mundo de la producción molecular y su proyecto estrella es la fabricación de microrrobots capaces de devorar virus y bacterias. Pia siente que están a punto de revolucionar la medicina.Un día, Pia sale a correr y se encuentra con un desconocido que se ha desmayado mientras hacía ciclismo. El hombre, de rasgos asiáticos, está inconsciente y lleva ropa con el logo de Nano, por lo que ella deduce que debe de ser también empleado de la compañía.Pia llama enseguida a una ambulancia y comprueba los signos vitales del hombre; su corazón late. Sin embargo, antes de que lleguen los paramédicos, el desconocido empieza a recuperarse y a hablar. Ella no entiende sus palabras, pero tiene claro que está aterrorizado.¿Cómo se explica esta milagrosa recuperación?¿Y qué relación guarda este ciclista con las investigaciones de Nano? ENGLISH DESCRIPTION A lavishly funded, security-conscious nanotechnology institute in the foothills of the Rockies, Nano is ahead of the curve in the competitive world of molecular manufacturing, including the construction of microbivores, tiny nanorobots with the ability to gobble up viruses and bacteria. But when Pia Grazdani takes a job there, she's shocked by the secretive corporate culture. She's warned by her boss not to investigate the other work being done at the gigantic facility, nor to ask questions about the source of the seemingly endless capital that funds the institute's research. And when Pia encounters a fellow employee on a corporate jogging path suffering the effects of a seizure, she soon realizes she may have literally stumbled upon Nano's human guinea pigs. Is the tech giant on the cusp of one of the biggest medical discoveries of the twenty-first century--a treatment option for millions--or have they already sold out to the highest bidder? No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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I'm a huge fan of Robin Cook's Jack Stapleton and Laurie Montgomery series, it's genuinely interesting and the characters are likable and relatable, this book however seems like it wasn't even written by the same person who wrote the former. If you are interested in a good medical thriller, check those out and pass on Nano, if you're interested in a good thriller about nanotechnology check out Critchton & Preston's Micro. ( )