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  • By: Patrick Hemstreet
  • Narrator: Nick Podehl
  • Length: 11 hours 14 minutes
  • Publisher: HarperAudio
  • Publish date: May 17, 2016
  • Language: English
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A team of neuroscientists uncover amazing new capabilities in the brain that may steer human evolution toward miraculous and deadly frontiers in this spectacular debut work of speculative science fictionLimitless meets James Rollins–that combines spirituality and science in an inventive, mind-blowing fashion.

For decades, scientists have speculated about the untapped potential of the human brain. Now, neuroscientist Chuck Brenton has made an astonishing breakthrough. He has discovered the key–the crucial combination of practice and conditioning–to access the incredible power dormant in ninety percent of our brains. Applying his methods to test subjects, he has stimulated abilities that elevate brain function to seemingly “godlike” levels.

These extraordinary abilities can transform the world, replacing fear and suffering with tranquility and stability. But in an age of increasing militarization, corporate exploitation, and explosive technological discovery, a group of influential power brokers are determined to control Brenton’s new superbeings for their own manipulative ends–and their motives may be far from peaceful.

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Nick Podehl is the narrator of The God Wave audiobook that was written by Patrick Hemstreet

Patrick Hemstreet is a neuroengineer, entrepreneur, patent-pending inventor, special-warfare-trained Navy medic, stand-up comic, actor, and the author of The God Wave. He lives in Houston, Texas, with his wife, Abby, and sons, Gideon and Ezra.

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Narrator Nick Podehl
Length 11 hours 14 minutes
Author Patrick Hemstreet
Publisher HarperAudio
Release date May 17, 2016
ISBN 9780062561503

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The publisher of the The God Wave is HarperAudio. The imprint is HarperAudio. It is supplied by HarperAudio. The ISBN-13 is 9780062561503.

