In the Blink of an Eye explores the potential future of technology with an in-depth, unforgettabl e look at grief and humanity, and how surprisingly , one can aide the other. I enjoyed the book and the 5 stars is well-earned, despite the attempt to pretend it isn't science fiction.

Each one has something to add to the story and each one has the potential to grow as the series develops. A fresh and intriguing detective double act - I fell hard for all-too-huma n Kat and her AI colleague Lock . The wider team - Lock's programmer, Professor Okonedo, DI Rayan Hassan, and DS Debbie Browne - are all very unique characters, who add a real sense of authenticity and texture to the book. I thought the AI premise was such a brilliant concept, feeling scarily plausible and highly effective. But not only are cuts a pragmatic tool for the filmmaker, they can actually enhance the experience - be a preferred tool of choice.I was also lucky enough to be selected for Val McDermid's New Blood Panel at Harrogate Crime Festival, and my book was reviewed and recommended on BBC 2's Book Club show Between the Covers. She believes in gut instinct, experience and being able to read people’s emotions which is everything the AI Lock can’t do and is only programmed to work on logic and facts.

By using the Web site, you confirm that you have read, understood, and agreed to be bound by the Terms and Conditions. Her grief is palpable, as is her guilt, and it adds an extra edge to her determination to get back to work and prove that she still has what it takes to do her role. It’s also interesting to see how Kat’s son reacts and interacts with Lock, something that seems to mend their fractured relationship as they share this bizarre experience together. In the Blink of an Eye is celebrated film editor Walter Murch's vivid, multifaceted, thought -- provoking essay on film editing.The human-AI interactions between the lead protagonists as they pursue their quarry are illuminating and, at times, hilarious. The idea of being able to project lifelike 3D images into thin air (especially from a bracelet, as is the case here) is not conceivable with any current technology. In the Blink of an Eye predicts the near future when police officers and their AI counterparts will work hand-in-holographic-hand. We’ve seen from news stories that the law is way behind technology in many cases so this is a fascinating premise and allowing a computer to do the analysis of cold cases and data that would take humans weeks to complete can only be a good thing.

Murch has taken years of experience in the film industry and poured them into this work of theory and art. But you can't deny that the speed at which AI can learn and spit out info is a huge value to humans, especially law enforcement. The last part of th I'm looking forward to the sequel, particularly if we can see more of the potential for entertaining interplay between Frank and Lock.

It’s so much more than a dystopian police procedural and asks questions about who we are and what it means to be human. For someone who likes both science fiction and contemporary British police procedural novels, this is a gift. Largely due to the ‘astronomical’ amount of possible versions an editor has to deal with, one must always have a plan. The humour and dialogue was fabulous and you really need to believe the hype – because it’s so fresh and original that I wasn’t able to put it down.

Nevermind the blink of an eye, the author employs a very deft sleight of hand here, and it works perfectly. Lock is sometimes blunt and careless in language as he doesn’t understand emotion, however the constant stimuli of working in the field allows him to reset his boundaries on occasion. I'll come back to that later for purists, but it's not at all a problem for the reader unless you don't accept that this is science fiction. Instead of wasting HOURS manually trawling through text messages, why not toss Lock the files and get the break down in 20 seconds? Murch treats the reader to a wonderful ride through the aesthetics and practical concerns of cutting film.

Similarly—in film—a shot presents us with an idea, or a sequence of ideas, and the cut is a “blink” that separates and punctuates those ideas. The rest is just Murch going on and on with 'clever' analogies to explain what editing is to an audience that maybe never before thought about the fact that movies are edited at all. Such an original concept and so brilliantly executed, but also a story to make you think, and one that throws up unexpected questions about life, grief, loss, and the human mind . Started it just before my holiday and I had to bring the book to Budapest with me so I could continue reading! There’s plenty of tension, enhanced by the anonymous perspective of a young man suffering at the hands of shadowy figures, and effective twists in the plot.