- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Arrow Bks. (24 Feb 1983)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0099298708
- ISBN-13: 978-0099298700
- Product Dimensions: 17.4 x 10.2 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,060,499 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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1 of 4 people found the following review helpful
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Michael Scott Rohan is perhaps best known for his fantasy: The Lord of Middle Air, The Winter of the World series, and the weird 'Spiral' books. This stab at science fiction is up to his usual standards. It combines a compelling conspiracy with an interesting protagonist - Mark Bellamy, Chief of Sea Station Security - set in the year 3000 AD. The world is run by the cynical BCs (Bureaucrats) who have an effective throttle-hold on the second colonisation ship. They don't want the non-conformists aboard it, but they sure as hell don't want to let them go and join the first colonisation ship - the BCs would prefer to let them all rot. Mark Bellamy is the Station Security Chief who appears to be just another BC himself - from his dossier, at least! But he also has a place booked aboard the 2nd colony ship, and it is up to him to uncover the mystery of a space-carrier crash that has profound implications for the whole human race.
Aside from some slightly dull science parts (about the Infall drive) and the fact that Scott Rohan predicted in 1980/82 that the USSR would last until the 21st century, he has our future world spot on. Only this isn't the future of 3000AD: when you look at the way Phony Tony and his creeping band of anti-democrats have perverted the election process in the UK, taking democracy out of the hands of the people - hell, what right have they in a say of how they should be governed - you know the bleak future Scott Rohan paints is just around the corner for us all. Interesting idea about the fall of federalised USA too. If that bumbling incompetent GWB (there are other things I could say about him, too) is the shape of things to come, perhaps all that American arrogance will be the pride before their fall.
Aside from some slightly dull science parts (about the Infall drive) and the fact that Scott Rohan predicted in 1980/82 that the USSR would last until the 21st century, he has our future world spot on. Only this isn't the future of 3000AD: when you look at the way Phony Tony and his creeping band of anti-democrats have perverted the election process in the UK, taking democracy out of the hands of the people - hell, what right have they in a say of how they should be governed - you know the bleak future Scott Rohan paints is just around the corner for us all. Interesting idea about the fall of federalised USA too. If that bumbling incompetent GWB (there are other things I could say about him, too) is the shape of things to come, perhaps all that American arrogance will be the pride before their fall.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
*insert scream of frustration here*
2 April 2008
Format:Paperback
Written accents kill stories. They kill the flow of conversations, narratives, themes, thoughts, chop up ideas, and most importantly make things extremely difficult to read.
It's okay to mention Kristy speaks in a Scottish accent, don't do in the reader with it. If it weren't for her choking, stumbling, unreadable dialogue, I would have gotten more than half-way through the book before giving up.
I know what a Scottish accent sounds like, thank you. There's no need to sputter it out onto the paper, that's what adjectives are for.
Other than the above mentioned, what I was able to read of Bellamy's story was well written and interesting. After the opening chapter, which I barely made it through, thanks to Kristy, I decided to press on. Then she and her horrid accent showed up again.
Sad, I'd like to hear what happened and how this one ended.
It's okay to mention Kristy speaks in a Scottish accent, don't do in the reader with it. If it weren't for her choking, stumbling, unreadable dialogue, I would have gotten more than half-way through the book before giving up.
I know what a Scottish accent sounds like, thank you. There's no need to sputter it out onto the paper, that's what adjectives are for.
Other than the above mentioned, what I was able to read of Bellamy's story was well written and interesting. After the opening chapter, which I barely made it through, thanks to Kristy, I decided to press on. Then she and her horrid accent showed up again.
Sad, I'd like to hear what happened and how this one ended.
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