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KILLING TIME
by Caleb Carr
Warner Books, January 2002
335 pages
$7.99
ISBN: 044661095X


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KILLING TIME is set in the year 2023 and the world has changed drastically. There are no fish left, all the animals in Africa have all died off, the population is zooming out of control, the oceans are polluted, every country seems to be at war with another country, and the Internet is man's best friend. In fact, everyone depends on the Internet as their sole source of information and unbeknownst to the population, lots of this information is false.

For instance, the internet now states that Stalin and Russia played a big part in the Holocaust. There's even a video tape showing Stalin wandering around in the death camps.

George Washington was supposed to have been murdered by his fellow politicians and by doctors who didn't care for him properly when he became ill.

All of this is misinformation but since it was on the Internet everyone believes it must be true. Countries have gone to war with each other because of what they've read on the Web.

How did this information get onto the Internet? Well, there's a small band of highly intelligent scientists and an ex military man who planted these things. They even falsified the proof.

They have a plan; they want the world to realize that the Internet can be very dangerous and they want the world to figure out for themselves that all this planted information is false. But, everyone believes everything on the Web, and no matter how contrived and silly the information is, everyone believes it's the truth.

KILLING TIME follows this group as they discover how dangerous their acts are when Moscow is blown up with an atomic bomb because one fanatic believed what he read on the Internet.

This book doesn't have all that much dialogue since it's supposed to be the journal of one of the men in this band. There's lots of scientific and historical information in it and it isn't the type of book you can read without really concentrating -- but keep at it, this book is well worth it.

The concept is fascinating and it shows us how much things can change in the next 20 years - just because everyone believes what they read on the World Wide Web.

Reviewed by Sharon Katz, January 2002

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