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Goodreads Reviews

Will

May 25, 2016

What is the potential of the human brain? We have all heard the line about how people use only 10% of our capacity, which is almost certainly not true. But what if people could be trained to harness the untapped portion, whatever percentage that might be? What might the limits be for the human brain? Telekinesis? How strong? How far? What else might the human brain be able to do unleashed from our current limitations? Telepathy? Mind control? If that brain is suddenly empowered, what does that imply about the humanity of the enhanced? Are they still human, or a new type of human, say homo invictus? What might that mean for the rest of us? Patrick HemstreetChuck Benton, a neuroscience researcher and professor at Johns Hopkins, wants to be able to translate the brain waves that everyone generates into real world application. If brain waves could move the needle on an EEG printout, why couldn’t those waves be harnessed to real-world purposes? Why not drive a car with brain power alone, or paint a picture? All that would be needed is the proper interface. And therein lies the challenge. Benton may be a genius in his field, but he needs a higher understanding of math in order to translate brain waves into commands, let alone actions. MIT professor Matt Streegman is not exactly the most social person on the planet. But when he hears Benton being interviewed on an episode of Ira Flatow’s Science Friday, a lightbulb flashes on. Streegman might be a bit more social but for one thing. His wife, Lucy, lies in a hospital, comatose, but still possessing active brain waves. What if he could use Benton’s work to try to actually communicate with Lucy? Streegman has the math. His work on robotics interfaces gives him a unique appreciation for communication challenges. When he goes to see Benton a few days later, solution in hand, it is the beginning of a giant leap for mankind.Chuck and Matt set to work straight away. A diverse group of subjects is recruited, including a gamer, a martial arts specialist, an artist, a construction worker and others, and the game is on. Progress is intermittent and challenges many, but if they did not accomplish something special, the author would have had to come up with a very different title for his book. Three books actually. The copy I read was an ARE, and there is no indication, at least none that I spotted, that The God Wave is the first book in a trilogy. That it was not intended to be a stand-alone was pretty clear as I kept getting closer to the end and it seemed that the story-telling possibilities kept expanding. The God Wave of the title refers to a brain wave (like alpha, beta or gamma) that operates at an inhumanly high frequency, a state some of the test subjects achieve. Once there, they manifest abilities that are cool, impressive, and scary. The ramp up in the story-telling is a bit slow, but once underway the action is fast-paced and very engaging. Tension builds nicely. When their sugar daddy super-secret military group, Deep Shield, gets more involved than is comfortable, it does not take enhanced brain waves to see that our intrepid scientists and their team could be in some deep poo. There are internal tensions as well, with Chuck’s starry-eyed vision of helping humanity running into Matt’s desire for a very large payday. We see the growth of the test subjects, and the alarming abilities the interface is nurturing. And no, they are not using Professor Harold Hill’s Think system. We also see the increasing control being exercised by the baddies. Hemstreet injects a bit of humor, as the scientists and their team refer to the ever more numerous security personnel as Smiths, a Matrix ref. There will be battles. The force will be used.Smiths - from The EnquirerSo, a nifty sci-fi, maybe twenty minutes into the future. Hemstreet uses tropes of the genre, which is perfectly ok if done well, and they are. And there are plenty of references to other material of this sort, from a scene that offers a nod to Aliens to scenes that will feel familiar to fans of the original Robo-Cop. One would have to suspect that a character named Kobayashi would be a reference to the infamous Star Trek training mission And there are plenty more overt mentions. Independence Day and Transformers pop to mind. So, a bit of fun in this. I did have some gripes, of course. While I do not expect from a book of this sort the degree of character development one might find in a literary novel, I thought his two primaries were a touch thin. I found it not at all credible that a scientist would enter into a major business contract without having his lawyer check it out. I felt that the condition of Matt’s wife, raised early as a significant motivational factor, seemed to get lost a bit. A more regular update would have been welcome. Early on there is a concept tossed off that I found a bit dodgy. “..the human brain is an interpretative interface between the mind and the human body.” Really? If there even is such a thing as the mind there has been no evidence I am aware of that demonstrates its existence without a human brain to generate it. Tossing out this notion of the mind as an independent entity as a universally accepted fact seems disingenuous. I don’t mind a bit of truthiness in a work of science fiction, but it seemed unnecessary to go there, at least in this volume. Hemstreet has had a hand in the neurodiagnostics biz, (although his Linked In page indicates only a BA in liberal arts) so we presume he knows a thing or two about gray matter, and what may or may not be possible. But he does not limit his look to the purely scientific, however speculative. He offers adult consideration of diverse perspectives. I was particularly impressed with his dialectic on security versus openness. Considering that this is Hemstreet’s first novel, it is pretty impressive. He keeps things moving along nicely, ramps up tensions with aplomb, tosses in a fair number of surprises, brings considerable creativity to bear, offers some adult perspective on real-world issues and looks at theoretical sources of potential ethical conflict as well. I was disappointed when the book ended and I hope that volume 2 will be in print before too long. Maybe if I concentrate really, really hard…Review posted – 1/29/16Publication date – 5/17/16=============================EXTRA STUFFLinks to the author’s Twitter and FB pagesIra Flato’s Science Friday is a real show and definitely worth checking outThe 10% myth - a wiki and a nifty look by Neuroscience for Kids Experiments on Tibetan Buddhist monks have shown a correlation between transcendental mental states and gamma waves

Josh

November 03, 2017

The God Wave is a perfect storm of tech-fi infused with plausible reality. Author Patrick Hemstreet, a neuroengineer has crafted a dynamic and thought provoking tech thriller that, true to the blurb, captures the imagination and possibilities of Limitless and bumps it up a notch or two into X-Men territory by giving his characters superhuman abilities straight from the pages of superhero comics. It reads so damn real it's scary. Neuroscientist Chuck Brenton and MIT Professor Matt Streegman make a scientific breakthrough when they uncover the untapped potential of the God Wave (or Alpha Wave), a heightened brainwave that allows humans to control inanimate objects and move them by thought. Naturally the military catch wind of this tech and want a piece of it. Matt and Chuck (who's reluctant to get into bed with anyone wanting to weaponize the tech and is eventually convinced by Matt) are happy to seize the dollars for the betterment of their fledgling company but have no idea what's in store for them and their 'alphas' once they start questioning the black ops Government agency about their intentions and the unwanted surveillance the team is put under.I couldn't read this book quick enough and loved the way it evolved from a tech-fi into thriller into superhero-like territory with seamless ease. My only gripe is that the book didn't quite read as a complete story given the title is the first in a trilogy, I expect the threads to be picked up in book 2, The God Peak (published August 2017) which is on my to-buy list.My rating: 4/5 stars.

