The Munich Syndrome (PDF) (Cold Futures)

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To ask other readers questions about The Navigator , please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Mar 05, Steph Bennion rated it liked it Shelves: This is a very interesting read, full of ideas and with a highly-unusual narrator figure to provide a god-like point of view. Other reviews have outlined the story so I won't go into details, but the tale was refreshingly different and the main character Kego was imagined well.

Some of the humour was a bit hit and miss the 'comical' names of some of the people mentioned didn't fit well with the general style and it did often seem as if the robots had more personalty than the humans - though I This is a very interesting read, full of ideas and with a highly-unusual narrator figure to provide a god-like point of view.

Some of the humour was a bit hit and miss the 'comical' names of some of the people mentioned didn't fit well with the general style and it did often seem as if the robots had more personalty than the humans - though I accept the author did deliberately play on this theme at times.

If this had been properly edited, polished and proofed I would not have hesitated to give it a solid four stars; unfortunately it isn't, so I can't. Having said that, the story and the philosophies within were strong enough to keep me reading despite the distracting typos, so credit where it's due. Jul 20, Sam rated it it was amazing Shelves: A superbly dark, funny and entertaining romp through the universe with the last survivor of a viral epidemic as our guide and an un-named virus as our narrator.

This story begins with the Munich Virus, which wipes out every known population of humanity across the universe, leaving Kego, our schizophrenic nine year old navigator, to fend for himself and return to Earth with the Frozen, those who were lucky enough to be in stasis when the virus struck.

We follow Kego on his journey through the cos A superbly dark, funny and entertaining romp through the universe with the last survivor of a viral epidemic as our guide and an un-named virus as our narrator. We follow Kego on his journey through the cosmos as he stears the Solstice back to Earth to re-establish the human race.

Narrated by an unknown and un-named virus of indefinate age, wisdom and sarcasm who gives his somewhat unusual yet strangely enlightening views on Kego's, and utlimately humanity's, journey, as obstacles are met, faced and hurdled, this is more than just a story. It is a romp through the history of mankind as viewed by one who has not been subject to 'civilised' influences and has gained his knowledge through The History itself and by another who was there as an outsider looking in.

Somehow this book manages to cover every subject from religion to politics, using life, death, peace, war, love, hate and humanity as its stepping stones, without burying the story or bombarding the reader with endless details. Instead Merrick has created a post apocalyptic science fiction tale set in a future that seems possible even today, that will make you both laugh and cry, feel compassion for each and every character at some point while hating them in the next and leaving you wanting more when you reach the end.

View all 4 comments. Dec 09, Neil rated it liked it. To begin with the story was a good concept but reading was hard going. There was also the change in narration styles a few times but this was soon forgotten once the story picked up. The storyline jumped around all o To begin with the story was a good concept but reading was hard going. The storyline jumped around all over the place making the story difficult to follow but not as difficult as some of the conversations. None of the conversations let us know who was saying what so the reader needs to reread most conversations at least twice to pick up the gist.

However difficult the story and conversations were to read the final half of the book was an enjoyable Sci-Fi tale, even if it does need lots of editing and a new spell checker, that ticked along at a steady pace and eventually became quite enjoyable. Mar 16, Lynxie rated it it was ok Shelves: Ok, so this book took me a very long time to read! I am a bit of an editing Nazi!

My issues with the editing aside, the story just didn't flow! The constant changing from Kego's writing, the virus' thoughts, Jenny's thoughts and Eel's thoughts all got very confusing.

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The timeline jumped around from present to past, to future with little thought for how the reader would handle it. I Ok, so this book took me a very long time to read! A valiant first effort, but it still needs a lot of work! Steve, I will email you the typos I picked up soon.

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I receieved a copy of this book from the author in return for an honest review Mar 06, Fredrick Danysh rated it liked it Shelves: A virus has evolved over the ages killing off several species. Then it wipes out most of homo sapien except for Kego and frozen humans on a space ship.

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Kego has been genetically developed by the virsu to give it some competion but has flaws as being mentally unbalanced. The story jumps around alot. This was an e-pub that I got for free. This is the very first book I have written, so warts and all I am very attached to it. The main engine of this book is through the writers within it. The main writer is the Munich Syndrome, a simultaneous virus who has also wiped out most of humanity. Present knowledge of nonrandom CT arrangements, of the internal CT architecture, and of structural interactions with other CTs is provided as well as the dynamics of CT arrangements during cell cycle and postmitotic terminal differentiation.

The article concludes with a discussion of open questions and new experimental strategies to answer them. Additional Perspectives on The Nucleus available at www. Abstract Chromosome territories CTs constitute a major feature of nuclear architecture.

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