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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780765313164
ISBN: 0765313162
Item Dimensions: 9581667592
Label: Tor Books
Manufacturer: Tor Books
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 352
Publication Date: November 01, 2005
Publisher: Tor Books
Release Date: October 13, 2005
Studio: Tor Books

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.com Review:
There is a 50 percent chance that geneticist Pierre Tardivel is carrying the gene for Huntington's Disease, a fatal disorder. That knowledge drives Pierre in his work on the Human Genome Project, an attempt by scientists to map human genes. But a strange set of circumstances--including a knife attack, the in vitro fertilization of his wife, and an insurance company plot to use DNA samples to weed out clients predisposed to early deaths--draw Tardivel into a story that will ultimately involve the hunt for a Nazi death camp doctor. Frameshift shows why the New York Times calls Robert J. Sawyer "a writer of boundless confidence."

Product Description:
This is the story of Pierre Tardivel, a scientist, and his complex battle against deadly illness; an ex-Nazi war criminal still hiding in the US; a crooked insurance company; and a plot to make Pierre and his wife the victims of a bizarre genetic experiment. Sawyer juggles his plots smoothly and gracefully, and never drops a ball. Frameshift is hard science fiction at its best, full of complications and neat surprises.




Rating: - Many ideas with so-so execution
There is a lot here. Genetic evolution, telepathy, disease, an attempted murder and murder mystery, the holocaust and the hunt for Nazi war criminals, a corrupt insurance company, and a love story. Within the span of the book, it all connects somehow. But the connections are, in the end, not all that strong. Believability was stretched to the limit for me, and there were simply too many ideas to squeeze into a workable story. The first couple of chapters held promise for an emotionally riveting story, ... Read More

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Rating: - Another Sawyer Triumph!
A 'frameshift' mutation is the adding or removing of one nucleotide to alter the genetic code of a living thing. To simply write a novel where a geneticist utilizes this technique for the purpose of consciousless experimentation would be interesting enough. Robert Sawyer manages to also throw in hunting of Nazi War Criminals, battle against deadly illness and corrupt Insurance companies.

Once again, Sawyer has written a genre-crossing novel that is full of enough detail and thrills to please ... Read More

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Rating: - changing genes
"Frameshift" by Robert J. Sawyer, © 1997

This story has a very odd premise. It also presents a truly unusual theory for the growth and development of species, just like in another story: there are theories that stick in your craw and you try to set them right by looking at them outside the box sort of way.
Pierre has Hutchinson Disease. Molly can read minds. He studies DNA and comes upon a new way of understanding how species change. Then the disaster happens. It is really not so ... Read More

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Rating: - Read It In Two Days - Wondering Why I Bothered.
I was excited to read Frameshift at first. A small-scale adventure, confined to one planet, to one species - humans. I didn't see how Sawyer could pull his usual trick of cramming too much subject matter into a book for its own good here, and thankfully, Sawyer manages to focus pretty well on his subject - an unusual achievement for him.

Unfortunately, though, the book suffers from a flawed structure, and the conclusion is undramatic and abrupt. I don't like it when an author has trouble exploiting ... Read More

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Rating: - How does Sawyer cram so much into one book?
This is the second novel I have read by Canadian author Robert J. Sawyer and after this I will definitely be reading a lot more. I am in amazement about some of the reviews listed here. It appears that if an author has a comment or idea that makes some of these reviewers uncomfortable or the plot does not go the way they want it to then the author must be at fault. Now personally I enjoyed being challenged by a writer to keep my mind open and let new thoughts slip in, and in Sawyer's books the ideas are exploding ... Read More

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