The Traveler by John Twelve Hawks

[RhodaGrits]

I was thinking about this book today when I saw that a company was requiring RFID microchip implants in its employees. Anyone else read it? Do you think the author is who he states to be or is it a marketing ploy by Random House as some have charged? I am beginning to think living "off the grid" is my current goal as much as possible. (Starting with switching to a mac and losing microsoft and windows, I think.) I'm literally getting off the grid in older terminology this year - NY is offering big tax incentives to install solar and I want to do that here and at my office. I have been so conscious of every security camera, my credit card use, my EZ Pass, etc since I read this book. So much of what he describes IS happening already. The Corporatists will be able to monitor all of anywhere, anytime very soon unless we actively opt out.

[pitohui]

1. obviously a marketing scam, random house is lying

a publishing company is not allowed to pay anyone $600 or more a year w.out his social security number and proof of identity so they can send him a 1099-misc for IRS records every year

this story is only believable to those who have never sold anything for pay since, oh about, 1978 or so

there is nothing illegal abt lying abt an author's qualifications, you are not under oath when writing a novel, by definition, the type of person who is good at inventing fantastic stories is a good and imaginative liar, their imagination is what they are selling

[alarimer]

2. I read this book

It is the first in a trilogy, I think. I had not heard of the charge that it is a marketing ploy. It certainly contains all of the fears I currently have- a governement that can track everyone everywhere. , elimination of those who are "different", eliminating dissent.

[mojowork_n]

3. Hey, this topic isn't archived!

I picked this book out of a box of 2 or 3 dozen paperbacks ("Free Books!") in my apartment building, a couple of days ago.

It's around 500 pages but I've almost finished reading it.

Reminds me of Thomas Pynchon's "Gravity's Rainbow," but it's much more of an adventure/thriller/pot-boiler.

Nobody knows who Pynchon is, either. J.D. Salinger was incredibly reclusive, too, as are other writers.