- Paperback: 9999 pages
- Publisher: Tor; 6 edition (17 Feb 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0330323768
- ISBN-13: 978-0330323765
- Product Dimensions: 17.6 x 10.8 x 2.2 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 148,991 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The debut novel of a writer who would become the master of the genre.
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It's the 21st century and global warming is here to stay, so forget the way your country used to look. And get used to the free market, too – the companies possess all the best hardware, and they're calling the shots now. In a world like this, a man open to any offers can make out just fine. A man like Greg Mandel for instance, who's psi-boosted, wired into the latest sensory equipment, carrying state-of-the-art weaponry – and late of the English Army's Mindstar Battalion. As the cartels battle for control of a revolutionary new power source, and corporate greed outstrips national security, tension is mounting to boiling point – and Greg Mandel is about to face the ultimate test. 'Races ahead with verve and flair' Starburst 'The plotting is tight and ingenious' Interzone
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45 of 48 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
I live here!,
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This review is from: Mindstar Rising (Greg Mandel) (Paperback)
I have grown up in the area which Peter Hamilton describes here. And it sounds so cool. I know the dodgy areas in and around peterborough where the story is set, and its quite an amusing excersize to imagine the street gangs and new political landscape for the country being run from my home city. It still felt like home even though it was drasticly different.This book has cool tech stuff, bio-implants, black-ops warfare and a murder mystery style all wrapped into one. Its Ace. Wish I had neural-nanonics, it would help to pass my degree right now... Although written a few years ago now all the stuff in it is still very relavent to todays issues, especially about advances in technology, human genering etc. and how we should use it. This is one authors bent on what we might do with some of that power. I have ready everything Hamilton has writen but this was my first. Its no 'nights dawn', but its still great. This is much easier on the brain than any of the more complex works hes written. and is a great introduction to his writing. This is the first of three Greg Mandel novels. Mindstar, Quantum Murder, Nano Flower.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good starter!,
By DMM (Hampshire, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mindstar Rising (Greg Mandel) (Paperback)
One of his early books and a good, easy read. Treats the future with a realistic view (especially in light of current politics) and the military aspects were believable and based upon rational actions. Problem with so many sci-fi books using military sub-plots is the total lack of reality when it comes to both military action sequences, dialogue and personalities. As an ex-soldier, you can see real events unfold and he stays away from the "stereotypical" protrayal of ex-soldiers.
If you're politically correct or of the liberal persuasion you won't like it!
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Good first novel let down by awful Kindle proof-reading.,
By Guruphil (Herts, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Mindstar Rising (Greg Mandel) (Kindle Edition)
This is my first Hamilton book, after years of absence from reading novels due to a hectic work schedule.
The book is fairly well developed, a little slow paced and derivative but for a cybrpunk book i is very accessible. There are some very nice touches in the way the author has chosen to set much of the scene in "real" places and has taken the time to consider how time may have affected the locations. One thing alone has lowered my grading of this book, the absolutely diabolical Kindle transcription. It is clear that after a spell checker was run nobody bothered to proof-read. "Stansted"(airport) is "Stanstead" throughout, "up close" becomes "up dose" and so forth. Sadly on the smallest print size I am having to word-guess practically every five or six pages and it is infuriating. ****.5 for the book. * for the editing.
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