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Six young people--each born with a disfiguring and crippling defect--possess the power to access the underlying string structure of the universe and thus violate the most trusted laws of physics. They must master their personal fears and escape pursuit by those who wish to command their powers. As they discover one another, they grow in power and sophistication, becoming more fully human.
Titles in the series (5)
- The Hands of God
2
How Would You Live If You Lost Your Hands? Could you feed yourself? Clean yourself? What about opening a door? How would you dress yourself, or tie your shoes? Would everyone you ever loved consider you a freak? A monster? Pamela Ruka knows the answers to these questions, and more. When she was six years old, she lost her hands in the accident that claimed her mother’s life.
- Earth's Endless Effort
3
When a pipeline project threatens to cut LAFE's brain in half, LAFE overcomes long-standing antipathy toward human beings and seeks the aid of Daphne DeFreest. But first they must heal her broken body and find a way to communicate. This is their story. Because she's changed in many tree-like ways, Daphne first has to make herself presentable to a society that doesn't favor green skin, nails, and blood. To gain time for her to raise money for defense, LAFE organizes a delaying campaign against the trenchers, aided by his forest resources (skunks, wasps, raccoons, bears, and heaven knows what else). He manages to delay until the crew must stop digging for the winter—when he must go dormant. By the time LAFE wakes in the spring, Daphne still hasn't quite enough money for LAFE's defense. They must find a way to connect LAFE to the internet, where he can use his magnificent computing power to help Daphne attempt a daring coup. Unfortunately, her ruthless cousin Russell notices her coup in the financial press. To Daphne's disappointment, her friend Mikio hires onto the staff of the World Economic Planner (WEP), a giant computer buried in a mountain near Geneva, Switzerland. After he leaves, Russell has Daphne drugged, kidnapped, and committed to a private asylum in the Adirondacks. With the help of animals directed remotely by LAFE, she tries to escape through the woods to Canada then return to Colorado, only to discover there's another threat to LAFE, a lumber company with plans to turn LAFE into a vertically integrated chip-board factory. LAFE equips Daphne with tree-like defenses, but LAFE is going to sleep again. For her protection, he sends her to Bangladesh, to meet a giant mangrove entity, Nuha. Together, Nuha and Daphne will continue investing in hopes of being able to repeat their triumph. But without the aid of LAFE's thinking, Nuha and Daphne are losing the financial race, until Mikio adds WEP's computing power to their team. Nuha, Daphne, and WEP are catching up—until a tropical cyclone puts Nuha out of commission. Nuha improves. To fight taxes, Daphne flies to New York, where her old boyfriend Gil tells her how Russell has been sabotaging her investment plans. Daphne goes on the offensive and turns Russell's tricks back on him. But Russell is not averse to illegal tactics. By now it's spring, and LAFE awakes. Mikio hooks up LAFE and WEP to fight Russell, but the plan backfires, as LAFE and WEP apparently fall "in love," consuming all their computing power talking to each other. Gil's group of save-the-aspens fanatics plan to burn down the forest if Daphne fails to take control of the forest. LAFE thinks a forest first would be better than a chipboard factory, since he would survive in the long run as long as his root system is intact. Daphne cannot stand the idea of losing LAFE for her lifetime. She struggles to find a different way of saving LAFE, and almost gives up to the arsonists' idea, when another Russell attack on her kills one of her friends. Then Gil's arsonists, believing she will lose the control fight, put their fiery plan into action. With the help of the entire mountain community, Daphne successfully fights the fire, but learns that LAFE's memory of her has been destroyed. In the hospital, nursing her injuries from the fire, she falls into a deep depression. What will she do? So as not to spoil the story, we'll let you read the conclusion for yourself.
- Aremac Power: Inventions at Risk
4
Rebecca Shelley (R.D. Henham) wrote of Aremac Power, "The science is so real I felt like I could go out tomorrow and buy an Aremac-controlled wheelchair. Way cool. The characters were every bit as interesting as the science. Gerald gives an unbiased, inside look at a culture that many misunderstand and fear. This is a great book." Aremac Power is a sequel to the popular Aremac Project, with many of the same loveable, brilliant characters. It is, as the subtitle suggests, a story about the risks of otherwise great inventions—and how they don't just cause the world to beat a path to the inventor's door. For one thing, there is prejudice. Marna is a brilliant scientist of the first order, but she is a woman and a Navajo, which makes her work easily discounted by the white men in positions of power. For another, there is entrenched wealth and power. If Marna's invention of a new source of energy is allowed its rightful place in the world, industrial empires will crash—oil, natural gas, all forms of power generation and distribution. But most of all, there is personal weakness. Marna is dominated by her leech of a husband, who undermines her at every turn. Only with the help of Tesla does she learn to tap into her personal power, which in the end is greater than any invention. Marna and Tess's story literally moves around the world—the nuclear laboratories in New Mexico, the traditional Navajo lands in Arizona, the degenerate casinos in Las Vegas, the sweatshops of Chicago, and the jungles of Africa. As Tony Hlllerman said of the prequel, The Aremac Project, Aremac Power is "a thrilling glimpse into the near future. Don't miss it!"
- First Stringers: Eyes That Do Not See
6
What happens if the physicists' String Theory is correct, and the "real" universe is nothing more than a human mental construct? And what happens to the half-dozen young adults who, through an accident on their common day of conception, can mentally pull the strings of the universe? And what if each of their rule-shattering powers is accompanied by a deformity shunned by society?
- Second Stringers: The Sole Advantage of Power
Six young people--each born with a disfiguring and crippling defect--possess the power to access the underlying string structure of the universe and thus violate the most trusted laws of physics. They must master their personal fears and escape pursuit by those who wish to command their powers. As they discover one another, they grow in power and sophistication, becoming more fully human.
Gerald M. Weinberg
Gerald M. Weinberg (Jerry) writes "nerd novels," such as The Aremac Project, Aremac Power, First Stringers, Second Stringers, The Hands of God, Freshman Murders, and Mistress of Molecules—about how brilliant people produce quality work. His novels may be found as eBooks at or on Kindle. Before taking up his science fiction career, he published books on human behavior, including Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method, The Psychology of Computer Programming, Perfect Software and Other Fallacies, and an Introduction to General Systems Thinking. He also wrote books on leadership including Becoming a Technical Leader, The Secrets of Consulting (Foreword by Virginia Satir), More Secrets of Consulting, and the four-volume Quality Software Management series. He incorporates his knowledge of science, engineering, and human behavior into all of writing and consulting work (with writers, hi-tech researchers, and software engineers). Early in his career, he was the architect for the Mercury Project's space tracking network and designer of the world's first multiprogrammed operating system. Winner of the Warnier Prize and the Stevens Award for his writing on software quality, he is also a charter member of the Computing Hall of Fame in San Diego and the University of Nebraska Hall of Fame. The book, The Gift of Time (Fiona Charles, ed.) honors his work for his 75th birthday. His website and blogs may be found at http://www.geraldmweinberg.com.
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