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Country United States Publication date 2007 ISBN 0-399-15378-0 Originally published 2007 Genre Cyberpunk OCLC 71126722 | 3.3/5 Goodreads Language English Media type Print (hardback) Dewey Decimal 813/.6 22 Publisher G. P. Putnam's Sons | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Breakpoint is a cyberpunk science fiction novel by former United States intelligence and counterterrorism official Richard A. Clarke. It is his second novel. The book paints a dystopic prediction of the future.
Contents
Plot
A series of explosions occur at seemingly unimportant sites in the United States. These sites happen to be the locations where transatlantic cables from Europe and Asia reach the U.S. essentially cutting the U.S. off from the world, at least via the Internet. The attacks are immediately blamed on the Chinese. Two investigators are sent to investigate the incidents, with this assumption in mind. The investigators soon uncover an underground science of genomics and nanotechnology working on human-computer integration.
Reception
It was featured on the Colbert Report.