Invasive Procedures by Orson Scott Card and Aaron Johnston

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Invasive Procedures from Science Fiction

Invasive Procedures
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Updated on 11-9-2008.

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Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks; Unabridged edition (October 1, 2007)

Language: English

ISBN-10: 1433210584

ISBN-13: 978-1433210587

Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 6.2 x 1.2 inches

Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces ()

From Publishers Weekly
In this intriguing medical thriller from bestseller Card (Ender's Game) and screenwriter Johnston, George Galen, a disgraced geneticist, feeds and medicates the downtrodden with the help of a genetically altered band of helpers known as Healers. In the form of a virus called V16, Galen has developed an effective treatment for many incurable genetic diseases; the problem is that when V16 isn't expressly tailored for each individual patient's DNA, the results are disastrous. Enter virologist Lt. Col. Frank Hartman, recruited by the federal Biohazard Agency to catch Galen and create an antidote. As Frank and his team work frantically, romantic threads unspool, while Galen insists that if the government would just stay out of his way, he could save countless lives. Based on Johnston's screenplay for Card's 1977 story Malpractice, the novel plays out with few surprises, but raises pertinent regulatory questions. (Sept.)
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From Booklist
This near-future thriller is based on Johnston's screenplay adaptation of Card's 1977 story "Malpractice," an early example of biotech sf. The plot is a duel between virologists. One scientist is promulgating a virus that has already altered many human beings into, for instance, Healers (mutated young men, primarily), who are reminiscent of a death squad made up of movie Terminators. The other virologist, at the behest of a secret government agency, is trying to stop the first. The novel wins the reader over on the basis of execution rather than conceptual originality, with pace, characterization, and chilling suspense all polished to a high gloss. Green, Roland --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.

Reader Reviews
This review is from: Invasive Procedures (Hardcover) If you are a fan of recent Michael Crichton books, you will probably enjoy "Invasive Procedures". It is a Sci-Fi story set in the present (the Sci-Fi is that there is medical science that we don't currently have) written by Orson Scott Card and screenwriter Aaron Johnston. If instead you are a big Orson Scott Card fan, you may be a bit disappointed, as the hallmark of an OSC book, is the "Moral Dilemma", and in this story that is more a warning to science in general, than one the reader experiences along with the characters. But here's the deal, if you are a fan of OSC, then you want to buy this book and you will be glad it was written, in that OSC is obviously honing his ability to write a screen play, and any "Enders Game" fan will understand the benefit of that. So as to the book itself, again while it is not an "Enders Game", it is pretty much as good as anything currently being written, and out of the 40 or so books I've read this year, I'd say its in the top 5 for fiction. If you liked "Empire" you should enjoy "Invasive Procedures".

Invasive Procedures
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Available from Amazon
Price: $68.40
Updated on 11-9-2008.