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Title: For techheads only, and patient ones at that.
Review: I kind of like Hogan. Unfortunately, I just finished rereading his "Voyage from Yesteryear," which is vastly superior to this artificial intelligence tale. "Realtime Interrupt" is for techheads only, and those who love office and major-corporation politics. Both are covered in mind-numbing detail, while personal interactions and characterization get generally short shrift. Will the protagonist's cutting-edge AI project be shunted aside by corporate bigwigs in favor of a rival formulation that is very similar, but focuses on a higher level of the brain? Will the protagonist wind up trapped in a dead-end career path instead of making millions? If these kinds of questions fascinate you, you've come to the right place. This book might have satisfied me in 1960, but SF has moved on to a higher and better place since then.
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