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Title: Demon Seed by Dean Koontz, Jeff Harding ISBN: 0-7531-0914-X Publisher: ISIS Publishing Pub. Date: 01 August, 2000 Format: Audio Cassette

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Average Customer Rating: 2.87 (82 reviews)

Rating: 4
Summary: Good social commentary
Comment: This new edition of Demon Seed is an updated version of a novel that Koontz wrote in the 70's (of which a film version was made). The basic plot of the story is that a super-intelligent computer named Proteus becomes self-aware, and falls in what he thinks is love with the wife of the scientist who helped design him. He enters her fully-automated house by way of the controlling computer, and soon has her trapped inside. His aim is to impregnate the woman and inject into the foetus his own consciousness.

What makes this book particularly interesting is the fact that Koontz uses Proteus to make a social comment on the male mind and how it perceives women. It really gives a fascinating insight into the male psyche, through the eyes of the computer who thinks he loves this woman and can use that as an excuse to hurt her as much as he pleases. Definitely an interesting read, and one which will make both sexes think.

Rating: 5
Summary: Disturbing Look At Computers--And Men
Comment: As Dean Koontz put it, "[Demon Seed] was more of a clever idea than a novel." And he's right. There's not enough in this story to really make a 400-page novel--but it's still very good. Maybe the best part of it is that I can boast about reading a Dean Koontz book in one day. I mean, it's 150 pages. Most anyone can do the same.

The basic idea of the book is a computer with a God complex holds a young woman (Susan Harris) captive in her own home by controlling her computer system that runs throughout her house. He then plans to use Susan as a "host" so he can be born into human form. The whole idea is disturbing and mesmerizing. Perhaps that's why I liked "Demon Seed" so much.

After being made into a movie in 1977 (which I haven't seen, but plan to), "Demon Seed" was revised into the current edition you're looking at right now. I never read the original version, but in the afterwards of this book, Dean Koontz claimed it was so bad that it caused him to "develop the squint-eyed look of Clint Eastwood" from wincing so much. Well, I can't say the book is that bad now--although it's still not one of his best books. But if you're a Koontz fan, then you should definitely give this one a try.

Rating: 1
Summary: Find the Original! one of the only good books he ever wrote
Comment: I'm going to keep this review short. Please find the original version of this book, it is 100 times better. He should have renamed this Turkey Seed, he rewrote this book and it totally sucks. I'm not a big fan of Dean Koontz, his books aren't scary, smart,challenging or original, I spend more time rolling my eyes or rubbing my forehead in exasperation as the stupid plots unfolds. Mr. Koontz is a hack, he writes for intellectual pygmies with an IQ of 70 on a warm day and there are plenty of them out there who are keeping him fat and wealthy. (These are the same people who voted for George W. Bush... D-U-M-B!!!) Try Thomas Tryon,Robert R. McCammon,Simon Clark,Don and Jay Davis,John Skip and Craig Spector,Thomas Tessier,or John Shirley they are by far superior!

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