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Dreaming In Smoke [Paperback]

Tricia Sullivan
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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Gollancz; New edition edition (12 Aug 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0752816829
  • ISBN-13: 978-0752816821
  • Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 11 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (9 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 901,446 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Remember the first time you picked up Neuromancer or Snow Crash and found yourself bewitched by the succubus of cyberpunk, enthralled by new worlds and dimensions, your imagination pummelled into impossible configurations? Nowadays, the term conjures up recycled nightmarish visions of Blade Runner-esque cityscapes and humanoids either hyped up on technodrugs or jacked into the mainframe. In fact, these have defined the genre for so long that you may not realise that other possibilities exist until you read Dreaming in Smoke. How many SF books have you read that combine cyberpunk, hard science and worldbuilding in one smooth, gripping volume? Tricia Sullivan, praised as one of the finest new talents in the field by David Brin, has crafted an utterly fresh view of our interaction with artificial intelligences. Her characters, the protagonist Kalypso, the scientist Marcsson, the AI Ganesh and the unyielding alien planet T'nane are drawn in vivid, seductive detail, while the plot evolves in an exquisitely riveting course toward uncharted horizons, breathing new life into old ideas. At last, cyberfiction has escaped the confines of dark, fetid futures, matured beyond the adrenaline and attitude and is free to reach into all areas of SF and the universe at large. --Jhan

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One moment of inattention and Kalypso has started a chain reaction that could send her far-flung colony home into meltdown...

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Although it rarely grips you, this story of a group of colonists fighting for survival on an alien world is never boring. The descriptions of the alien lifeforms are vivid, if a little incomprehensible, but the fragmentation of the society into groups, the insane, outcasts, the original colonists (male and female) and their children is compelling. A good piece of science fiction, and worth a read. I wanted to drown the heroine, though.
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I bought the book because it won the Arthur C. Clarke award and I was intrigued. What a pleasant surprise to find an award winner that's actually fun. It's a real page turner and I had a hard job putting it down - and it's thought provoking too. This is what I used to love about the SF I read when I was younger. People who liked this book would also enjoy "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin.
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Approaching this book with an open mind, I wasn't quite sure what to expect - how cyberpunk would it be? Well, call it what you will, after a slow start as we are introduced to the character Kalypso and her underachieving "so what?" attitude, it only gets better. An imaginative and gripping approach that was fresh to me.

I enjoyed reading this book although there were instances where it felt that there was a very sectioned approach - you knew that you were being transitioned between the start, the middle and the end.

The imagery that Tricia uses is very vivid and it was easily possible to feel yourself in the middle of nowhere with only the strange patterns of the Luma, or locked into a strange dream state where data is images and sensory stimuli.

It contained some clever twists and at no point was I bored. I look forward to seeing the next book from this author - if she maintains this level of narrative it should be a corker.

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