William

May 10, 2016

The God Wave by Patrick HemstreetThis novel may be a authentic peek into the future. Consider the brain operated drones for a moment and how experiments are progressing with the brain operating prosthesis hands. This book goes a large but not inconceivable step forward in the direction of the main character in the movie Lucy. The thesis is the mind can be trained into using more of its potential. Hemstreet postulated two believable characters in Matt and Chuck. Matt as a bereaved pragmatic genius and Chuck as a naive near genius. The two of them interact in a predictable manner for their personalities. The addition of the team provides the necessary counterpoints to the conflict between those diverse personalities. The books premise is both exciting and daunting. Exciting for the possibilities inherent in greater control of our own brain and daunting for how that control could be co-opted by outside malevolent forces. This book appears to be the first in a series and it should be a hit series as the book was fast moving, extremely interesting and provides a ray of hope for the future. I highly recommend it. Web site: https://www.facebook.com/Patrick-Hems...

Brielle

January 31, 2019

Great book. I binged all three in the trilogy one after another. It was very well written and I loved the direction the books took. I highly recommend them.

Galladan

July 17, 2016

Die Gotteswelle von Patrick Hemstreet. Band 1 der God-Wave Trilogie. Erschienen im HarperCollins Verlag am 18. Juli 2016Der Neurowissenschaftler Chuck Brenton forscht an der John Hopkins University. Er versucht Gehirnwellen direkt nutzbar zu machen. Als Matt Streegman, ein Mathematiker, dazu kommt, kommt Bewegung in die Sache und sie dringen in Bereiche des Gehirns vor, in dem noch nie ein Mensch zuvor gewesen ist. Als sie ihre Forschungsergebnisse anfangen der Welt zu zeigen, meldet sich schnell eine Gruppe die ihre Ergebnisse für sich nutzen wollen. Exklusiv nutzen wollen.Patrick Hemstreet hat mit seinem Debüt einen mitreisenden SF-Thriller geschrieben der einfach ein Bestseller werden muss. Überzeugend geschrieben, witzige Dialoge und viele Hinweise auf Bücher und Filme die inzwischen Klassiker sind und ein Plot der an Spannung kaum zu überbieten ist.Die Charaktere sind vielfältig, vielschichtig und jeder ist ganz besonders und so besonders sind auch ihre Fähigkeiten. Der Thriller beginnt etwas behäbig und erklärt uns die technische Seite des SF. Da wir zum großen Teil keine Neurowissenschaftler sind, wird es einfach gehalten und verständlich erklärt. Die Zeit muss man sich einfach nehmen. Im Verlauf der Geschichte werden diese „Erklärungen“ und die genaue Beschreibung der einzelnen Charaktere uns so vertraut wie ein alter Handschuh. Wir haben jetzt das Grundwissen und wir bekommen richtig Spaß mit den Protagonisten. Ab etwa der Hälfte des Buchs wird es sehr spannend und man fiebert richtig mit. Sie werden dieses Buch zu Ende lesen egal ob es Mitternacht oder später ist. Dieses Buch nimmt sie mit auf die Reise durch das Gehirn und stellt uns den Menschen 2.0 vor.Dieses Buch hat mich atemlos und mit Herzrasen zurück gelassen und ich warte jetzt darauf, dass der nächste Band erscheint. Ich muss wissen wie es weiter geht. Dieses Buch ist mein Sommerhit 2016.

Reiter

July 12, 2016

THE GOD WAVEby Patrick HemstreetYou have to love 'What If' Science-Fiction. Taking something we know as a jump-off point and casting everything into a whirlwind of possibility. One of my favorite stories to date is "Star Man", posing the question: what if someone answered the invitation we put in our space probe?Patrick Hemstreet takes the concept of the EEG and takes it into the Fourth Dimension! Turning the pages, I found myself thinking, "Well, what would happen if..." and isn't that the whole point?! I appreciated the group concept instead of the single character because seldom does a story-line lend itself to that perspective. The dialog was smooth, catchy and even edgy in some unexpected places. I came away wanting to read more of their exchanges!My only takeaway is that I was craving greater depth from the antagonist. However, as we are all so often proving, sometimes we are our own worst enemy. Personal agendas (credible and earnest) did a VERY good job making the group both accessible and vulnerable. I'm interested to see where the next book will take us! Good Job, Mr. Hemstreet!

