Can We Talk 2

Teknet

         Just finished a book by William Shatner. Yes, the actor. He did 9 novels in a future setting of humans and androids. Not my usual stuff. But I couldn't turn down a bargain book by Shatner.

         It turns out that TekNet is number four in the series. So I walked into an ongoing character's story. It's about a detective named Gomez with a lot of ex-wives. There are skyvans, palmphones, vidphones, and a lot of slang I had to grasp to carry on with the story. A lot of Spanish words were thrown in, too. Most were easy ones, but not all.

         There's lots of action, a lot of characters to keep straight. I found myself going back trying to figure out who was who in this fairly short book. It has a lot of humor, some violence, lots of crime. Tek, I finally deciphered, is a technological device that has a drug like effect, is addicting, sold like illegal drugs, and tends to destroy lives. But their is hope and recovery for the ones who want it in the dreary world they live in.

         I probably would have enjoyed it more, starting with book one. It's a light read. It would be fun to laugh about it with the author.