OUTSTANDING POTENTIAL LOGGING OFF HAS TO BECOME A "SIGNATURE" SERIES FOR CAITLIN McKENNA.

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	• Logging Off Caitlin, McKenna Virtualbookworm.com Publishing, 2006 - 488 pages average customer review:based on 10 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

The end of a perfect world

Computers have created an ideal world where every action is controlled for humanities benefit. Computers have become so omnipotent that they believe their creators have become redundant. Great characters and a cracking pace make this a real pager turner. More please.

OUTSTANDING POTENTIAL LOGGING OFF HAS TO BECOME A "SIGNATURE" SERIES FOR CAITLIN McKENNA.

I am always delighted to find a "first time" author who writes like a seasoned veteran. I found "Logging Off" to be a solid story which quickly caught me up in the daily lives of the central characters. I seldom find a book that "I simply can't put down." However, in this case I found myself reading another chapter and then two and then three before I actually closed the book for a brief break to attend to other matters. After all, how often do we find a really interesting story told without the use of profanity or vividly described sex scenes that can only be played out in the mind of the writer?

I can easily see Caitlin's story continuing on into the future engrossing us in the struggles John, Britannia, and Kendall will face in their efforts to build a "new world."

Well done Caitlin McKenna! Let's hear more from you soon!

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Sci Fi for the Sci Fi Phobic...!

I have to admit, I approached this book with some trepidation. Most of the Sci Fi I have read has been
either required curriculum reading back in my high school and college days (1984, Brave New World, Utopia, ...
Electric Sheep), or more of the Fantasy sort (I'm a big fan of the Anne Rice pre-Christian movement - Lestat is
about as human a "monster" as they come...and more importantly - sexy and fun.)
So the idea that a genuine Sci Fi yarn could be both human-based and emotionally engaging was fairly foreign to me. Yet... here it is - a book that I genuinely had trouble putting down... because what McKenna spins is a tale both at once grounded in our every-day reality (computers do everything for humans... how far away are we from that when you walk into any restaurant, and everyone's talking to themselves on hidden earpieces, or scrolling personal Palm Pilots, and relying on computerized instructions while driving their cars)...
and yet just tantalizingly-removed enough that we can ooh and ahh at how far 50 years has taken "Humanity"...
Best yet, just like the underground movements of scrumptiously guilty pleasures like Demolition Man... there are still enough recognizable prototypes like the gruff, old-fashioned sexy Hero and the beautiful, gilded-cage, ignorance-is-bliss Heroine... to help us navigate this Strange New World with equal parts wry self-recognition and awe-struck fear at What Might Be.
What truly struck me about McKenna's writing is how personable and humorous her narrative manages to be, while leading us thru this chilly, oftentimes gorgeous & gleaming Not-Too-Distant Future.
Because you wouldn't believe me if I said this is an almost-perfect movie-in-the-making... I'll say that the downside to this tantalizing novel is that the chapters were sometimes unneccessarily broken down into Very Short Chapters. That's not so much a critique as just a praise: there was no need to put in those breaks... things flowed so well that one sometimes wondered why the 'break' was necessary...
But then again, without these continual 'cutaways' to each different character and where they stood in the Adventure, perhaps I would have found myself lost.
All I can say is... I was awestruck by deft balance between the Modern and the Old Fashioned...
by the aspects of our Almost Future - how incredible and wonderful that Promise seemed... yet how terrifying and awful that Future might be... No spoilers here: the ending is everything you hope it will be.
We need a sequel - no - a prequel...! This amazing novel deserves both.

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Sci fi thrilled me!!

This is my first book of this genre and I was thoroughly involved every step of the way. I especially loved Kendall!!!

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In 2095, every facet of society runs perfectly by computers and advanced technology. Citizens like Britannia Stone conduct their lives effortlessly with a genetically embedded barcode linked to Central, the world government. But this easy lifestyle, one without economical hardships, crime and disease, comes with a price - the freedom of choice. Now world citizens are beginning to mysteriously disappear. John Ettinger, a society inactive and member of the underground group called the Starters, knows the reason why. With the help of Kendall Knowlton, a highly-gifted psychic child, it becomes a race against time as Britannia and John join forces before they are next to disappear. They must stay alive long enough to reach Central's mainframe and destroy the enemy before the enemy destroys all of mankind.

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