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The Frozen Sky [Kindle Edition]

Jeff Carlson (Author)
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Top 150 Kindle Bestseller - #1 in Space Opera - #1 in High Tech - #1 in Evolution



"The Frozen Sky" is a stand-alone novella by the international bestselling author of the Plague Year trilogy.

Originally published in Writers of the Future 23, "The Frozen Sky" is a near-future sci fi thriller set beneath the ice of Jupiter's sixth moon, Europa. This story has been translated into Czech, Estonian, Polish, Romanian and Turkish in magazines overseas. It also earned an honorable mention in Gardner Dozois's The Year's Best Science Fiction.

This ebook includes two illustrations by Karel Zeman, whose artwork appeared in Pevnost magazine alongside the Czech translation of "The Frozen Sky."

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 389 KB
  • Print Length: 57 pages
  • Publisher: JVE (15 Feb 2011)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language English
  • ASIN: B0047DX0UI
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #23,468 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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29 of 30 people found the following review helpful
By S. Horrigan TOP 100 REVIEWER VINE™ VOICE
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
One thing about e-books is that unless the description says how many pages the book has, you really have no way of knowing how much reading you are going to get other than by taking a very rough guess based on the file size.

Although described as being a novella in the description, I would say that this story would be better described as being a "short story" as it is less than 700 locations long on the Kindle and only took me about an hour to read.

The story itself is quite nicely done with two interleaved threads, one telling the back story and one telling the main plot of the heroine and her encounters with a race of intelligent starfish-like creatures on one of the frozen moons of Jupiter.

Being so short though, there is little time for much serious character development or to get real depth into the story. I really liked the ideas behind it though, but I felt that some of the ideas deserved more room to grow than could be provided in such a short story. I especially liked the idea of creating "on the fly" artificial intelligences based on mixing together backups of peoples' memories and thought this could have been expanded and developed further.

The Kindle presentation was nicely done with generally good formatting and even a nice cover picture.

Overall - Some great ideas and a lot of potential but I felt it was rather too short and it left me feeling that there was a lot more I wanted to know.
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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
There's no meeting the President on the Whitehouse Lawn in this scientifically plausible first-contact novelette from Jeff Carlson, the author of the superb "Plague Year" nanotech-apocalypse trilogy. Instead, around the turn of the next century, an ESA exploration team have landed on the frozen moon, Europa, and begun investigating the complex water environments that are currently speculated to exist beneath its surface, hoping to find extraterrestrial life. And they do. They find terrifying, hostile life. Combining fast-paced thrills and high-concept ideas on evolution and geology, The Frozen Sky, is a brilliant tale with a brave heroine you just can't help but root for. Well worth the admission price.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Fast Food... 18 July 2011
Format:Kindle Edition
...In a good way, like a filling & healthy stew without the slow cooker.

Really enjoyed this short story, it drops you straight into the chase from page one and the pace doesn't slow keeping you hooked. I digested it all within my lunch break.

I'm quite picky with my sci-fi, preferring hard stuff where the story given has a semblance of reality within. Europa serves this purpose and i don't need to suspend my disbelief too much to imagine life being present there, and the reason for us being there... resources (fret not, this has little to do with the story - it's not a lecture on human greed like so much sci-fi). It's just laced through the story like MSG to bulk it up a bit.

I liked the technology presented in the book, especially the vicious "Auto-Assault" and the method described for shipping resources back to earth. This background is provided throughout the text, alternating with each chapter of the chase and could be thought of the starter i suppose.

Sadly, agreeing with another reviewer on here there is little dessert, I wanted a little more closure and true to form with fast food half an hour later you want another one...

...which is why I've got some samples of his other books downloading to my kindle now.

However for the price you can't complain, it's cheaper than a McDonalds cheeseburger and is certainly a healthier way to spend lunch.
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brilliant!
Disappointingly short, but apart from that it's an excellent adventure set in a fascinating world with some wonderful tech that had me thinking about it for quite a few days. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Mr. A. P. Styles
Excellent.
I expected this book to be quite short, in fact I expected it to be about the length that it was - easily readable during lunch. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Rik Wilkes
A short story
This is a bit like those "fell down a mine-shaft and met an inbred race of cannibals" movie stories, in space.
But it worked well, and I read it without stopping. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Carole_S
A short story that you wish was a novel
Once I started using ereaders I looked forward to finding plenty of 'quick read' short stories, and while there are plenty (loads and loads!) they're generally very poor. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Cain
Disappointed
I downloaded this book because of the high review mark awarded by previous reviewers. However I was disappointed by the book and wanted to warm others of the shortcomings before... Read more
Published 7 months ago by Dave Cuthbert
Enjoyable and well written
I was impressed by this but I felt, like others who seem to have been surprised at the length, that it could have been longer. Read more
Published 8 months ago by J Bryden Lloyd
Science fiction addiction
Set in a world of nano-science, mechs, and interplanetary exploration, this story is hard science fiction. Read more
Published 11 months ago by I R Wright
Good but shorter than I expected.
This is really a short story - the kind you find in anthologies. It's good but only took about 40 minutes to read. Read more
Published 14 months ago by David in Herts
Great first contact story
This is a great short story about first contact on Europa. Using a common twin time-line stories to recount the past and describe the present Jeff Carlson manages to convey enough... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Mr. A. N. Mcgill
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