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    This Mortal Coil (This Mortal Coil #1) -

    Emily Suvada

    Simon Pulse
    2017
    432 páginas
    14h 24m
    ISBN-10: 1481496336
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    8 avaliações
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    Catarina Agatta is a hacker. She can cripple mainframes and crash though firewalls, but that’s not what makes her special. In Cat’s world, people are implanted with technology to recode their DNA, allowing them to change their bodies in any way they want. And Cat happens to be a gene-hacking genius. That’s no surprise, since Cat’s father is Dr. Lachlan Agatta, a legendary geneticist who may be the last hope for defeating a plague that has brought humanity to the brink of extinction. But during the outbreak, Lachlan was kidnapped by a shadowy organization called Cartaxus, leaving Cat to survive the last two years on her own. When a Cartaxus soldier, Cole, arrives with news that her father has been killed, Cat’s instincts tell her it’s just another Cartaxus lie. But Cole also brings a message: before Lachlan died, he managed to create a vaccine, and Cole needs Cat’s help to release it and save the human race. Now Cat must decide who she can trust: The soldier with secrets of his own? The father who made her promise to hide from Cartaxus at all costs? In a world where nature itself can be rewritten, how much can she even trust herself?

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    Laura Vieira Machado09/02/2019Resenhou um livro
    4 (Muito bom)

    Gostei bastante, mas queria que tivesse menos explicações

    Que bom que finalmente posso respirar aliviada, que esse livro é tão bom quanto eu esperava. Eu adoro ficção científica nesse estilo, mas já me decepcionei tanto, que tenho medo de me arriscar com um livro não tão conhecido. Só que esse parecia interessante demais para eu não tentar, e ainda bem que resolvi ler. This Mortal Coil é uma ficção científica bem trabalhada, com explicações detalhadas e complexas para tudo, mas é também um livro cheio de ação que não cansa nunca. As explicações, para ser bem honesta, são as únicas coisas que eu acho que poderiam ter sido melhores. Dá para ver que a autora se esforçou para cuidar de cada mínimo detalhe desse futuro dela, já que ela fez questão de explicar tudo quase bem o suficiente para a gente já começar a colocar em prática, mas as explicações me cansaram depois de um tempo. Foram, aliás, as únicas coisas a cortarem um pouco a narrativa. O problema é que elas eram complexas demais, detalhadas demais, sobre um assunto que eu definitivamente não domino e não eram do tipo que dá para você ler por cima e fingir que entendeu, já que o enredo e as reviravoltas dependem delas. É maravilhoso saber que a autora trabalhou em cima do conceito que tinha para esse futuro, mas ainda acho que ela deveria ter simplificado só um pouco mais. Ou, pelo menos, tentado deixar as explicações mais diluídas e menos claramente "lições" sobre o universo da história. Mas, como eu disse, o enredo é bem movimentado, tem reviravoltas e várias cenas emocionantes. Tem corporação "inimiga", personagem sobrevivendo sozinha no meio do nada, um leve e quase inexistente triângulo amoroso, um grupo de rebeldes contra a corporação, uma relação conturbada da protagonista com o pai, segredos e mistérios que vão sendo descobertos, além da doença terrível e das habilidades de hacker da Cat. Ela, aliás, é ótima também, ainda que não seja das personagens mais marcantes e únicas, pelo menos ela nunca me fez revirar os olhos. O romance do livro foi quase inteiro perfeito, salvo por um comentário que, na minha opinião, era desnecessário e definitivamente passou um pouco do limite. O final dela, a última revelação sobre ela mesma no livro, achei um pouco desnecessária. Foi uma ideia bacana, mas ainda senti que a autora correu com ela e acabou cortando a história talvez no lugar errado. Mas a ideia do livro é muito boa, a narrativa é bacana e eu estou louca para saber como o segundo vai ser! Recomendo especialmente para quem gosta de ficção científica YA, como eu!

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    Emily Suvada was born in Australia, where she spent her childhood reading, writing, and watching Star Trek. In college, she studied math and astrophysics, and went on to a career in finance before finding her way back to her first love—books. Today, Emily lives in Portland, OR, with her husband, and still spends most of her free time reading, writing, and watching Star Trek. She also enjoys cooking, coding, powerlifting, hiking, and art. Her interests include AI, nanotech, virtual worlds, space travel, and genetic engineering. She is represented by DongWon Song of the Howard Morhaim Literary Agency. Reading When I was a child, I used to get in trouble for secretly reading books on my lap during class. I lived a short walk from the local library, and visited it almost every day. I read for pleasure, to learn, to challenge myself, and to broaden my thinking. This is a very abbreviated list of books which have influenced me over the years, and which are close to my heart. In no particular order: Jurassic Park, Michael Crichton The Illuminae Files, Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff Brave New World, Aldous Huxley The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams Slapstick or Lonesome No More!, Kurt Vonnegut The Twilight Saga, Stephenie Meyer Complete Works, William Shakespeare Arcadia, Tom Stoppard The Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Laini Taylor The Windup Girl, Paolo Bacigalupi The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins Oryx and Crake, Margaret Atwood Neuromancer, William Gibson Uglies, Scott Westerfeld The Harry Potter Series, JK Rowling Feed, MT Anderson Kraken, China Mieville The Grisha Trilogy, Leigh Bardugo For more, visit me on Goodreads. STEM STEM is an acronym that stands for Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics. It’s a group of subjects I love, and think every person should be encouraged to pursue. There’s a common misconception that STEM subjects are only for certain types of people—those who get straight A’s, or have a natural talent for math and science. But the truth is that anyone can succeed in STEM. It just takes hard work, dedication, and motivation. In my non-writing life, I work at a college and help students with their quantitative skills, which are crucial to STEM studies, but are often the reason people find those subjects challenging (or even frightening). And yet, I’ve never met a student who couldn’t learn a quantitative skill they wanted to learn. The trick to succeeding in STEM is just that—you have to want it. One of my goals as a writer is to share my passion for science and math through my writing, and inspire readers to want to learn more about STEM subjects—because they’re awesome! If you’re struggling with staying motivated in a STEM subject, or you’re just not sure why these skills are useful, get in touch through my contact page, or ask me an anonymous question on tumblr. I’m always happy to talk science! Coding When I graduated from college, I had almost no experience coding. I’d completed a handful of tasks throughout high school and university by following step-by-step instructions that I didn’t understand, and couldn’t see the value in learning more. I thought coding was difficult, complicated, arcane, and boring. But when I started work, I had to learn, and fast. Pretty soon, I realized that coding was fun, challenging, rewarding, frustrating, exciting, and absolutely perfect for me. If you’re into problem-solving of any kind: crosswords, strategy games, sudoku, jigsaws, brain teasers, rearranging your bookshelf, finding the best route to school, or even if you’re just a fan of technology, then coding might be a great hobby for you, too! These days, I mess around in a number of coding languages, including: R Python SQL jQuery/JavaScript HTML/CSS PHP MATLAB VBA I’m self-taught, constantly learning, always trying new things, breaking things, writing bugs, messing up, and fixing things. If you’re interested in learning to code, there are a lot of free resources (and sites with some free content) online, including codeacademy, datacamp, khan academy, and many more. It takes time to learn to code, and the best way to do it is to learn the basics, then attack a small problem you want to solve (how can I calculate how many days/months/years old someone is, given their birthdate?) and gradually move on to bigger and more complicated problems. For more on learning to code, sign up to my newsletter, as I run through occasional, fun, book-related examples of how to solve problems in free languages like R and python.

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