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The spellbinding saga of the future continues in the year 2211. The Seven T'ang, the ruling dictatorship of the solar system, is weakened by the birth of a special child, and the forces of rebellion and change are spreading from the mega-cities of Earth to a secretive, planet-wide conspiracy on Mars. For generations the T'ang have controlled with mind manipulation and teams of black-clad assassins. But the human urge for freedom cannot be stilled by murder or seduction. Now, as a mad, blood-thirsty ruler plots a coup from within the T'ang, Hans Ebert, his famous face obscured forever behind a mask, begins a new fight for power and love on the red soil of Mars. Revolution may finally free the long-shackled masses, or it may spread unimaginable destruction sufficient to level a world--and the hopes of all worlds to come. The Chung Kuo series brings future centuries to life, portraying men and women caught between great powers fighting for dominance...and yearning for ageless passions for all that life holds dear.
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A must have.......2003-04-18
Take the chance and embark on a long journey with David Wingrove. You will not be let down. Problem is, you will see nothing of your friends or family for the next three months.
But, that is what you are looking for in a book, isn't it?
Another satisfying book about Chung Kuo.......2000-06-08
David Wingrove's series continues to keep me coming back for more. The characters are well developed, the intrigues are captivating and the possibilities are scary... Can't wait until the next volume arrives at my door.
A gripping what-if book,.......1997-03-08
What if in the 21st century the western powers were degenerate and the Chineese filled the leadership vacuum. This is another of David Wingrove's well written and researched novels of the world of Chun Ko
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In the distant future, a starfaring Neanderthal woman sits on a dock on the planet No-Moon, waiting to trade with the aquatic alien known as Second-Best Sailor. Her trading partner is late for their meeting, but that's not why Smiling Teeth May Bite is uneasy. May, like all Neanderthals, possesses a strong empathic gift and an impressive pattern-recognition talent. And her powers warn her that a grave, unnameable danger is heading for No-Moon.
The threat is worse than May can imagine. The starships of the Cosmic Unity fleet are hurtling toward No-Moon, bearing religious missionaries disseminating the Memeplex of Universal Tolerance throughout the galaxy. If the inhabitants of a new world decline to convert to Cosmic Unity, their decision is not tolerated.
Most readers won't be surprised by Cosmic Unity's bloody-minded missionary zeal, but Heaven offers some great surprises in its big ideas and its richly imagined alien races. Reminiscent of Hal Clement and Bruce Sterling, Heaven is a fun, thought-provoking, impressive example of classic sense-of-wonder science fiction. Perhaps this shouldn't be a surprise, considering the authors: Dr. Jack Cohen is a reproductive biologist and SF alien design consultant, and Dr. Ian Stewart is a professor of mathematics. --Cynthia Ward
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The internationally renowned scientists who wrote Wheelers and The Collapse of Chaos team up again to pen an intriguing new SF novel. All Second-Best Sailor wants is to sail his boat and trade with the wandering Neanderthals. But when the reefwives discover that a Cosmic Unity mission fleet is heading for his homeworld, his comfortable lifestyle vanishes in an instant. All Servant-of-Unity XIV Samuel wants is to help spread Cosmic Unity's message of harmony to a grateful galaxy. But the ecclesiarchs decide that Samuel is destined for greater things. Flung together by fate, the two men find themselves on opposite sides of a battle for the hearts and minds of every sentient creature in the galaxy. Together, they uncover Cosmic Unity's deepest secret, and come up with a kamikaze plan to fight off the invaders. But along the way, they will need help from the unlikeliest of allies.
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interesting ideas presented in a clunky manner.......2007-02-08
At the beginning of Heaven, a group of characters of various species are about to confront an unknown threat, a religion that presents itself as benevolent but leaves clues that it may not be. The religion, Cosmic Unity, with its centralized authority and its emphasis on the sacrifice of individual comfort for the greater good, has some similarities to both the Catholic Church and Communism. In Cosmic Unity's zeal to convert all sentient species in the galaxy, they have on occasion commited huge acts of violence against species that resist. Their version of the Golden Rule involves inflicting what they "know" to be in other's best interest, rather than what others would want for themselves. The authors blame these acts on church members' adherence to a virulent and flawed "memeplex" (as they call it), rather than on personal ethical failings, which could be argued either way.
The characters are likeable but not much time is spent on character development. The authors' strength is imagining the biology of many different species that could exist in the galaxy. Their weakness is in imagining different kinds of psychology. It doesn't make sense that a religion started in part by humans would appeal across such a wide spectrum of life forms while humans' closest relative, Neanderthals (rescued from Earth by sentient ships) would be the strongest holdouts. It is also not believable that so many beings would tolerate a religion where they are kept in the dark as to what the central authority is doing. The authors want to present the idea that "the road to hell is paved with good intentions" when it could as easily be in this case "power corrupts".
