- Paperback: 474 pages
- Publisher: Legend; UK First Paperback Edition edition (1991)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1857236572
- ISBN-13: 978-1857236576
- Product Dimensions: 17.8 x 10.9 x 3.3 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,776,130 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This was one of the first hard science fiction novels I read and I still feel the force behind the emotional climaxe ten years later.
Bear creates a totally believable world, which has been changed almost beyond recognition by nano-technology. It is a world where humans shapes can be customised to suit their wildest taste, and the human mind can be entered and traversed by a therapist in 'virtual' physical form.
But for all Bear's inventivness of character, the reader never feels any great sympathy for their trials and tribulations. This is saved for a computer.
The unforgetable moment in the book is when a enourmously complex and powerful computer, becomes self aware, in a part of space where an answer to a question takes over a year to return. It is a testement to Bear that he is able to make the subject for such a moving moment, emotive science, a computer's unconsolable isolation and lonleness in an unreachable void.
Truely great science fiction and while the rest of the novel is clearly flawedand suffers from Bear's trademark stagnation of pace and looseness of plot control, this moment alone makes the book a significant milestone in science fiction.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I actually thought this was rather wonderful. The world Bear creates (which is just 50 years into our future) is believable and frightening. The 'newspeak' works, I think, constantly reminding us that we are in a world which is different from ours, but has evolved from it. The novel is more than just a thriller and contains some very interesting stuff on the nature of free will, evil and the purpose of punishment (if there is one). It took a little while to get into it, but once engaged I was well int 'sneaking off for a quick read when I should have been doing something else' mode.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Yet another excellent example of Bear's work. The world he creates is rich and interesting, not to mention believable.
Queen of Angels is the first book in a series of three - Slant, Heads and Moving Mars. If you enjoy this book, Slant and Moving Mars come highly recommended, where as Heads is a little disappointing.
Sadly, Amazon don't seem to stock Moving Mars, which is a shame, because it's an incredible ending to this series.
Country of the Mind sounds like it may also belong with this collection, but I have yet to see a copy, so I'm not sure.
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