Book: Spin
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
This was 800+ screens on Small on my Sony.
It was free from Tor in their great giveaway late last year, where they give away first novels and episode 1’s of books by their authors with Sequels etc – see Old Man’s War and Spirit Gate for example.
I downloaded them all for backup and after The Execution Channel gave me a taste for another sci-fi this was the random choice.
And it was, really good. Unexpectedly good. Very Sci-fi. Not very Space Opera. One gun battle, one nuclear attack, no lasers. A little (can’t remember the word but it’s almost..) incestuous in it’s focus on a tight family/friend pairing for the whole of the novel (almost like Jeffrey Archer) but this helps character development in a novel that could easily have had none.
Unrequited love. Interwoven chapters with flashbacks. Wow technology. A present day (novel) set in 4×10^9 AD. Ending… good.
Read it for a sci-fi that’s written contemporary with the spirit of the 60’s.
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This was 800+ screens on Small on my Sony.
It was free from Tor in their great giveaway late last year, where they give away first novels and episode 1’s of books by their authors with Sequels etc – see Old Man’s War and Spirit Gate for example.
I downloaded them all for backup and after The Execution Channel gave me a taste for another sci-fi this was the random choice.
And it was, really good. Unexpectedly good. Very Sci-fi. Not very Space Opera. One gun battle, one nuclear attack, no lasers. A little (can’t remember the word but it’s almost..) incestuous in it’s focus on a tight family/friend pairing for the whole of the novel (almost like Jeffrey Archer) but this helps character development in a novel that could easily have had none.
Unrequited love. Interwoven chapters with flashbacks. Wow technology. A present day (novel) set in 4×10^9 AD. Ending… good.
Read it for a sci-fi that’s written contemporary with the spirit of the 60’s.
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