Blueheart is at a crucial point in it's history - the adaptive humans who have colonised the planet covered in the main by ocean are at the limit of their usefulness and the debate on the desirability of further terraforming is becoming heated. The discovery of a corpse deep beneath the sea is not too unusual - there are natural predators in these seas as there are in any ocean - but for Rache and Daven who discover her, this adaptive, genetically engineered to survive in Blueheart's seas, is the catylyst for a tragedy of global proportions.
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* Nominated for the 1998 Arthur C. Clarke Awards * 'Sinclair is an influential and fast-rising voice' The Express * 'A well-plotted, well-written adventure' SFX
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This is a great book for those who are interested in the practicalities of the future. You really care about the characters, and you believe in their reality. After all with science where it is today who wouldn't believe in a society where genetically enhanced humans, who have been forced to teraform a planet, fall in love with that planet and plot to over-throw the govenment so they may stay there? I won't tell you who win's, but I will say that the power of the language used is such that you will have an opinion on a topical science discussion by the time you finish reading it.
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Richly detailed physical AND political world
27 Aug 1998
By Karen A. Blood
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This book is not for those in search of pure adventure or thinly-drawn characters. This is David Brin with more emotion and more science. It's filled with politics, families coping, concensus building and finely revealed plot turns. Ms. Sinclair has created the planet Blueheart as a perfect setting for illustrating the intricate human issues related to gene manipulation, human-engineered adaptation, star-travel and terraforming. I was entertained from start to finish and am rathering hoping the author returns to Blueheart - I want to know what happens to these people!
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World creation at its best
22 Jan 1999
By flying-monkey
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This is a novel of colonisation and the changes it brings to the place and the colonists. Where many books in this genre develop either the setting at the expense of the characters or the characters at the expense of the setting, Alison Sinclair manages both, and throws in all sorts of current political concerns (environmental destruction, genetic engineering etc.). The way these elements (the water-covered planet with its complex ecosystem and characters you can believe) are moulded together with slow-burning but intriguing plot development is so masterly that it makes it hard to believe that the author is so young... AND her first book, Legacies, was so good too! Alison Sinclair deserves a much wider readership.
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19 July 2001
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Alison Sinclair is one of the best new writers in hard SF today. Her future worlds are based on a strong background in real science, combined with complex and interesting characters and spellbinding plots. Blueheart starts with the question of whether to terraform a colonized world or genetically adapt to it, and tells the story of the people whose lives will be changed forever by the outcome of that political decision.
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