Chris Moriarty
Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 642 pages Rating: 3.78 | 2381 Users | 179 Reviews
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| Original Title: | Spin State |
| ISBN: | 0553586246 (ISBN13: 9780553586244) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Spin Trilogy #1 |
| Literary Awards: | Locus Award Nominee for Best First Novel (2004), Philip K. Dick Award Nominee (2004), Gaylactic Spectrum Award Nominee for Best Novel (2004), Prometheus Award Nominee (2004) |
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From a stunning new voice in hard science fiction comes the thrilling story of one woman’s quest to wrest truth from chaos, love from violence, and reality from illusion in a post-human universe of emergent AIs, genetic constructs, and illegal wetware...Spin State
UN Peacekeeper Major Catherine Li has made thirty-seven faster-than-light jumps in her lifetime—and has probably forgotten more than most people remember. But that’s what backup hard drives are for. And Li should know; she’s been hacking her memory for fifteen years in order to pass as human. But no memory upgrade can prepare Li for what she finds on Compson’s World: a mining colony she once called home and to which she is sent after a botched raid puts her on the bad side of the powers that be. A dead physicist who just happens to be her cloned twin. A missing dataset that could change the interstellar balance of power and turn a cold war hot. And a mining “accident” that is starting to look more and more like murder...
Suddenly Li is chasing a killer in an alien world miles underground where everyone has a secret. And one wrong turn in streamspace, one misstep in the dark alleys of blackmarket tech and interstellar espionage, one risky hookup with an AI could literally blow her mind.
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| Title | : | Spin State (Spin Trilogy #1) |
| Author | : | Chris Moriarty |
| Book Format | : | Mass Market Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 642 pages |
| Published | : | November 23rd 2004 by Bantam Spectra (first published October 2003) |
| Categories | : | Science Fiction. Fiction. Cyberpunk |
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Ratings: 3.78 From 2381 Users | 179 ReviewsJudge Epithetical Books Spin State (Spin Trilogy #1)
A strong 4.0 StarsThe writing is great and the world is deep and well-thought but it never quite came together for me.I kinda love when mystery have the big reveal and tie up all the seemingly unrelated subplots and characters into a nice clean narrative bow. I was eagerly anticipated that moment in Spin State from about the half way point but it unfortunately never really comes together at the end and I think with a story as somewhat complicated and complex as this one having that big momentRecommended to me by OddKaren, and upholds the general trend from her of high quality recs. OddKaren is always on the search for "Ladies and spaceships" books, (and who isn't?) and this one exceeds the genre.Moriarty (I hope this is a pseud, as it would be an awesome one) writes a thickly textured future in which the definition of life is expanding in all directions: AIs, comprised of unstable networks of smaller awarenesses, are fighting for their civil rights, genetic constructs are
Spin State sets a blistering pace and trusts the reader to catch on quickly. I had to read at a slower pace than usual or risk missing something important. There's a large cast of characters made larger by the concept of shunts that allow another to inhabit a person's body temporarily. There's murder and quantum physics and politics and artificial intelligence and human enhancement and emotional entanglement and a fine, flawed protagonist in soldier-with-a-secret Catherine Li. I'm not sure I
In the far future, humans cling to relevance through a combination of money and military. They are dependent on sentient AIs with impenetrable motives and on the Bose-Einstein condensates, which enable them to communicate and travel instantaneously through the universe. But the condensates are only found on Compson's World, and humanity's greatest scientist was just killed in a cave-in there. Catherine Li, a UN peacekeeper with secrets of her own, is sent to investigate Hannah Sharifi's death,
I enjoyed this novel but my feelings on it are mixed. What Chris did well was done really well. What she did poorly, on the other hand, fell flat.For purists of hard science fiction, this book has everything. The author did a great job of blending futuristic concepts and technology into a world readers can imagine. The technology and quantum concepts are great. The tough female protagonist is awesome and characterized very well. The writing itself is very good and easy to read. A great debut
Like someone described it, a great space-noir, reminiscent of Altered Carbon but much grander, and much more human.
I enjoyed this novel but my feelings on it are mixed. What Chris did well was done really well. What she did poorly, on the other hand, fell flat.For purists of hard science fiction, this book has everything. The author did a great job of blending futuristic concepts and technology into a world readers can imagine. The technology and quantum concepts are great. The tough female protagonist is awesome and characterized very well. The writing itself is very good and easy to read. A great debut
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