Despite a failure of believability it's hard to totally dislike a book which has, halfway through the story, a scene in which a squid lost in a desert meets a sentient pond and they discuss the mind-body problem.
Thoughtful Science Fiction.......2006-05-29
I just finished reading "Heaven" and was amazed at the depth of thought contained in it! Philosophical ideas can become ponderous and novels of this kind give flesh and bones to esoteric ideas and concepts. I cannot recommend this novel highly enough. Anyone interested in astrobiology or epistomology will have a field day with this book. Oh, its also highly entertaining and at times very amusing concerning our species arrogance.The "Querists' Fallacy" defined in this novel in worth the price of admission.GET IT AND READ IT,THEN REFLECT ON IT!
Heavenly.......2005-09-11
An interesting second full-length fiction outing by the duo of Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen, showing the same inventive form and easy style of their previous novel Wheelers, the Science of Discworld books that they co-wrote with Terry Pratchett, and their popular science works on chaos theory and alien evolution.
In Heaven the squid-like inhabitants of No-Moon are peacefully enjoying sailing their oceans and trading with visitors, blissfully unaware that the memeplex of Cosmic Unity has decided that their world is next to receive the bounteous Good News of peace and universal tolerance. At this point the real dominant intelligence of No-Moon takes a hand...
A skilled mix of character-driven and broad scale space opera, Heaven is full of the science-backed invention that has become a hallmark of the authors. Recommended.
an excellent read.......2005-06-11
I have just finished this book in a week - a far better read than wheelers, the authers last book.
Full of very interesting aliens - a real plot with some nice twists.
The science works, reminded me of reading David Brin's uplift series.
As someone from the UK who has recently moved to the US the authers take on religion is _great_. I found it thought provoking!
Can't wait to see the next installment.
Great science, not so great literature........2004-12-25
What can you say about sentient ecologies, that walk! Or juxtaposing ethological [if not cosmic] empathy vs. memetic programmability? You can, for one, say it was well worth buying the book. Why do I rate it only 3 stars? Primarily because the writing felt stilted, perhaps, somewhat over-edited. It seems the authors are collaborating on a baseboard; having some script program logically piece all of the wonderful concepts together. In short, the plot seems to be a straight forward means of illustrate the concepts depicted, & very little past that. Characters, while developed, seem like gravy or frosting, almost besides the point. It's very by-the-book composition, if you will. Emotions, prominently negative in some sections, are at times illicited in contrived ways. They are also immediately human recognized emotions, many founded in relatively modern cultural mores. I guess the other reason I did not enjoy the book as much, was because the authors, for all their scientific novelty, touched on one of my pet peeves: unapologetic anthropomorphism in aliens, esp. concerning motivations, perceptions; and communication. For same reasons, I don't like most of Star Trek, i.e., humans in makeup, aka "aliens" that interact via the possibility of the [magical] "universal translator." To be fair, one major idea in the book, is an Institutional (perhaps Civilizational) drive toward sameness, or interchangability of living parts, on all levels of hirarchical existence. Perhaps then I was hoping to find diamonds in a sapphire deposit. Well, I do love hard SciFi, and this book, like those of Asimov and Clark and Baxter, fits the bill. It just wont be as memorable to me, I fear, for reasons mentioned. Nonetheless, if you like Steve Baxter's books, and love the interplay of fantastic, even far fetched, ideas then have no fear in ordering it, you'll most likely like it.
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- Definitely food for thought
- excellent tale
- Linda Nagata gets it right.
- Not worth the postage
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Tech-Heaven
Linda Nagata
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Definitely food for thought.......2004-01-10
I believe that I have all of Linda's available works (except for Memory which is in the mail).
However, I found this book disturbing; _Tech_Heaven_ is my least favorite of hers (but still 4 stars). Mostly it was due to the story that results from when Kate puts Tom in cryonic suspension. The daughters are confused -- Daddy's not dead, but there was a funeral, Grandma is furious at Mommy for not letting Daddy die?
Because I found it disturbing, I think I was less forgiving of the imperfections in the plot & characters. And frankly, the "spiritual netherworld" didn't sit well with me either.
BUT - I would recommend the book, if only as serious food for thought or a precursor to LoV and her (excellent!) NanoTech books.
