Tuesday, April 2, 2013

Amped by Daniel H. Wilson. Read by Robbie Daymond.

I'm still waiting for this author's movie to come out--Robopocalypse!


Here's what Entertainment Weekly has to say about it:

"The movie was set to begin filming with a script by Cloverfield writer Drew Goddard, and Anne Hathaway and Thor‘s Chris Hemsworth planning to star. Spielberg says he’s just pumping the brakes — not turning the car around, and certainly not junking it.
“We found that the film was costing a lot of money and I found a better way to tell the story more economically but also much more personally,” Spielberg said. “I found the personal way into Robopocalypse, and so I just told everybody to go find other jobs, I’m starting on a new script and we’ll have this movie back on its feet soon.”
I'm hoping Spielberg continues to work on it--the book was fabulous. This book was no exception. It was difficult to read at the same time as Fuse--both books have "amped" or "enhanced" people. 
In Amped, the government and scientists have figured out to "amp" people to improve them. At first, it's the wealthy who decide to have their memory or smarts improved, but then the government decides to improve poor disadvantaged kids. Everything is happy until the amps begin taking over. And the rest of the country can't handle that. And so laws are changed until amps are a sub-species. They are discriminated against, pushed into concentration camps, and hurt. 
Owen is an amp, but he was told that it was only to control his epilepsy. But then he finds out that his scientist father has a secret. So, hold on!
Recommend this to fans of fast-action sci-fi. 

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