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Title: The Games
Author: Ted Kosmatka
Narrator: Scott Brick
Format: Unabridged
Length: 11 hrs and 42 mins
Language: English
Release date: 03-13-12
Publisher: Random House Audio
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 86 votes
Genres: Mysteries & Thrillers, Suspense
Publisher's Summary:
This stunning first novel from Nebula Award and Theodore Sturgeon Memorial Award finalist Ted Kosmatka is a riveting tale of science cut loose from ethics. Set in an amoral future where genetically engineered monstrosities fight each other to the death in an Olympic event, The Games envisions a harrowing world that may arrive sooner than you think.
Silas Williams is the brilliant geneticist in charge of preparing the U.S. entry into the Olympic Gladiator competition, an internationally sanctioned bloodsport with only one rule: No human DNA is permitted in the design of the entrants. Silas lives and breathes genetics; his designs have led the United States to the gold in every previous event. But the other countries are catching up. Now, desperate for an edge in the upcoming games, Silass boss engages an experimental supercomputer to design the genetic code for a gladiator that cannot be beaten.
The result is a highly specialized killing machine, its genome never before seen on earth. Not even Silas, with all his genius and experience, can understand the horror he had a hand in making. And no one, he fears, can anticipate the consequences of entrusting the act of creation to a computers cold logic.
Now Silas races to understand what the computer has wrought, aided by a beautiful xenobiologist, Vidonia Joo. Yet as the fast-growing gladiator demonstrates preternatural strength, speed, and - most disquietingly - intelligence, Silas and Vidonia find their scientific curiosity giving way to a most unexpected emotion: sheer terror.
Critic Reviews:
Modern SF started with something like E. E. Smiths The Skylark of Space and progressed to Jack Williamsons The Legion of Space, then to Heinleins classics, and on through the work of Larry Niven, John Varley, Greg Egan, Charles Stross, Cory Doctorowand now, writers like Ted Kosmatka. (Jonathan Strahan)
