Invasive Procedures | 
 enlarge | Authors: Orson Scott Card, Aaron Johnston
Publisher: Tor Books
Category: Book
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Rating:  44 reviews
Sales Rank: 335484
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Pages: 352
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.4 x 1.4
ISBN: 076531424X
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780765314246
ASIN: 076531424X
Publication Date: September 18, 2007
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Product Description
George Galen is a brilliant scientist, a pioneer in gene therapy. But Galen is dangerously insane – he has created a method to alter human DNA, not just to heal diseases, but to “improve” people – make them stronger, make them able to heal more quickly, and make them compliant to his will.
Frank Hartman is also a brilliant virologist, working for the government’s ultra-secret bio-hazard agency. He has discovered how to neutralize Galen’s DNA-changing virus, making him the one man who stands in the way of Galen’s plan to "improve" the entire human race.
This taut thriller takes the reader a few years into the future, and shows the promise and danger of new genetic medicine techniques.
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 Money Grab! September 7, 2008
Alexander Ward (Toronto)
This book was terrible! Don't buy it unless you want to waste some time.
Card has never let me down in the past but having his name on this
book is just a cash grab. It is terribly written and barely has any
scientific information to make it interstings.
Advice to Aaron Johnston, do some real research before writing your
next book on a topic you know nothing about!
 A Quick Read September 2, 2008
Fred Rayworth (Las Vegas, NV United States)
I thought the book was okay, but was not prepared for the abysmal reviews I've just read through. I don't normally read sci-fi, but this one was interesting because it had to do with a super disease.
I agree with many of the reviews that say the characters were this and that, cliches and all, but overall, this wasn't that bad of a read. I think my biggest problem was the introduction of the female doctor's husband. He has one scene in his POV where he is looking for her, but that's it. He pops up at the end in a minor scene as a peripheral character, but his whole part in the story was unnecessary and maybe was just a way to up the page count a little.
I've never read any other Card novels, so I have nothing to compare this to. As for a sci-fi thriller, it could have been worse. It was an easy read and kept my attention most of the time. I, like a few of you, didn't think much of delving into the character's lives and personal problems, bla bla bla, but it wasn't that annoying to me.
Also, the doctor was a little on the weak female and whiny side. Rodriquez kind of made up for it, but she did seem a tad TV/movie cliche. Come to think of it, I may have seen several other tough Hispanic females on TV shows and in movies and that is why. The deputy on Eureka comes to mind as well as the woman on the Tremors TV show.
Overall, if you have never read an Orson Scott Card novel, you may like this. I did, but apparently, I'm in the minority.
Don't buy this book September 1, 2008
John Thomas Switzer (South Eastern Pacific Ocean)
I bought this book at the airport because it had Scott Card's name on it. It was so bad I could not even finish it. Boring plot, unbelievable characters and poor science. Card was once on my list of good creative writers. This book is so bad it made me angry. I want my money back for this stinker.
 Good Plot, Bad Writing August 28, 2008
M. Ollila (CO United States)
I wanted to like this book, I really did. I enjoyed the Ender books so very much. But in my opinion, this was a poor effort, very comparable to a Dean Koontz "all plot and no characterization" work.
I HATED the characters. They were all completely flat, one-dimensional enough to be unworthy of a "What I Did on My Summer Vacation" essay. The main character himself--Hartman (a name so contrived that I stopped reading and rolled my eyes involuntarily when the meaning became clear)--is painfully annoying and never shows a hint of being anything other than your standard Good Guy Who Will Probably Get the Girl.
The science in the book is flimsy, the described police procedure even more so. I have to wonder if the authors did any research at all for this book or if they gleaned their woefully inadequate information from CSI sites on the Internet.
I'm really sorry to have to give this book such a terrible review. But I was so looking forward to reading it, and it was such a huge disappointment. The plot was interesting enough that I read the whole thing, but I doubt that I'll remember in a month's time what the name of the book was. Definitely not even close to the level of even the worst book in the Ender series.
Worst book ever August 27, 2008
Matthew J. Beauchamp (Casselberry, FL)
Wow - no way was OSC involved in this. Either that or he took a nasty blow to the head recently. Absolutely atrocious. Dragged on and on. Cliche after cliche. Whoever wrote that this was "Chricton-esque" is doing a huge disservice to Michael Chricton.
I wanted to throw this thing down halfway through but I always finish my books. Sorry I did...I had to jump right up and write this review to warn others not to buy it. STAY AWAY!! If you want good sci-fi these days, check out Charles Stross and Richard K Morgan. This book was a total piece of dung. OSC should be ashamed.
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