So the book is good, but it's not a a "feel good" read.
excellent tale.......2001-04-02
Forget ideas and extrapolation (wich this book has plenty of). This is just a good story, hands down. Nagata has a gift for crafting engrossing, vivid stories. A personal favorite of mine, highly recommended.
Linda Nagata gets it right........1998-09-22
The book opens in a near-future America more vividly realized than even most contemporary fiction, and sets off from there. It doesn't fall into the easy ruts of "cautionary tale" or escapist "freeze yourself into the future" type fiction, but dares to explore cryonics and futurism in a personal, pragmatic sort of way; like it or not, the future is where we're headed. With action and great characters, too!
Not worth the postage.......1998-06-30
This book is amazing. It takes some very interesting ideas about cryonics and whips them up with poor characters and shallow conversation to come out to a rather poor novel. I'd hoped for more, but instead I found the main character to be someone so far from a person I could identify with that I almost cheered at the obstacles set in her way. I haven't read other Nagata works, but I hope that they are better than this.
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- Sticks with you; a good scifi read
- well-written exploration of immortality, humanity, and love
- Unforgivable?
- One of the Greatest Works of Sci-Fi
- worth skimming through a few pages
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Circuit of Heaven
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Justine Ingham is newly arrived in the "bin," a virtual environment that humans download themselves into (forsaking their bodies) to achieve a kind of immortality. The bin is patterned after the real world, at least up to a point, making the transition from the physical to the virtual as painless and natural as possible. But things aren't going too smoothly for Justine, who appears to be dreaming someone else's dreams and remembering someone else's memories. Things get more confusing when she meets a young man named Nemo, one of the few real humans left, who only drops into the bin now and again to see his parents. The two fall instantly in love, but their relationship seems doomed from the start, because Nemo would rather die than live in the bin.
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The body is baggage. The soul is expendable.
Nemo's mother and father left him behind to enter "the Bin"--joining twelve billion uploaded personalities who live in crime-free, disease-free and deathless virtual societies.
Nemo hass come of age on a dangerous, near-deserted planet populated by a handful of stragglers: religious fundamentalists and rebels, the creeps and the crazies.
Now he is twenty-one. And on a rare, reluctant visit to the parints who abondoned flesh and son for cyber-utopia, Nemo has met the perfect woman: a new Bin arrival named Justine, a beautiful pop singer sho dreams other people's dreams in the virual night.
Now an inconvenient attraction is leading two lovers into a perilous mire of irreversible choice. For Justine has no body to return to. And Nemo the renegade has sworn never to sacrifice his own; to live, age, and die instead in a bleak erthly hell. Because, as an aoutsieder, he may enter the Bin for short periods of time. But if he ever decides to stay...there will be no way out again.
An ingeniously original new voice in the realm of high quality SF, Dennis Danvers has seen tomorrow--and its the Bin: a vast network of silicon crystals into which twelve billion people have uploaded their personalities to live in crime-free, disease-free ad deathless virtual societies, leaving the dangerous and unpredictable Earth to a few stragglers, the creeps and the crazies, the religious fundamentalists and the rebels. Outsiders may visit the Bin for short stretches of time. But once they decide to stay. . .its forever.
Nemo is an outsider. This is his coming-of-age story. And it begins on the occasion of his twenty-first birthday, when he reluctantly pays a visit to the parents who abandoned their flesh and their son for cyber-utopia. Nemo is a righteously angry young man determined to live, age, and die in a bleak, almost deserted earthy hell rather than sacrifice his body and soul to a technological purgatory.
Until Nemo meets the perfect woman--a newly arrived resident of the Bin named Justine--a pop singer and beautiful enigma with an unsettling void in her past. And now Nemo the renegade is questioning everything he has ever fought for or against. But the strange dreams that come to Justine in the dark of the virtual night belong to somebody else--and theyre leading two innocent young lovers into a dangerous mire of irreversible choice, and into the intricate machinery of devastation.
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Sticks with you; a good scifi read.......2006-11-04
Love, religion and technology dominate Dennis Danvers' "realistic" (pardon the pun) view of what might occur in our not-too-distant future (one could draw a parallel between the Internet and the Bin). Danver's story echoes "The Light of Other Days" by Stephen Baxter and Arthur C. Clarke and "Spin" by Robert Charles Wilson, with overtones of Harry Harrison's "Make Room! Make Room!" Fans of the singer Aimee Mann, rejoice: she finds her way in here as well. A worthwhile read, secondarily thoughtful and an addition to be had for your collection.
well-written exploration of immortality, humanity, and love.......2005-02-16
A novel of the semi-near future, "Circuit of Heaven" takes place in a world in which most of humanity has uploaded itself into a virtual universe called the Bin. Inside, they are immune from death, disease, and all serious unpleasantness - it has simply been written out of the program. Outside, their bodies are disposed of and the few remaining humans - crazies, religious fundamentalists, and conscientious objectors - struggle along in an abandoned world.
