![]() ![]() Nagata excels in using science and technology in her writing, but uses too much scientific or pseudo-scientific terminology, which sometimes leaves the reader confused. The story describes the life and evolution of the LOVs while Virgil and Ela guard them against destruction by the rest of the world. Ela Suvenatat is a 19 year-old, half-Thai and half-Caucasian journalist who becomes involved with the LOVs and Virgil while gathering information for a news story. Copeland and his colleagues are certain that the LOVs can be a great benefit to mankind. Virgil Copeland is one of three young American scientists who smuggle LOVs (a bioengineered organism) to earth from an orbital platform high above the earth and implant them into their brains, using themselves as test subjects. The main characters of this novel are Virgil Copeland and Ela Suvanatat. ![]() Limit of Vision takes place in the future in a small Hawaiian research lab and in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta. ![]() Previously, Nagata has written four other science fiction novels, including The Bohr Maker (winner of the Locus Award for Best First Novel), Deception Well, Vast, and Tech Heaven. ![]() This novel should be added to any science fiction collection for its creativity in writing about technology and science having to do with artificial intelligence and nanotechnology. Linda Nagata’s latest book, Limit of Vision (published by Tom Doherty Associates Books), is an intriguing science fiction novel about nanotechnology. ![]()
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