- Paperback: 382 pages
- Publisher: Voyager; paperback / softback edition (17 May 1999)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0006483186
- ISBN-13: 978-0006483182
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 12.4 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,132,279 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Early next century, the Interspace company, in charge of humanity's first generation starship, has been given extraordinary powers. Cen, descendant of Hawaiian shaman-priests, and a mathematical genius, finds out as an adolescent how ruthless they are in their preparedness to exploit human weakness and brilliance, yet sells his work to them for the leisure to pursue his own plans--the conquest of time and the saving of the long dead princess whom he meets and loves in moments of vision. A decade later, Lynn, geneticist renegade from Interspace's ruling dynasty, rescues from assassination Akamu, clone of Hawaii's legendary unifier, and finds herself, like Cen before her, manipulated by Interspace's Hawaiian nationalist foes. She and Akamu are pursued from Hawaii to Hong-Kong and into the uplands of Tibet. Bristling with intrigue and ideas about Buddhism, wormholes, celestial navigation and quantum theories of intelligence, Goonan's new novel is touching about love and families and a gruelling switchback ride for the intellect. Her first novel Queen City Jazz was impressive in its dreamy portrayal of a world altered by nano-technology; this radical change of place remakes the near future techno-thriller as a set of passionately conceived ethical quandaries. --Roz Kaveney
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Reviews of Queen City Jazz:
‘A dizzying novel that takes full advantage of the creative potential of nanotech’
New York Times
‘Spectacular A novel of startling virtuosity and complexity’
Locus
‘An unforgettable vision of America transfigured’
William Gibson
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I'm a big fan of Kathleen Ann Goonan and I really love this book. The writing in Queen City Jazz is undoubtedly more evocative, but this is more accessible and ultimately more satisfying.The two phases in the action are interwoven really well and it didn't interupt the narrative to keep hopping backwards and forwards. I found that the sciencebehind it all is pitched at a reasonably comprehensible level, and the bits I didn't get were sufficently in context that you could tell what the effect of it was. One of the highlights of the book for me was the touching love story between Cen and Kaialani. Lynn makes an interesting heroine and is likable in her determination to see things through. Hawaii is a stunning location and the calm aura of Lelani casts a spell.
Format:Paperback
I'm a big fan of Kathleen Ann Goonan and I really love this book. The writing in Queen City Jazz is undoubtedly more evocative, but this is more accessible and ultimately more satisfying.
The two phases in the action are interwoven really well and it didn't interupt the narrative to keep hopping backwards and forwards. I found that the scicence behind it all is pitched at a reasonably comprehensible level, and the bits I didn't get were sufficently in context that you could tell what the effect of the was.
One of the highlights of the book for me was the touching love story between Cen and Kaialani. Lynn makes an interesting heroine and is likable in her determination to see things through.
Hawaii is a stunning location and the calm aura of Lelani casts a spell.
Format:Paperback
I'm a big fan of Kathleen Ann Goonan and I really love this book. The writing in Queen City Jazz is undoubtedly more evocative, but this is more accessible and ultimately more satisfying.The two phases in the action are interwoven really well and it didn't interupt the narrative to keep hopping backwards and forwards. I found that the scicence behind it all is pitched at a reasonably comprehensible level, and the bits I didn't get were sufficently in context that you could tell what the effect of the was. One of the highlights of the book for me was the touching love story between Cen and Kaialani. Lynn makes an interesting heroine and is likable in her determination to see things through. Hawaii is a stunning location and the calm aura of Lelani casts a spell.
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