Earth Endless Effort eBook Gerald M Weinberg
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LAFE doesn't live in the forest. LAFE is the forest. LAFE's size and thousands of years of experience provide the wisdom to survive.
When a pipeline project threatens to cut LAFE's brain in half, LAFE overcomes long-standing antipathy toward human beings and seeks the aid of Daphne DeFreest. But first they must heal her broken body and find a way to communicate. This is their story.
Because she's changed in many tree-like ways, Daphne first has to make herself presentable to a society that doesn't favor green skin, nails, and blood. To gain time for her to raise money for defense, LAFE organizes a delaying campaign against the trenchers, aided by his forest resources (skunks, wasps, raccoons, bears, and heaven knows what else). He manages to delay until the crew must stop digging for the winter—when he must go dormant.
By the time LAFE wakes in the spring, Daphne still hasn't quite enough money for LAFE's defense. They must find a way to connect LAFE to the internet, where he can use his magnificent computing power to help Daphne attempt a daring coup. Unfortunately, her ruthless cousin Russell notices her coup in the financial press.
To Daphne's disappointment, her friend Mikio hires onto the staff of the World Economic Planner (WEP), a giant computer buried in a mountain near Geneva, Switzerland. After he leaves, Russell has Daphne drugged, kidnapped, and committed to a private asylum in the Adirondacks.
With the help of animals directed remotely by LAFE, she tries to escape through the woods to Canada then return to Colorado, only to discover there's another threat to LAFE, a lumber company with plans to turn LAFE into a vertically integrated chip-board factory.
LAFE equips Daphne with tree-like defenses, but LAFE is going to sleep again. For her protection, he sends her to Bangladesh, to meet a giant mangrove entity, Nuha. Together, Nuha and Daphne will continue investing in hopes of being able to repeat their triumph.
But without the aid of LAFE's thinking, Nuha and Daphne are losing the financial race, until Mikio adds WEP's computing power to their team. Nuha, Daphne, and WEP are catching up—until a tropical cyclone puts Nuha out of commission.
Nuha improves. To fight taxes, Daphne flies to New York, where her old boyfriend Gil tells her how Russell has been sabotaging her investment plans. Daphne goes on the offensive and turns Russell's tricks back on him. But Russell is not averse to illegal tactics.
By now it's spring, and LAFE awakes. Mikio hooks up LAFE and WEP to fight Russell, but the plan backfires, as LAFE and WEP apparently fall "in love," consuming all their computing power talking to each other.
Gil's group of save-the-aspens fanatics plan to burn down the forest if Daphne fails to take control of the forest. LAFE thinks a forest first would be better than a chipboard factory, since he would survive in the long run as long as his root system is intact.
Daphne cannot stand the idea of losing LAFE for her lifetime. She struggles to find a different way of saving LAFE, and almost gives up to the arsonists' idea, when another Russell attack on her kills one of her friends. Then Gil's arsonists, believing she will lose the control fight, put their fiery plan into action.
With the help of the entire mountain community, Daphne successfully fights the fire, but learns that LAFE's memory of her has been destroyed. In the hospital, nursing her injuries from the fire, she falls into a deep depression.
What will she do? So as not to spoil the story, we'll let you read the conclusion for yourself.
Earth Endless Effort eBook Gerald M Weinberg
I highly recommend this plot-twisting, fast-reading book. It presents current social views in the context of an extension to reality (it is science fiction) that provokes consideration of unknown potential within the natural environment. It takes tree-hugging/(hugging by trees?) to new heights while exploring possibilities in our society and associations with other life. Weinberg expertly twines science and society, illuminating both, and creates reading that educates while entertaining.Product details
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Earth Endless Effort eBook Gerald M Weinberg Reviews
Earth's Endless Effort is Jerry Weinberg's latest novel, and his best yet by a far cry. It's a gripping tale, even when Jerry takes swipes at people and things he loves to take swipes at. Arthur C. Clarke, Jr. famously wrote "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic". The basis for Earth's Endless Effort is a similar notion that a sufficiently complex organism can become sentient. And it is!
It was no effort at all to read this book ;-) Its attention-grabbing, page-turning style and short-chapter format that quickly grabbed me and in no time at all I found I'd finished it and wanted more. Like Jerry's other books, such as First Stringers and The Aremac Project, it is full of entertaining and unexpected plot twists. Sometimes it really makes you stop and think - for example about cybernetics and emergent intelligence in a sufficiently large complex entity (such as a forest). I thoroughly enjoyed it.
I read this book in fewer sittings than most books I read. It's catchy and the story is well told.
It is science fiction, but at several points I felt I really wanted some of it to be real. And now, after reading the book, it's still residing in the back of my head, especially when I see some trees. I can't help to wonder...
Forests just won't ever be the same again.
Anyway, I sincerely recommend this book. It's a book that's stuffed with action, intelligent (and occassional very unintelligent, but frightening realistic) dealing with problems, and the plot is by far not so predictable as you could imagine from having read the summary of it here on . There are plenty of surprises in it.
Hunted, wounded, and on the run, Daphne DeFreest wakes up within the confines of a most unique healing unit - the embrace of a sentient forest entity that she dubs 'LAFE'. She and the being quickly establish a bond, which allows Daphne to work back in the human world in order to prevent a pipeline project from cutting the forest in half and effectively lobotomizing her new-found friend!
At turns touching and thought-provoking, this is a story that the hard-core science fiction community will enjoy. I liken this work to 'Neuromancer' because (spoiler alert, unless you read the Book Description) we learn that there are *other* gestalt entities out there around the globe that will also play a major part in the story.
Highly recommended for a fast, intelligent read.
Again, Weinberg takes us back to the golden age of science fiction when cooler heads prevailed in finding the solutions to human problems. In this case the cooler heads are those of Daphne, a genius at investments and a reluctant environmental protestor, and an entity named LAFE who just happens to be the gestalt mind of the Kebler Forest of aspens.
When Daphne falls off a cliff when pursued by the men who want to put a pipe line through the forest, LAFE uses his ability to heal himself and his denizens to also heal Daphne - and improve her. With the world thinking Daphne is dead, she embarks on a mission to save Kebler Forest and in the process discovers that her real nemesis is none other than her cousin, Russell.
Using only her business acumen, the help of a computer genius and the huge mental faculties of Buddy and his allies, Daphne must face down a foe with the incredible resources of the corporate world. Can she do it? I won't spoil the suspense, but Weinberg weaves a tale of the science of investing, the environment and physics to make it all seem plausible. Makes me want to think twice before I cut off a tree branch....
I highly recommend this plot-twisting, fast-reading book. It presents current social views in the context of an extension to reality (it is science fiction) that provokes consideration of unknown potential within the natural environment. It takes tree-hugging/(hugging by trees?) to new heights while exploring possibilities in our society and associations with other life. Weinberg expertly twines science and society, illuminating both, and creates reading that educates while entertaining.
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