Nemo is one of those conscientious objectors, and the story begins when he meets Justine, a new upload to the Bin whose past is strangely fuzzy even to herself. The two fall in love and must confront her strange history and the different levels of reality on which they live. The story addresses deep questions about love and sacrifice and what makes us human and what makes life worth living, but the plot is so absorbing and the sci-fi elements so well-conceived that these questions, while thought-provoking, are well-insulated. This is an enjoyable read that is not quickly forgotten.
Unforgivable?.......2004-02-28
I've always been intrigued by the idea of immortality. Who wants to grow old and die? Therefore I was impressed by the fact that, in Circuit of Heaven, Mr. Danvers succeeds in portraying a vision of immortality that is downright repulsive.
In this future world, humanity has largely downloaded itself to a virtual reality, a Matrix-like cybernetic environment called "the Bin," where everyone can live forever. The protagonist, Nemo, is a young man who rejects society's move to the Bin, and prefers to stay behind in the real world, now inhabited mostly by fundamentalist Christians.
I was emotionally convinced by Nemo's principaled refusal of the Bin. Through his eyes, we see the Bin as a realm of claustrophobic denial and stultifying artifice. The Bin is a symbol of a society that is decadent, corrupt and complacent; Nemo is the idealistic rebel who refuses to go along with the herd. The Bin is hell, but Nemo is on the side of the angels.
The novel is fast-paced, fun and easy to read, and seems to have a classic story hook: Nemo falls in love with a woman who exists only in the Bin. There are several overt references to Romeo and Juliet, and so I steeled myself for a tragic conclusion.
SPOILER ALERT: I can't voice the main objection of my review without giving away the ending, so please don't read on if that sort of thing bothers you. The author seems to have chickened out, or perhaps been bulliied by his publisher. The tragic ending which seems so clearly intimated earlier in the book never materializes. That's fine; I like happy endings. But this conclusion is only superficially happy. Nemo abandons all his objections and downloads himself into the Bin to be with the woman he loves! If you were convinced, as was I, by Nemo's initial rejection of the Bin, then you can't accept this reversal. It seems that Nemo simply "sells out," which is perhaps tragedy in itself, but the author doesn't seem to realize it.
I believe this author has committed an unforgivable sin: the betrayal of both the reader's trust and the integrity of his own story.
One of the Greatest Works of Sci-Fi.......2004-01-22
This book makes the reader examine their viewpoints on death, religon and love. It chronicles the life or a man who has to choose between giving up his principles and downloading himself or leaving his love behind. Danvers gives vivid descriptions of settings and characters. An excellent book for any fan of Sci-Fi.
worth skimming through a few pages.......2003-09-05
All this Matrix-like mumbo jumbo! might get you sick after a while... Although I dig it :)
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God's Ancestors; Unabridged
Wayne & Carolyn Thornton
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This is the unabridged version of God's Ancestors. It begins by begging the question to Little George Bush, "Why isn't our moon being used, or at least pioneered?" **** This book is a life changing introduction of ideas. If you do not have an open mind, beware of reading this self-explaining (iconoclastic) story about the origin of life on Earth (evolution, technology, and God). If you have any doubts, we recommend that you read "God's Ancestors; The Story" before reading this unabridged version. ****Please see sample pages at Lulu or BookSurge.
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The Heavens Are Mine: (The Chronicles of Kronide Soter
Charles M. Houck
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In a world molded into a veritable Utopia, life seems incapable of mismanagement. World interest in space activity has withered back into seeming indifference. But for Kronide Soter, whose family has played such prominent roles in the conquest of space, the lure of the heavens is inborn. Kronide's recounting of personal events move from near-drowsy tranquility of computer-managed life into his discovery of a secret that could destroy the world. His chronicles present a family saga that draws from the lives of his great grandfather, grandfather, grandmother, father, himself and his children. His records are made poignant through his accounts of trying to balance the everyday problems of his immediate family with the possibility of world calamity.,/p> In a computer-dominated world presided over by Computer Custodians, Kronide is viewed as a trouble maker, and his innocent seeking for answers thrusts Kronide from a quiet scientist into the role of a condemned "outlaw." Even college students begin to refer to him as a zeus, a slang term meaning an enigma that the world computer cannot solve. Amid ominous overtones of a Greek tragedy, Kronide emerges from being an outlaw to become the one person that the world looks to for salvation.
