- Hardcover: 400 pages
- Publisher: Tor Books; First Edition edition (Jun 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0765312662
- ISBN-13: 978-0765312662
- Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 15.2 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,481,755 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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30 of 30 people found the following review helpful
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Be aware that this isn't really a Larry Niven book - it's Brenda Cooper's work, supported by Niven. As such, it lacks the big hard science we've come to expect from Niven science fiction. What science and astronomy there is is offered rather nervously, and is poorly worked out. Those who see Niven as first-credited author and so expect vintage Niven SF will therefore be disappointed.
That said, this is a good story, driven by rounded, believable characters who are trapped in a very plausible conflict.
That said, this is a good story, driven by rounded, believable characters who are trapped in a very plausible conflict.
20 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
"Everybody" knows who Larry Niven is, but Brenda Cooper?
Who cares, this is a really good story, strong characters, great technologies.
Who cares, this is a really good story, strong characters, great technologies.
A group of professionals leaving an AI/nanotechnology overrun Earth in a huge slower than light starship the John Glenn. The first of three heading for a planet Ymir. But the John Glenn has a design flaw and is nearly destroyed. It signals the problem back to Earth and then has to find a stellar system to divert to to make repairs and refuel.
The subsequenty story is about the task of surviving and building the resources/equipment to get the John Glenn to Ymri, but there is human conflict. To give more detail would spoil it.
Read it! One of the key perceptions of a good book for me is, do I want to read more. And I do! What happens next? I must know!
Format:Mass Market Paperback
A mission to a new colony world goes wrong, and the crew decided to have children to develope a new (short lived) world in a remote star system to develop the resource to manufacure more fuel.Then to abandon the kids when they leave and the planet falls apart
Some how i cant belive any one could actually do that
Still a nice story, bu the ending is predictable
Deserves a sequel
Some how i cant belive any one could actually do that
Still a nice story, bu the ending is predictable
Deserves a sequel
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Interesting new author
I bought this as it had Lary Niven's name on the cover, but turned out to be Brenda Cooper's first book. She had obtained Niven's help to improve and audit her ideas. Read more
Published on 25 Aug 2008 by Ken Fowler
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I had great hopes for this book but it turned out to be about a spaceship lost with elements of a desert island but most time taken up in the master / slave... Read more
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