And, overall, the book reads as much more real than the movie… like the traditional SF technique of including ONE fantastic element, and then everything proceeds logically from there.  People react in believable ways.

It’s YA-targetted (but, upper-age YA as there’s violence and even a bit of sex), and if it has a sin it’s that it edges a little too much towards the ‘adolescent power fantasy’ side of things, but it’s still very good.

I’ve heard somewhere that the author is working on another sequel called something like Exo, and if that’s true, like this one, I’ll be ordering it in hardcover as soon as it comes out (which, for me, is quite an endorsement…)

 I went to the SF in SF event a month or so ago and asked him about the movie. ‘Did you get to meet Samuel Jackson?” (Answer, no, but he saw him at the Premier) As a writer who got paid for the rights to the movie, he was pleased it got made. And when someone asked, “Does it bother you that it doesn’t follow the book?” he said, “But the book still exists. It’s not like they stopped printing the book. People can still buy it and read it.” (The book went #1  briefly when the movie came out.)Also, Reflex is great, and deals with the issue of torture and mind control by the government. I’m waiting to get my copy of Impulse, but in the mean time I want to recommend a book by his wife, Laura Mixon-Gould.It’s called Up Against It (listed as by M.J. Locke)It takes place in the future on an asteroid that has a disaster that dumps the colony’s life support materials into space. How they recover and who is behind the disaster drives the plot, but the real fun of the book is the characters and how they deal with  ”future ethics” 300 years from now.It reminded me of Charlie Stross’ Iron Sunrise books. Lots of ideas and then people living in a new tech world who are still human, with the same human motivations. Check it out. http://www.amazon.com/Up-Against-It-ebook/dp/B004K1ERZO/ref=dp_kinw_strp_1