Welcome, Chaos

The beginning of the book was promising, with some suspense and a thought provoking idea, but at about half of the book it fizzles completely. All the suspense is lost, and the book stretches like tasteless bubblegum into the disappointing ending. Before that, it stops at a scene which completely un......more

A little more than a 3, but not a 4.......more

The story develops an interesting premise - that a cure is discovered which immunizes individuals from the effects of aging and from the effects of radiation. However too much of the book is spent on the internal thoughts and reactions of the main character, and although there was suspense I was dis......more

Welcome Chaos is a thought provoking novel that prompts the reader to examine the way in which the world as we know it could become something else entirely in the blink of an eye. And there are no easy answers to the questions it proposes.......more

As ever, Wilhelm has produced a better-than, more-serious-than usual near-future science fiction novel.......more