- Paperback: 352 pages
- Publisher: Tor (16 July 2004)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1405041390
- ISBN-13: 978-1405041393
- Product Dimensions: 23.2 x 14.8 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,039,060 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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'An exceptional first novel. A new British star has arrived to join the likes of Hamilton, Reynolds and Banks.'
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Herb returns to the remote planet he has been furtively trying to build a city on, to find it a swarming nightmare of self-replicating machinery. Eva has taken desperate steps to escape the tedium of her pointless life...only to end up in the super-intelligent clutches of a yellow mechanical digger. Constantine arrives at the remote part-idyllic, part-nightmare settlement of Stonebreak and - unsettlingly - begins to confront the truth of his own unreality. Meanwhile in the farthest reaches of outer space, the Enemy is plotting the final overthrow of the human race which created it.
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15 of 16 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Worth reading but not collecting,
This review is from: Recursion (Paperback)
Ballantyre tells 3 loosely connected stories in 1 during this book via linked novelletes that are interspersed amongst each other - the sum definitely being greater than the parts would have been in isolation. It's an engrossing read the first time through as the `big ideas' are gradually leaked to the reader. However a second reading would be rather tedious since much of the enjoyablity is tied up with not knowing the outcome - and once this tension is defused, the actual action within the book is rather pedestrian.Worth reading if you enjoy space/AI, but probably not the kind of book to join a limited permanent collection.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Philosophically Interesting Plot,
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This review is from: Recursion (Mass Market Paperback)
I found this book fascinating, with its sequel "Capacity" and I will be certainly reading "Divergence".
The book explores extreme questions that anyone who really thinks about mind, continuity and personal identity will sooner or later ask, but it manages to do this without the plot (or rather, multiple plots) getting stuck in these issues. In one of the book's plot threads a chillingly plausible vision of a "nice" surveillance society in a future Britain is presented - not nasty, evil surveillance, just a society where everyone is going to be looked after 24/7 - whether you want it or not. 20 years ago such an idea may have seemed extreme. Now it looks like ideal government policy in a few years.
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4.0 out of 5 stars
Great start, Tony,
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This review is from: Recursion (Paperback)
I'll give it a B or even a B+, which isn't at all bad for a first-timer. He's dealing with characters who are not sure (at times) whether they're real humans or software copies, so yes, character development might get a little dicey.
He deals with it well. Looking for further work from Mr. Ballantyne.
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