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Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.6
EAN: 9781416510666
ISBN: 1416510664
Label: Pocket Star
Manufacturer: Pocket Star
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: December 26, 2006
Publisher: Pocket Star
Sales Rank: 623321
Studio: Pocket Star
Editorial Review:
Product Description:
They rocketed into space as four ordinary human beings.
They came back as heroes. The Fantastic Four -- the Thing, the Invisible Woman, the Human Torch, and Mr. Fantastic. Together they have used their powers for the betterment of mankind.
For years, the world's top scientists have dreamed of creating a quantum computer, a machine that would be infinitely more powerful than any based on the transistor. Now Reed Richards -- Mr. Fantastic -- has achieved that dream. He has birthed a device capable of creating the unbreakable cipher, predicting the weather, performing calculations, and retrieving knowledge at heretofore unimagined speeds.
He has also, unwittingly, created something else.
A machine that one of the Fantastic Four's oldest and most powerful adversaries will use against them, will twist to his own destructive, murderous purposes, one that will turn friend against friend, husband against wife, and force Ben Grimm -- the Thing -- to confront a nightmarish dilemma.
A choice between humanity's salvation -- and the death of the three people he loves most in all the world. . . .
Average Rating: 
Rating:  -
This novel is one of those classic cases where the author is trying a quite ambitious plot of alternative world or times, when everything could have happened in another way and the `strands' (as they are called in this novel) could all be affected up and down the chain according to how one alters a single variable. It's wrapped inside a plot that combines science and magic.
When I say `a classic case', what I mean is, the challenge all such novels face is trying to keep track of themselves, ... Read More
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I had never thought I'd read a prose novel spin-off of a comic book series until very recently. My friend John Picacio painted the cover to X-Men: The Return, so I gave that book a try. I got a real kick out of the X-Men book so I thought I'd try The Baxter Effect. Overall, it's a quick, fun read. I do have one serious problem with the book which keeps me from rating it higher. At a certain point, the story shifts to an alternate reality and the team goes through some major changes. I couldn't tell what the ... Read More
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