The Adam and Eve Chronicles
Warning: major spoilers for this strange book.
This is an interesting book but in one way it's also possibly the strangest book I've ever read.
The basic story is about a group of scientists that gets together and designs a portable, small fusion reactor to help solve the energy crisis and to make it much easier for poor areas to get some support they really need.
The idea works wonderfully.
They design a type of robot they call an avatar. Physically it's like a very small UFO. What the scientists discover is a way to download their personal memories onto a computer chip, put that chip into the avatar and thus produce an intelligence based on theirs but greatly expanded. They devise strict guidelines for the craft to make sure no one can abuse them for selfish motives.
The idea works wonderfully.
They they work with the avatars to boost the space program tremendously and soon have a colony of avatars on Mars. Six humans had gone there but it was felt it was just too dangerous for humans and the avatars would take over space exploration.
The idea works wonderfully.
Another group of avatars goes to Jupiter to land on one of it's moons and, in the process, discover life in the ocean under the moon's ice.
Scientists are overjoyed.
They they construct a huge spaceship to carry lots and lots of avatars on a mission to explore the nearest star system. It will take them fifty years to get there but since they need to air, water or other supplies other than nickel, the trip will be no problem for them.
The scientists are overjoyed again. Poverty has taken a severe drop. Chances of war due to nations fighting over resources is basically gone.
And there's the rub.
Nothing goes wrong in the book other than 2 avatars being destroyed, one by Iran and one by North Korea. Otherwise, everything is perfectly hunky-dory. No major opposition other than the church. No violence. No thefts. No killing. It's all a-okay from start to finish.
That's what makes the book so strange. Normally a novel has someone who is evil or someone who is a plain villain. Possibly it might have some kind of natural disaster or something else, but there is always something or someone that causes a problem.
Not so in this book. I kept waiting for something to go wrong but it didn't. It's like there's something missing from the book. That makes it hard to judge the book's quality.
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