- Hardcover: 432 pages
- Publisher: Tor Books (Jan 2001)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 031287720X
- ISBN-13: 978-0312877200
- Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 16.5 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,516,723 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"As usual, Modesitt does an exceptional job of painting an environmentally informed society, plotting an exciting yarn, assembling an interesting cast, and leading it all in an interesting direction. I recommend this one heartily." --"Analog"
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Being a child of wealth hasn't made life easy for Daryn Alwyn but he hasn't wanted it easy and he's always been determined to choose his own path, abandoning the possibility of power and leisure with his family's giant Media Network for a solo career, first as a military space pilot, later as a freelance media consultant. Only when he becomes the target of a series of deadly attacks does he begin to realize the true depth of responsibility his heritage forces on him. And when his sister is assassinated and he becomes one of the wealthiest people in the world he learns that his real troubles are only beginning.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
Basically a murder "whodunit", the "Octogonal Raven" starts off very inocently, until the main character suffers a murder attempt.
From then on, the plot slowly lifts the veil of what is wrong with this future society, putting our main character under the option of sitting still and doing nothing, or trying to prevent a new colapse of civilization.
From then on, the plot slowly lifts the veil of what is wrong with this future society, putting our main character under the option of sitting still and doing nothing, or trying to prevent a new colapse of civilization.
Nanotech abounds, and in the first few hundred pages the reader can be thrown slightly off by the amount of terms "invented" by Modesit to depict this far-off future, after we get used to it though, the story flows quite smoothly.
The storytelling alternates scenes between the main character's present and past, giving the reader a greater insight into him, not only from where he came, or what he has done, but also from his own thoughts and interpretations of the human nature.
A good read.
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful
Format:Mass Market Paperback
I like almost everything that this author writes. But this book I found uninteresting, with poor plot development, a scarcely believable environment and characters that I could not develop any real sympathy towards.
This book also suffers from one of Modesitt's more irritating writing strategies - writing the story from two different time points. Normally (I suppose) there could be (arguably) some point to this - but in the current novel I could not only find little rational for this style - but also found it difficult to discriminate which chapters were 'now' and which chapters were 'then'.
Two of the main features of the story - nanotechnology and puzzle solving have been covered much better by other authors - in fact have been done much better by modessit.
For nano-technology see "the parafaith war" or "gravity dreams" for problem solving any of the Ecolitan novels would be preferable. Modessit is usually a good author with only the occasional 'dud' (such as adiamante) and so is usually a 'safe bet' for the reader; but I really wouldn't recommend this one!
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I have not long started to read this good book, it is a bit hard to get into and understand, other novels I have read by this author have got to the point quicker than this one is,it is full of long technical words which to be quite honest I am finding very difficult to decypher the meaning off,but hopefully it will get to the exciteing part before long.
Apart from that it was delivered before the estimated date and in great condition.
Apart from that it was delivered before the estimated date and in great condition.
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