Title: A bit of a rip-off of "2001"??
Review: I enjoyed reading this novel -- good, light, summer kind of reading with a sci fi bent that is satisfying.But weren't some of the plot lines just a bit too reminiscent of "2001: A Space Odyssey"? To wit:(1) A computer malfunctions because of conflicting programming, which is mysterious and deeply frustrating to its creators and eventually leads the machine to attempt to kill humans (in 2001, HAL succeeded, whereas Titan Alpha does not).(2) A mysterious race of extraterrestials has placed artifacts in the solar system that may be sending off a massive "we've been found, there's intelligent life here" signals (the obelisk and Jupiter in 2001; the nanomachines and Saturn's rings and the electromagnetic every-16-days pulse in the Bova series).Because these are such core elements of the plotline, the result is that there's just a bit too much of a "been there, read that" feeling with "Titan." A fun read, but not much more.
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