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The Mirrored Heavens
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- Needs more revisions
- Enjoyable read.
- Spheres fo Heaven
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- Chan Dalton's back.
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The Spheres of Heaven
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LOSE THE STARS-
OR LOSE EVERYTHING!
Spacer Chan Dalton is torn between two masters. The pacifist aliens who hold Earth under Quarantine want him to find out why their starships have been disappearing in the Geyser Swirl, the Bermuda Triangle of the galaxy. Earth's military, which has secretly discovered a way to break the quarantine, assumes that someone out there is making ships vanish, including Earth's, and wants Dalton to find the culprits and hopefully stop them -- with extreme prejudice, if necessary.
The trouble is, the aliens hold the taking of intelligent life, even in selfdefense, to be the greatest of sins. It was Earth's violent ways (in defense of the damned pacifist aliens!) that led to the quarantine in the first place -- and if Dalton is forced to fight, it will unveil, and so destroy, Earth's final chance to reach for the stars again.
So when Dalton does indeed discover the hostile invaders responsible for the lost starships, he is faced with an impossible decision: Fight and lose access to space forever; or allow a rapacious enemy to run riot over all that he holds dear...
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Needs more revisions.......2006-06-06
Buy this book, then come back here after you've finished it and tell me it doesn't read like a badly pruned tree.
This was about two revisions away from being a good book. It seems that many subplots are at work, since there are multiple main characters, and none of them are fulfilled or even relevant in many cases.
2 and a half stars, at best, but I can't split stars.
Enjoyable read........2002-03-15
This is a sequel to The Mind Pool. I think it's better. It involves a scratch team of humans, each with unique capabilities and each flirting with the wrong side of the law, who undertake a hazardous interstellar trip that lands them in another universe confronted by hostile, militaristic aliens with superior technology. I good romp, to be sure. One of its themes is that the faults of humans (violence, greed, deviousness, etc.) are survival traits. Charles Sheffield has become one of my favorite authors.
Spheres fo Heaven.......2001-12-05
I first ordered Spheres of Heaven, not knowing it was a sequel, and subsequently ordered the first book, The Mind Pool. I was glad I did and was pleasantly re-introduced to science fiction after a long time away from this genre.
The Spheres of Heaven, continues (and evolves) with the adventures of Chan, and introduces a new character, the self effacing mechanical genius, Bony, who is ordered around by an incompetant and lazy captain whom you cannot wish enough bad things upon.
The book bounces back and forth between their two adventures in alternating chapters, forcing the reader at the end of each to want to race through the following chapter to pick up where they left off. This creates a self perpetuating "mad rush" of reading, making this book the quintesential "page turner"!
The supporting characters are well thought out and each is interesting enough to warrent their inclusion. So too, are the aliens. This writer even makes the computers and other technology interesting and vital characters in this book.
I'm back to reading sci-fi again, and I attribute this to the craftmanship apparent in Sheffeild's books.
a fine soap opera!.......2001-11-16
Charles Sheffield is a mathematician and physicist and has been the past president of both the American Astronautical Society and the Science Fiction Writers of America. He has also been the chief scientist of the Earth Satellite Corporation.
He also writes a dam' fine science fiction opera! A very fine read & something I enjoyed immensely. Science fiction is richer because of Sheffield's talent.
I'm looking forward to his next endeavor with baited breath. His background allows him to bring the concepts of science to light in a new & imaginative way.
Chan Dalton's back........2001-07-29
We're back in the "Mind pool" universe. Humanity's not allowed to enter any Link - the way to the stars, because of it's ability to think of and perform violence - even against sentient beings, a thing that is unthinkable to the STELLAR GROUP.
A lone link is opened for our race, apparentlly it is'nt controled by the aliens, but nothing thet goes through does'nt come back or sends any signals back. The stellar group calls upon the famed Chan Dalton to explore the link, in exchange for the lifting of the quarantine on humanity.
Besides his assembled crew he chances upon a single representative of each of the alien races, and that prohibits the possibility of dealing with whatever they find with any form of violence - even in self defence!
The book reads fast and is as flowing as any Sheffield product, but I must say thet the spirit of "The Mind Pool", with it's striking contrasts between human, tinker-composite, pipe-rilla and sellora's angel, was not reproduced in the same vivid action or dialogues. Still a good read, mind you, but I felt as if the tension thet was built was'nt released in a stisfactory way. I would recommend it read only after "The Mind Pool", for a more exciting introduction to this fascinating aliens and universe.
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