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by Wilfrid J Harrington
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by Lois Mowday Rabey
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by Bil Keane
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by Mark Olshaker
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by John Wesley Howard
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Brain Child
by George Turner
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Avon Books (Mm) (1992-08)
ISBN: 0380718049
EAN: 9780380718047
Dewy Decimal #: 813
Paperback
SKU: mon0000047433
Condition: Very Good
Comments: VG to LIKE NEW conditon.
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Editorial Reviews
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Product Description
David Chance, the unknowing offspring of a long-forgotten experiment that produced genetically engineered child geniuses, learns terrible secrets about his own conception and discovers the horrifying course that human history is taking. Reprint. AB. NYT.
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Customer Reviews
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Thrilling Science Fiction!
Rating  (5)
Date: 2008-07-13
I loved reading this book! The premise of this novel is absolutely fascinating. Its a non-stop thrill ride filled with action, emotion and suspense. Excellent book!
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Australian SF Reader
Rating  (4)
Date: 2007-08-01
David Chance is a young journalist, brought up in an orphanage.
Many years later he gets a message out of the blue, and a man claims to be his father. Even more surprising is that fact that his father claims to be a superhuman.
There is a mystery and a terrible secret at the heart of this story, and David has to investigate while several of the superhumans killed themselves.
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Great theory, poor execution
Rating  (3)
Date: 2007-02-21
0 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
"Brain Child" focuses on a mystery surrounding a group of genetically modified humans. Or are they human? The book continually raises the question of what exactly it means to be Homo sapiens sapiens. It's a great concept for driving the plot, but Turner mentions it so often that I began to feel as if he were grinding it into my face in order to make sure I noticed.
A man, David Chance, discovers that he is the child of one of these modified humans--a man named Arthur Hazard. Hazard basically uses Chance to locate the mysterious "legacy," a supposed gene-modification that could raise mere humans into gods. The legacy was created by another of the modified humans, affectionately known as "Young Feller." As the story progresses, the reader will begin to notice that Young Feller (who is dead by suicide in the story's setting) does not follow a code of ethics quite similar to our own. Is he an unsavory picture of our future? Or is he just unsavory in any light?
The prose is mediocre at best. While Turner has some lovely ethical conceits driving his plot, the actual writing is bland. The characters over-explain every situation so that the reader cannot possibly misconstrue any conjecture. It feels like having a mystery spoon fed to you... in very large, tasteless bites. Some concepts, such as the evolutionary consequences of immortality, are pushed on the reader so hard that the concepts begin to lose their luster of intrigue and mystery. Turner leaves nothing to the imagination.
Overall, I did feel compelled to finish the book, if only to discover exactly *what* the legacy was; however, the characters lacked luster, and the writing just lacked. I doubt that I would recommend this book to anyone looking for a good SF novel. I might recommend it to someone who was interested in the unintended consequences of genetic modification, but I would stress that only the theories and concepts were interesting, as the plot just isn't worth your time.
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Not sci fi but a good read
Rating (3)
Date: 2006-03-04
1 out of 2 customers found this reveiw helpful
This book falls into the category of Mystery more than Sci Fi. It was a good read about how people manipulating each other to get a final prize. It was averagly interesting and will keep you occupied.
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Brain Child
Rating  (1)
Date: 2005-10-21
0 out of 3 customers found this reveiw helpful
Brain Child
The book that I read is "Brain Child," a novel by George Turner. Brain Child was an interesting story, but even though it was interesting I would not suggest this book to anyone. It was very confusing the words were very difficult to understand most of the words I had never even heard of before. Also I wasn't really thrilled with the way the story ended, but it was gripped with action and suspense throughout the whole book.
The story was about a young orphan who became a journalist, sucked into a drama of intrigue. It was full of tons of secrecy, murder, and gene manipulation. Also unadulterated government abuse of power. Basically the premise is the long term results of a government gene manipulation project which created several different clones with different traits. After reading a little more I discovered that the young journalist was one of the clones. He ends up being very successful although he was deceived.
All in all the entire story was very good, but the way that it was wrote was made for and older audience and I would not refer this book to anyone under a certain age. It was really hard to comprehend the whole point of this story. I had to go back several times to make sure I understood everything and that I didn't miss anything.
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