Dal

December 28, 2020

Don't get me wrong, I liked it, but...1. Did I put the book down? No. I was supposed to do something else, found this book, listened to it all the way through. 🌟2. What about the characters?I like the multicultural aspect, but it still lacked a little bit in that department, and some silly names...it's a yes and no at the same time. Half star.3. Structure?A bit predictable...sadly. I was happy about the development of tech and the exploration of the human brain, all that was awesome. And then here we go again with the evil secret military. Can we please have some other forms of conflict? Shame. Half star.4. Writing?Fits the genre. I don't expect poetic prose in a hard/military sci-fi book. To some it's dry, to me it was engaging and realistic. Nothing to pull out an award but, I finished the book. 🌟5. Subjective stuff?Yeah, I want to see more about brainwaves and the development of extra-sensory skills. Maybe in the next book? Hopefully? 🌟I wanted this to be my new favourite book, but evil military robots got in the way so...it was alright I guess. I might read the next one to see how the premise recovers itself from all that evil overlord chase and such.

Timothy

March 18, 2017

When I read the back cover about the genetic advancements in telepathy and how that could change our world, I thought this book is exactly what I want to read. Checking out the author’s background made me even more excited because the book to come would have authentic scientific reasoning behind the advancements. The first third of the book reinforced these hopeful predictions. The gamma waves, zeta waves, and how each experimental lab rat developed their powers was fascinating science. I loved the idea of how they could build a company with this advancement, and which industries they’d serve first.While I enjoyed the book from there to the end, there’s something about the direction that left me disappointed. It started to feel like too much science, and as we passed the halfway point and well into the second half and still more discussions of the technology, I began to lose interest. The action at the end was very cool, but I don’t think there’s really a character in here that I left feeling emotionally impacted by. This was disappointing because the technology and potential for how that would shape society is really exciting story fodder, it just turned out that the story might have taken too much time on the technology development and not enough exploration for my expectations.I listened to the audiobook, produced by HarperAudio and Nick Podehl, and thought the narrator did an excellent job. Very professional delivery that did everything possible to enhance to experience. I’m already a fan of his from his work on the Apocalypse Z series, so it was great to hear him again.

Courtney

July 02, 2018

Remarkable! The God Wave is a much needed addition to the SF genre. Patrick Hemstreet has now articulated a masterful story that has all the imaginary elements of a SF story, yet at the same time stays grounded enough to still sound and feel plausible. It starts out slow with one man’s idea how to better the world, and from there, it speeds up, and mushrooms into something much bigger. The characters are all easy to follow, even the ones who you don’t necessarily like and or cheer for. My favorite character is Chen Lanfen. The biggest challenge the book seemed to take on and conquer was the fact it detailed very specific ideas that normally only a neuroengineer, scientist, or any advanced mechanical engineer would talk about, yet it is detailed in an easy to understand language, without dumbing it down to the point no one would want to read it. Then there is the fact that every detail was described in a way that I never guessed as to what was happening. Considering this is a debut novel, is almost scary. I can only see him getting better as he goes.

Philip

January 28, 2020

Pretty solid for a first novel. I liked the "real science" science fiction the novel radiated. Obviously the plot isn't real science, but it seems plausible with the build up of the story. Plot fell a little flat about 2/3 through the book, but good finish. Will definitely put the other books of this series on my "to read" list.

Donna

January 19, 2020

This book started out rather slowly and I had a hard time sticking with it. But the last 100 pages made it worth it. I'm not sure though that I'll chance the next 2 books...maybe... I liked the story premise and some of the characters had interest. But I don't think it's good enough for me to move the trilogy up in my reading queue.

Kathy

November 26, 2017

I do not know enough (what a laugh - nothing!) about neuroscience or robotics to know if this story is believable, but from where I come from it seems to make sense. The last couple of chapters especially kept you on edge, waiting to see what would happen.

Dustin

June 13, 2018

The story starts off somewhat slowly, however, the action certainly picks up! The premise is a very believable possibility for our future—looking at the authors’ background definitely makes it look like something that is feasible. I definitely would recommend this book to friends, and I’m looking forward to reading the rest of the series!

Ed

August 20, 2019

NOT BAD, GOOD READING FOR THE FIRST.The story line kept my interest, I like the subject matter and the title drew me in to start reading it. Hope the next two come out quickly and get better as they go forward.

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